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October 25, 2007 10:34

• Human Rights Watch: issue of Chechnya and human rights should be raised at the summit with Russia

  The European Union should use the summit Russia-EU to be held on October 26 in Portugal for a resolute dialogue with the Kremlin on the aggravating situation with human rights and justice, including Chechnya.

October 25, 2007 10:32

• Moscow City Court leaves Buraev, suspect in Politkovskaya's case, under arrest

  Yesterday, the Moscow City Court found the arrest of Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, accused of conspiracy in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", to be legitimate.

October 25, 2007 10:29

• Victim party banned access to Politkovskaya's case

  Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow has refused to oblige the Investigatory Committee of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia to admit the victim party to participation in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

October 25, 2007 10:26

• Judicial hearing on Nalchik attack postponed again in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The preliminary hearing on the criminal case about the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, committed on October 13, 2005, scheduled on today is postponed till November 15.

October 25, 2007 10:22

• People were forced into the meeting in Putin's support in Chechnya

  The participants of the meetings held on October 24 in Chechnya in support of the incumbent President of Russia Vladimir Putin were forced to participate in the action.

October 25, 2007 10:19

• Ingushetia: people doubt of Khidrievs' participation in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  Relatives of the residents of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train and local human rights activists do not believe in Khidriev brothers' involvement in the incident.

October 24, 2007 21:06

• Resident of Moscow sentenced to 14 years in colony for attacking citizens of Azerbaijan and Kirghizia

  Yesterday, the Moscow City Court sentenced three residents of Moscow - Sergey Beryakov, Sergey Ushakov and minor Alexander Seryogin, who were found guilty of attacks and murder on the motives of national intolerance and kindling of ethnic enmity.

October 24, 2007 21:02

• Lydia Yusupova demands to stop prosecution of advocate Kodzaeva in North Ossetia

  Advocate Lydia Yusupova, a human rights activist from Chechnya and the organizer of the reception office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in the city of Grozny, is calling her colleagues-advocates to exhibit solidarity and support advocate Irina Kodzaeva, accused by the inspector of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of violent behaviour.

October 24, 2007 20:54

• Life of the woman wounded by explosion in the capital of Dagestan is out of danger

  On October 23, at about 11 p.m. an unknown explosive blew up in the Shamil Avenue of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

October 24, 2007 20:53

• Opposition indignant with dispersal of demonstration in Armenia

  Dispersal of the demonstration in Armenia on October 23 is another link in the chain of aggressive actions of the authorities directed against their own nation, told Garnik Markaryan, Chairman of the Party named "Homeland and Honour".

October 24, 2007 20:40

• Ingushetia: relatives of the suspects of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train start their own investigation

  The relatives of the two local residents detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in the Novgorod Region of Russia have started the investigation into the circumstances of their detention.

October 23, 2007 21:53

• Two girls who disappeared in Grozny are searched for in Chechnya

  The employees of the Chechen MIA are searching two girls who disappeared three days back in Grozny under unclear circumstances.

October 23, 2007 21:50

• Police officers evict Abkhazian refugees in Sochi

  Today, in the Imereti Lowland in the area Sochi (Krasnodar Territory), where erection of object for the 2014 Olympiad of 2014 is planned, they have started to evict refugees from Abkhazia out of their shabby dwellings.

October 23, 2007 21:46

• F-1 grenade could blow up a shuttle-taxi in Dagestan

  Under the preliminary version of the explosion experts, the character of the explosion of the shuttle-taxi in the Kazbek District of Dagestan reminds the action of F-1 grenade ("limonka").

October 23, 2007 21:45

• Criminal case against the heads of the storm on "Nord-Ost" not initiated yet

  The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has not answered to the application of the representatives of the "Nord-Ost" Public Organization demanding to initiate a criminal case against FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, Vladimir Ustinov, former General Public Prosecutor and other heads of the headquarters formed to rescue the hostages, who were seized in the Theatre located in Dubrovka district in Moscow.

October 23, 2007 21:34

• Today is five years from capture of "Nord-Ost" by militants

  Today is the exactly 5 years from the day when on October 23, 2002, a group of terrorists seized spectators and actors of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages of at the Moscow Dubrovka Theatrical Centre.

October 22, 2007 11:25

• Ecologists of Krasnodar Territory protest against World Bank sponsoring the "Russian World-II" Project

  On October 18 in Washington, President of the World Bank Richard Zoellick received a statement of Russian ecological NGOs entitled "Save the natural and cultural-historical heritage of Taman!"

October 22, 2007 11:22

• Investigation on the case of Kondopoga militiamen is over

  The Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has finished the investigation of criminal cases opened against high-ranking employees of militia accused of negligence in connection with disorders in Kondopoga in September 2006.

October 22, 2007 11:14

• Ecologists of Adygea win the trial on zoning of the Sochi National Park

  Today, the Maikop City Court has satisfied the claim of Valery Brinikh, an ecologist from Adygea, who believes that the zoning of the territory of the Sochi National Park as approved by the Order of the Federal Service for Supervision over Environmental Management of August 27, 2006, is illegal.

October 22, 2007 10:57

• Bekhbudov: tortures are still practises in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijani Committee Against Torture has launched monitoring of investigatory isolation facilities and temporary custody cells of police units of cities and districts of the Republic.