Human rights activists are searching those guilty of death of Georgian native Manana Jabelia December 07, 2006 22:10 On December 6, the Independent Press Centre held a press conference on the death of Manana Jabelia, a forced migrant from Abkhazia.
EU head expresses concern with the murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko December 07, 2006 22:08 Taria Halonen, president of Finland, called the situation with assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, who criticized the Kremlin policy in Chechnya and in Russia as a whole, to be alarming.
PACE co-rapporteur calls Azerbaijani authorities to resume ANS TV Channel December 07, 2006 22:00 Tony Lloyd, rapporteur of the PACE monitoring committee for Azerbaijan, said in his interview to the BBC Radio that the administrative decision to stop the ANS TV Channel was "a very reactionary step."
Many thousands strong nation-wide public rally held in Abkhazia December 06, 2006 23:23 Up to 40,000 persons from all cities and regions of Abkhazia arrived to the meeting. The government has provided free transport facilities to all who wanted to take part in the event.
Azerbaijan is concerned with situation of Azerbaijanis in Russia December 06, 2006 23:18 Upon instruction of the president of Russia in relation to migrants, they have started to deport people who have no registration out of Russian cities. The decision is most strictly applied to citizens of Georgia, and part of them has already been deported from the country. Among them, there are also natives of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani writers ask to release the journalist who has offended the Prophet December 06, 2006 22:19 In Azerbaijan, a group of writers are asking to release journalist Rafik Tagi who has published his anti-Islamic article in the "Senet" (Arts) newspaper from custody.
Litvinenko poisoning: interrogation of Lugovoj postponed December 06, 2006 22:11 Interrogation of Andrei Lugovoj, a Scotland Yard's suspect of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, that was tonight, has been postponed.
R. Kadyrov: Russian militaries must respond for tortures and murders of Chechnya residents December 06, 2006 22:07 Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of Chechnya government, has stated that he will strive to bring to responsibility the federal troops commanders in charge of murdered or missing peaceful citizens of Chechnya.
"Reporters without Borders" condemned the appeal of Iranian clergy to massacre Azerbaijani journalists December 05, 2006 23:52 The International Organization "Reporters without Borders" has spread a document condemning an appeal of Iranian spiritual leaders to assassinate two journalists from Azerbaijan.
Council of Europe is concerned with a death of Georgian woman in Moscow December 05, 2006 23:30 The Council of Europe is seriously concerned with the death of a Georgian woman, whom Russian authorities were about to deport from Moscow to Tbilisi.
Litvinenko's body was given out to his relatives December 05, 2006 23:02 The body of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, has been handed over to his relatives for burial.
Stephania Kulaeva: action plan on Gypsies' problems will allow improving their situation December 05, 2006 22:47 In the south of Russia, the rights of the Gipsy population are violated. First of all, it refers the right for obtaining education.
Both prosecution and defence appeal against Stomakhin's verdict December 04, 2006 22:48 A five-year deprivation of freedom sentence passed to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web site and co-chairman of the Revolutionary Contact Association, was appealed against at the Moscow City Court both by defence and prosecution, Karen Nersesyan, his advocate, told.
Head of Karelia appoints compensation to Kondopoga victims December 04, 2006 22:45 Sergey Katanandov, Karelia's head, has signed a prescription to allocate 350,000 roubles from his reserve fund on rendering assistance to families of casualties and other victims of Kondopoga disorders.
Scaramella blames Litvinenko of nuclear materials smuggling December 04, 2006 22:43 Italian Professor Mario Scaramella, who had dinner with Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, on the day of his poisoning, said that in 2000 Litvinenko was in charge of a secret operation of contraband delivery of nuclear materials from Russia to Zurich, Switzerland.
Nationalists who committed terror act in Cherkizovskiy Market tried to blow up the Moscow State University (MSU) December 04, 2006 22:38 Moscow militia has completed examination of the explosive, which failed to function in the ninth level of the hostel in the MSU main building.
Residents of Chechen mountain villages are concerned with more frequent air raids and shelling December 04, 2006 22:33 Air bombing of high-mountain village of Sharo-Argun in the Shatoiskiy District of the Republic is far from being a single incident if this sort in Chechnya during recent time, the residents of a number of mountainous villages of the Republic assert.
Kondopoga residents paid tribute to citizens murdered three months ago during disorders December 02, 2006 22:15 Today, residents of Kondopoga have paid the tribute to the memory of the citizens who were killed three months ago - late in August this year.
Anti-Criminal Movement published names of policemen rewarded for beating peaceful demonstrators in Armenia December 02, 2006 22:11 "We have at our disposal multiple documents on interference of law enforcement bodies and the Security Service of Armenia into the course of political processes," Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "New Times" Party, stated in the evening on December 1.
November battles and diversions in North Caucasus brought at least 38 casualties December 02, 2006 22:09 From November 23 to 29, at least ten persons perished and five more wounded in the course of armed collisions and diversion acts in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.