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18:00, 23 June 2010
The claims like the one filed by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov are not aimed at protecting one's good name, but attempt to restrict dissemination of information, as Svetlana Zemskova, a lawyer of the Fund in Defence of Glasnost, asserts.
23:00, 22 June 2010
President of Russia visits Chechnya; head of HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov interrogated under the case of Ramzan Kadyrov's claim; militiamen severely beat lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova in Dagestan, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of June 14-20, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
22:00, 22 June 2010
Leonid Slutskiy, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the PACE and the first deputy chair of State Duma committee for international matters, has noted a great importance of the discussion by European MPs of the resolution on situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus. The head of the Russian delegation to the PACE Konstantin Kosachov finds the adopted resolution to be objective and well-balanced.
18:00, 22 June 2010
The investigation of human rights violations in Chechnya is sabotaged by local inspectors. This was stated by Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Nizhniy Novgorod Inter-Regional Committee against Torture and Coordinator of the Public Commission on Chechnya, on June 20 in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
23:30, 21 June 2010
Andrea Nikastro, a journalist of the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, has explained the fact of distortion of the words of Doku Itslaev, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya, by the deficit of time he had for the publication.
22:00, 21 June 2010
Residents of Chechnya report about a failed attempt of power agents to detain in the plain Naur District of the republic of two young men - brothers of participants of the armed underground - and threats to their parents with a demand to bring their runaway sons to law enforcement bodies.
19:00, 21 June 2010
Andrei Krasnenkov, lawyer of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that he had offered Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", to discuss reconciliation of the parties, but received no answer.
11:00, 19 June 2010
The Chechen airline "Grozny-Avia" starts regular international flights. The first aircraft will take off from Chechnya to Turkey on June 20.
20:00, 18 June 2010
Mr Itslaev accuses the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, which published an article about the situation in the Chechen Republic, of distorting his words.
19:00, 18 June 2010
Ramzan Kadyrov did not file any new claims against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". This was stated by Alvi Karimov, press secretary of the President of Chechnya, who confirmed that Kadyrov had recalled his claim against Orlov on his mother's request.
23:40, 17 June 2010
Two contract soldiers were wounded on June 16 in the course of the special operation undertaken against fighters of the armed underground near the village of Serzhen-Yurt, Shali District of Chechnya. This was reported today by a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.
23:00, 17 June 2010
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found Russia guilty of disappearance and death of seven residents of Chechnya and ruled that Russian authorities should pay 470,000 euros of compensation. This is stated in the press release of the Court.
22:00, 16 June 2010
The Investigatory Department (ID) of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia for the Irkutsk Region has indicted three natives of Ingushetia of kidnapping. Two of the detainees had earlier worked in the MIA bodies of Ingushetia and Chechnya.
19:00, 16 June 2010
In the context of the widespread information about numerous cases of attacking girls and women without headscarves from paintball rifles, the enforcement bodies of Chechnya assert that they received no complaints or applications on the occasion of such attacks in Grozny. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) also knows nothing about the facts of appearance of leaflets with threats to girls and women who appear in the streets with uncovered head.
23:40, 15 June 2010
Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman at the President of the Russian Federation, has justified, in his report on the outcomes of his inspection visit to Northern Caucasus, the need to set up psychological services for children in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). According to his story, many children and teenagers in Chechnya grew up amidst warfare and have traumas and wounds.