Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Russia

Russia Examining Ruling Over Chechen Disappearance

Russian security forces operating in Chechnya (file photo) (RFE/RL)

July 28, 2006 -- Russia's Foreign Ministry says it is "carefully examining" a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that condemned Moscow over the disappearance of a young man in Chechnya.

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July 28, 2006

The court on July 27 said Russian authorities had failed to carry out an effective criminal investigation into the disappearance and presumed death of Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev.

It also ordered Russia to pay his mother 35,000 euros ($45,000) in damages.

Television news in 2000 showed Yandiyev being interrogated by a Russian officer, who then ordered him shot.

(AFP)

The Chechnya Conflict

The aftermath of a December 2002 Chechen resistance attack on the main government building in Grozny (epa)

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The fighting in Chechnya has raged, with short breaks, since 1994. It has brought misery, death, and destruction to the North Caucasus republic and to Russia as a whole. View an annotated timeline of the conflict.

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RFE/RL's complete coverage of Russia's war-torn Republic of Chechnya.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin covers his face during a conference of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow on February 9.

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