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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

September 28, 2010 22:40

September 28, 2010 22:40

September 28, 2010 22:40

September 28, 2010 22:20

September 28, 2010 22:20

September 28, 2010 22:10

  • A bomb exploded near the Teachers' training university in Makhachkala

    A homemade explosive device was activated on September, 27, near V.I. Lenin monument located in front of the building of Dagestan State Teachers' training university (DSTTU) in the capital of Dagestan. A source in the Ministry of interior affairs of the republic reported today there were no victims of the explosion.

September 28, 2010 22:10

  • Militiamen and three civilians wounded in Dagestan

    Unidentified persons opened automatic fire on the militiamen, who stood with his friends at the entrance to one of the restaurants in the city of Izberbash. After the incident four persons were hospitalized.

September 28, 2010 22:00

September 28, 2010 21:00

  • Ombudsman wants to help woman from Grozny to preserve her housing

    Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has drawn attention to the problem of Alexandra Tanina from Grozny, now residing in a refugee camp in Nazran, who is afraid of losing her housing in the capital of Chechnya. According to Timur Akiev, head of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", the problem of losing apartments in Chechnya is a systemic one.

September 28, 2010 20:00

September 28, 2010 19:00

  • Bastrykin: Estemirova's murderer is known, alive and on federal wanted list

    The killer of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is known; he is in the territory of Russia; and steps are taken to arrest him, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), said today at the meeting with a delegation from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.

September 28, 2010 18:00

  • Terror act prevented in Nalchik in the centre of residential area

    Employees of the UVD (Interior Division) for the city of Nalchik have prevented a terror act, the Kabardino-Balkarian MIA has reported today. Simultaneously, two self-made explosive devices with a total capacity of up to one TNT (trotyl) kilogram were found in the heart of a residential district of the capital of the republic.

September 27, 2010 23:50

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  • Women of Kabardino-Balkaria fear of extrajudicial execution of their searched sons

    Residents of the city of Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, have addressed their letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and Head of Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov. They ask for help that their sons, who are wanted, were not killed, but arrested alive and tried according to Russian laws depending on the degree of their guilt.

September 27, 2010 23:00

  • During three days of special operation in Chechnya one power agent is lost and 10 wounded

    One law enforcement officer perished and ten of his colleagues were wounded during a special operation aimed to search a militant conducted in Chechnya since September 24. This was reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office). Local experts believe that the large-scale operation was a sort of Kadyrov's response to the militants' attack on Tsentoroi village, Kurchaloi District, in late August.

September 27, 2010 22:50

  • FSB reports detention of one of "Imarat Kavkaz" leaders

    In Northern Caucasus, on September 25, FSB officers detained one of the leaders of the Ingush branch of "Imarat Kavkaz" acting in Ingushetia, the PR centre of the FSB said today. According to the centre, the name of the detainee is Khashagulgov, Issa Lokhanovich.

September 27, 2010 22:30

  • Relatives of kidnapped resident of Ingushetia turn for help to rights defenders

    On September 7, in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, agents of some unidentified power agency kidnapped Rustam Maksharipovich Dzeitov, born in 1982. This was stated by his brother Ruslan Dzeitov, who has addressed today his written application to the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran.

September 27, 2010 22:20

  • Oleg Orlov at the entrance to the Khamovniki Court before the session, September 13, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" Nurdi Nukhazhiev failed to appear at Kadyrov-versus-Orlov trial

    Today, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow continued the trial under the slander claim lodged by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial". The court listened to evidences of Tamara Kagirova, a member of the Public Chamber of Chechnya. The other declared witness of the prosecution - Human Rights Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev - failed to appear in the courtroom.

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