News

September 09, 2009 23:50

• Names of would-be Moscow suicide bombers known

  Two huge terror acts to be committed by terrorists-suicide bombers have been prevented in Moscow; now the names of their potential executers are known - cousins Bekkhan Ospanov, 29, and Islam Bataev, 30. It was planned to bring the explosive to the terror act venue not only in shahid belts, but also in jogging shoe soles.

September 09, 2009 23:40

• BEBR organizes a march to Moscow

  Today, the Board of Elders of Balkar People (BEBP) held a sitting of the organizing committee of the pedestrian march to Moscow.

September 09, 2009 23:30

• Congress of Azerbaijanis of the World demands respect of national rights in Iran

  On September 8, the Baku-based "Park Inn" Hotel hosted a conference "National Movement of South Azerbaijan", organizer by the Congress of Azerbaijanis of the World (CAW). The event was on the problem of ensuring national rights of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Iran.

September 09, 2009 23:10

• Four residents of Roshni-Chu kidnapped in Chechnya

  According to a local resident, in the end of last week, employees of unidentified power agencies kidnapped four residents of Roshni-Chu village, located in the foothill Urus-Martan District. The Chechen militia did not confirm the fact of kidnapping.

September 09, 2009 23:00

• HRW urges Chechen President to recall his claim against head of "Memorial"

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to withdraw his claim lodged against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial".

September 09, 2009 22:10

• Right-wing ultras take responsibility for murdering figurant in "Black Hawks" case

  The "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as "BORN") has disseminated the information that it takes the responsibility for a series of neo-Nazi crimes, committed in Moscow in 2008 and 2009, including the attack on two figurants in the case of the "Black Hawks" grouping, as a result of which Rasul Khalilov, a native of Azerbaijan, was assassinated.

September 09, 2009 22:00

• Bodies of all casualties of terror act in Nazran identified

  Experts have finished identification of the bodies of the casualties of the explosion at the ROVD building in Nazran. It was reported by a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia.

September 09, 2009 20:00

• Owners of wedding saloons in Grozny think to move business to neighbouring republics

  Some of the local businessmen, who were selling wedding dresses in Grozny, now plan to leave Chechnya in order to sell their goods and payback the debts; and to close up their business in fear of repressions from local authorities.

September 09, 2009 19:00

• Kadyrov assures Hammarberg that he does everything possible in Chechnya to find missing people

  The Chechen leadership does everything possible for establishing the whereabouts of the people, who had disappeared or had been kidnapped in the course of counterterrorist operations (CTOs). This was stated by President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov during his meeting with Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights.

September 09, 2009 18:00

• Militia disperses residents of Dagestan protesting against abductions

  On September 8, about two hundred residents of Derbent in Dagestan blocked the central street of the city. The reason of this protest was kidnapping of Sirazhudin Shafiev committed on that very day. As reported by Svetlana Isaeva, head of the organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", Shafiev's relatives suspect that he was kidnapped by power agents.

September 08, 2009 23:40

• Isa Yamadaev states preparation of new attempt on him

  Isa Yamadaev, brother of the Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok", has stated that a sniper's attack on him is being prepared.

September 08, 2009 23:20

• Kadyrov appeals against GUVD's refusal to initiate criminal case against head of "Memorial"

  Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has appealed against the refusal of the Moscow GUVD to open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, chairman of the HRC "Memorial", to the Prosecutor's Office.

September 08, 2009 23:00

• "Sova": "Black Hawks" is the first ethnic antinationalist grouping

  Maria Rozalskaya, an expert of the Information Analytical Centre "Sova", believes that before the appearance of the "Black Hawks" - a grouping of Caucasian nationals who persecute Russian nationalists, there were no precedents of this sort, and comparing the "Hawks" with the well-known St Petersburg "Red Skinheads" is unreasonable.

September 08, 2009 22:10

• "Memorial" reports another kidnapping in Dagestan

  Today in the morning, in the city of Derbent, in the eyes of numerous witnesses, unidentified persons in camouflage and masks kidnapped Sirazhudin Shafiev, born in 1971, a resident of this city.

September 08, 2009 22:00

• Hammarberg is concerned of kidnappings in Chechnya

  Chechnya shall solve the problem of searching kidnapped and missing persons. This was stated by Thomas Hammarberg, CE's Commissioner on Human Rights, and Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who arrived in Chechnya on September 7.

September 08, 2009 21:00

• Azerbaijani Public marks International Journalists' Solidarity Day

  On September 8, on the occasion of the International Journalists' Solidarity Day, a group of independent Azerbaijani journalists laid flowers to the tombs of Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine, who was assassinated on March 2, 2005, at the threshold of his apartment, and Nadzhaf Nadzhafov, the first editor of the "Azadlyg" newspaper and the founder of modern Azerbaijani democratic press.

September 08, 2009 20:00

• In Rostov Region, OMON hampers pensioners to block "Don" Highway

  Militiamen and OMON (Special-Purpose Militia) fighters would not let miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo, located in the Rostov Region, to block the Highway М-4 "Don". This was reported by one of the participants of the protest action.

September 08, 2009 19:00

• Employees of HRC "Memorial" in Chechnya are ready to resume their work in the republic

  The work of the HRC "Memorial" in the Chechen Republic can be resumed within the nearest weeks. On September 7, the employees of the Chechen branch of the HRC "Memorial" held a meeting and made a decision to restart their work in the republic.

September 08, 2009 18:00

• Open address on threats to human rights defenders and journalists in Dagestan

September 07, 2009 23:50

• Russian militaries let off four Georgians detained for trespassing South-Ossetian border

  Today at night after interrogation, Russian militaries have released four residents of Sakorintlo village, Kaspsk District, bordering on South Ossetia. According to the detainees, Russian soldiers detained them, when they crossed the conventional border while pasturing their cattle.