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February 05, 2009 21:00

• Moscow human rights activists support "Mothers of Dagestan"

  Human rights activists are indignant with the attacks on the public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" and plan to do everything to defend it. This is the topic of the statement made at today's press conference in the Independent Press Centre in Moscow by representatives of the leading human rights organizations of Russia.

February 05, 2009 20:00

• HRC "Memorial" wants to ask president of Ingushetia to supervise the investigation of hijacking lawyer Itslaev's car

  In Nazran, Ingushetia, a car of the lawyer engaged in investigating kidnappings was hijacked in broad daylight from near the building of the Investigatory Department. Law enforcers demonstrate unwillingness to investigate this incident, which makes human rights activists believe that this is a form of pressure on the advocate.

February 05, 2009 20:00

• Resident of Argun kidnapped by unknown persons in Chechnya

  The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are finding out the circumstances of the incident that took place last night in Argun, the third city of Chechnya. A local woman-resident addressed the militia with a statement that at night on February 4 a group of armed persons kidnapped her adult son.

February 05, 2009 18:00

• Today is nine years after Novye Aldy residents were executed in Chechnya

  According to human rights activists, nine years ago, in the course of a wide-scale "zachistka" (clean-up) conducted in the settlement of Novye Aldy and adjacent districts of Grozny, 56 persons were killed. In spite of the fact that the power units, which held this "special action", have been established, those guilty of assassinating unarmed people remain unpunished.

February 04, 2009 23:00

• Residents of Prigorodny District, North Ossetia, complain of violations of refugees' rights

  The major issue for refugees is the fate of the Prigorodny District and their return there, as reports Bagaudin Khadziev, employee of the human rights organization "Union of Genocide Victims". Refugees complain that the compensations allocated to forced migrants from the Prigorodny District and Vladikavkaz, are given out not to them.

February 04, 2009 22:00

• Authorities of North Ossetia and UN agencies agree on joint addressing forced migrants' problems

  The today's meeting in Vladikavkaz of the Head of North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov with Gesche Karrenbrock, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Russia, has ended with an agreement on continuation and strengthening of cooperation with the aim to settle the problem of forced migrants.

February 04, 2009 22:00

• Chechnya will try the man who killed his daughter for misbehaviour

  The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has delivered to the court the criminal case opened against a resident of the Republic, aged 56, who shot dead his daughter of 33 in autumn of last year. He is accused not only of the murder, but also of illegal purchase of firearms.

February 04, 2009 22:00

• HRC "Memorial": 12 persons kidnapped in Dagestan in 2008

  In 2008, kidnappings in Dagestan did not stop, which is also admitted by spokesmen from the MIA of Dagestan. However, in estimation of their number and consequences the official data is essentially different from what human rights activists report. This is the topic of the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which was received by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 04, 2009 22:00

• Film on conflict in South Ossetia wins a prize at international festival of TV reporters

  The film "City of Lonely Mothers" made by the "Russia Today" Russian English-language TV Channel on the life in Tskhinvali during the first days of last August South Ossetia-Georgia conflict was awarded a silver medal at the international festival named "New York Festivals".

February 04, 2009 21:00

• Glukhov was not the only military absentee in South Ossetia

  Sergeant Alexander Glukhov who deserted his military unit based in Akhalgori for Georgia was not the first one to quit Russian military troops deployed in South Ossetia. Shortly before the incident with Glukhov, another soldier had tried to run away home via Georgia; however he was detained there and sent back.

February 04, 2009 21:00

• Investigation of young woman's murder underway in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, law enforcers hold inquiry into a young woman's murder; her body with several gunshot wounds was found in the Shelkovskoy District.

February 04, 2009 20:00

• In Rostov Region, court marshals arrest property of protesting miners-pensioners

  In the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, the debts of miners-pensioners are collected in the mass order through the court. Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the city duma of Zverevo, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that five trials took place in recent days and ruled to collect the pensioners' indebtedness for heating on the suits lodged by the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Donenergo".

February 04, 2009 19:00

• Residents of Sochi plan to address European Court on mass violations of their rights committed under Olympic aegis

  Residents of Sochi are going to file a complaint against Russian government to the European Court on Human Rights about mass violations of the European Convention on Human Rights under the aegis of the forthcoming Olympic Games.

February 03, 2009 23:00

• In Dagestan, court marshals evict "Charitable Women's Hospital"

  Today, court marshals and officials of the Agency for Managing State Property of the Republic of Dagestan (former Ministry of Property and Land Relations) arrived in the "Charitable Women's Hospital" located in Makhachkala.

February 03, 2009 22:00

• Azerbaijan: participant of anti-Israeli protests in Nardaran detained

  Yesterday, on February 2, late at night, the police arrested Khikmet Veliev, a resident of Nardaran and an active participant of recent anti-Israeli actions held in this settlement located 30 km north-east of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

February 03, 2009 22:00

• Two local residents detained in the West of Chechnya

  Two residents of Chechnya have been detained by employees of law enforcement bodies in the foothill Achhoy-Martan District. The detainees are accused of helping participants of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

February 03, 2009 22:00

• "Memorial" asks Luzhkov to coordinate the route of march in memory of Markelov and Baburova

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" demands from Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov to coordinate the route of the action planned on February 8 in memory of assassinated Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova and other recent victims of politically motivated terror in Moscow.

February 03, 2009 21:00

• Leader of "Gnchak" Party: Armenian authorities have no proofs on "Case of Seven"

  Liudmila Sarkisyan, Chair of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party, asserts that the authorities of Armenia have no proofs on the "Case of Seven", therefore, the litigation is under risk to turn into a mere farce.

February 03, 2009 20:00

• Chris Chivers: "murder list" of Kadyrov's enemies needs verification

  The authenticity of the list of 300 natives from Chechnya, sentenced to death by President Kadyrov, which was published in the western press, has not been proved yet. This was stated by Chris Chivers, one of the authors of the article published in the American "New York Times", in his exclusive interview to the "Caucasian Knot"; the article was about the story told by the murdered Chechen emigrant Umar Israilov about the cruelty of the Chechen regime.

February 03, 2009 19:00

• "Reporters without Borders" call Azerbaijani authorities to stop persecuting journalists in Nakhichevan

  The international organization "Reporters without Borders" (RwB) engaged in defending journalists' rights has sent letters to the authorities of Azerbaijan in the context of persecutions of independent journalists in Nakhichevan.