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March 17, 2011 22:30

• Azerbaijan: health condition of imprisoned journalist Fatullaev is worse

  As reported by Anar Gasymov, Einullah Fatullaev's advocate, the life of his client, kept imprisoned in Azerbaijan, is under threat; the lawyer believes that the journalist should be delivered to another place of detention.

March 17, 2011 22:10

• Wife of figurant in Vladikavkaz terror act case states her husband's innocence on Internet

  The video appeal to public of Pyatimat Khashagulgova, wife of Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of Ingushetia, kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) Lefortovo, appeared on the website youtube.com at night on March 16.

March 17, 2011 22:00

• CPJ calls on Armenian authorities to allow entry of international film team

  The International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern about expulsion from Armenia of four journalists, representing the Finnish public TV Company YLE and called on the authorities of the country to permit entry of the members of the international group of journalists.

March 17, 2011 21:00

• "Nomaran": over 3000 formerly dispossessed persons in North Osetia received indemnity payments

  Thanks to the assistance of North-Osetian republican non-governmental charity Association of retired and disabled people and victims of unlawful political repression "Nomaran", many persons dispossessed in -30's of the XX century, i.e. over 3000 of them, got back their property and dwellings and three people received flats from the state. Auzhbi Zuraev, leader of the Association, announced this news at a round table conference devoted to the 20-th anniversary of "Normaran"s activities held in North-Osetian Institute of Humanitarian and Social Research.

March 17, 2011 21:00

• Azerbaijan and Armenia exchange prisoners of war

  Today, at about 3:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. Moscow time), on the troops contact line of the Karabakh conflict in the Agdam District of Azerbaijan, the parties to the conflict have exchanged recent detainees-prisoners of war.

March 17, 2011 20:00

• An action of protest against the visit of Prime Minister of Turkey to Moscow passed off in Armenia

  On March, 16, an action of protest against Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan's visit to Moscow passed off in Armenia near the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. The participants of the action demanded dissolution of the Moscow treaty signed between Turkey and Russia 90 years ago.

March 17, 2011 20:00

• Two oppositionists early released in Armenia

  Opposition activists Arutyun Urutyan and Roman Mnatsakanyan have been released before term from prison in Armenia.

March 17, 2011 19:00

• Release of the Georgian sailors from Somali prison deferred until the end of March

  Release of 15 Georgian sailors who have been staying in Somali pirates' prison over six months was deferred until the end of March "for technical and organizational reasons", Sergo Devadze, one of the sailors' father, Manager of "Greenwich-21" company, informed.

March 17, 2011 18:00

• The house of Chief of investigative isolation ward fired upon in Ingushetia

  Night explosions in Ingushetia, in the neighbourhood of the town of Magas and the settlement of Ali-Yurt, which woke up the villagers of Ali-Yurt turned out to be connected with unknown criminals' assault upon the house of Bashir Gagiev, Chief of investigative isolation ward of Ingushetia.

March 16, 2011 23:00

• Paananen: Russia spreads wrong information about Mikael Storsjo who helped refugees from Chechnya in Finland

  The information about Mikael Storsjo and his help to refugees from Chechnya, which appears in Russia, is often just repeating the words of Storsjo's opponents, said Kerkko Paananen, secretary of the human rights organization "Finnish-Russian Civil Forum". He believes that the information from people, who have close relations with Russian authorities, is quoted by opposition media in Russia, which is puzzling people in Finland.

March 16, 2011 22:40

• Investigation to build accusation in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case on indirect evidences

  As reported by Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in his speech at conference held in the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice in St Petersburg, the investigation will have to build its evidence base in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", on indirect evidences for lack of direct ones.

March 16, 2011 22:20

• In Armenia, opposition newspaper appeals against court ruling on payment compensation to three MPs

  The newspaper "Armenian Time" has refused to implement the decision of the general jurisdiction court prescribing to publish a refutation and pay compensations to three members of the national parliament. On March 9, the edition filed an application to the Court of Appeal an appeal against the verdict of the court passed on February 7.

March 16, 2011 22:10

• In Khasavyurt, villagers of Novy Kostek protest against election outcomes

  Today, a rally was held in Khasavyurt, in front of the district administration, where statements were announced about massive violations admitted on March 13 during the elections of Deputies to the People's Assembly of Dagestan. The protest action headed by elders brought together about 200 residents of the village of Novy Kostek, Khasavyurt District. The district administration gave no reaction to the rally.

March 16, 2011 22:10

• ECtHR rules that Russian authorities failed to duly investigate death of Ingush resident

  On March 15, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg made its decision on the case "Tsechoev versus Russia" and obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensation to the applicant Ruslan Tsechoev for the death of his brother in the amount of 15,000 euros, and awarded 2500 euros to representatives of the applicant for their legal work. The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", whose lawyers represented the suffered party, said that the ECtHR's decision was formal.

March 16, 2011 22:00

• Reports on possible explosions arrive in Nalchik courts

  Information about planted bombs has arrived in all the courts of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria over the Internet. All the reports proved to be false.

March 16, 2011 22:00

• Brazil helps Armenia to neutralize Nubarashen landfill of toxic chemicals

  Within the programme of humanitarian aid, aimed at neutralizing the Nubarashen land fill of toxic chemicals, the government of Brazil decided to transfer equipment worth over 80,000 US dollars to their Armenia counterpart as a gift.

March 16, 2011 21:00

• NAC: militant liquidated in Kabardino-Balkaria was trained in Lebanon

  As reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), Aslan Emkuzhev, who was assassinated at night on March 16 in Nalchik, had held his subversive and terrorist training in Lebanon and took part in warfare in the ranks of the radical Palestinian organization Fatah al-Islam.

March 16, 2011 20:00

• Rostov Regional Prosecutor's Office investigates involvement of Chief Ecologist in coastal pollution

  The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (known as "Rosprirodnadzor") believes that the connivance of the officials from the Committee for Environment Protection of the Rostov Region had seriously damaged the ecology of the region. The prosecutor's office is investigating the case against Grigory Skripka, head of the Committee, initiated under the articles of "abuse of power" and "excess of power".

March 16, 2011 19:00

• Operating Chairman of OSCE called for ensuring democratic freedoms in Azerbaijan

  Audronus Azhubalis, operating Chairman of OSCE and Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, called for democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. Azhubalis declared at a meeting with the leaders of political parties of the country on March, 14, that Azerbaijan had a great potential to become the closest partner for Europe.

March 16, 2011 18:00

• Seven persons killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during a week

  No less than seven people were killed, eight wounded and two kidnapped in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 7, till March, 13. This is the result of counting done by "Caucasian Knot" based upon its own data and information from other open sources.