News

March 28, 2008 13:28

• Members of "Voice of Beslan" are not admitted to the courtroom

  The Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia is still holding session on charges against Ella Kesaeva, leader of the Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", of an administrative offence, but the members of the organization are not admitted into the courtroom.

March 28, 2008 13:15

• "Novaya Gazeta": nothing new in investigation's statement on Politkovskaya's case

  The editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta" (New Newspaper) thinks that today's statement of the State Prosecution that the investigation has established and announced into search the killer of Anna Politkovskaya, the paper's observer, has no news.

March 28, 2008 12:57

• Azerbaijan: three more inmates are hunger-striking

  Today in Azerbaijan, three inmates of the Correctional Labour Colony (CLC) No. 1 have started a hunger-strike with a demand to free all political prisoners.

March 27, 2008 17:21

• Service of court marshals denies beating resident of Krasnodar Territory who tried to self-burn

  The Department of the Federal Service of Court Marshals for the Krasnodar Territory refutes the information about beating Anatoly Malyshev who tried to burn himself in protest against his family's compulsory eviction from the hostel.

March 27, 2008 17:18

• Krasnodar Territory: opposition protests against election outcomes to the General Prosecutor's Office

  Sergey Obukhov, Deputy of the State Duma (faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - CPRF), has directed some 20 requests to the Russian Public Prosecutor Yuri Chaika. He has indicated that that at presidential election on March 2 in the Krasnodar Territory, a total of 63,649 additional votes were ascribed to Dmitri Medvedev.

March 27, 2008 16:46

• In Stavropol Territory, inmates' relatives complain of breaching their rights

  Within the latest six months, the Islamic Committee of Russia has received two complaints from relatives of the prisoners kept at the Federal State Institution Corrective Colony (CC) No. 11 located in the Stavropol Territory, where the colony administration was accused of illegal actions.

March 27, 2008 16:43

• In Dagestan, Ombudsperson finds the problem of kidnappings non-topical

  Svetlana Alisultanova, Ombudswoman in Dagestan, notes to a significant decrease in the number of kidnappings in the Republic. She has made this statement today at the 20th session of the National Assembly of Dagestan of the fourth convocation.

March 27, 2008 16:38

• "Voice of Beslan" challenges the court

  Today, the sitting of the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia to consider the administrative charge against the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" did not take place. Ella Kesaeva, the leader of the organization, has challenged the composition of the court.

March 27, 2008 16:31

• No charges presented so far to suspects of an attempt on Chechen President

  The natives of Chechnya, who were arrested in May 2007 in Moscow and who have, in the opinion of the investigation, relation to the car stuffed with explosive left near the "Profsoyuznaya" Metro Station, and accused of preparing an attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov, are still kept in custody without presentation of charges.

March 27, 2008 16:26

• Investigation knows suspected killers of Ilyas Shurpaev

  Employees of the criminal search have managed to establish the murderers of Ilyas Shurpaev, a journalist of Channel One. According to the investigation, the aim of the murder was robbery.

March 26, 2008 12:32

• Police of Yerevan brings about 40 persons from Severny Avenue to police stations

  Today, for more than one hour, starting from 6 p.m. local time, members of law enforcement bodies of Armenia detained and took to police stations about 40 persons out of those who rallied in the Severny Avenue in Yerevan.

March 26, 2008 12:27

• Young man presumably kidnapped in Ingushetia

  There are suspicions that a young man was kidnapped in the Barsuki municipal unit of Ingushetia.

March 26, 2008 12:25

• Azerbaijan: arrested journalist starts protest hunger strike

  Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is kept in Colony No. 12, started his hunger strike with a demand to release other journalists arrested in Azerbaijan.

March 26, 2008 12:14

• In Dagestan, militia captain asks to punish his boss for violations during the election

  In Dagestan, militia captain Ruslan Rasulov has addressed his application to the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Dagestan on violation of his observer's rights during the presidential election on March 2. The application also states falsification of the election outcomes at one of the polling stations of Makhachkala.

March 26, 2008 12:10

• In North Ossetia, the ATC driver who killed a woman sentenced to two years in colony

  In the capital of North Ossetia, the driver of an Armoured Troop Carrier (ATC) accused of driving down Aishat Pogorova has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

March 26, 2008 12:07

• Journalist Ilyas Shurpaev buried in the capital of Dagestan

  Yesterday, on March 25, journalist of Channel One Ilyas Shurpaev, who was killed in Moscow on March 21, was buried in Makhachkala. About a thousand persons took part in the mourning ceremony.

March 26, 2008 11:56

• Relatives of the persons killed in special operation in Ingushetia receive their bodies without internals

  Relatives of Madina Ausheva who was killed by Russian power agents on February 28, 2008, as a result of a special operation in Nazran suburb, assert that her body handed out to relatives was without internal organs.

March 25, 2008 14:00

• Mourning rally in memory of perished journalists held in the capital of Dagestan

  Yesterday, on March 24, the Union of Journalists of Dagestan held a mourning rally dedicated to the memory of Ilyas Shurpaev and Gaji Abashilov.

March 25, 2008 13:24

• "Dagestan Mothers": we are prosecuted and intimidated

  Gulnara Rustamova, Chair of the organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights", has addressed the Moscow Helsinki Group and Human Rights Centre "Memorial" with a complaint against "arbitrariness and impunity" of the power agencies of the Republic.

March 25, 2008 13:19

• Public prosecutor asks three years of colony-settlement for the ATC driver who knocked down a woman in North Ossetia

  Today, the Military Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia held the final session on the case of soldier Darkhan Seitmagambetov, accused of killing a woman in November 2007 with the BTR-80 armoured troop carrier (ATC) that he was driving.