Russian Army soldiers in Chechnya (AFP) 10 November 2005 -- A military official in Chechnya described as an accident a mortar-fire attack by federal forces on the village of Starye Atagi.
9 November 2005 -- Prosecutors in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkariya have opened a criminal case into the disappearance of Islam expert Ruslan Nakhushev, who disappeared this week.
8 November 2005 -- Police in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkariya have concluded investigations into last month's attacks by alleged Islamic extremists in Nalchik.<br />
(RFE/RL) 8 November 2005 -- The Supreme Court of Russia's southern autonomous Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia today resumes hearings in the trial of 16 people accused of involvement in the murder last year of seven local businessmen, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.
(RFE/RL) 7 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia ( UNOMIG ) today expressed concern at the overall situation in breakaway Abkhazia's southern Gali region, saying tensions there could rise.
(RFE/RL) 7 November 2005 -- The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia today denied Tbilisi's charges that an ethnic Georgian was killed last week for refusing to serve in the separatist armed forces.
TV footage of the October Nalchik raids (AFP) Ruslan Nakhushev, a respected opposition figure and Islamic scholar in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, went missing on 4 November after being questioned by local security agents. While his colleagues fear his disappearance may be retribution for his human rights activities, others are pointing to his past as a secret service officer and raising questions about his allegiances. All, however, agree that Nakhushev's disappearance is most likely connected to the 13-14 October armed raids on the republic's capital, Nalchik.
(RFE/RL) 5 November 2005 -- Colleagues of a respected Islamic scholar in the Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkariya said today the scholar was missing after being questioned by security forces last night.
After ill-equipped teenagers attacked Nalchik's police buildings last month, Kabardino-Balkariya's newly elected leader has vowed to take a different tack against non-official Islam from his predecessor. A special RFE/RL report.
A recent opinion poll in Nazran, home to one in four people in Ingushetia, reflects a high level of pent-up discontent.
Lidiya Yusupova, a lawyer from the Chechen capital Grozny, is set to receive this year's prestigious Rafto human-rights award.
(RFE/RL) 4 November 2005 -- Members of a North Caucasus Cherkess minority group are demanding that the Russian government recognize mass deportations and killings that occurred during tsarist-era wars as genocide.
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