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11:20, 18 January 2008

On Saakashvili's inauguration day, the Georgia opposition to hold a rally at the hippodrome

The United Opposition of Georgia plans to hold a rally on the day of inauguration of Mikhail Saakashvili, January 20, and calls the public to come to the hippodrome.

10:47, 18 January 2008

Krasnodar holds seminar "Public Control: Power and Society"

In Krasnodar, Moscow and local human rights activists have discussed, in the course of the seminar "Public Control: Power and Society", organized by the Moscow "Demos" Centre, the civil supervision over the activities of law enforcement bodies.

10:33, 18 January 2008

Antimonopoly bodies of Dagestan bring electricity suppliers to responsibility

The supervisory bodies, monopolists and the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "City Electric Power Grid" should be responsible for absence of electric power in dwelling districts of Makhachkala.

10:28, 18 January 2008

"Izvestia": Kaloev becomes deputy minister in North Ossetia

Vitaly Kaloev, who was released in November 2007 from a Swiss prison, will be employed from Monday, January 21, at the civil service.

14:20, 17 January 2008

European Court: Russia to pay 110,000 euros for execution of Muscovites in Ingushetia

The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.

14:16, 17 January 2008

European Court passes two decisions against Azerbaijan

The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.

14:13, 17 January 2008

Kabardino-Balkaria: Nalchik SIZO inmates complain of oppressions against Moslems

The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.

13:42, 17 January 2008

Court to consider early release of Stomakhin

The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

13:26, 17 January 2008

In Dagestan capital electricity supply breaks complicate the work of hospitals

Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.

13:11, 17 January 2008

Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice ignores messages about tortures and extortions in colony

Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.

12:28, 16 January 2008

Tbilisi Court refuses to cancel the election outcomes

The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.

12:05, 16 January 2008

"Beslan Mothers": prosecution of "Voice of Beslan" can cause interethnic collisions

The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".

11:58, 16 January 2008

In Chechnya power agents would not give out the body of murdered militant to his relatives

Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.

11:50, 16 January 2008

"Memorial": closure of "Peacekeeping Centre" in Chechnya is politically motivated

In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".

11:35, 16 January 2008

"Memorial" to verify information on tortures in Chechen Colony of Chernokozovo

At this date, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has no information about tortures and rough violations of custody regulations in relation of the inmates of Colony No. 2 located in Chernokozovo settlement of Chechnya, but is going to check the information of this sort.

15:01, 15 January 2008

MoE: explosion of apartment block in Zheleznovodsk was not terror act

While making his comments on the reasons of the explosion of the apartment block in the city of Zheleznovodsk, Alexander Kolupaev, head of the South Regional Centre of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, has emphasized that the accident has nothing to do with a terror act, and what happened in Zheleznovodsk is just a household disaster.

14:57, 15 January 2008

Chechnya: tortures in Chernokozovo not confirmed

Representatives of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, who have visited Colony No. 2 located in the settlement of Chernokozovo, the Naur District of the Republic, found no confirmation of the data about tortures and beatings of the prisoners who are kept in this corrective establishment.

14:50, 15 January 2008

United Opposition of Georgia starts its protest rally in Tbilisi

A protest action of the United Opposition of Georgia has been launched in Tbilisi, in front of the Public Television building; the participants demand to hold the second round of early presidential election in the country.

14:40, 15 January 2008

Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office demands to close foreign NGO branch

The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic demands to liquidate the branch of the organization "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre", located in Grozny.

14:36, 15 January 2008

Mass detentions of Gipsies continue in Volgograd Region

In the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsk militiamen commit mass detentions of Gipsy nationals.

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