News

November 01, 2005 19:46

• Trial continues in empty courthouse

  Victims fail to come another hearing of the Beslan attack case.

November 01, 2005 19:44

• Living conditions extremely poor in Grozny

  Residents of the Chechen capital complain of authorities' inattention towards such problems.

November 01, 2005 19:42

• Opposition denied assembly

  The government of Baku prohibits the opposition from holding a public meeting.

November 01, 2005 19:40

• 'Clean-up' numbers soar in Chechnya

  Residents of the republic indicate that the number of "clean-ups" in Chechnya has grown dramatically.

November 01, 2005 19:38

• Police post attacked

  A group of armed people attack a checkpoint wounding two officers.

October 31, 2005 19:32

• Chechnya's president demands stopping abductions

  President Alkhanov is "very much concerned that abductions have been more for ransom than for other motives lately."

October 28, 2005 19:04

• Three wounded in Chechnya

  Bomb blasts wound three Russian military men in the republic.

October 28, 2005 18:57

• Maskhadov 'was killed by his guard'

  The results of a ballistic examination of a bullet from the body of Aslan Maskhadov are announced.

October 27, 2005 20:21

• Sentence for Borozdinovskaia passed in Chechnya

  One officer of the Vostok battalion is given a suspended sentence of three years for the <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/814535.html" target="_blank">clean-up</a> in Borozdinovskaia.

October 27, 2005 19:34

• Two abducted in Chechnya

  Two persons are abducted overnight in the republic.

October 27, 2005 19:31

• New extrajudicial executions in Chechnya

  Two dead bodies with numerous shrapnel wounds are found in the republic.

October 26, 2005 22:35

• Crackdown in Adygeia

  A group of six Muslims are detained and tortured in Adygeia "in connection with the Nalchik events."

October 26, 2005 21:25

• Police violence raging in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Those suspected of the attack on Nalchik are being tortured and humiliated.

October 25, 2005 21:14

• Kulayev case under way in N Ossetia

  The prosecution begins to read out the evidence of those victims who have refused to come to the trial.

October 25, 2005 21:10

• Head of administration killed in Chechnya

  Unknown attackers shoot dead the Chechen-Aul head of administration.

October 24, 2005 16:19

• Nalchik attack caused by repressions

  The attack on Nalchik was caused by repressive actions of Kabardino-Balkaria's government, think Muslims.

October 24, 2005 16:14

• Attacks on military men in Chechnya

  Three are killed and seven are wounded in the republic.

October 21, 2005 20:35

• Rights still abused in Chechnya, Ingushetia

  A human rights defender summarises a trip to Ingushetia and Chechnya.

October 21, 2005 19:25

• Abuse in Chechnya

  Two women are beaten and an aged man and an elderly are abducted woman in the republic.

October 21, 2005 18:55

• Pensioner abducted in Chechnya

  A group of armed people in camouflage uniforms abduct an elderly woman in Grozny.