The Helsingin Sanomat reported that The Helsinki District Court decided on Friday that Khadizhat Gataeva and her husband Malik Gataev, known as benefactors of orphans of the war in Chechnya, are to remain apprehended until the court will decide whether or not to extradite the couple to Lithuania.

At night on January 7, in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, which is still under the counter-terrorist operation (CTO) regime, unknown armed people set on fire two small shops, which provoked fire in a number of kiosks located nearby. Kavkaz-Uzel correspondent learnt about it from residents of the village of Gekhi, where the incident took place.

According to sources in Chechnya, gang members of national traitors abducted two civilians and alleged that they were former freedom fighters.

In early January representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain visited refugees from Chechnya living in the Pankisi Valley of Georgia.

On Wednesday January 6, Finnish police arrested “Angel of Grozny” nicknamed Chechen human rights activist Khadizhat Gataeva and her husband Malik Gataev; and human rights defenders appealed to Finnish authorities.

Sources of UA-Reporter.com reported that in the town of Uzhhorod, local authorities have detained a handicapped Chechen refugee Akhmed Chataev, who has an official refugee status in Austria and has lived there for many years.

On January 4, two Chechen civilians were abducted by gang members of puppet regime in Chechnya.

Human rights activists have become the “new dissidents” in Russia under the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to human rights organizations.

Tblisi based Russian language “First Caucasus Tv” will start to its test broadcastings on 4 January 2010.

On January 1st, Jordanian Garesh News Agency published a news related in well-known Lebanese singer Myriam Fares and according the news she was shocked that Kremlin loyalist Ramzan Kadirov made a marriage proposal her.

On December 29, a resident of Ingushetia, who was on his way home from his student’s session in the train “Novokuznetsk-Kislovodsk”, was kidnapped by unidentified persons. His sister assumes that power agencies have to do with this kidnapping.

According to Turkish Cihan News Agency, on today morning, Turkey allowed to return of Musa Kaimov, (35 years old, a Chechen asylum seeker) who was not allowed entry returning from Umrah visit to Turkey and sent back to Saudi Arabia.

Since December 25, nine innocent Chechen civilians were abducted by gang members of bloody puppet regime in Chechnya.

In St. Petersburg city of Russian Federation, the relatives of Fatima Dzhanieva have gone missing without a trace—Ms. Dzhanieva is the widow of the famous Ingush public figure and leader of the oppostition, Maksharip Aushev, Human Rights Center Memorial reported.

Mansur Musaev, a former resident of Grozny, has informed the “Kavkaz-Uzel” correspondent that the work is now underway in Germany on a documentary book, describing in details the practice of arrests and torture of detainees in Chechnya.

Seyfullah Turksoy, a propogandist of Russian loyalist Ramzan Kadyrov in Turkey, has organized a culture event Turkey-Chechnya Friendship Night at Istanbul Grand Cevahir Hotel; a group of Chechen youngs opened the flag of Chechen Republic Ichkeria due to this mobsters of puppet regime attacked them.

On December 25, in Srednie Achaluki village, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, local FSB gangs have conducted a non-sanctioned search. The “Kavkaz-Uzel” correspondent was told about it by Leila Tochieva, the owner of the searched house.

Dzhokhar Gambulatov, 12 years old, Chechen free style wrestler was elected as the sportsman of the year in Belgium.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph online newspaper, puppet Ramzan Kadirov, a 33-year-old Kremlin loyalist, said Russia should draft new military strategy to resist the United States and other Western powers, and also Russia must destroy to Ukraine, Georgia and South Ossetia.

The picturesque Pankisi Gorge in north-east Georgia has long been known as a haven for Chechen refugees. That should change soon as the remaining Chechens take Georgian citizenship and commit themselves to a permanent life in the sprawling valley.

In 2009, about one hundred new complaints were lodged from Chechnya to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). They have to do mainly with detentions and disappearances of applicants’ relatives. This was explained by Anatoly Kovler, Judge of the European Court from the Russian Federation.

Today the Spanish newspaper “Gara” has published an interview with Svetlana Gannushkina, chairwoman of the Civic Assistance Committee for Refugees and heads of the Migration and Law Network of the Human Rights Center Memorial, honored with Sakharov Prize, on the terrible situation in Chechnya and Russia.