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April 14, 2007 23:12

• Rasul Kudaev, prisoner in Kabardino-Balkaria, complains of tortures to Prosecutor Chaika

  On Friday, April 13, the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) extended the custody term for Rasul Kudaev, prisoner of the Nalchik pre-trial facility ("SIZO"), till this October.

April 14, 2007 23:07

• Ingushetian MIA claims prevention of a number of terror acts

  Today in Ingushetia, agents of law enforcement bodies have detected a large hiding place with 12 powerful explosives ready to use, and plenty of ammunition.

April 14, 2007 22:51

• Victims themselves promise to find Ulman's case defendants

  Minkail Ezhiev, representative of the victim party in litigation on Ulman's case and head of the Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic, has stated that the victim party will apply maximum efforts to find the missing defendants.

April 14, 2007 22:10

• Peacemakers: Georgia concentrates MIA units close to South Ossetia

  Actually, Georgia is increasing the strength of its MIA units in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. This conclusion was made by the Monitoring Group of the Mixed Peacemaking Forces (MPMF) in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone and OSCE Mission officers.

April 14, 2007 22:00

• "Disagreement March" held in Russia

  Today, Moscow has become the venue of a sanctioned meeting of Kremlin-oppositionist organizations from "The Other Russia" coalition.

April 13, 2007 23:15

• Moscow City Court to start considering the case of Chechen separatists' web site author on May 3

  On May 3, the Moscow City Court will start considering the defence and accusation complaints on the verdict to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz Center" Chechen separatists' web site.

April 13, 2007 23:08

• Dagestan Procuracy appeals against verdict on Buinaksk terror act

  The Dagestan Office of Public Prosecutor has appealed at the Supreme Court against the acquittal verdict to Magomed Salikhov accused of exploding a block of flats in Buinaksk in 1999.

April 13, 2007 22:20

• European Court accepts applications of Dubrovka terror act victims

  The European Court for Human Rights has initiated proceedings of the complaint of 58 victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre, Igor Trunov, claimants' advocate, has reported.

April 13, 2007 21:34

• Village in Abkhazia attacked by grenade launchers from Georgian territory

  The village of Vtoroye Otobaya of the Galskiy District, Abhazia, located in the close vicinity of the Georgian-Abkhazian border was shelled by grenade launchers from the adjacent territory of Georgia.

April 13, 2007 21:31

• Search of defendants in Ulman's case announced

  Ulman, Voevodin and Kalaganskiy, indictees in the murder case of peaceful Chechen residents, have been announced into search.

April 12, 2007 23:18

• South Ossetia: Georgia fabricates voters' lists

  The special regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, brought into the conflict zone on April 11, today morning has started making Xerox copies of passports of all the passing-by drivers and passengers.

April 12, 2007 23:15

• Aslakhanov doubts the existence of Chechen separatists Umarov and Khalilov

  Aslambek Aslakhanov, adviser of the president of Russia, does not exclude that leaders of Chechen separatists Doku Umarov and Rapani Khalilov can reside outside Russia. "They (Umarov and Khalilov) may be outside the Russian Federation whatsoever," Mr. Aslakhanov told journalists today.

April 12, 2007 23:05

• Accusation is afraid that defendants in Ulman's case will never appear

  Edward Ulman, Alexander Kalaganskiy and Vladimir Voevodin, defendants in the case on execution of residents of Chechnya, have failed to appear today at the session of the North-Caucasian Military Court.

April 12, 2007 22:45

• Mufti of Adygea is against repatriates' participation in religious activity

  "Adygeis-repatriates should not be religion servants in Adygea and take post if imams, Nurbij Emizh, Mufti of Adygea and Krasnodar Territory, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. In his words, "they are of different mentality."

April 12, 2007 22:00

• In Volgograd Region they judge skinheads who attacked Gipsies

  On April 10, 2007, the Volgograd Regional Court started a trial on the attack committed on April 13, 2006, by skinheads on a Gipsy settlement and the murder of two persons in the vicinity of the city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region.

April 11, 2007 23:30

• Head of Dagestan asks media to resist Wahhabism

  Today, on April 11, a session of Dagestan Antiterrorist Commission has discussed the role of mass media in ideological counteracting terrorism.

April 11, 2007 23:20

• IDPs demand privileges in Nagorny Karabakh

  The village of Nor Maraga, Martakert District, Nagorny Karabakh, hosted a roundtable organized by the NGO of Nagorny Karabakh refugees.

April 11, 2007 23:10

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of blocking Transcaucasian Highway

  Today, Transcaucasian Highway traffic was temporarily blocked in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone, where Georgian power agencies are controlling the Highway section in the vicinity of the villages of the Tskhinval District of South Ossetia.

April 11, 2007 22:40

• Premier of Georgia reports his plan of settling Abkhazian conflict to the UN

  On April 10, Georgia's Premier Zurab Nogaideli took part in the closed session of the UN Security Council on discussing the situation around Georgian-Abkhazian settlement. Mr. Nogaideli acquainted the members of the Council with the main points of Georgian settlement plan.

April 11, 2007 22:21

• North-Ossetian "UBOP" rejects charges of kidnapping Ingushetian residents

  Investigative actions are now undertaken in relation to Aladdin Malsagov, an earlier detained resident of the Republic of Ingushetia.