News

May 27, 2005 14:26

• New attack on journalists in Azerbaijan

  Republican authorities deport journalists.

May 27, 2005 14:17

• Police casualties mount

  A Chechen police officer is killed in the Gudermes district.

May 26, 2005 14:11

• Major police abuse in Kalmykia

  Drunken police officers beat young men.

May 26, 2005 14:09

• Student abducted in Chechnya

  Russian military men allegedly abduct a 24-year-old Chechen student.

May 26, 2005 14:07

• Military carelessness puts lives at risk

  Three are wounded in Chechnya because of an accidentally launched grenade.

May 25, 2005 16:21

• Skinhead case in Nizhny Novgorod

  Two skinheads are going on trial for killing an Azerbaijani.

May 25, 2005 15:59

• Police violence punished in absentia

  Three Georgian policemen are convicted of beating a detainee while still on the wanted list.

May 25, 2005 15:24

• HRW concerned about freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan

  Below is an open letter of <a href="http://www.hrw.org" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a> to President Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan.

May 25, 2005 13:13

• Forced disappearances continue in Chechnya

  A local resident is abducted in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district.

May 24, 2005 14:01

• Analysts doubt arrangements

  Many analysts doubt the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have reached an agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh.

May 24, 2005 12:58

• Law enforcement agent killed in Dagestan

  Another event in a series of similar ones lately.

May 24, 2005 12:27

• Children killed in clean-ups, says Versiya

  Versiya newspaper investigates two "special operations to capture rebels" in which two children were killed in Dagestan.

May 23, 2005 16:21

• Human rights defenders share grave figures

  They say more than 1,500 Chechens have been abducted in Chechnya over three years.

May 23, 2005 15:55

• Refugees for 14 years

  North Ossetia's Prigorodnyi district has become home for 10,000 refugees from Georgia.

May 21, 2005 20:12

• Crisis in Chechnya continues

  Killings and abuse continue as the parties report each other's casualties.

May 21, 2005 19:50

• Government launches crackdown

  Police disperse a public meeting in Azerbaijan.

May 20, 2005 19:55

• Impunity in Chechnya

  An <a href="http://www.ihf-hr.org" target="_blank">IHF</a> <a href="http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?download=1&doc_id=6310" target="_blank">report</a> documents almost total lack of accountability.

May 20, 2005 19:26

• Human rights defenders concerned

  Dozens of oppositionists are arrested on the eve of a protest action scheduled for 21 May.

May 20, 2005 19:05

• High-profile killing in Dagestan

  An explosion kills the Dagestani minister of nationalities policy, information and external relations.

May 19, 2005 14:04

• Resistance's worth

  Several rebels and one federal serviceman are killed in the last 24 hours.