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December 23, 2005 18:54

• Public Chamber criticises amendments to NGO legislation

  Igor Yakovenko, Secretary General of the Journalists Union of Russia, believes that the new law on NGO marks transition to totalitarianism in Russia.

December 23, 2005 18:51

• NGO leaders hope for president

  "This law fails to achieve those objectives which the president of the Russian Federation would like to achieve," thinks human rights defender Mr Alexander Auzan.

December 22, 2005 16:19

• New NGO legislation introduces rule of bureaucracy, says expert

  The Council of the Russian Duma decides to hold the third reading of the bill toughening control over nongovernmental organisations tomorrow.

December 22, 2005 13:48

• Kulayev reported to be outsider

  "I cannot say that Nurpashi was a gang member and commanded somebody," says Ms Zarema Muzhakhoyev convicted of an attempt at a terrorist act in Moscow.

December 21, 2005 17:47

• Muslims subject to abuse in Dagestan

  Muslims are increasingly often persecuted for religious considerations in the republic.

December 21, 2005 14:48

• Human rights defender prohibited from going abroad

  Mr Ibragimoglu considers the actions of the Justice Ministry illegal and intends to apply to a court of law after consultations with his lawyers.

December 20, 2005 14:42

• Failure of investigation

  It is two years since officers of unidentified law enforcement or security agencies detained and abducted Mr Bashir Multsogov.

December 20, 2005 13:25

• New evidence given for Beslan

  Lights went out shortly before the blasts in school No 1 in Beslan, victims say.

December 19, 2005 15:19

• Antifascists attacked in Moscow

  A group of anarchists are ambushed by right-wing radicals in connection with an antifascist demonstration the former took part in.

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.