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13:43, 11 March 2014
In Chechnya, Christian cemeteries are in poor condition - cattle graze in the territory of some of them, rubbish is dumped there, and fences are absent. This is reported by staff members of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
13:03, 10 March 2014
In Grozny, the exhibition of photographers from Ufa called "Material evidence. Syria" about the acts of war in the territory of Syria will last till March 17. Visitors of the exhibition say it can affect young people who sympathize with rebels and fail to understand what war really is.
11:43, 10 March 2014
Orthodox priests, who live and work in the territory of Chechnya, will be provided assistance in solving their personal problems, and they will be paid monthly salaries. This was reported by the administration of the Chechen leader.
19:10, 5 March 2014
Oleg Golubovich, a citizen of Belarus, a witness in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", has identified the defendant Rustam Makhmudov as the direct perpetrator.
19:09, 4 March 2014
Today, the Ingush capital Magas welcomed the Paralympic Torch Relay. Since Ingushetia is the only region of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) to welcome the Paralympic Torch Relay, today delegates from all the NCFD subjects came to take part in the torchlight procession.
10:00, 3 March 2014
At the request of the local Prosecutor's Office, the investigating authorities of Chechnya have resumed the criminal case on the kidnapping in 1995 of a resident of the Shatoy District. Also, the Office has initiated a criminal inquiry into the kidnapping in January 2002 of another local resident – from the city of Gudermes.
12:37, 2 March 2014
The information about beatings in a colony located in Karelia spread by Lom-Ali Gelogaev, a native of Chechnya, via his advocate is untrue, Vitaly Fefelov, the head of the press service of the UFSIN (Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service) of the Republic of Karelia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on March 1.
11:44, 1 March 2014
The first show of the film "February" by Ruslan Magomadov about the deportation of the Chechen-Ingush people took place on February 28 in Grozny. The film screenings will be held in all major towns in Chechnya, as well as at international film festivals, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Culture of the Republic.
00:48, 1 March 2014
On February 28, a commemoration party of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", took place in Grozny, which was attended by local human rights activists, her friends and those whom she had helped.
23:44, 28 February 2014
The United Mobile Group of rights defenders has finished checking the reports about torturing Ruslan Kutaev, a resident of Chechnya and president of the "Assembly of Caucasian Nations". The human rights organization "Committee against Torture" reports that the actions of officials used against Kutaev are qualified as torture.
23:27, 28 February 2014
The case "Djabrailov at al versus Russia" has demonstrated that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has passed to the "conveyor-like consideration" complaints submitted by residents of Northern Caucasus, because of systemic problems of non-investigation of disappearances, said Furkat Tishaev, the legal director of the independent non-commercial organization "Astreya".
22:40, 28 February 2014
On Friday, the birthday of Natalia Estemirova, a commemoration party took place in the conference hall of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
12:48, 28 February 2014
23:25, 27 February 2014
The decisions of the ECtHR on the case "Djabrailov at al versus Russia" and on other similar cases dealing with the kidnappings committed in Chechnya from 1999 to 2006, indicate the guilt of Russian authorities of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, said Oleg Orlov, a member of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
21:22, 27 February 2014
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided that Belgium did not violate any rights of the native of Chechnya Arbi Zarmaev on his extradition to Russia.