Religious body handles conflict April 11, 2005 15:38 A commission of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Dagestan investigates the reasons for a religious conflict in Derbent.
Commando wounds taxi driver April 11, 2005 15:11 A Federal Security Service (FSB) officer uses a rubber-bullet gun to punish a cheeky taxi driver.
Deaths, wounds, surrenders in Chechnya April 09, 2005 14:29 The dynamics on 8 April rather indicate <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/789102.html" target="_blank">Memorial's figures</a> are really incomplete.
Two released, one confirmed as dead in Chechnya April 08, 2005 14:40 A local resident with mental disorder is confirmed as killed during a passport check operation on 6 April.
Memorial registers 3101 deaths in five years April 08, 2005 14:30 Which may be just one-third of or fewer than the actual number of civilians killed in Chechnya since mid-2000.
Creepy pattern April 07, 2005 13:59 Five Chechens are abducted within a few days with almost the same abduction pattern everywhere.
Village 'cleaned-up' since mid-March April 07, 2005 13:50 A passport check operation leads to at least two people killed.
Meskhetians vote for homeland April 07, 2005 13:47 Most Meskhetian Turks polled in two districts in Azerbaijan are willing to return to Georgia.
Women's rights violated in Georgia April 06, 2005 13:31 Several service women are discharged from the Georgian army while on maternity leave.
War on innocents April 06, 2005 12:48 A five-year-old child is killed in a special operation in Dagestan.
Maskhadov may have been trapped 'internationally' April 05, 2005 12:32 There is some evidence Germany and Switzerland may have been involved in trapping the Ichkeria president Aslan Maskhadov.
Ridiculous ban April 05, 2005 12:28 Azerbaijan's government persists in preventing a rights advocate from going abroad, although it cannot prevent his report from being delivered to the UN Commission on Human Rights.
Chechnya struck with unemployment April 05, 2005 12:17 The republic's economy is reconstructed too slowly, as 80% of the population remains jobless.
More arbitrary detentions April 04, 2005 12:06 Law enforcers continue to detain local residents adding to thousands of abductions that plague Chechnya.
Occasional casualties April 04, 2005 11:52 An officer in Chechnya kills a soldier 'through carelessness.'
Commissioner reports human rights violations in N Caucasus April 01, 2005 15:02 The report of Russia's Commissioner on Human Rights for 2004 is published.
Abkhaz leader gets clear March 30, 2005 23:56 President Sergey Bagapsh says Abkhazia's political status 'is not subject of discussion.'