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January 25, 2005
RSF Condemns Court Ruling Against Russian Journalist

25 January 2005 -- The international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticized a court decision against a Russian journalist.

January 21, 2005
Putin Calls For Restructuring State Security

21 January 2005 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin today called for "serious restructuring" of the state's programs to ensure security to citizens.
January 18, 2005
Russian Officers Face New Trial Over Chechen Deaths

18 January 2005 -- The retrial of four Russian military officers accused of killing six Chechen civilians began today in Rostov-na-Donu in southern Russia.
January 17, 2005
Four Bodies Recovered After Daghestan Shoot-Out

17 January 2005 -- A local official in Daghestan said today the bodies of four gunmen killed in an hours-long firefight with Russian security forces in the Caucasus republic have been recovered from the ruins of a house destroyed in the assault.
January 14, 2005
Analysis: The Warlord And The Commissar

Ramzan Kadyrov (center) at his father's funeral in May Since the death of his father, Akhmad-hadji Kadyrov, in a terrorist bombing on 9 May, 28-year-old Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has emerged as the most powerful and the most feared man in Chechnya despite his lack of formal education and the alleged involvement of his security force in the systematic abduction, torture, and execution of Chechen civilians.
January 13, 2005
World: Human Rights Watch -- Group Calls On U.S. To Change Policy On Interrogations, Appoint Prosecutor (Part 1)

More damage from Abu Ghurayb (file photo) Human Rights Watch says the U.S. policy of "coercive interrogations" of terrorism suspects and international inaction on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region pose major threats to the global human rights system. In its annual report, the human rights watchdog calls for the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to determine responsibility for the abuses in Iraq's Abu Ghurayb prison. But a defender of the administration says the rights group has exaggerated U.S. treatment of detainees and ignored the circumstances under which new interrogation policies were conceived. (Click here --> /featuresarticle/2005/01/e8a02914-5d5f-429c-bcea-62ed36d63042.html to see Part 2 of RFE/RL's report on the Human Rights Watch report.)
January 11, 2005
Major Security Operation Under Way In Ingushetia

11 January 2005 -- A large-scale security operation is under way in several districts of the Russian republic of Ingushetia today after an attack on a military barracks wounded four Russian troops.
January 08, 2005
Suspected Militants Killed In Ingushetia

8 January 2005 -- Russia's security service says four suspected militants were killed today in a shootout in the southern republic of Ingushetia.
January 06, 2005
Georgia Frees Four Chechens Wanted By Russia

6 January 2005 -- Georgia announced that it has started releasing four Chechens arrested in 2002 along Georgia's border with Russia. Moscow had sought to have the four extradited to face charges.
January 05, 2005
Report: 14 Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya

5 January 2005 -- An official with the pro-Moscow Chechen administration was cited today as reporting that 14 Russian soldiers and at least three local Chechen troops have been killed in a series of incidents in Chechnya over the last two days.
January 01, 2005
Grozny Marks 2005; Putin Recalls 'Dramatic' Year

1 January 2005 -- More than 1,000 residents of Chechnya's war-ravaged capital celebrated New Year's today, dancing and singing around a holiday tree erected in the city center.
December 23, 2004
Russia: Putin Defends Reforms, Condemns 'Revolutions'

Putin aired his views on a number of topics (file photo) Prague, 23 December 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin today used his annual Kremlin press conference to address many of the issues that made headlines in Russia and abroad in 2004.

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Wednesday 26 January 2005

RSF Condemns Court Ruling Against Russian Journalist

Putin Calls For Restructuring State Security

Russian Officers Face New Trial Over Chechen Deaths

Four Bodies Recovered After Daghestan Shoot-Out

Analysis: The Warlord And The Commissar

World: Human Rights Watch -- Group Calls On U.S. To Change Policy On Interrogations, Appoint Prosecutor (Part 1)

Major Security Operation Under Way In Ingushetia

Suspected Militants Killed In Ingushetia

Georgia Frees Four Chechens Wanted By Russia

Report: 14 Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya

Grozny Marks 2005; Putin Recalls 'Dramatic' Year

Russia: Putin Defends Reforms, Condemns 'Revolutions'

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