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February 07, 2008 09:55

• Residents of Chechnya complain against officials who give out compensations for destroyed houses for bribes

  Residents of Chechnya continue complaining that compensations for the houses lost during the conflict can be received, only if one pays back a half of the sum to bureaucrats as the so-called "otkat" (kick-back).

February 07, 2008 09:52

• Picket in memory of "zachistka" victims in Novye Aldy held in Moscow

  In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a picket was held in memory of the victims of the clean-up ("zachistka") conducted eight years ago in Novye Aldy settlement located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

February 07, 2008 09:45

• HRC "Memorial" to present its report "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"

  On February 11, a press conference will be held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow to present the report of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"

February 06, 2008 16:42

• Defendant in the case on attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria wants to refuse from his advocate

  At the following session of preliminary hearings of the criminal case on the events of October 13 in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) appointed on February 20, defendant Kaziev is going to refuse from the services of advocate Sukhikh, T. V., appointed by the court.

February 06, 2008 16:38

• Picket against kidnappings held in Dagestan

  Today, the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and relatives of the people kidnapped in Makhachkala held a picket against kidnappings in the central square of the capital of the Republic.

February 06, 2008 16:35

• Project "Observatory" stands up for "Voice of Beslan"

  On February 5, the joint project of the International Organization for Fighting Torture (Geneva) and the Human Rights Federation (Paris) named "Observatory" condemned the legal pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization.

February 06, 2008 16:32

• Hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan continues in Rostov-on-Don

  On February 5, Elena Sannikova, one of initiators of the hunger strike with a demand to release heavily sick prisoner Vasily Aleksanyan and send him to treatment, had a hypoglycaemic crisis.

February 06, 2008 16:19

• Arrested ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan placed into prison hospital

  For 24 hours already, Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is at the Medical Establishment of the Penitentiary Systems. The diagnosis has not been formulated yet.

February 06, 2008 16:17

• Institute for Peace and Democracy: trial of the leader of Talyshes in Azerbaijan is absurd

  The Institute for Peace and Democracy is emphasizing the absurdity of litigation against Novruzali Mamedov, 67, a linguist, head of one of the divisions at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences, founder and editor-in-chief of the only newspaper in Azerbaijan in the Talysh language "Talyshi Sado", and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of the newspaper, accused of high treason.

February 06, 2008 16:09

• "Vlast" Magazine: aggravated situation in Ingushetia may have financial roots

  Apart from political reasons, the aggravated situation in Ingushetia may also have financial ones. This conclusion was made by Musa Muradov, correspondent of the "Vlast" (Power) Magazine, who has associated with residents of the Republic.

February 05, 2008 14:17

• Ombudsman defends the rights of residents of Volgograd Region arrested in Greece

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, is concerned with the fate of two residents of the town of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, who serve their terms in one of the prisons of the Greek Republic.

February 05, 2008 14:14

• In Azerbaijan, the state of health of the arrested ex-minister of economic development is worse

  The state of health of Farkhad Aliev, arrested ex-minister of economic development of Azerbaijan, has again worsened. He suffers from strong heartaches and requires hospitalization.

February 05, 2008 13:54

• Woman from Rostov-on-Don joins the hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan

  Raissa Grishechkina, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, has joined the hunger strike demanding to release Vasily Aleksanyan, former vice-president of the YUKOS Oil Company, who is seriously ill but still kept in SIZO (pre-trial facility).

February 05, 2008 13:49

• A schoolboy and a girl among those arrested for nationality-motivated murders in Moscow

  Among the arrested four figurants in the case on a skinhead grouping, suspected of committing of at least 20 murders, whose arrest was sanctioned by the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow, there are a girl and a minor.

February 05, 2008 13:47

• Court acquvits the Muscovite accused of murdering an Armenian

  Today, the Moscow Regional Court has passed an acquittal on the case of the nationality-motivated murder of Arthur Sardaryan, 19, committed in a Moscow suburb.

February 05, 2008 13:40

• Defendants in the case on attack on power agents in Kabardino-Balkaria demand public advocates

  The defendants in the case on the events on October 13, 2005, in the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, want to petition again at court about admission of their relatives and friends to the process as public defenders.

February 05, 2008 13:34

• Commander of special operation in Kondopoga to be trialled in camera

  On February 7, the Supreme Court of Karelia will start considering, in private session, the criminal case of Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Victor Vysokikh, commander of the special operation aimed to stop mass disorders in the city of Kondopoga in September 2006.

February 04, 2008 19:17

• Kidnapped person released for ransom in Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone

  Davis Nadaraya, a kidnapped resident of Shamgon village, Zugdidi District of Georgia, was released after a week of detainment in the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone.

February 04, 2008 19:05

• Activist of "The Other Russia" released in Rostov-on-Don

  Sergey Volodin, a National-Bolshevik and one of the coordinators of "The Other Russia" Coalition for the Rostov Region, is back at large.

February 04, 2008 18:58

• Arrested Mirza Sakit restarts his hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  On February 3, journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit who is imprisoned in Azerbaijan has renewed his protest hunger strike against the refusal of the prison administration to transfer him to the prison hospital despite his poor health condition.