News

June 28, 2005 12:00

• Police targeted in Dagestan

  Three police officers are wounded as a result of an explosion in Makhachkala.

June 28, 2005 11:58

• On hunger strike in protest of non-payment

  Twelve residents of the Gulkevichi district in the Krasnodar territory announce a no-time-limit hunger strike in protest against the non-payment of compensations for their homes lost during a flood in 2002.

June 28, 2005 11:56

• Criminal shots police officer

  A policeman receives a gunshot wound in his stomach.

June 27, 2005 11:48

• Torture on the rise in Georgia

  Georgian NGOs report growing numbers of tortured convicts.

June 27, 2005 11:41

• Protest against unlawful actions of police

  A picket against torture in police custody occurs in Krasnodar on 26 June.

June 24, 2005 16:24

• Tension on the rise over Borozdinovskaia

  The Main Military Prosecutor's Office that controls the investigation of the "<a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/814535.html" target="_blank">clean-up</a>" in Borozdinovskaia cannot name those responsible for the "<a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/814535.html" target="_blank">incident</a>.

June 24, 2005 16:15

• Four servicemen killed in Chechnya

  Besides, four servicemen were wounded in an attack and an explosion.

June 23, 2005 16:22

• Human rights groups give killed, missing figures

  More than 80 local residents have been missing in Chechnya this year.

June 23, 2005 16:20

• Counter-Terrorist Centre officials fired at

  The driver sustained several gunshot wounds as a result.

June 23, 2005 16:11

• Landmine wounds police officer

  The incident occurred not far from Martan-Chu on 22 June.

June 22, 2005 16:37

• Serviceman killed in Chechnya

  A serviceman dies as a result of a rebel attack.

June 22, 2005 15:51

• Explosion in Dagestan

  Two people are wounded as a result of an explosion in Buinaksk.

June 22, 2005 15:40

• Independent journalist pressurised, racist murder thought 'deserving lenience'

  A freelance correspondent of Radio Liberty is detained in Krasnodar after a trial of a cruel Cossack murderer.

June 21, 2005 12:35

• Refugee camps fail to meet standards

  The living conditions in Chechnya's refugee camps are unsatisfactory.

June 21, 2005 12:34

• Tax agency targeting human rights group

  The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society may have to pay 1 million roubles in tax.

June 21, 2005 12:29

• Bomb kills one in Chechnya

  A local resident dies in an explosion.

June 20, 2005 13:54

• Azerbaijani president pardons 100

  Political prisoners are among those pardoned.

June 20, 2005 13:48

• Attack on police officer in Grozny

  A riot police officer of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry is wounded in Grozny.

June 17, 2005 11:57

• PACE to discuss political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  NGOs address the PACE with an appeal to take action on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

June 17, 2005 11:55

• Child dies in car accident

  Police officer runs over a child in Chechnya.