News

April 11, 2005 15:38

• Religious body handles conflict

  A commission of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Dagestan investigates the reasons for a religious conflict in Derbent.

April 11, 2005 15:34

• Detainees still missing

  The destiny of three abducted Chechens remains unknown.

April 11, 2005 15:11

• Commando wounds taxi driver

  A Federal Security Service (FSB) officer uses a rubber-bullet gun to punish a cheeky taxi driver.

April 09, 2005 14:29

• Deaths, wounds, surrenders in Chechnya

  The dynamics on 8 April rather indicate <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/789102.html" target="_blank">Memorial's figures</a> are really incomplete.

April 08, 2005 14:40

• Two released, one confirmed as dead in Chechnya

  A local resident with mental disorder is confirmed as killed during a passport check operation on 6 April.

April 08, 2005 14:30

• Memorial registers 3101 deaths in five years

  Which may be just one-third of or fewer than the actual number of civilians killed in Chechnya since mid-2000.

April 08, 2005 14:16

• Mines kill 100 in Azerbaijan

  People continue to die in spite of the ceasefire.

April 07, 2005 13:59

• Creepy pattern

  Five Chechens are abducted within a few days with almost the same abduction pattern everywhere.

April 07, 2005 13:50

• Village 'cleaned-up' since mid-March

  A passport check operation leads to at least two people killed.

April 07, 2005 13:47

• Meskhetians vote for homeland

  Most Meskhetian Turks polled in two districts in Azerbaijan are willing to return to Georgia.

April 06, 2005 13:31

• Women's rights violated in Georgia

  Several service women are discharged from the Georgian army while on maternity leave.

April 06, 2005 12:48

• War on innocents

  A five-year-old child is killed in a special operation in Dagestan.

April 06, 2005 12:12

• Just camouflage

  One man is killed and two are abducted in Chechnya.

April 05, 2005 12:32

• Maskhadov may have been trapped 'internationally'

  There is some evidence Germany and Switzerland may have been involved in trapping the Ichkeria president Aslan Maskhadov.

April 05, 2005 12:28

• Ridiculous ban

  Azerbaijan's government persists in preventing a rights advocate from going abroad, although it cannot prevent his report from being delivered to the UN Commission on Human Rights.

April 05, 2005 12:17

• Chechnya struck with unemployment

  The republic's economy is reconstructed too slowly, as 80% of the population remains jobless.

April 04, 2005 12:06

• More arbitrary detentions

  Law enforcers continue to detain local residents adding to thousands of abductions that plague Chechnya.

April 04, 2005 11:52

• Occasional casualties

  An officer in Chechnya kills a soldier 'through carelessness.'

April 01, 2005 15:02

• Commissioner reports human rights violations in N Caucasus

  The report of Russia's Commissioner on Human Rights for 2004 is published.

March 30, 2005 23:56

• Abkhaz leader gets clear

  President Sergey Bagapsh says Abkhazia's political status 'is not subject of discussion.'