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15:39, 27 February 2014
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has passed its decision on the case "Djabrailov et al versus Russia", by recognizing the responsibility of Russian law enforcement bodies for the kidnapping and probable death of 13 residents of Chechnya.
02:07, 27 February 2014
At the session of the Moscow City Court (MCC), where the murder of Anna Politkovskaya is considered, Sergey Sokolov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta", told about the evidence presented to the newspaper by Oleg Golubovich, a witness for the prosecution, who fears to come to Russia, because of the threat to his life.
05:27, 26 February 2014
On February 25, at the Moscow City Court (MCC), at the trial of the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", prosecutors continued presenting to the court the evidence against the defendants, despite the fact that one of the defence lawyers demanded to postpone the trial.
13:14, 25 February 2014
Until the body of Doku (Dokku) Umarov, the leader of "Imarat Kavkaz", is demonstrated, any rumours about his death will only be predictions, Orhan Cemal, a special correspondent of the newspaper "Izvestia", has noted in his comment on the information that appeared on the Internet that Umarov was poisoned. The reporter believes that the information about Umarov's death has the right to exist.
07:16, 25 February 2014
On February 24, the advocates of Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the "Assembly of Caucasian Nations", detained on February 20 on suspicion of illegal possession of three grams of heroin, filed an appeal with the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya against the arrest of their client, said Igor Kalyapin, the chairman of the Interregional Public Organization "Committee against Torture".
18:49, 24 February 2014
A former employee of the Moscow militia Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov said during the session of the Moscow City Court (MCC) that he had recognized one of the defendants, Rustam Makhmudov, in the video presented by the defence.
09:00, 24 February 2014
Completion of Winter Olympic Games in Sochi; solidarity actions with the Kiev Euromaidan held in Tbilisi and Yerevan; 70 years after start of Stalin's deportation of Chechens and Ingushes; conviction of former Prime Minister of Georgia Vano Merabishvili, legal recognition of life sentence to Ali Taziev, who, according tolaw enforcers, was one of militants' leaders in Northern Caucasus; continued pumping Azerbaijani oil through the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline, – read about these and other major events in the review of week of February 17-23, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
22:19, 23 February 2014
The Committee of the United Nations is for the first time considering a complaint of a resident of Chechnya on domestic violence; earlier, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) refused to consider it, said Furkat Tishaev, the legal director of the organization named "Astreya".
05:57, 22 February 2014
Ruslan Alkhanov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, asserts that in 2013 not a single terror act was committed in the republic's territory. During this year, law enforcement bodies killed 28 militants; other 54 members of the armed underground and their helpers were detained or persuaded to surrender.
08:49, 21 February 2014
The advocates of Dzhohar Tsarnaev, accused in the USA of committing the terror act in Boston in April 2013, ask the court to withdraw the special prison restrictions imposed on their client. The team of advocates was strengthened by another lawyer, who specializes in cases, where the death penalty is considered.
22:03, 20 February 2014
Today, Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the international public-political movement "Assembly of Caucasian Nations", was detained by law enforcers in the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, his relatives report.
13:22, 19 February 2014
Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has extended the detention of all five defendants in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya. Thus, the judge has granted the petition of the prosecutor Boris Loktionov.
10:10, 19 February 2014
As stated by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on four cases related to disappearances and deaths of residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2000-2005 published on February 18, the decision has come into force.
01:18, 19 February 2014
The Magistrate Court of Judicial Precinct 406 of the Nizhny-Novgorod District of Moscow has found Rustam Djalilov, an observer of the edition "Caucasian Policy", guilty of involvement in the extremist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir", which is banned in the territory of Russia.
15:55, 17 February 2014
Today, the Frontier Service of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has again stopped Saikhan Muzaev, an ethnic Chechen, who took the citizenship of Georgia in 2011, from boarding the flight Tbilisi-Trabzon-London, said Alex Shoshikelashvili, the head of the Human Rights Institute.