Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped in Grozny Wednesday morning and shot to death, according to news reports. Estemirova, 50, investigated allegations of human rights violations in Chechnya for about 10 years. Estemirova's body, which...
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Aza Gazgireyeva, deputy head of the Supreme Court in Russia's Ingushetia province was shot dead Wednesday while taking her children to school in the town of Nazran, according to a regional interior ministry...
Russia fails to stop police abuses, rebel militias in Ingushetia: HRW report
Russian police have committed serious rights abuses against suspected rebel militants from Ingushetia , including abductions, torture, and killings, according to a Wednesday report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...
Khasan Yandiyev, deputy head of the Supreme Court in Russia's Ingushetia province was shot dead Sunday while changing a car tire near the town of Karabulak, according to a regional interior ministry spokesman...
Russia charges two police officials over Beslan school hostage crisis
The Supreme Court in the Russian federal republic of Kabardino-Balkaria filed criminal negligence charges Wednesday against two police officers who headed a police department in the neighboring federal republic of Ingushetia for allegedly failing to prevent the...
Russia's official newspaper, Rossiskaya Gazeta reported Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting tighter state control over non-governmental organizations, including those foreign-based, though there has been no official announcement from the...