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April 08, 2010 23:50

• Two militiamen shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria, in the evening on April 7, in the city of Baksan, unidentified persons shot dead two militiamen.

April 08, 2010 22:50

• Moscow City Court refused to toughen punishment to Ryno and Skachevskiy

  Today, the Moscow City Court has found the leaders of a skinhead grouping Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy guilty of new episodes of nationalism-motivated attacks; however, the court decided not to toughen the punishment appointed in the first verdict - 10 years of imprisonment. The verdict is based on the jurymen's conclusion.

April 08, 2010 22:50

• Kadyrov asserts Umarov is incapable, people abroad worry for safety of Sochi Olympiad

  Some experts believe that Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian underground, has managed to unite Islamic rebels and organized their respective infrastructure; however, in the opinion of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Umarov is incapable and "dies from famine." Along with that, after the terror acts committed in the country with participation of suicide-bombers, opinions are expressed that because of the terrorist activity, the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi located in the centre of the Caucasian Mountains are under threat; while sources in Chechnya report new traffic of military columns in various directions.

April 08, 2010 22:20

• Case on attempt on Isa Yamadaev in Moscow sent to court

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has sent the case about the attempt on July 28, 2009, on Isa Yamadaev, brother of ex-MP Ruslan Yamadaev and the ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev. This was reported by the ICPO. According to the investigation, the attempter on Yamadaev was Khavazh Yusupov, 24, a native of Chechnya.

April 08, 2010 21:40

• Six oppositionists detained in Georgia

  Today in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, two clashes happened of the opposition united into the "National Council" with the police. Oppositionists, while asserting that the authorities exert pressure on printing houses, tried to enter the sealed up building of the printing house "Tbilisilebi" aiming to take their propaganda literature, which was prepared for the local elections appointed on May 30.

April 08, 2010 21:20

• UCF and LWF activists detained in Rostov-on-Don before March 31 action

  On March 31, activists of the United Civil Front (UCF), Left-Wing Front (LWF) and other public organizations went out to their pre-applied action held under the all-Russian "Strategy 31" campaign in defence of Article 31 of the Constitution that assumes the freedom of assembly.

April 08, 2010 20:00

• At FIDH forum, human rights activists from "Memorial" share experiences of working in Chechnya

  Within the section "Role of regional systems of human rights defence in strengthening national justice systems" of the 37th Congress of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), which is now on in Yerevan, human rights activists from the "Memorial" shared their practical experience of defending human rights in Chechnya.

April 08, 2010 19:00

• European Court finds Russia responsible for kidnapping and probable murder of two residents of Chechnya

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has passed a decision on the complaint "Abaeva et al versus Russia", having ruled that Russian government should pay compensation of moral damage of 60,000 euros to relatives of the kidnapped citizens of Chechnya Magomed-Ali Abaev and Anvar Shaipov.

April 08, 2010 18:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdia sentenced to 9.5 years in prison

  Today, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of ex-president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was found guilty of illegal keeping of firearms and a murder attempt.

April 07, 2010 23:50

• Gachechiladze to sue President of Georgia

  Leval Gachechiladze, leader of the oppositional public movement "Defend Georgia", prepares an action against President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in the context of the scandalous TV programme "Chronicle" broadcast by the "Imedi" TV Company. The report showed a simulated invasion of Russian troops and assassination of the President.

April 07, 2010 23:20

• Body of one of missing children found in Rostov Region

  On April 6 inspectors found the body of one of the children who disappeared in March. The search of the two remaining ones continues with the help of a drone.

April 07, 2010 23:10

• Denisova: I was deprived of opportunities to be engaged in human rights activities

  Anastasia Denisova, a human rights defender from Krasnodar and head of public organization "ETnIKA", whose criminal case was delivered from the court to the prosecutor's office for elimination of drawbacks, believes that the organizers of her criminal and judicial prosecution have hit their true target - deprived her of opportunities to work properly.

April 07, 2010 23:00

• Russian warrant officer Khripun gets refugee status in Georgia

  The Georgia's Ministry on Refugees' Matters and Accommodation has granted the refugee status to warrant officer Vitaly Khripun, a Russian frontier guard, who on December 21, 2009, deserted from his military unit deployed in Sinagur village in South Ossetia.

April 07, 2010 22:10

• Court finds arrest of figurant of 2009 explosion of "Neva-Express" train lawful

  The Moscow City Court has rejected the advocate's cassation complaint and upheld the arrest of Timur Kartoev, a defendant in the case dealing with the blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009. Kartoev was behind bars on March 4 by the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

April 07, 2010 22:00

• Twins from Dagestan are suspected of dispatching SMS messages on false mining of Moscow school

  Two natives of Dagestan, aged 27, are suspected of sending out false messages from a mobile phone about a prepared explosion of a school in the south of Moscow.

April 07, 2010 21:30

• Azerbaijani SC upholds verdict to woman who beat four men

  On April 7, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan, chaired by Ali Seifaliev, considered the cassation complaint lodged by Sayara Geidarova, who was earlier found guilty of beating four men. The supreme judicial instance of the country upheld the verdict of guilty.

April 07, 2010 21:00

• 75 victims of Moscow metro terror acts are still in hospital

  Today, medical establishments of Moscow are still treating 75 victims of the explosions triggered in Moscow metro stations on March 29.

April 07, 2010 20:00

• Russian State Duma drafts a bill on alienation of terrorists' property in favour of victims

  After the terror acts in Moscow and Kizlyar, the State Duma of the Russian Federation started development of the bill, which assumes compensation of damage to terror act victims, and found it necessary to properly organize the coverage by mass media of emergencies in Russia.

April 07, 2010 19:00

• Journalists who wrote about deportation Caucasian nations complain to ECtHR of persecutions by authorities

  The ladies-journalists from the Buryatia-based newspaper "Svobodnoye Slovo" (Free Word), accused of kindling enmity to Russian power agencies in their materials about the 1944 deportation of Caucasian nations, sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

April 07, 2010 18:00

• On the ninth day after tragedy, Moscow commemorates victims of metro terror acts

  At the Park Kultury station of Moscow metro, the information terminal in the centre of the vestibule became a sort of a monument, at the bottom of which we can see a heap of flowers, candles and photos of those whose lives stopped here, in a fatal trip on March 29. In the Lubyanka station, for several days in a row fresh flowers make a broad semicircle successively lay. Many people go in metro cars towards the places of the tragedy holding two or four roses or carnations in their hands.