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15:04, 28 December 2007

Over three thousand land plots can be confiscated for objects of Sochi Olympiad

More than three thousand land plots can be alienated in the Krasnodar Territory for building the objects of the future Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.

14:46, 28 December 2007

Director of children's home accused of sexual abuse in Volgograd Region

A criminal case has been initiated in the Volgograd Region against director of the State Educational Establishment "Rudnyanskiy Children's Home" on the facts of his sexual harassment of minor pupils of the establishment.

17:52, 27 December 2007

28 illegal migrants from Chechnya detained in the Polish-Czech border

28 Chechens have been detained in Poland in the Warsaw-Vienna "Polonia" international express train; they tried to illegally cross the Czech border.

17:49, 27 December 2007

Rabbi's house attacked in Derbent, Dagestan

Today at night unknown persons have thrown stones over the house of Ovadiya Isakov, Rabbi of the city of Derbent. In the context of recent frequent attacks on representatives of the Jewish community of Dagestan, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has published a special statement.

17:47, 27 December 2007

Well-known writers ask about conditional release of Stomakhin

The Russian PEN-Centre, the Russian branch of the PEN-Club writers' international human rights organization have petitioned about early conditional release of Boris Stomakhin, a publicist of the "Kavkaz-Centre" Chechen separatists' website.

17:44, 27 December 2007

Khudyakov and Arakcheev found guilty of murdering three Chechnya residents

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has found officers of Internal Troops Sergey Arakcheev and Evgeniy Khudyakov guilty of murdering three persons, residents of Chechnya.

17:42, 27 December 2007

Azerbaijan: investigation into the death of former political prisoner completed

The investigation of the fact of death at the prison hospital in Azerbaijan of former political prisoner Faina Kungurova is over. The case is closed since the final conclusion runs that she died a natural death.

17:35, 27 December 2007

Investigation into felling of relic forest starts in Krasnodar Territory

In the Krasnodar Territory, they are now investigating the fact of cutting out a section of the relic forest in the territory of the wildlife reserve "Bolshoi Utrish" (city-resort of Anapa). However, ecologists fear that no efficient measures will be applied to those guilty.

13:34, 26 December 2007

Murder of nine hunters solved in Kabardino-Balkaria

Boris Salmaksov, head of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, has reported today that in Kabardino-Balkaria the murder of nine hunters and huntsmen has been solved, the accused criminals have been announced into federal search.

13:31, 26 December 2007

Charges presented to suspects of blowing up the bus in Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol Territory

The Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South Federal District has indicted the two detainees suspected of blowing up the Pyatigorsk-Stavropol bus committed in the city of Nevinnomyssk.

13:29, 26 December 2007

Opposition accuses Saakashvili and Georgian authorities of telephone terrorism

On December 25, at a press conference of representatives of the united opposition on the topic of political terror, Koba Davitashvili, leader of the Party of the People, accused the authorities of "telephone terrorism" and gave Mikhail Saakashvili three days to disclose his agents.

13:26, 26 December 2007

Azerbaijan: court refuses to release editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper

Today, the Yasamal District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan has refused to change the freedom restriction measure - the arrest - to Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

13:21, 26 December 2007

Trial of journalist Petrova who wrote about Caucasus delayed till January 21

The Moskovskiy District Court of the city of Kazan has reappointed the consideration of the complaint of two militia officers against the decision to stop the criminal case against journalist Natalia Petrova who is known for her reports from "hot points" of the Caucasus, and her parents on January 21, 2008.

13:10, 26 December 2007

"Imedi" suspends broadcasting in Georgia

Georgiy Targamadze, director of political programmes of the Tbilisi-based "Imedi" TV Company, which resumed its broadcasting on December 12, has stated today that the Company is temporarily stopped.

13:52, 25 December 2007

Video interview: Imam-human rights activist about the problems of "Dzhuma" community in Azerbaijan

Human rights activist Ilgar Ibragimoglu, leader of the "Dzhuma" religious community in Azerbaijan and Chairman of the Centre in Defence of Freedom of Conscience and Religion (DEVAMM), has narrated in his interview about the activities of his community and the problems confronted by the parishioners of his mosque.

13:49, 25 December 2007

Abkhazia's SSS: slavery prospers in Georgia

The Service of State Security of Abkhazia has stated that evidences of the people, who had been subjected to forced labour for some years in Georgia, should become a weighty proof for international organizations of the fact that slavery is flourishing in the territory of this country.

13:45, 25 December 2007

The Caucasus Times attacked by hackers can be restored by 80 percent

The human rights website The Caucasus Times, which was attacked by hackers on December 22, will be able to restore about 80 percent of the information, which was considered lost.

13:42, 25 December 2007

DEVAMM: new bill "On Education" encroaches on the rights of believers in Azerbaijan

The DEVAMM has issued an appeal to the leadership of Azerbaijan, stating that the law draft "On Education", now brought for consideration to Milli Medjlis, derogates from the right of the believers.

13:34, 25 December 2007

Relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria demand a trial of Savrulin and Shepel

The relatives of the militants who fell victim in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have lodged a petition to with a demand to bring Alexei Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the RF's General Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, and Nikolai Shepel, former Deputy General Public Prosecutor for the SFD, to criminal responsibility.

17:55, 24 December 2007

Volgograd Region: old people short rationed at their boarding house

For two years already, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kikvidzenskiy District, Volgograd Region, is trying to put things in order at the Macheshanskiy boarding house for aged people and invalids. The latest inspection has shown that the rights of the people who are living in the boarding house are still violently broken.

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