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October 25, 2007 10:19

• Ingushetia: people doubt of Khidrievs' participation in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  Relatives of the residents of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train and local human rights activists do not believe in Khidriev brothers' involvement in the incident.

October 24, 2007 21:06

• Resident of Moscow sentenced to 14 years in colony for attacking citizens of Azerbaijan and Kirghizia

  Yesterday, the Moscow City Court sentenced three residents of Moscow - Sergey Beryakov, Sergey Ushakov and minor Alexander Seryogin, who were found guilty of attacks and murder on the motives of national intolerance and kindling of ethnic enmity.

October 24, 2007 21:02

• Lydia Yusupova demands to stop prosecution of advocate Kodzaeva in North Ossetia

  Advocate Lydia Yusupova, a human rights activist from Chechnya and the organizer of the reception office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in the city of Grozny, is calling her colleagues-advocates to exhibit solidarity and support advocate Irina Kodzaeva, accused by the inspector of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of violent behaviour.

October 24, 2007 20:54

• Life of the woman wounded by explosion in the capital of Dagestan is out of danger

  On October 23, at about 11 p.m. an unknown explosive blew up in the Shamil Avenue of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

October 24, 2007 20:53

• Opposition indignant with dispersal of demonstration in Armenia

  Dispersal of the demonstration in Armenia on October 23 is another link in the chain of aggressive actions of the authorities directed against their own nation, told Garnik Markaryan, Chairman of the Party named "Homeland and Honour".

October 24, 2007 20:40

• Ingushetia: relatives of the suspects of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train start their own investigation

  The relatives of the two local residents detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in the Novgorod Region of Russia have started the investigation into the circumstances of their detention.

October 23, 2007 21:53

• Two girls who disappeared in Grozny are searched for in Chechnya

  The employees of the Chechen MIA are searching two girls who disappeared three days back in Grozny under unclear circumstances.

October 23, 2007 21:50

• Police officers evict Abkhazian refugees in Sochi

  Today, in the Imereti Lowland in the area Sochi (Krasnodar Territory), where erection of object for the 2014 Olympiad of 2014 is planned, they have started to evict refugees from Abkhazia out of their shabby dwellings.

October 23, 2007 21:46

• F-1 grenade could blow up a shuttle-taxi in Dagestan

  Under the preliminary version of the explosion experts, the character of the explosion of the shuttle-taxi in the Kazbek District of Dagestan reminds the action of F-1 grenade ("limonka").

October 23, 2007 21:45

• Criminal case against the heads of the storm on "Nord-Ost" not initiated yet

  The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has not answered to the application of the representatives of the "Nord-Ost" Public Organization demanding to initiate a criminal case against FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, Vladimir Ustinov, former General Public Prosecutor and other heads of the headquarters formed to rescue the hostages, who were seized in the Theatre located in Dubrovka district in Moscow.

October 23, 2007 21:34

• Today is five years from capture of "Nord-Ost" by militants

  Today is the exactly 5 years from the day when on October 23, 2002, a group of terrorists seized spectators and actors of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages of at the Moscow Dubrovka Theatrical Centre.

October 22, 2007 11:25

• Ecologists of Krasnodar Territory protest against World Bank sponsoring the "Russian World-II" Project

  On October 18 in Washington, President of the World Bank Richard Zoellick received a statement of Russian ecological NGOs entitled "Save the natural and cultural-historical heritage of Taman!"

October 22, 2007 11:22

• Investigation on the case of Kondopoga militiamen is over

  The Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has finished the investigation of criminal cases opened against high-ranking employees of militia accused of negligence in connection with disorders in Kondopoga in September 2006.

October 22, 2007 11:14

• Ecologists of Adygea win the trial on zoning of the Sochi National Park

  Today, the Maikop City Court has satisfied the claim of Valery Brinikh, an ecologist from Adygea, who believes that the zoning of the territory of the Sochi National Park as approved by the Order of the Federal Service for Supervision over Environmental Management of August 27, 2006, is illegal.

October 22, 2007 10:57

• Bekhbudov: tortures are still practises in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijani Committee Against Torture has launched monitoring of investigatory isolation facilities and temporary custody cells of police units of cities and districts of the Republic.

October 22, 2007 10:54

• Azerbaijani penitentiary service fails to confirm the journalist's hunger strike

  On October 20 journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov) announced a termless hunger strike in protest against his returning for further custody to Colony No. 14.

October 22, 2007 10:50

• Defence of Dubrovka victims accuses the authorities of falsification

  The advocates of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre demand to initiate criminal cases on falsification against a number of officials in connection with presentation to the Strasbourg Court of the memorandum dated to the events that happened five years ago.

October 20, 2007 11:18

• Armed attack in North Ossetia - one person killed, two wounded

  In the village of Bazorkino (Chermen) of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia local residents-Ingushes have been assassinated.

October 20, 2007 11:15

• OSCE Secretary General calls on Azerbaijani authorities to release journalists

  During his visit to Azerbaijan, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the OSCE, has called the leaders of the Republic to release the journalists who are kept in prisons.

October 20, 2007 11:09

• Problems of peace-making journalism discussed in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Under the Project "Journalism and Peacemaking," implemented with support of the International Alert organization, at the editorial board of the Shushi newspaper "Shushi" a discussion was held on the topic "Does the peacemaking journalism exists and how much Karabakh media needs it?"