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13:43, 23 August 2007

Overwhelming majority of Russians distrust the authorities' version of Beslan terror act

On the eve of the third anniversary of the act of terror in Beslan, 81 percent of Russians distrust the versions of the authorities about the events that happened in School No. 1 in 2004.

13:30, 23 August 2007

Kaloev will not be released from Swiss prison before prosecutor's appeal has been considered

Today, the Federal Court of Switzerland has published its statement confirming the delay of enactment of the decision of the Zurich Canton Court on early release of Russian Vitaly Kaloev, who is serving his term for murdering Peter Nielsen, air traffic controller of the SkyGuide Swiss Company.

13:11, 23 August 2007

St-Petersburg anarchists assert that charge of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a provocation

The arrest of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, members of the "Petersburg League of Anarchists," on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a deliberate provocation of special agencies, Alexander Maishev said.

12:36, 23 August 2007

Chechnya native accused of blowing up "Neva Express" declares his alibi

Three persons were arrested under the case of blowing up the "Neva Express" train: two St-Petersburg anarchists - Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, and Hasan Didigov, 25, a native of Chechnya.

12:34, 23 August 2007

Manana Aslamazyan asks to consider her case in absentia

Manana Aslamazyan, head of the "Educated Media" Foundation, asks to consider her criminal case at court without her presence - in absentia.

23:57, 22 August 2007

"Dagestan Mothers" continue hunger strike, their condition is worse

In Makhachkala, the hunger strike of the women-members of the "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" Public Organization continues. The health condition of some of them is close to critical.

23:48, 22 August 2007

Military guilty of death of woman trialled in Chechnya

On August 21, the Garrison Military Court of the City of Grozny started another trial of the case of Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Korgun, for whose guilt a local woman-resident was killed and two more women were heavily wounded.

22:28, 22 August 2007

Azerbaijan: health of "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement's chairman is worse

Ruslan Bashirli, Chairman of the "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement, who is kept at Corrective Facility No. 1 in Azerbaijan, has health problems.

21:31, 22 August 2007

Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdict to journalist Einullah Fatullaev

Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has considered the cassation complaint lodged by advocates of journalist Einullah Fatullaev.

21:04, 22 August 2007

Police disperses journalists in Azerbaijan

Today, a group of dissidents from Iran has made an attempt to hold a picket in front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baku in connection with the visit to Azerbaijan of Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinezhad.

15:50, 22 August 2007

Union of Georgian Writers demands resignation of the authorities

On August 21, a spontaneous action was held near the building of the Union of Georgian Writers, which was attended by Georgian writers and poets, public figures and representatives of some opposition parties.

12:34, 22 August 2007

Conference on 1937 repressions held in Kabardino-Balkaria

Today, the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has hosted a conference dated to the 70th anniversary of the "great terror" that took place in 1937 and the years to follow.

14:20, 21 August 2007

People in Chechnya refute complete liquidation of separatists

The recent statement of General Dmitri Fomenko that all the militants' regiments have been liquidated in the territory of the Republic, and those remaining ones have moved to Ingushetia and Dagestan, is perceived by residents of the Chechen Republic as a bad joke.

14:12, 21 August 2007

David Ovannisyan: Iraqi Armenians are persecuted

David Ovannisyan, Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Associated Professor at the Division of Arabism of the Yerevan State University, has reported that recently the number of threats and kidnappings of Armenians in Iraq has increased.

14:03, 21 August 2007

Chairman of Board of Elders fined for holding a meeting in Kabardino-Balkaria

Ismail Sabanchiev, one of the organizers of the meeting in Nalchik (capital of Kabardino-Balkaria) on July 14, was brought to administrative responsibility by the Nalchik magistrate court.

13:54, 21 August 2007

Defendants in case on Kondopoga disorders plead partially guilty

Today, the Kondopoga City Court has started considering on the merits the case about mass disorders.

13:49, 21 August 2007

Arrested journalist asks to transfer him to another prison in Azerbaijan

Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov), a satirical journalist who is currently at a prison hospital, is complaining of his heavy custody conditions, non-observance of sanitary norms and remoteness of his custody.

12:06, 20 August 2007

Two suspects of blowing up the "Neva Express" detained

A source in the investigatory bodies of the region has reported today that two suspects of undermining the "Neva Express" train were detained in the Novgorod Region.

11:59, 20 August 2007

Act of terror prevented in the capital of Chechnya

Employees of the interior department have detected a self-made explosive device in the Zavodskoy District of the capital of Chechnya in the area of the central marketplace in the Marx Street.

11:41, 20 August 2007

Film about refugees from the mountain Chechnya shown in Sakharov Centre

On August 10, a festival of Caucasian films opened at A. Sakharov Public Centre. Eight films made by young Caucasian film directors, already presented at international film festivals and recognized by leading humanitarian organizations, were applied for demonstration during two weeks.

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