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November 28, 2005 21:07

• Chechnya's president to meet separatists

  "Without peace, there is no creation, development is impossible, and democratic processes are impossible," Alu Alkhanov said.

November 28, 2005 21:05

• Grozny ignores parliamentary election - Memorial

  The Human Rights Centre Memorial says that attendance in the capital of Chechnya was much lower than in the previous elections, counter to expectations of the human rights defenders.

November 26, 2005 11:21

• Police disperse public meeting, beat journalists

  The police use force against participants in the public meeting in the Gelebe Square in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, earlier today.

November 26, 2005 11:20

• Landmine wounds one in Chechnya

  A federal serviceman was seriously wounded having triggered an antipersonnel mine in the mountainous district of Vedeno.

November 24, 2005 21:23

• 'No onslaught was planned' – Beslan headquarters member

  Victor Sobolev, commander of the 58th army and a member of the operations headquarters for the rescue of hostages in Beslan, gives evidence.

November 23, 2005 21:57

• Suspects in Nalchik attack ill-treated - HRW

  Below is a full-text version of a <a href="http://www.hrw.org" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a> <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/18/russia12053_txt.htm" target="_blank">report</a> of ill-treatment with respect to Nalchik attack suspects.

November 23, 2005 21:17

• Lawyer at risk of abduction

  Law enforcement agencies threaten to make short work of Ms Larissa Dorogov, lawyer of Muslim protesters in Kabardino-Balkaria.

November 23, 2005 11:09

• Esprit de corps vs criminal cover-up

  Mr Igor Trunov, a Nord-Ost lawyer, says that looting on the part of law enforcement and other militarised agencies accompanies all terrorist acts and disasters.

November 22, 2005 23:51

• Azeri workers go on strike

  Workers for US-based McDERMOTT go on strike over low wages and discrimination.

November 22, 2005 23:47

• Prosecution gives formal answers

  The relatives of those killed in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria receive formal answers from the Prosecutor General's Office.

November 22, 2005 21:57

• Kulayev attacked in courtroom

  A victim reaches Mr Nurpashi Kulayev, the defendant at the hearing of the Beslan terrorist act case, through a hole in his cage.

November 21, 2005 18:28

• Public meetings held in Chechnya

  People hold public meetings in Grozny demanding compensations for their destroyed homes.

November 21, 2005 18:26

• Villager released after torture

  Abducted from his own home in Pamiatoi, Shatoi district, on 18 November, Khamdulla Naurdinov is released on 19 November.

November 18, 2005 18:23

• Staraia Sunzha murderers detained

  Chechnya's military commandant's office detains three military men involved in killing Staraia Sunzha, Grozny district, residents.

November 18, 2005 18:20

• Government re-launches repressions

  The government of Azerbaijan launches new repressions against opposition activists, according to a press release of the Azadlyg bloc.

November 17, 2005 00:59

• Alleged accomplice interrogated in North Ossetia

  A cleaner in Beslan's school No 1 thought by victims to be an accomplice of the terrorists is interrogated in North Ossetia.

November 16, 2005 23:44

• AI concerned about legal action against RCFS director

  Below is a public statement by <a href="http://www.amnesty.org" target="_blank">Amnesty International</a>Amnesty International concerning a criminal case against Stanislav Dmitrievskii, Executive Director of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.

November 16, 2005 21:26

• Rights defender goes on trial

  At a trial in Nizhny Novgorod, Stanislav Dmitrievskii of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society is charged with inciting racial, interethnic, and social hatred.

November 16, 2005 21:23

• One killed in action

  A Russian Defence Ministry serviceman is killed in a clash with a group of rebels in Chechnya.

November 15, 2005 21:20

• Beslan headquarters members interrogated

  An interrogation of public officials on the list of witnesses in the Beslan attack case practically confirms people's fears.