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October 16, 2007 15:40

• State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations: no Georgian church was closed in Azerbaijan

  Allegations of certain Georgian NGOs about shutting down the Georgian church in Gakha village and exile of the churchman from there have nothing to do with reality, the State Committee for Work with Religious Structures informed.

October 15, 2007 11:56

• State Duma to pass this week the law on confiscation of land plots for the Olympiad in Krasnodar Territory

  In the middle of this week, the State Duma of the Russian Federation will approve the law on creating the State Olympic Corporation. On October 16, the deputies will consider another Olympic bill.

October 15, 2007 11:52

• Putin admits changes in the NGO law

  Vladimir Putin does not exclude a possibility of amending the Russian legislation that regulates the activities of NGOs.

October 15, 2007 11:49

• Azerbaijani authorities are accuse of closing a Georgian church

  According to Ucha Nanuashvili, leader of the Georgia-based Centre for Defence of Human Rights, the authorities of Azerbaijan want to shut down a Georgian church in the north of the country.

October 15, 2007 11:46

• Putin: investigation into Politkovskaya's case is near its end

  President of Russia Vladimir Putin believes that the investigation of the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is on the proper track and close to its end.

October 15, 2007 10:58

• Experts have examined the video record of the murder of the natives of Dagestan and Tajikistan

  According to a source from the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea, "the video record reveals appeals to the actions, directed at kindling hatred and racial enmity."

October 15, 2007 10:52

• Russian family executed and house blown up in Ingushetia

  On October 14 at about 2:30 p.m. it became known that a Russian family was assassinated by unknown culprits in the city of Karabulak (Ingushetia).

October 13, 2007 15:40

• Russian human rights activists discuss situation in North Caucasus with Condoleezza Rice

  Today, US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice has held a meeting in Moscow with representatives of civil organizations and mass media, where they discussed the situation with human rights in Russia, the level of corruption, problems in the area of freedom of speech and the situation in North Caucasus.

October 13, 2007 15:33

• "Beslan's Mothers" hope for objectivity and support of European Court

  Victims of the terrorist act in Beslan prepare to refer all documents on the case to the Strasbourg Court on Human Rights and hope that the Court, being the supreme European instance of justice, will support their stand.

October 13, 2007 15:28

• "The Voice of Beslan" has appealed against acquittal of militiamen in Ingushetia SC

  Issa Gazdiyev, Ingushetia Supreme Court judge, has acquitted Malgobeck district internal affairs unit officers who were accused of negligence, causing the tragedy in Beslan in September 2004.

October 13, 2007 15:22

• North Ossetia court adjourns its decision with regard to lawyer Kodzaeva

  Lenin district court of North Ossetia has adjourned its decision on whether or not to initiate a criminal case against lawyer Irina Kodzaeva accused by the General Prosecutor's Office investigator of violence, until October 15.

October 13, 2007 15:16

• Children's rights to dwelling are mostly infringed upon in Volgograd oblast

  Most part of applications of Volgograd oblast residents, addressed to the regional Ombudsman, are linked with a single topic. Around 40% of such applications are connected with the problem of dwelling for children.

October 12, 2007 11:39

• Erdogan refutes information about recall of Turkish ambassador from the USA because of genocide of Armenians

  Prime Minister of Turkey Redzhep Tayip Erdogan has refuted the news about the recall of the country's ambassador from Washington because of the issue of the genocide of Armenians.

October 12, 2007 11:34

• Andrei Bachman: humanism can help to eradicate violence in the army

  Andrei Bachman, a political scientist and activist of antifascist movement of Volgograd, states that it is possible to eradicate violence in the armed forces by means of humanism.

October 12, 2007 11:30

• Decision on compensation to Andrei Keilin postponed in Stavropol Territory

  The defence of Andrei Keilin, a resident of Karachaevo-Circassia, accused earlier of murdering two Stavropol students on June 3 this year, continues to demand compensation for illegal arrest of their client.

October 12, 2007 11:25

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of kidnapping attempt

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia informed that the Georgian party has made an attempt to kidnap a resident of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO).

October 12, 2007 11:21

• Militia continues detaining Gipsies in the Volgograd Region

  In the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, mass detentions of Gipsies by militia continue.

October 12, 2007 11:09

• Estemirova: I'll spend the award money to protect victims of fabricated cases in Chechnya

  Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Chechnya, the laureate of the first annual world award named after Anna Politkovskaya, is going to spend the award money on legal assistance to victims of tortures and faked criminal cases in Chechnya.

October 11, 2007 20:52

• "Mother's Law" makes comments on amendments in the law on military draft in Russia

  The "Mother's Law" human rights organization of soldiers' parents (Volgograd) makes comments on cancellation of delays from recruiting to the military service granted on family circumstances and future changes in the law "On Conscription and Military Service."

October 11, 2007 15:58

• Forum in memory of Politkovskaya held in Washington

  The International Conference "Russia - a Year after Anna Politkovskaya's Murder" is currently underway in Washington.