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Action in memory of Dubrovka casualties and victims, Moscow, Chistoprudny Boulevard, October 26, 2009. Poster running: "We don't trust the authorities!"; poster on the right: "We demand compensations to Nord-Ost victims!". Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

23:00, 26 October 2010

300 persons came to commemorate Dubrovka victims in Moscow

On October 26 in Moscow, more than 300 persons gathered in the square in front of the Theatrical Centre: victims and relatives of the casualties of the Dubrovka terror act, and victims of other terror acts - exploded houses in Guryanova Street and Kashira Highway in Moscow, in Volgodonsk and at Beslan school capture.

22:40, 26 October 2010

Attack on Vinyukov in Sochi was made by hired criminals, his associates say

According to Alexei Dymovskiy, leader of the "White Tape" movement, and Yuri Dzaganiya, local CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) leader, the attack in Sochi on Mikhail Vinyukov, chairman of the Sochi branch of the "White Tape", was an ordered the crime, organized by those dissatisfied with the activities of the rights defender.

22:30, 26 October 2010

Refugees in Georgia demand resignation of Minister in charge of IDPs

On October 25 in Tbilisi refugees broke a tent camp at the Ministry for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Refugees and Accommodation, demanding resignation of Minister Koba Subeliani. Refugees believe that the government fails to address their housing problems; while the Ministry finds their claims to be ungrounded.

22:10, 26 October 2010

Investigatory Committee reports detention of attackers on Baksan HPP

The investigatory bodies and operative agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB have detained two persons who confessed of committing a terror act on July 21 at the Baksan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria, as Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee (IC), said today.

22:00, 26 October 2010

Warsaw Court of Appeal stops Zakaev's arrest case

Today in Warsaw, the Court of Appeal overturned the first instance's ruling to arrest Ahmed Zakaev, leader of Chechen separatists. The session held behind closed doors also stopped Zakaev's arrest case.

21:00, 26 October 2010

Galina Kozhevnikova: the case of "White Wolves" is an attack upon the attempt to limit the jury trials

The case of "White Wolves" once again confirms that the jury trial, in case of proper work of the investigation, will not acquit the Nazis, Galina Kozhevnikova, Deputy Director of informational and analytic center "SOVA" said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

20:00, 26 October 2010

The sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) have finished their work in Chechnya

The personnel of the Center of Rescue Operations of Special Risk "Leader", MES of Russia, have accomplished their work on mine clearing in the territory of Chechnya. The sappers of "Leader" had been working in Chechnya since the middle of September this year.

19:00, 26 October 2010

Militiamen in Dagestan offset a lawyer's disadvantage for damaging her car

As a result of an achieved peace accord the personnel of law enforcement bodies in Dagestan completely offset to lawyer Jamilya Tagirova the disadvantage for having knocked out the window glasses in her car.

18:00, 26 October 2010

Organization "Democracy for the Sake of Development" asks the authorities of Karabakh to help release the journalist arrested in Transdniestria

A non-governmental organization of Armenia "Democracy for the Sake of Development" has submitted an appeal to the President of Nagorno-Karabakh concerning Ernest Vardanyan, an Armenian journalist arrested in Transdniestria

23:40, 25 October 2010

Hot-water boiler caused explosion in Kabardino-Balkaria

The Zaragizh village school suffered from an explosion. According to the principal, who referred to the experts studying the circumstances of the night explosion, the reason was in the canteen hot-water boiler. Thus, the initial statement about a terror act was not true.

23:20, 25 October 2010

Suicide bombers who attacked Chechen Parliament came in a taxi

Two of the three suicide bombers who attacked the building of the Chechen Parliament in Grozny in the morning of 19 October are still unidentified. The procedure is difficult, because their bodies torn into fragments by explosives belts are not subject to visual identification. Inspectors continue revealing new details of the incident.

23:10, 25 October 2010

Armenia: WWF to protect brown bears

In the south of Armenia, employees of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) plan to start night on duty shifts near the gardens, where brown bears come for nutrition. This was announced by the PR Department of the WWF.

23:00, 25 October 2010

Bodies of two Russian contract militaries found in Armenia

As reported by the press service of the Armenian Police, the bodies of two contract servicemen of the Frontier Department of Russia's FSB were found in a military unit stationed in the city of Gyumri, in the northern part of the country.

22:50, 25 October 2010

Alleged Chechen rebels liquidated in Dagestan were medrese students

The two residents of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, assassinated on October 20 in a special operation of power agencies in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, were medrese students, listed as missing since October 8 this year.

22:40, 25 October 2010

Former high-ranking SFD prosecutor sentenced to eight years for fraud

The Serpukhov Court of Moscow has sentenced Senior Adviser of Justice Sergey Abrosimov, former head of the division for supervising inquiry and operational-search activities of the Chief Department of Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) in the Southern Federal District (SFD), guilty, according to the investigation, of taking huge bribes, to eight years in a minimum security colony.

22:30, 25 October 2010

Georgia introduces new rules for organizations working in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Under a new decree of the Georgian government, the humanitarian international organization, which are rendering help to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, shall fill in a special form and send it into the office of the Georgian State Minister for Reintegration, who is obliged then to present, within 21 working days, his comments or sanction the project. His refusal to implement the project may be appealed against in court.

22:20, 25 October 2010

Prosecutor demands life imprisonment for "White Wolves" leader

Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the Moscow City Court to sentence Vasily Krivtsov, a former student and a resident of Moscow, who is regarded by the investigation to be the leader of the grouping "Belye Volki" (White Wolves) and who was found guilty by the jury of committing 15 murders on the motive of ethnic hatred and enmity.

22:10, 25 October 2010

Journalist from Dagestan complains to rights defenders about pressure from power agents

Zarema Khasanova, a Dagestani female journalist, addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with her statement giving facts of threats against her, telling also about increased interest of power agents in her work. The journalist has linked these facts with her reports revealing militiamen's human rights violations.

22:10, 25 October 2010

Former South-Ossetian captives assert that they saw Ikaev, registered as missing, in Georgian prison

There are witnesses in South Ossetia, who saw and talked with Rodion Ikaev, who was kidnapped on August 8, 2008, and since then was regarded as a person who had disappeared in the territory of Georgia. The Georgian party has never recognized these facts.

21:00, 25 October 2010

A Month of children's rights going on in Azerbaijan

A Month of children's rights is going on in Azerbaijan on the initiative of Elmira Suleimanova, the Children's Ombudsman. The Month started on October, 20 and will last till November, 20, in connection with the 21-rst anniversary of accepting the Convention of Children's Rights, Press Service of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman reported.

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