European Court: Russia to pay 110,000 euros for execution of Muscovites in Ingushetia January 17, 2008 14:20 The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.
European Court passes two decisions against Azerbaijan January 17, 2008 14:16 The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.
Kabardino-Balkaria: Nalchik SIZO inmates complain of oppressions against Moslems January 17, 2008 14:13 The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.
Court to consider early release of Stomakhin January 17, 2008 13:42 The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.
In Dagestan capital electricity supply breaks complicate the work of hospitals January 17, 2008 13:26 Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.
Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice ignores messages about tortures and extortions in colony January 17, 2008 13:11 Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.
Tbilisi Court refuses to cancel the election outcomes January 16, 2008 12:28 The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.
"Beslan Mothers": prosecution of "Voice of Beslan" can cause interethnic collisions January 16, 2008 12:05 The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".
In Chechnya power agents would not give out the body of murdered militant to his relatives January 16, 2008 11:58 Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.
"Memorial": closure of "Peacekeeping Centre" in Chechnya is politically motivated January 16, 2008 11:50 In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".
"Memorial" to verify information on tortures in Chechen Colony of Chernokozovo January 16, 2008 11:35 At this date, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has no information about tortures and rough violations of custody regulations in relation of the inmates of Colony No. 2 located in Chernokozovo settlement of Chechnya, but is going to check the information of this sort.
MoE: explosion of apartment block in Zheleznovodsk was not terror act January 15, 2008 15:01 While making his comments on the reasons of the explosion of the apartment block in the city of Zheleznovodsk, Alexander Kolupaev, head of the South Regional Centre of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, has emphasized that the accident has nothing to do with a terror act, and what happened in Zheleznovodsk is just a household disaster.
Chechnya: tortures in Chernokozovo not confirmed January 15, 2008 14:57 Representatives of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, who have visited Colony No. 2 located in the settlement of Chernokozovo, the Naur District of the Republic, found no confirmation of the data about tortures and beatings of the prisoners who are kept in this corrective establishment.
United Opposition of Georgia starts its protest rally in Tbilisi January 15, 2008 14:50 A protest action of the United Opposition of Georgia has been launched in Tbilisi, in front of the Public Television building; the participants demand to hold the second round of early presidential election in the country.
Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office demands to close foreign NGO branch January 15, 2008 14:40 The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic demands to liquidate the branch of the organization "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre", located in Grozny.
Mass detentions of Gipsies continue in Volgograd Region January 15, 2008 14:36 In the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsk militiamen commit mass detentions of Gipsy nationals.
In Dagestan power agents pursue the followers of Turkish theologian Said Nursi January 15, 2008 14:33 On January 15, a search was conducted and goods were confiscated from one of private shops in the capital of Dagestan. The owner of the shop regards that the actions of power agents were explained by his belonging to the followers of the Turkish philosopher and theologian Said Nursi.
Kesaeva is satisfied with transfer of the "Voice of Beslan" trial to North Ossetia January 15, 2008 11:30 Today, the Nazran Court of Ingushetia has passed a decision to transfer the hearing on the case of recognition of the materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" to be extremist ones to North Ossetia in spite of the fact that the Acting Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia had insisted that the trial should take place in Nazran.
80 applicants for political asylum from Chechnya stay at the Paris airport January 14, 2008 14:25 The Paris airport Roissie-Charles de Gaulle is overwhelmed by applicants for political asylum from Chechnya. The refugees are in the conditions unfit for long stay of people.
Victims of explosion in apartment block in Stavropol Territory are now six in number January 14, 2008 14:22 The number of casualties of the explosion of utility gas in the five-storey apartment block in Lenina Street in Zheleznovodsk has reached six persons.