Students in Azerbaijan continue hunger strike June 14, 2006 14:36 The hunger strike of several scores of students of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university has been lasting for 14 days already.
Salaev, ex-president of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, left for US June 14, 2006 14:32 Academician Eldar Salaev, former president of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, has left for the United States of America for a course of treatment. Elman Salaev, the son of the academician has reported this to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Soldiers' mothers report on brutal beating of conscript from Krasnodar region June 14, 2006 14:28 The Soldiers' Mothers Committee claims that a 19-year-old resident of Krasnodar region in Kuban, drafted to the army, was beaten and dropped from the train during transportation of a group of soldiers from Krasnodar region to Khabarovsk distribution centre.
Chechen prosecutor's office conducts additional check on the information about torture in the secret prison June 13, 2006 00:25 Chechen prosecutor's office employees are conducting an additional check on the criminal cases initiated in the past against officers of Khanty-Mansijsk riot squad, suspected of illegal detentions of citizens and the use of torture with regard to them.
"Memorial" human rights centre: a local resident has been lost on the territory of a government complex in Chechnya June 13, 2006 00:23 On June 8, 2006, Khamzat Shamsuldinovich Tushaev, born in 1959, was lost in Grozny on the territory of the Government Complex of Chechnya.
Human rights activist in Ingushetia wants information on mass burials to be checked June 13, 2006 00:21 Intense rumours have been circulating in the republic during the recent days that traces of mass burials have been discovered in the village of Vesioloye of Mozdok district, North Ossetia, where the body of Uvais Dolakov, resident of Ingushetia kidnapped earlier, was found one of these days.
Participants of picket dispersed in Krasnodar subjected to administrative arrest June 13, 2006 00:16 According to reports of human rights activists, on June 9, 2006, a picket near the monument to Pushkin in Krasnodar (Krasnaya Street) was dispersed by almost one hundred militiamen.
Moscow militia detains persons of Caucasian origin 20 times more often than Slavs June 13, 2006 00:00 A study conducted in the Moscow metro shows that the number persons who are visually perceived as originating from the Caucasus or Middle Asia amounts to 50.9 % of persons stopped by militia, although the share of such people does not exceed 4.6% in the total passenger flow.
Check of information on torture in secret prisons is under way in Chechnya June 09, 2006 10:50 Officers of the riot squad combined unit from Khanty-Mansijsk autonomous okrug are suspected of arranging in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a secret prison where detainees were tortured.
Residents of temporary shelters in Chechnya want to move into permanent dwelling only June 08, 2006 12:09 Recently, a campaign to liquidate temporary shelters (TS) has been under way in Chechnya.
PACE prepares a report on disappearances in South Caucasus June 08, 2006 12:06 Leo Platvoet, a Dutch MP, rapporteur of the Commission on migration, refugees and population issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has come to Azerbaijan.
"Memorial" insists that an illegal prison existed in Chechnya June 08, 2006 12:03 "A temporary detention facility of the TDIA was located on this territory, it functioned normally and was not a secret site," yesterday, June 7, Valery Kuznetsov, prosecutor of Chechnya, stated before journalists.
Power authorities held mass checks in the capital of Chechnya June 07, 2006 21:42 On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.
US State Department: 500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking June 07, 2006 21:40 500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking. Such information is contained in the report on human trafficking (illegal trade in human beings) prepared by the US State Department.
President of Chechnya is satisfied with SC ruling on "Ulman's case" June 07, 2006 21:38 Alu Alkhanov, President of Chechnya, has welcomed the ruling of the RF Supreme Court presidium to the effect that the "Ulman's case" will be considered by a panel of three professional judges and not by a jury.
Armenia listed in the second category of countries in trafficking June 07, 2006 21:34 Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan, is listed among the second category countries where women, children and men become victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced labour.
Authorities fail to move refugees from TS in the Chechen capital June 07, 2006 21:31 Yesterday, June 6, the Staropromyslovski district administration in the Chechen capital tried to move internally displaced persons (IDP) from the temporary shelter (TS) in Derzhavin Street of Grozny.
Chechen ombudsman refutes information on the secret prison in Grozny June 07, 2006 21:14 Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has refuted information of certain human rights activists on the discovery in the centre of Grozny of a secret prison in which people were tortured and killed.
Nakhushev's sister in Kabardino-Balkaria is indignant with the fact that her brother is in the list of militants June 07, 2006 21:08 The today's issue of the newspaper "Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda" carries an article titled "Wanted!" with photographs of 24 individuals listed as wanted on the suspicion of taking part in the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, last October.
Urazaev: payment of compensations for lost dwelling delayed in Dagestan June 07, 2006 21:00 The authorities of Dagestan delay the compensation for the damage inflicted on civilians as a result of secret operations on liquidation of militants.