News

May 17, 2008 23:48

• Yakobashvili: Georgia to hamper Russia's accession to WTO

  Temur Yakobashvili, State Minister for Reintegration Issues, made his forecast in answer to the question on how the present status of Russian-Georgian relations can affect the next round of negotiations on accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization to start early next week.

May 16, 2008 15:15

• Oleg Orlov: experience of Northern Caucasus is spreading militia's violence all over Russia

  Beatings, tortures and other illegal actions of Russian militiamen against their fellow citizens are in many aspects provoked by their experience gained in the course of "counterterrorist operations" in Northern Caucasus, Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asserts.

May 16, 2008 15:11

• In Georgia, 26 "industrialists" withdraw their candidatures from elections

  Because of the pressure exerted by the authorities of Georgia, 26 majority candidates from the block of "industrialists" have withdrawn their candidatures.

May 16, 2008 15:06

• In Armenia, police has confiscated hunger-strikers' tent

  Today in the afternoon, the police have undertaken a number of steps to prevent a protest action planned by supporters of Aram Karapetyan, leader of the opposition party "New Times", near the building of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia, and took away their tent.

May 16, 2008 15:04

• Dagestan: Women's Charitable Hospital exposed to total audits

  The Women's Charitable Hospital, located in Makhachkala, is now under audits and inspections held by the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan. The Hospital managers explain these measures by their unwillingness to abandon the premises now occupied by the Hospital.

May 16, 2008 15:00

• Leila Yunus: Azerbaijani authorities deprive citizens of the freedom of choice

  The authorities of Azerbaijan are depriving their citizens of the opportunity not only to resist falsifications during elections and violence in the country, but also to trace these crimes. This is the topic of the statement of Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy.

May 16, 2008 14:57

• In Krasnodar Territory, the case of Private Ivanov who was beaten by his comrade-in-arms sent to the court

  The case of Private Alexander Ivanov who was beaten on February 24 in Military Unit No. 6822, deployed in Krasnodar, was transferred to the Krasnodar Garrison Military Court.

May 16, 2008 14:55

• Larissa Dorogova: in Kabardino-Balkaria, many people are dissatisfied with how militants' relatives are defended

  Advocate Larissa Dorogova told that she is persecuted by those for whom proper defence of the rights of the relatives of those militants who perished on October 13, 2005, during the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria is disadvantageous.

May 15, 2008 13:03

• "Voice of Beslan" has drafted a bill in defence of rights of terror act victims

  The All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" has drafted, together with the Volgodonsk NGO of Terror Act Victims, a bill named "On Social Defence of Terror Act Victims".

May 15, 2008 12:55

• Prosecutor's Office of Volgograd Region finds lenient verdicts to militiamen who have beaten teenagers inadmissible

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd Region states the inadmissibility of the lenient verdicts passed by the Regional Court to former militiamen who had severely beaten teenagers.

May 15, 2008 12:53

• Dieter Boden denies support of Abkhazian independence

  German diplomat Dieter Boden has categorically rejected the "Spiegel" magazine information and assured Georgian journalists that he gave no interview to the German edition about his support of recognition of Abkhazia's independence.

May 15, 2008 12:48

• Musa Pliev: being unable to stop the website as mass media, Prosecutor's Office now deals with "Ingushetia.Ru" domain name

  Today, the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has lodged an additional claim to the Kuntsevo Court of Moscow demanding to deprive the "Ingushetia.Ru" website of its domain name, since the Office feels incapable to close this Internet-based edition as a mass medium. This was explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Musa Pliev, advocate of Magomed Evloev, the website owner.

May 15, 2008 12:44

• Eyewitnesses: Arsaev killed in Ingushetia rendered no resistance to power agents

  Issa Arsaev, who was shot dead on May 8 by employees of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) Department for Ingushetia in Kantyshevo village, Nazran District, was not a militant and rendered no resistance to power agents. Arsaev's relatives and eyewitnesses of the incident told about it to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

May 15, 2008 12:39

• Convicts of Cherkizovo marketplace explosion sentenced to imprisonment from two years to life term

  The Moscow City Court has sentenced the eight defendants accused of exploding Cherkizovo marketplace to prison terms from two years to life-long term.

May 15, 2008 12:32

• Writer kidnapped in the capital of Chechnya

  Nikolai Paizulaev, a writer and public figure, was kidnapped in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

May 15, 2008 12:18

• European Court to consider complaints of former servicemen in Chechnya

  In the end of this April, the European Court for Human Rights started considering the cases of twelve Russian militaries, including those who had served in Chechnya, who complain of violation of their right to judicial defence.

May 14, 2008 11:11

• Advocate Dorogova asks President of Kabardino-Balkaria to protect her from prosecution

  Larissa Dorogova, a lawyer of the Bar of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a letter to President of the Republic Arsen Kanokov with a request to protect her and her son from incessant prosecutions.

May 14, 2008 11:04

• In Azerbaijan, journalist Agyl Khalil is ready to testify to the investigation

  Azerbaijani journalist Agyl Khalil, who earlier refused to give evidence on the motive that the case was falsified by the Prosecutor's Office, has reported his readiness to testify.

May 14, 2008 10:53

• Armenia: diplomats challenge their dismissal

  On March 14, the Administrative Court considered a claim of four diplomats who were dismissed from office and deprived of their diplomatic ranks in February 2008, after they made a statement on February 24 about post-election processes in Armenia.

May 14, 2008 10:49

• European Court for Human Rights to consider the complaint of Azerbaijani ex-Minister of Public Health

  The European Court for Human Rights has accepted to consideration a complaint lodged by Ali Insanov, former Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan.