Abduction in Chechnya January 13, 2006 18:47 A Mairtup, Kurchaloi district, resident is abducted in the republic.
N Ossetia's ex-president finally gives evidence January 12, 2006 18:29 Mr Dzasokhov claims that there was no information about a terrorist act planned in the republic.
IHF: Ingush residents tortured in custody in N Ossetia January 12, 2006 18:19 The International Helsinki Federation is concerned about increasingly frequent cases of torture with respect to residents of Ingushetia.
Rebel surrenders in Chechnya January 11, 2006 19:08 A member of illegal armed groups gives himself up to Chechen law enforcement agencies.
Two abducted in Abkhazia's Gal district January 11, 2006 19:05 The republic's internal affairs minister says that this is done by Georgian special services to destabilise the situation in the bordering Gal district.
Seven Russian soldiers killed in one day in Chechnya January 11, 2006 19:01 Seven Russian servicemen were killed and seven were wounded in Chechnya in 24 hours from 9 to 10 January.
Caucasus on fire January 10, 2006 16:03 There are international terrorist network cells in all regions in the South federal district, according to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
Brothers abducted in Chechnya January 10, 2006 15:44 Besides, a 16-year-old boy disappears from Avtury, Shali district.
Georgian police detain Russian peacekeepers commander January 09, 2006 17:50 The car in which Colonel Kazantsev and three more people, including the wife of the commander, were driving was detained in the centre of Zugdidi.
Prisoner disappears from jail January 09, 2006 17:47 Mr Rasul Kudayev, charged with taking part in the rebel attack on Nalchik, disappears from the temporary detention isolator in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Federal column attacked in Chechnya January 09, 2006 17:43 Two federal servicemen were killed and another five sustained wounds in the Kurchaloi district.
Two missing found dead January 08, 2006 18:35 The bodies of two police officers are found, thought earlier to have gone missing on the first day of the operation for detention of rebels in Dagestan's Untsukul district.
Three Nalchik attack partakers killed in Kabardino-Balkaria January 08, 2006 18:33 Two of the three rebels killed during today's special operation in the Lesken district may be foreign citizens.
Torture issue raised again in Georgia January 06, 2006 20:34 The chairman of the Georgian Justice Ministry's Penalty Enforcement Department is accused of organising torture and killings of prisoners.
Covert move against opposition January 06, 2006 20:26 Azerbaijan's education minister has ordered heads of national higher education institutions to fire teachers sympathising with the opposition, a source says.
'Federal forces were attacking a deserted base,' says expert January 06, 2006 20:24 The officer reminds that a group of Dagestani policemen were suddenly ambushed near the tunnel several months ago.
Concerns about killings of journalists January 05, 2006 15:38 Human rights defenders are concerned about the freedom of speech situation worldwide, in Russia, and the Caucasus.
Another Beslan attack partaker may be alive January 05, 2006 15:36 There is information that it is Omar Sheikhulayev whom Beslan victims saw among the terrorists who captured the school in September 2004.
Police abuse may be serving as cover January 05, 2006 15:34 Law enforcement agencies in Achkhoi-Martan, Chechnya, refuse to accept statements from relatives of abducted people.
Disappearing in Chechnya January 05, 2006 14:51 Two girls go missing in the republic's Gudermes district.