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19:00, 16 October 2009
The FSB has reported that is has solved the terror acts committed in 1999 in "Intourist" Hotel and "Okhotny Ryad" Shopping Centre. According to the investigation, the crimes had been ordered by Shamil Basaev. Now, the Moscow City Court holds a trial of the suspects of these crimes.
21:00, 15 October 2009
Ramzan Kadyrov's advocate has appealed against the decision of the Tver Court of Moscow to partially satisfy Kadyrov's claim against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial".
19:00, 15 October 2009
Today is three months after the day, when Natalia Estemirova, a well-known Chechen human rights defender and employee of the Grozny office of the HRC "Memorial", was kidnapped in Chechnya and then found murdered in Ingushetia. Until now, the investigation is unaware either of the murderers or the customers of this crime.
23:40, 14 October 2009
On October 13, the Leninskiy Court of Perm made a decision to suspend proceedings on the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory to recognize the article about the Caucasus, written by Igor Averkiev, Chairman of the Perm Civil Chamber, to be an extremist one.
23:20, 14 October 2009
The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which had partially satisfied the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Centre Oleg Orlov.
22:10, 14 October 2009
Marina Volodina, deputy head of the press service of REN TV, reports, with reference to Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, that Sulim needs an urgent surgery.
23:20, 13 October 2009
Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, plans to bring protest against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which has satisfied Kadyrov's claim to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and to Oleg Orlov, head of this organization on defence of honour and dignity.
22:00, 12 October 2009
A new suspect in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", Oleg Shoshin, former employee of the Operative Division of the GUVD (City Interior Department) of Moscow, told about secret links between Dmitri Pavlyuchenkov, the main witness of the prosecution, and defendant Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, ex-worker of the Moscow UBOP (Organized Crime Counteracting Department).
11:00, 10 October 2009
The spokesman of the Investigatory Department for the Chechen Republic of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has reported that one person was lost and 14 more were wounded as a result of explosion in the evening on October 9 in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny.
20:10, 9 October 2009
The family of Anna Politkovskaya, who perished three years ago, is gradually losing hope that the whole chain of criminals involved in the journalist's murder will ever be revealed and the culprits will ever be punished. This was stated by Vera Politkovskaya, Anna's daughter. In her opinion, "the political will of country leaders can be the key factor in this context."
23:10, 8 October 2009
The recent anniversary of the death of Anna Politkovskaya, who had in due time written a lot about violations of human rights in Chechnya, remained unmarked by local NGOs. The authorities of the republic organized grandiose horse races on that very day, on October 7, in the honour of the 57th birthday of the chairman of Russian government Vladimir Putin.
21:00, 7 October 2009
In Moscow, people came to No. 8 Lesnaya Street, where Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", lived and was assassinated, to commemorate the journalist.
21:00, 7 October 2009
The issue of resuming the work of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Chechen Republic is still open. Local observers believe that in a view of the continuing litigation between the leader of the "Memorial" and Ramzan Kadyrov and negative attitude to this organization by "official" Chechen human rights activists and power agents, the decision can be indefinitely postponed.
19:00, 7 October 2009
The Strasbourg Court on Human Rights has communicated the complaint lodged by Kameta Khashueva, a resident of Chechnya and mother of Mamed Bagalaev, who occasionally perished in the course of special operation of Russian power agents, and awarded a priority status to her complaint.
12:00, 7 October 2009
Today is two years after the leader of North-Caucasian militants Doku Umarov proclaimed the Islamic state - the Imarat Kavkaz. From the time when the accent in the ideology got offset from the political aspect to the religious one, the situation in Northern Caucasus has noticeably aggravated. Supporters of Imarat organized a continuous range of attempts on state officials and terror acts committed by suicide bombers.