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22:33, 21 December 2006

Marina Litvinenko suspects Lugovoj and Kovtun of poisoning her husband

The widow of Alexander Litvinenko has thanked the British investigators who returned yesterday from Moscow for their investigation into the death of her husband.

22:27, 21 December 2006

Witnesses in Ulman's case: when Chechnya residents were murdered, defendants were in ambush

On December 20, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court continued interrogating witnesses in Ulman's case.

22:16, 21 December 2006

Zakaev thinks Kremlin wants to intimidate him

The emissary of Chechen separatists has stated that Russian authorities, who have resumed investigation of his criminal case, are thus trying to scare him.

23:44, 20 December 2006

Putin approved the list of NCOs entitled to fund the Kremlin

An order of Mr. Putin, President of the Russian Federation, has appeared in the web-site of the RF President. The order lists the Non-Commercial Organizations (NCOs), which will be funded from the state budget.

23:08, 20 December 2006

General Public Prosecutor's Office renews old criminal cases, striving to have Ahmed Zakaev extradited

The Chief Department of the General Public Prosecutor's Office for the South Federal District has resumed the earlier suspended investigation on the criminal case in relation to Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, initiated back in 2001.

23:06, 20 December 2006

Volgograd journalist beat Russia at European Court

On December 14, the European Court for Human Rights ruled that the judicial authorities of the Russian Federation had encroached on the right of Anatoly Karman, former editor-in-chief of the "Gorodskie Vesti" (City News) newspaper (Volgograd), for the freedom of expression, stipulated by Article 10 of the European Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

23:03, 20 December 2006

Danish Council for Refugees denies charges of scouting in Chechnya

The heads of the Danish Council for Refugees have categorically refuted the accusations put forward in relation to this humanitarian organization by Russian FSB director Nikolai Patrushev.

22:59, 20 December 2006

Sadretdinov, indictee in Khlebnikov's case tried to commit suicide

Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, defendant in the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine, has made an attempt to hang himself in the trial prison, where he is now kept.

23:04, 19 December 2006

Ulman's case: Plotnikov confirms he did not order to kill peaceful residents

Vladimir Plotnikov, former commander of the special operation - now witness in Ulman's case, - has stated that had not ordered to kill residents of Chechnya.

21:41, 19 December 2006

Rector of wounded Islamic Institute operated on in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

Today, Ismail Bostanov, rector of the Islamic Institute, has undergone an emergency surgery in the city hospital of Cherkessk (Karachayevo-Cherkessia).

21:38, 19 December 2006

Chechnya residents think that power agents have killed peaceful people and gave them out to be militants

The "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that on October 7, 2006, three militants were killed in Chechnya.

21:36, 19 December 2006

Patrushev: Danish Council for Refugees is scouting in Chechnya

Nikolai Patrushev, Director of the FSB, has moved his claims to the operations of the Danish Council for Refugees (DCF) in the territory of Russia.

21:27, 19 December 2006

Victims of Beslan terror act do not dispute Kulaev's sentence

The cassation complaint of the terror act victims that was lodged to the Supreme Court of Russia does not appeal against the life sentence passed earlier to Nurpashi Kulaev, survived attacker of school No. 1.

23:19, 18 December 2006

Mironov demands from Beslan Commission to present its report before the end of the year

Sergey Mironov, speaker of the Council of Federation, has put a task before the Parliamentary Commission on Beslan, to finalize its report by the end of 2006.

23:10, 18 December 2006

Ulman's case: witnesses were taught how "to get off" from the prosecutor's office

Today, the Ulman's case trial went on in Rostov-on-Don. Eight prosecution witnesses - defendants' colleagues who took part in the special operation to capture Hattab in January 2002 - were summoned to the court.

23:00, 18 December 2006

Gegam Khalatyan: murders of Armenia natives go against the interests of Russian people

Gegam Khalatyan, vice-president of the Union of Armenians of Russia, has told in his interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that throughout the latest fifteen years, the climate of extreme intolerance to Caucasus natives has been planted in Russia, and what happens today - is the result of this policy.

22:19, 18 December 2006

Court refused to put 54 Borozdinovskaya residents on trial as co-claimants to the Ministry of Defence

The Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has refused to bring into court as co-claimants 54 more persons under the suit on compensation of moral damage to residents of Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence.

22:17, 18 December 2006

Chechnya will count its war damage from 1994

A Commission of the Chechen Parliament has begun its work to calculate the whole damage caused to the Republic starting from 1994 - opening of the operation to set up the constitutional order.

17:45, 17 December 2006

Karachayevo-Cherkessia: rector of Islamic Institute assaulted

Today, Ismail Bostanov, rector of the Islamic Institute and deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of the Moslems of Karachayevo-Cherkessia and Stavropol Territory, has been taken to the city hospital of Cherkessk with firearm and incised wounds.

17:50, 16 December 2006

Nazim Ibragimov: headquarters will be founded in Russia to address the problems of Azerbaijanis

"Since the law on migration adopted in Russia and the government's decision on this issue could have created problems for the Azerbaijanis who live in this country, the order of the president of Azerbaijan has formed a state commission that has already started its work," Nazim Ibragimov, chairman of the state committee for work with Azerbaijanis living abroad, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

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