All news

On January 19, at 3 p.m. local time, in front of the building of the editorial board of the Armenian weekly "Akos," published in Istanbul in the Turkish language, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the edition and an Armenian by origin, was shot dead by three headshots.

The victims of the Beslan terror act who have addressed the parliament of North Ossetia with a request to hear at its sitting in the presence of the victims the alternative report of State Duma deputy Yuri Saveliev, hope that the conclusions of the report will be recognized by the investigation.

Because of Russia's enacting new migratory laws, which have restricted the right of foreigners to trade there, the OLC has declared: "We demand from Russian leaders to put an end to discrimination of our compatriots who live in their country, otherwise the OLC will undertake concrete steps to suspend the operation of the Russian embassy in Baku and to evict Russians from Azerbaijan."

Russia will have more difficulties to achieve a reconsideration of requests on extradition of the Russians who were granted asylum in Great Britain.

On December 10, Moscow hosted the Second All-Russian Congress in Defence of Human Rights. The Congress adopted a great package of resolutions: Solidarity and Cooperation (What can we oppose to the war in North Caucasus?).

The case files on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Forbes Russian version, have arrived to the Moscow City Court for retrial.

The authorities of Russia have been found guilty of torturing the residents of Chechnya.

The victims of the terrorists' capture of Beslan school No. 1 (North Ossetia) have sent an open letter to the deputies of the parliament of the republic with a request to hold hearings of Yuri Saveliev, a member of the federal parliamentary commission for investigating the act of terror, who has prepared an alternative report.

The Kremlin has linked together the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

On January 18, 2007, a press conference "A Year to Presidential Election: Terror Victims Want the Truth" was held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

The Musaev family, residents of the village of Avtury of the Shali District of Chechnya, addressed the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny.

"We are afflicted with the decision of the Court on Sergey Lapin," Fredericka Ber, representative of the largest in the world human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) a AI's researcher for Russia, stated to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

Each of the forty-two claims lodged by residents of Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya versus the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on compensation of moral damage will be considered separately.

On January 16, 2007, before the start of a court session in Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), a sentry beat Anton Stepanenko's advocate and Andrei Grudin, the second defendant in the case.

On January 17, the Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to send the case of Sergey Lapin (radio call sign "Cadet"), criminal search senior lieutenant of the Interior Department of the city of Nizhnevartovsk, who was convicted for torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, a resident of Grozny, capital of Chechnya, to the first instance court for a new consideration.

The Appellate Court of Azerbaijan has changed the restriction measure (arrest) in relation to Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, creator of the Internet web-site susmayaq.biz.

Today, the North Caucasian Regional Military Court has continued the proceedings of the case of interior troops officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering Chechnya residents.

The trend of recent years - hampering by the state of enforcement of the decisions of the European Court in the territory of the Russian Federation - may result in suspension of the Council of Europe membership.

The Krasnodar Territory Court has passed a verdict on the criminal case in relation to four district militia officers and one their civil acquaintance, accused of murdering an Adygea resident.

Officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, refuse to admit their guilt.