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22:48, 23 May 2007

YouTube cancels a video clip about tortures in Chechnya finding it excessively cruel

Editorial board of the "Kavkaz-Centre" has received a notification from the YouTube service about removal of the video clip laid out by the web site and demonstrating tortures in Chechnya, since it shows "much violence"; and then – an anonymous letter running that the clip was removed at the request of the Kremlin.

22:19, 23 May 2007

Kabardino-Balkaria: relatives of deceased militants ask to return automobiles

The residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, whose relatives perished on October 13, 2005, complain of illegal confiscation and dekitting of automobiles by the employees of power agencies.

22:06, 23 May 2007

Mufti of Chechnya recognizes the fact that young people leave for the militants

Sultan Mirzaev, Mufti of the Chechen Republic, has admitted that within the recent months about two dozens of residents from different villages of the Republic have gone away to join the militants who hide in the mountains.

20:14, 23 May 2007

Case against participant of the meeting on Kondopoga events stopped

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has stopped the criminal case initiated against Alexander Potkin (Belov), leader of the Movement against Illegal Migration, for absence of essential elements of offence.

22:58, 22 May 2007

United Nations to help Georgia with strategy of better life for refugees

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees will help Georgia to finance the program of refugees' registration and implement the state strategy aimed to improve their living standards.

22:53, 22 May 2007

Public Chamber of Chechnya supports claims against Republic's Public Prosecutor's Office

A scandal around Republic's Office of Public Prosecutor continues in Chechnya.

22:43, 22 May 2007

Dagestan: militant killed, three peaceful residents and militiaman wounded

At 7:30 p.m. a skirmish burst out at the bus station of the city of Kaspijsk (Dagestan) that has resulted in one casualty and four persons with injuries of various gravity: three occasional passers-by and a militiaman.

22:08, 22 May 2007

"Beslan Mothers": power officers will be amnestied

Another court session is over in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the case of power officers of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit).

20:23, 22 May 2007

Azerbaijan: journalist Fatullaev accused of terrorism

Officers of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) made a search of the offices of newspapers "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan."

23:09, 21 May 2007

Human rights defenders help to file 60 complaints against police in Tallinn

Within the recent three weeks, the Tallinn-based human rights organization "Information Centre for Human Rights" has helped people who addressed through the only Estonian telephone "hot line" for the victims of mass disorders caused by the Bronze Soldier dismantling in filing 60 complaints against the police actions.

22:55, 21 May 2007

Experts: harder fight on extremism can be used against opposition

Russia is toughening its struggle against extremism. The State Duma has passed amendments to the Criminal Code concerning this sort of crimes in the first reading.

22:41, 21 May 2007

Petrov: Russians apply to European Court because of Chechnya conflict and imperfect trials

Alexander Petrov, deputy director of the Russian Representative Office of the NGO Human Rights Watch, has explained how the Strasbourg Court builds its relations with the Russian Federation and its citizens.

21:51, 21 May 2007

Newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" will continue

The newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" will restart this week, editor Shakhveled Chobanoglu told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

21:05, 21 May 2007

Defence of the convict of Imam's murder appeals against the sentence in Stavropol Territory

The defence of Roman Koyushev, a resident of the Predgorny District of Stavropol Territory, convicted for murdering Imam of Kislovodsk mosque, has declared their intention to appeal against the verdict.

22:30, 19 May 2007

"Azadlyg" newspaper awaiting provocations from Azerbaijani authorities

Next week, the Azerbaijani Commission for Complaints of the Council for Press will consider the application of Ali Akhmedov, deputy chair and executive secretary of the Party "Eni Azerbaijan" (PEA), concerning a publication in the "Azadlyg" newspaper, which "had encroached on the honour of the President." Aflatun Amashov, Chairman of the Council for Press, informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

22:24, 19 May 2007

People wounded at bombardment of the capital of South Ossetia

Shelling of the dwelling districts of the capital of South Ossetia continues, one peaceful resident was wounded, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the place of events in Tskhinval.

22:22, 19 May 2007

Russian Red Cross was searched

Today, the employees of the Department for Tax Crimes under the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-West Administrative District of Moscow have confiscated documents from the central office of the Russian Red Cross (RRC).

22:15, 19 May 2007

Azerbaijani authorities try to stop the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper

Late at night on May 18, the editorial board of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper was visited by the workers of the Fire Fighting Service of the Ministry for Emergencies.

22:11, 19 May 2007

Expert thinks that Caucasian Wahhabism should be counteracted at the ideological level

"Blaming extremists and sending 'Alpha' or OMON fighters against them is senseless. It means fighting ideas and thoughts. But you cannot kill an idea," Candidate of Law Arslan Kurbanmagomedov, Assistant Professor of the Makhachkala Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, has declared.

23:53, 18 May 2007

Erection of a temple in Beslan not decided yet

The issue on building a temple in the place of the tragedy in Beslan, in the gym of School No. 1, is still open.

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