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22:30, 4 August 2009
On August 3, the Lazarevskoe District Court of Sochi satisfied the claims for damage compensation lodged by ten young men, who were beaten by Sochi OMON (Special Militia) fighters in July 2006. To victims will get from 10 to 50 thousand roubles.
22:00, 4 August 2009
The unlucky killer of Isa Yamadaev, who tried to kill him on July 28 in Moscow, had once been his security guard, and, according to a source close to the Yamadaev family, was suborned to murder his former boss during his vacations spent in Chechnya.
18:00, 4 August 2009
Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the public charitable organization for helping refugees and forced migrants "Civil Assistance" and the head of the network "Migration and Law" of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who worked with the employee of the Chechen office of the HRC "Memorial" Natalia Estemirova on the last day of her life said that they discussed the issue of extrajudicial executions and punishments that take place in Chechnya with officials of power agencies of the republic.
23:10, 3 August 2009
Stepan Safaryan, an MP from the parliamentary faction "Heritage" has sent an open letter to President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan asking him to release the veteran of the Karabakh War Sargis Atspanyan. He argues that the prisoner's father is dying.
23:00, 3 August 2009
The MIA of Chechnya has reported that during the incident on August 2 in Sharoy District, where an attack on motorcade with militiamen was accomplished, militants initially shelled the cars from grenade launchers, and then from automatic firearms. The MIA has also named five perished militiamen.
23:00, 3 August 2009
The militia of Nizhni Novgorod is now checking the fact of a mass scuffle that burst out on the VDV Day (holiday of airborne troops) between former commandoes and natives from the Caucasus in the Kanavin District of the city, as reported by an employee of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Nizhniy Novgorod Region.
22:10, 3 August 2009
Four local residents suspected of complicity to members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) have been detained in the territory of Chechnya during the last 24 hours, on August, 2-3, as reported by law enforcement bodies of the republic.
21:00, 3 August 2009
The authorities have prohibited members of a number of NGOs to hold on August 6 a rally in memory of a well-known human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova, who was assassinated on July 15. Moreover, two members of the organizing committee of the action were summoned to the Prosecutor's Office.
19:00, 3 August 2009
Inmates of one of correction colonies located in the Stavropol Territory were beaten by OMON (Anti-Riot Militia) fighters. The majority of the victims were natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Aslambek Apaev, Director of the International Peacemaking Centre "Peace. Ecology. Culture".
09:00, 1 August 2009
In the afternoon on July 31, in the city of Urus-Martan, near the building of the district interior department, an explosion took place, wounding two local women. This became known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from a source in the republic's power agencies.
06:00, 1 August 2009
In the Astrakhan Region, in the territory of a closed territorial formation Znamensk, a mass fight burst out between Chechens and Russians with participation of 150 persons. The scuffle was accompanied by shooting and victims. The incident took place back on July 19; however, the information was concealed by local authorities and law enforcement bodies.
23:40, 31 July 2009
The Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia demands to cancel the conditional sentence passed to Salman Archkhoev, an employee of the Department for Housing and Utilities (DHU), accused of embezzling a huge sum of money, earlier by the Sunzha District Court.
23:10, 31 July 2009
On July 30, the Odintsovo District Court of Moscow arrested the suspected attempter on Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion. Inspectors are afraid that the unfortunate killer can be liquidated by his crime accomplices.
23:20, 30 July 2009
The absence of any trustworthy information about the details of the attempt on Isa Yamadaev, committed in the evening on July 28 in Moscow, gives rise to various versions of the incident. Isa's relatives are sure that the attempt was initiated by the authorities of Chechnya, while the republic's law enforcers believe that it was staged. There is also an opinion that the attempt was a part of scenario aimed to discredit the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
22:10, 30 July 2009
Today, while meeting members of youth organizations of Chechnya, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov made responsible Sheikh Said Buryatskiy, one of ideologists of Caucasian rebels, for the terror act committed on July 26 in central Grozny.