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April 14, 2010 19:00

• Sokiryanskaya: defenders of kidnapped residents of Ingushetia are pressed on

  As stated by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the signatories of the petition in defence of the relatives of the perished Ingush human rights defender Maksharip Aushev are threatened by some unidentified persons. These relatives were kidnapped last December.

April 14, 2010 18:00

• Georgian soldier's family sues Russia at ECtHR

  The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (AYLG) has filed a claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in favour of relatives of a Georgian soldier lost during the August events in South Ossetia in 2008. The claim refers to facts of torture and murder by Russian and Ossetian militaries of the Georgian soldier named Georgiy Antsukhelidze.

April 13, 2010 23:50

• Malik and Khadizhat Gataev hope for fair verdict of Lithuanian court

  Malik and Khadizhat Gataev, a married couple from Chechnya, who are presently in Helsinki, wait for the next trial on their case and hope for fair consideration.

April 13, 2010 23:40

• Kabardino-Balkaria fears that recent mass fight may spoil republic's image

  On April 15, the settlement of Yantarny, Prokhladny District of Kabardino-Balkaria, will host the Cossack round to discuss the situation after the mass fight between the youth of the villages of Altud and Yantarny.

April 13, 2010 23:00

• Court rejects cassation against verdict on bribery in "Neva-Express" case

  The Collegium of the Novgorod Regional Court has rejected cassations on the case of a bribery attempt on the inspector who was dealing with the "Neva-Express" train blowing up in 2007; thus, the verdict entered its legal force.

April 13, 2010 22:20

• FSB Director reports solution of recent resonant terror acts

  As reported by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau), at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), 26 members of the terrorist group, which organized blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009, were liquidated, and 14 more were detained.

April 13, 2010 22:00

• Georgia's MFA: Georgian citizens who asked refuge in Israel will be most likely deported

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has officially confirmed the information that a group of Georgian tourists applied for political asylum in Israel, but at the same time found their demand unachievable.

April 13, 2010 21:00

• Court obliged Dymovskiy's defender to pay moral compensation to Novorossisk UVD boss

  Today, the Primorskiy District Court of Novorossisk has ruled that Vadim Karastelyov should pay 50,000 roubles to Vladimir Chernositov, head of the city UVD (Interior Department), who had accused the human rights activist of disseminating discrediting information.

April 13, 2010 20:00

• Chechnya: three militiamen wounded by explosion

  Yesterday, on April 12, an explosion happened in the Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, as a result of which, as reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic, three militiamen were wounded.

April 13, 2010 19:00

• Two natives of Azerbaijan executed near Moscow

  As reported by law enforcement bodies, at night on April 12 in the east of Moscow two critically gunshot-wounded Azerbaijanis were found in a car.

April 13, 2010 18:00

• ECtHR requests data from Russia about disappearance of Aushev's relatives

  Today, it became known that on April 7 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asked the government of the Russian Federation to present, before May 19, 2010, copies of all the documents relating to the measures taken to establish whereabouts of four relatives of human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, who was shot dead last October, or about their custody in case they are in hands of the state.

April 12, 2010 23:30

• MIA: kidnappers of six-year girl found in Chechnya

  As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, a kidnapping of a girl of 6 was solved hot on the trail in the republic; the kidnappers demanded a ransom of 2 million roubles for the child.

April 12, 2010 23:00

• Three militaries perished in special operation in Dagestan

  In the course of special actions aimed to neutralize suspected militants, which were resumed today in the morning in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, three soldiers of the MIA's internal troops were lost, and seven more were wounded.

April 12, 2010 22:00

• Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped last year in Chechnya, released

  The Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture (IRCAT) has managed to release Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped on December 11, 2009, from his own house by unknown armed people in camouflage.

April 12, 2010 21:20

• Judge who sentenced Ryno-Skachevskiy grouping assassinated in Moscow

  Today in Moscow, near the door of his flat in No. 24, Strelbischenskiy Lane, Federal Judge Eduard Chuvashov, who tried the nationalist groupings "Ryno-Skachevskiy" and "White Wolves", was shot dead. The investigation believes that it was a murder for hire.

April 12, 2010 20:00

• Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev find verdict to his attempters fair

  The relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok" (East) of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who became - one year ago in the United Arab Emirates - a victim of an attempt, welcomed the verdict passed in Dubai to Ramzan Kadyrov's groom Makhdi Lorniya, a native of Iran, and businessman from Tajikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov, who were convicted today to 25 years of imprisonment each.

April 12, 2010 19:00

• Missing Zeinap Daurbekova released in Ingushetia

  The mother of a large family Zeinap Daurbekova, who was detained by power agents on April 8, is at large. As reported by her relatives, yesterday, on April 11, employees of the FSB handed Zeinap over to local militiamen, and the latter brought her home.

April 12, 2010 18:00

• Sochi commemorates Poles who perished in air crash

  The Rome-Catholic Church in Sochi held, at plenty of parishioners present, a requiem service on the Poles who perished in the air crash near Smolensk. Members of the Polish Diaspora in Sochi plan to start a book of condolences, to be sent later to the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Russia.

April 10, 2010 22:00

• Head of criminal investigation blown up in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Tonight in Kabardino-Balkaria an attempt was made on Zuber Shukaev, head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). He died a bit later in hospital.

April 10, 2010 19:00

• Azerbaijan: number of refugees from Chechnya goes down

  The number of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan has reduced from 12 to 2 thousand persons, as reported by Ali Gasanov, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with Refugees and Forced Migrants.