News

December 19, 2005 13:42

• Police disperse unauthorised public meeting

  Several dozen people come to a square near the centre of Baku to protest against the results of the parliamentary elections.

December 19, 2005 10:56

• Freedom of speech research figures given for Georgia

  The Georgian NGO Association of Young Lawyers claims that freedom of speech has been restricted in the country since the Rose Revolution.

December 16, 2005 13:23

• Security at risk for Nagorno-Karabakh - newspaper editor

December 16, 2005 12:12

• US Congress demands that Russia amend new legislation on NGO

  US Congress passes a resolution with a demand that the government of Russia should withdraw or modify a bill on nongovernmental organisations.

December 16, 2005 10:44

• Freedom of speech down since Rose Revolution

  The nongovernmental organisation Association of Young Lawyers studies the condition of the Georgian media.

December 15, 2005 17:39

• One killed in Dagestan

  An interior troops serviceman is killed in a skirmish with a group of rebels in Dagestan's Untsukul district.

December 15, 2005 17:25

• Beslan victim, N Ossetia's emergencies chief give contradictory evidence

  There was nobody alive in the school gymnasium by the moment the fire began there, according to Mr Boris Dzgoyev, an official, but an eyewitness disagrees.

December 14, 2005 14:30

• Refugees protest against relocation

  Spontaneous public meetings are under way in a community of Ingush refugees in Maiskii, Prigorodnyi district, North Ossetia.

December 14, 2005 13:09

• NGO concerned over illegal policing measures

  A Georgian NGO expresses its concern in connection with increasingly frequent facts of killing of criminals by law enforcement agencies.

December 13, 2005 13:59

• Commissioner criticises Beslan school security

  Mr Alexander Torshin, head of the federal parliamentary commission for an investigation into the Beslan terrorist act, says that the school was guarded too poorly.

December 13, 2005 13:56

• Maskhadov's relatives address world community

  The relatives of the late Ichkeria leader ask the world community to demand that Russia give out his body for burial.

December 13, 2005 13:53

• Victims resentful of incompliance

  The Beslan Mothers Committee files two petitions for having senior officials come to give evidence in the Kulayev case.

December 13, 2005 12:05

• French doctors helping Beslan children

  A group of French doctors from Dijon in Burgundy come home from their trip to North Ossetia's Beslan.

December 13, 2005 12:03

• Police officers beaten in Dagestan

  An attack on police officers is carried out during an ID check in Khasavyurt, Dagestan.

December 12, 2005 10:48

• Family attacked in Abkhazia's Gal district

  Unknown persons fire automatic weapons at the house of an Abkhaz family in the Gal district.

December 09, 2005 20:06

• Putin suggests tougher control, expert thinks

  President Vladimir Putin of Russia forwards his resolution on the bill on nongovernmental organisations to Russian Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov.

December 08, 2005 19:18

• Six wounded in Chechnya

  Six riot police officers are wounded in Grozny under so far unclear circumstances.

December 08, 2005 19:07

• Speaker's pledge questioned

  The newspaper Alia publishes a list of the most apparent human rights violations in Georgia's provinces.

December 08, 2005 19:04

• Nine wounded in Ingushetia

  Nine police officers sustain gunshot wounds and injuries as a result of an attack by unidentified persons.

December 07, 2005 22:48

• Two killed, two wounded in Ingushetia

  Two rebels are killed and a police officer and a woman are wounded during a special operation in the republic.