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February 08, 2007 22:37

• Threat of avian flu virus persists in Azerbaijan

  Today, Mr. Oktaj Shiraliev, Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has informed journalists that the potential threat of avian flu virus still persists in the country.

February 07, 2007 23:33

• State Duma has forbidden state servants to participate in foreign NCOs

  At its today's session, the State Duma has passed a law, in its third final reading, forbidding the state servants to be members of foreign non-commercial organizations (NCOs).

February 07, 2007 23:27

• Ingushetia: human rights defenders inquire into the death circumstances of two local residents

  In the city of Nazran, members of power agencies have swept an automobile with two men inside.

February 07, 2007 23:05

• Azerbaijani prisoner of war refuses to return home

  Samir Mamedov, an Azerbaijani soldier who is now in the Armenian captivity, has asked to give him out into a third country not to Azerbaijan.

February 07, 2007 21:03

• Another suspect of avian flu died in Azerbaijan

  On February 6, in Azerbaijan, Zamina Zeinalova, 37, a resident of the Boyat village of the Neftechalinskiy District, died at the Scientific-Research Institute of Pulmonary Diseases, where she was hospitalized with a suspicion of avian flu.

February 07, 2007 21:00

• Father of serviceman from Dagestan shot dead in Moscow strives to punish the culprits

  Father of Jabrail Ibragimov, a soldier from Dagestan who perished in one of the military unit of the Taman Division, has left for Moscow aiming to clarify all the circumstances of his son's death and demand punishment of those guilty according to the law.

February 06, 2007 23:21

• Chechnya's ombudsman revealed human rights violations in Chernokozovo's "SIZO"

  On commission of Ramzan Kadyrov, prime minister of Chechnya, an inspection was held on observance of human rights in the Grozny pre-trial detention centre ("SIZO") and the colony for the victims located in the settlement of Chernokozovo.

February 06, 2007 23:16

• International organizations stand for peaceful settlement of Nagorny Karabakh conflict

  These days, Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, hosted another regular meeting within the joint project "Dialogue through Movies," implemented under the aegis of the British organization "Reconciliation Resources" and with assistance of the Internews of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

February 06, 2007 23:14

• Attempt against MIA's head committed in Dagestan

  Late in the evening on February 3, an assassination attempt was undertaken in Dagestan against Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic.

February 06, 2007 23:06

• Member of Beslan commission: Putin personally gave order to storm the school

  Yuri Ivanov, deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has accused president of Russia Vladimir Putin of giving a personal order to start bombardment of the building of Beslan school with grenade launchers, the Associated Press has reported.

February 06, 2007 23:04

• Yandarbiev's allies who surrendered in January to Chechen authorities were not at war

  Three nephews of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, former vice-president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who surrendered on January 12 this year to the authorities of Chechnya, were engaged only in the issues of his guarding.

February 05, 2007 23:43

• M. Mutsolgov: ANCO "Mashr" is under permanent pressure of the authorities

  The Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr" is the first human rights organization in Ingushetia engaged in rendering legal aid to the population, executing public control of the observance of human rights and freedoms in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia.

February 05, 2007 23:38

• Newspaper run with materials on Alkhanov's jubilee confiscated and destroyed in Chechnya

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic is holding an examination on the occasion of confiscation of the whole run of the "Daimokhk" (Fatherland) newspaper.

February 05, 2007 23:19

• Merzhoev, declared militants' aide and shot dead in Ingushetia, was unarmed

  The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that on February 3, members of power agencies of Ingushetia killed a militants' ally in the town of Malgobek.

February 05, 2007 23:16

• Anti-War Committee: murderers of Novye Aldy residents live in St. Petersburg

  Exactly 7 years ago, on February 5, 2000, in the settlement of Novye Aldy of the Zavodskoj District of the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, was subjected to the so-called "zachistka" (clean-up) committed by the units of Russian militia.

February 05, 2007 23:13

• Trial on suit lodged by parents of the soldier killed in North Caucasus is appointed on February 15

  On February 15, the Lefortovskiy District Court of Moscow will start a process on the suit initiated by the Human Rights Foundation "Mothers' Right" on behalf of the parents of Alexander Makmatov, a regular soldier who perished in 1996 in the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

February 03, 2007 23:53

• Azerbaijani authorities lost another suit at the European Court

  The European Court for Human Rights has informed about satisfaction of another suit against the authorities of Azerbaijan, filed by Nabat Ramazanova and others.

February 03, 2007 18:19

• One more lady-patient hospitalized in Azerbaijan on suspicion of avian flu

  A resident of the village of Boyat of the Neftchalinskiy District was taken to the Scientific Research Institute of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Public Health of Azerbaijan with suspicion of avail flu.

February 03, 2007 18:17

• Turkish ex-minister of culture: Turkey and Azerbaijan should create a union state

  Namik Kyamal Zeibek, former Turkish minister of culture, said in one of his recent interviews that Turkey and Azerbaijan should create a united state.

February 03, 2007 18:14

• Chair of electoral committee kidnapped in Abkhazia

  In the Galskiy District of Abkhazia, people in masks have kidnapped David Sigua, Head of the District Electoral Committee.