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December 01, 2005 12:26

• Police officer killed in Abkhazia

  The body of an Abkhaz police officer, Fridon Jgerenaia, is found in the Gal district of Abkhazia.

December 01, 2005 12:09

• Victims interrupt Kulayev case hearing

  North Ossetia's Supreme Court declares a break in the hearing of the case of Mr Nurpashi Kulayev, a participant in the Beslan school attack.

December 01, 2005 12:08

• Authorised public meeting may be declared crime

  Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's Office opens a criminal case over the 26 November public meeting in Baku.

November 30, 2005 22:06

• Head of administration, his son shot dead in Avtury

  Unidentified attackers kill the Avtury head of administration, Ibrahim Umpashayev, and his 26-year-old son, Isa Umpashayev.

November 30, 2005 21:45

• Several oppositionists disappear after dispersal

  Five members of Azerbaijan's opposition parties are missing after the dispersal of the public meeting on 26 November.

November 30, 2005 21:20

• Pamiatoi head of administration killed by Russian military man

  The killing was committed by Dmitry Arnautov, a serviceman of the Shatoi district military commandant's office, a source says.

November 29, 2005 21:20

• Beslan Mothers dissatisfied with parliamentary report

  Ms Ella Kesayev, Chairwoman of the Beslan Mothers Committee, says the North Ossetian parliamentary commission's report on the events in Beslan on 1-3 September 2004 is "smoothed very much."

November 29, 2005 21:18

• Minister's evidence fails to shed light

  Interrogated at today's hearing of Mr Nurpashi Kulayev's case, Mr Kazbek Dzantiyev, former Internal Affairs Minister of North Ossetia, avoids giving answers.

November 29, 2005 21:16

• University president violates human rights

  A student is sent down at the Baku State University for taking part in opposition actions.

November 28, 2005 21:07

• Chechnya's president to meet separatists

  "Without peace, there is no creation, development is impossible, and democratic processes are impossible," Alu Alkhanov said.

November 28, 2005 21:05

• Grozny ignores parliamentary election - Memorial

  The Human Rights Centre Memorial says that attendance in the capital of Chechnya was much lower than in the previous elections, counter to expectations of the human rights defenders.

November 26, 2005 11:21

• Police disperse public meeting, beat journalists

  The police use force against participants in the public meeting in the Gelebe Square in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, earlier today.

November 26, 2005 11:20

• Landmine wounds one in Chechnya

  A federal serviceman was seriously wounded having triggered an antipersonnel mine in the mountainous district of Vedeno.

November 24, 2005 21:23

• 'No onslaught was planned' – Beslan headquarters member

  Victor Sobolev, commander of the 58th army and a member of the operations headquarters for the rescue of hostages in Beslan, gives evidence.

November 23, 2005 21:57

• Suspects in Nalchik attack ill-treated - HRW

  Below is a full-text version of a <a href="http://www.hrw.org" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a> <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/18/russia12053_txt.htm" target="_blank">report</a> of ill-treatment with respect to Nalchik attack suspects.

November 23, 2005 21:17

• Lawyer at risk of abduction

  Law enforcement agencies threaten to make short work of Ms Larissa Dorogov, lawyer of Muslim protesters in Kabardino-Balkaria.

November 23, 2005 11:09

• Esprit de corps vs criminal cover-up

  Mr Igor Trunov, a Nord-Ost lawyer, says that looting on the part of law enforcement and other militarised agencies accompanies all terrorist acts and disasters.

November 22, 2005 23:51

• Azeri workers go on strike

  Workers for US-based McDERMOTT go on strike over low wages and discrimination.

November 22, 2005 23:47

• Prosecution gives formal answers

  The relatives of those killed in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria receive formal answers from the Prosecutor General's Office.

November 22, 2005 21:57

• Kulayev attacked in courtroom

  A victim reaches Mr Nurpashi Kulayev, the defendant at the hearing of the Beslan terrorist act case, through a hole in his cage.