Last Friday a protest meeting was held near the laid Olympic Stone, called by wit tongues “gravestone of the Lower Imeretinka Lowland”. The meeting involved 500 people, which is a great number for our southern latitudes. Authorities found...

On the eve of Ramadan the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov obliged all women working in the state institutions to wear headscarves. Along with that, men were not obliged to do anything like that, although according to Islam, it is not...

Tuesday night the ceremony was held of presentation 7th Award named after Artem Borovik, instituted by the charitable fund after Artem Borovik. Artem’s father, Genrikh Borovik, a famous writer of political essays, is the chair of the...

Three people were killed during riot at the borstal institution in the City of Kirovgrad. The incident occurred Tuesday night and it was provoked by the inmates who attempted to arrange an escape. The riot among teens broke out at about 10...

5 Oct., secretly, acquittal for the Ingush militia men was announced in the City of Nalchik. They had been charged with neglect of their duties which allowed the terrorist act to be done. The proceeding was done with precaution so that no...

New General Rules of Air Transport Service for Passengers, Baggage and Cargoes have been registered in the Ministry of Justice and published. They will become effective starting from 20 Oct. and will replace the current rules dating back...

Sochi is becoming a national disaster area. At least, the local population is going to be deprived of their housing, like it is an earthquake that is going to hit the town. Of course, it’s no convulsion of nature that is expected, it’s...

It’s been eight months that independent journalist Andrei Novikov is kept for compulsory treatment in the mental hospital in the City of Rybinsk in the Yaroslavsl region (the details were published in number 74). Novaya Gazeta applied to...

Civil rights advocates and journalists arrived at the City of Nizhniy Novgorod from Italy, France, America and Russia. Unfortunately, the forum failed to be held as it was planned. The matter is that Fund for Tolerance who is the organizer...

Thursday, 4 October, at 3 p.m. local time the mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni opened the piazza after Anna Politkovskaya in the largest and nicest park of the city named Villa Pamfili. While being official, the ceremony was warm and humane....

Q: From the very first day - Oct 07, 2006 - many skeptics appeared who claimed that the murder of Anna Politkovskya would never be solved. So, will you solve it? A: It is solved. But the other thing is that we have to find out all the...

Just after the press conference by the Prosecutor General made on 27 August 2007 the mass leak of information was started about the case of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. The Chief of Inner Security Department of FSB Lieutenant General...

First, the Clown brought this story to a glam magazine. He wanted to make a present to his nice and clever wife. She is a model, and it could be useful for her career. Editorial staff listened to him and said that was a cool story. “We are...

The fire in the Moscow Institute of State and Corporate Management (it happened on Tuesday) resulted in 9 killed and 50 injured. They are mostly students aged 18-20 y.o. Pro-rector of the institute affirms he received threats of arson,...

8 largest American civil rights advocate organizations wrote open letters to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Aleksandr Bastrykin