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August 12, 2009 21:10

• Speaker of Chechen parliament and Zakaev decide to hold World Congress of Chechens

  By the outcomes of today's meeting in London of Dukvakhi Abdurakhmanov, chairman of the parliament of the Chechen Republic, with Ahmed Zakaev, leader of the government of non-recognized Ichkeria in exile, it was decided to hold the World Congress of the Chechen Nation.

August 12, 2009 20:00

• UNICEF: murdered Sadulayeva and Dzhabrailov helped in surgery of over 100 children in Chechnya

  A source in the Russian representative office of the UNICEF said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, assassinated in Grozny, when working in the regional NGO "Let's Save the Generation", were helping children who had suffered from the warfare in the territory of the republic.

August 12, 2009 19:00

• Evicted refugees wait to meet President of Ingushetia

  The evicted refugee families, who lived in Malgobek, want to meet President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. According to Vakha Chapanov, head of the IA "Maximum", the refugees want to be received by the President in order to settle their problems.

August 12, 2009 18:00

• NGO activists assassinated in Grozny were seen at a militia station after kidnapping

  Zarema Sadulayeva, leader of the youth NGO named "Let's Save the Generation", and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, abducted in the afternoon on August 10 and found murdered in the morning on August 11, were brought to one of district militia divisions in Grozny. This was stated by a member of one of local human rights organizations.

August 11, 2009 23:50

• Estemirova's evidences on Politkovskaya's murder could have changed the course of investigation

  The assassinated Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova gave evidences, which could help inspectors to reach the customers and change the course of investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. However, she was never summoned to the court.

August 11, 2009 23:40

• Nogovitsyn: demining of South Ossetia will last long

  The mining of the territory of South Ossetia during last year's August events was chaotic; the Russian party has no mine field maps; therefore, demining will take a lot of time. This was stated by General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

August 11, 2009 23:30

• Early relieved editor-in-chief of "Zhamanak" will go abroad to get his treatment

  Arman Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Zhamanak" (Time), who was released from custody before term on August 4 because of his poor health, in the next few days will go for treatment abroad.

August 11, 2009 23:20

• Killers of Dagestanian journalist shadowed him for several days, eyewitnesses say

  The car, from which unknown criminals shot dead Abdulmalik Ahmedilov, editor-in-chief of the "Sogratl" newspaper in Dagestan, was noticed by eyewitnesses for several days near the house of the journalist, as they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 11, 2009 23:00

• Abkhazia closes its border with Georgia on Inguri River

  Abkhazia has closed its border with Georgia running on the Inguri River; now the crossing is only possible over the main Inguri bridge with a special permit. This was announced today in the course of another five-lateral meeting on prevention and investigation of Abkhazian-Georgian border incidents by Ruslan Kishmariya, head of the Abkhazian delegation and plenipotentiary envoy of Abkhazian President in the Gali District.

August 11, 2009 22:30

• Journalists twice removed from courtroom at Nalchik attack trial

  Today in the afternoon, journalists were removed from the courtroom, where the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria is considering the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

August 11, 2009 22:10

• Kidnapped teenager found murdered in Chechnya

  On August 9, a local resident aged 16 was kidnapped by unknown persons in the Shali District of Chechnya. At night on August 10, he was found assassinated.

August 11, 2009 22:00

• In Armenia, human rights activists try to release imprisoned oppositionists

  After the amnesty, 21 political prisoners are still in custody in Armenia. The greatest bewilderment in human rights activists is aroused by holding behind bars of a French citizen Sarkis Atspanyan, a veteran of the Karabakh War. This was emphasized at a press conference on August 11 by Vardan Arutyunyan, a member of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners' Rights.

August 11, 2009 21:00

• Human Rights Watch calls the murder of two human rights activists a monstrous crime

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed its serious concern of the murder in Chechnya of two activists of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation".

August 11, 2009 20:00

• Amnesty International has no hope that the murder of Sadulayeva and her husband in Chechnya will ever be opened

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) does not believe that Russia is ever capable to open the murder in Chechnya of the leader of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation" Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov.

August 11, 2009 19:00

• President of Chechnya imputes Sadulayeva's murder to blood feud

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that, according to the authorities, the husband of the murdered Chechen human rights defender Zarema Sadulayeva, had earlier been a member of illegal armed formations (IAFs), which could be the motive of the double murder.

August 11, 2009 18:00

• Cherkasov: Sadulayeva and Dzhabrailov were assassinated to intimidate others

  The kidnapping of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, leaders of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation", who were found murdered today, was staged as an official detention by power agencies. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

August 10, 2009 23:40

• Voronezh resident convicted for attacking Armenian native

  The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh has found Alexander Chalenko, 22, guilty of causing heavy health damage to a native of Armenia and sentenced him to 4 years and 10 months of imprisonment.

August 10, 2009 23:30

• Acting President of Ingushetia: opposition heats up tension around actions of Chechen power agents

  Prime Minister Rashid Gaisanov, acting President of Ingushetia, believes that the opposition is "heating up" the situation around the actions of the Chechen militia in their republic. He thinks that there is no pressure from Chechnya.

August 10, 2009 23:10

• President of Ingushetia is discharged from hospital and promises to toughen his struggle against militants

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was discharged from the Vishnevskiy Surgery Institute, where he took his treatment after the attempt on June 22. In a week, he plans to get back to work.

August 10, 2009 23:00

• Representative of СЕ's Secretary General in Azerbaijan visits "Tolyshi Sado" editor-in-chief in prison

  Last Friday, August 7, Veronica Kotek, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE) in Azerbaijan, visited Novruzali Mamedov, a linguist, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) in the hospital of the Penitentiary System.