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October 15, 2010 23:30

• South Ossetian authorities invite Georgians who left the republic in 2008 back

  The authorities of South Ossetian have declared their readiness to return, under supervision of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the Georgians, who left the Leningor Region (South Ossetia) during the war in August 2008 and now live in Georgia, to their former homes.

October 15, 2010 23:20

• Tankman lost at military exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh

  On October 12, in the course of exercises in one of tank military units of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), a soldier was lost.

October 15, 2010 23:10

• Soldier who wounded his comrade and escaped with firearms sought in Dagestan

  In the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan a soldier wounded another one and fled with firearms after a quarrel with some other soldiers, said today a source from local law enforcement bodies said today.

October 15, 2010 23:00

• Zviad Gamsakhurdia's son plans to run for Georgian presidency

  Konstantin Gamsakhurdia, an MP and son of the first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has announced his decision to participate in the 2013 upcoming presidential election.

October 15, 2010 22:50

• Rights defenders want to insist that Georgian authorities withdraw Georgian peacekeepers from Afghanistan

  The Centre of Human Rights plans to make a formal appeal to the Government of Georgia with a demand to withdraw Georgian troops from the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. This was reported by Ucha Nanuashvili, head of this NGO. According to his story, many politicians say in private conversations that they do not approve Georgian citizens' fighting outside their homeland, although they do not express their views in public.

October 15, 2010 22:10

• Sapiyat Magomedova, beaten by militia in Dagestan, remains under recognizance not to leave

  Since September 30, lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was attacked and beaten by militiamen in the city of Khasavyurt, is under recognizance not to leave. The investigator who is running the case initiated under the claim of one of the militiamen, involved in the incident, believes that the lawyer can escape or hamper the preliminary investigation.

October 15, 2010 22:00

• Special operation underway in Derbent; CTO regime announced

  Currently, special fighters of the FSB and MIA of Dagestan are conducting special actions; there is a skirmish underway. There is information about one casualty, said the spokesman of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation.

October 15, 2010 21:00

• Spartak fans against RFU's refusal to toughen punishment to Anzhi

  The most well-known association of Moscow Spartak fans "Fratria" decided to break all relations with all official football organizations in Russia. One of the main reasons was the refusal of the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) to disqualify the stadium in Makhachkala.

October 15, 2010 20:00

• Meskhetins in Georgia are going to ask Saakashvili to legalize their status

  Meskhetin migrants from Gori district of Georgia are going to submit President Mikhail Saakashvili a request to solve the problem of legalizing their status.

October 15, 2010 19:00

• A meeting in protection of the journalists accused of extremism passed off in Moscow

  On October, 14, an action of protest against prosecution of Buryat journalists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Stetsyura accused of extremism for distribution of leaflets about Stalin's deportation of the Ingush and Chechen peoples was held in Moscow, in Chistoprudny boulevard.

October 15, 2010 18:00

• Orlov's defense: witnesses having nothing to do with the case summoned to court

  Such human rights activists an Natalya Estemirova are the pride of Russia, this is the opinion of Sergey Komkov, President of the All-Russian Fund of education who on October, 14, was interrogated in court on the action of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, against Oleg Orlov, Head of "Memorial" Human Rights center. Another witness, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman of Checnya, said that Estemirova's role in human rights defense had been much exaggerated.

October 14, 2010 23:40

• Relatives of Armenian captive who died in Azerbaijan apply to UN

  Aiming to get the body of Manvel Saribekyan, an Armenian captive who was killed in Azerbaijan, his relatives appealed to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations. In their letter they state that Azerbaijan is violating the armistice and captures Armenian civilians; Manvel Saribekyan, a villager from Ttudzhur, was one of them.

October 14, 2010 23:10

• Museum of Cossacks abroad to be opened in Rostov Region

  The village of Starocherkasskaya, Rostov Region, has founded the first Russian museum of Cossacks abroad, with the Gate Church, where commemoration services will be held in memory of the Cossacks deceased abroad.

October 14, 2010 23:00

• Explosive device neutralized in Kazbek District of Dagestan

  In the evening on October 13 law enforcers detected a press-on explosive device in the Kazbek District of Dagestan. It was de-mined, and now its power is established.

October 14, 2010 22:50

• In South Ossetia, Premier Brovtsev ordered to cancel contracts with indecent contractors

  Today, Prime Minister of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev has inspected the progress of residential construction in Tskhinvali. As a result of the inspection, the Premier asked Sarmat Kotaev, deputy chairman of the State Committee for Implementation of Reconstruction Projects, to unilaterally cancel contracts with indecent contractors.

October 14, 2010 22:50

• In Kalmykia, over thousand young families need better housing conditions

  In 2002-2012, Kalmykia allocated about 130 million roubles within the republic's target programme "Affordable Housing - to Young Families"; already 652 young families have received social benefits to repay part of the value of purchased apartments. However, more than a thousand young families in the country still need improvement of their housing conditions.

October 14, 2010 22:40

• The main problem of Russians in Armenia is teaching children, experts say

  The Russian Diaspora in Armenia discusses the conference of Russian compatriots that took place in Yerevan. Some of them think the event was productive, others assert its uselessness.

October 14, 2010 22:30

• Three prosecution witnesses speak at Kadyrov vs. Orlov trial

  Today in Moscow, the third session took place on the criminal case of slander initiated against Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under the suit of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

October 14, 2010 22:20

• Four persons die in Volgograd Region; inspectors suspect food poisoning

  Bodies of two women and two children were found in an apartment in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region. According to investigators, they could get poisoned by foodstuffs, said the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of the Russian Federation spokesman.

October 14, 2010 22:10

• Chechen Prosecutor's Office orders militia to investigate attacks on women without headscarves

  The Office has cancelled the decision of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) not to open criminal cases on the facts of shelling women without headscarves from paintball guns in Grozny. This is stated in a letter by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General, published today on the website of Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.