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May 05, 2010 22:00

• First resettlers from Imereti Lowland of Sochi move to Nekrasovskoe village

  On May 4, four families from the Imereti Lowland, whose houses and land plots had been alienated because of building Olympic objects, marked their housewarming parties in new cottages in Nekrasovskoe village, Krasnodar Territory. At the same time, other Imereti residents were surprised to learn that their resettlement to new houses in Nekrasovskoe is postponed, or cancelled whatsoever.

May 05, 2010 21:20

• Attacker on Liudmila Alekseeva sentenced conditionally

  The Khamovniki Court of Moscow has sentenced Konstantin Pereverzev, who struck on March 31 at a Moscow metro station Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the oldest Russian human rights organization - Moscow Helsinki Group - to one conditional year.

May 05, 2010 21:00

• Wounded women in Nazran were militant's helpers, Ingush DFSB asserts

  As reported by the spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, the two women injured today in the course of a special operation in central Nazran (one of them later died in hospital), were helpers of Magomed Gardanov, leader of Ingush armed underground, liquidated in the skirmish.

May 05, 2010 18:00

• Detained Kara-Tyube residents, Dagestan, released after rights activists interfered

  The residents of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, detained on April 15, were set free on April 18 only after active interference of human rights activists and media. All this time 16 persons were in the open air, since the ROVD (District Interior Division), where they were brought, has no enough room for keeping that number.

May 04, 2010 23:50

• Astrakhan: bankers steal 2.5M from children's home pupils

  In Astrakhan, employees of a bank branch were stealing money for several months in a row from accounts of orphans and minors left without parental care.

May 04, 2010 23:00

• Prime Minister of Abkhazia supports ICRC in searching persons missing since Georgian-Abkhazian war

  Prime Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba and George Drndorski, representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and deputy coordinator of programmes for Eastern Europe, discussed at their meeting on May 3 the opportunity to continue the programme of the ICRC Mission in Abkhazia on searching those who disappeared in the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhazian war and identification of its casualties.

May 04, 2010 22:40

• In Georgia, imprisoned Tsotne Gamsakhurdia goes on hunger strike

  On May 3, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the ex-President of Georgia, who is in custody in Tbilisi, announced his termless hunger strike in prison hospital as a protest against the actions of the prison administration.

May 04, 2010 22:00

• Colony official and witness evidence at Einullah Fatullaev's litigation in Azerbaijan

  The Garadag District Court of Baku has hosted another court session on the criminal case of already convicted editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev.

May 04, 2010 21:00

• Charge of organizing 10 explosions presented to two Sochi residents

  Currently, a former militiaman Ilya Galkin and a local resident Mikhail Denisenko, accused of triggering a series of explosions in the territory of Sochi in 2008-2009, get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case, which will then be sent to the public prosecutor for approval of the charge. Inspectors assert that the defendants' actions resulted in 7 casualties and about 20 victims.

May 04, 2010 20:00

• Shkhagoshev: terror act in Nalchik was a direct attempt on President of Kabardino-Balkaria

  The real aim of the terror act committed at the Nalchik hippodrome was President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov. This is the opinion of Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a Deputy of the State Duma and Honourable Citizen of the city of Nalchik.

May 04, 2010 19:00

• Yunus: absence of independent courts gave rise to problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  One of the main reasons of the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan is the absence of independent judicial power. This was stated at a press conference on Monday, May 3, by Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD).

May 04, 2010 18:00

• Astrakhan Region: school director where children got poisoned sacked

  In the Astrakhan Region, Elena Levkina, Director of the Tuzuklei secondary school, where a mass poisoning of children took place, was dismissed from her post under suspicion of negligence.

May 03, 2010 23:50

• Private house shelled from grenade launcher in Nazran

  Today at night, in the municipal district of Barsuki in Nazran, Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled a private house from a grenade launcher. On preliminary data, the attack was caused by the fact that the house owner was engaged in selling alcohol.

May 03, 2010 23:30

• STSI employee wounded in Kabardino-Balkaria

  An STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known in Russia as "GIBDD") inspector, who was installing a video camera at the entrance to the city of Baksan (Kabardino-Balkaria), was wounded by unidentified persons from a passing car.

May 03, 2010 23:00

• Hammarberg hopes to release three more Georgian citizens from custody in Tskhinvali

  Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, views the visit of Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner of the Council of Europe, to Georgia as a victory of Georgian diplomacy. There is information that three more citizens of Georgia can be set free in the near future.

May 03, 2010 22:00

• Navasardyan: Armenia not ripe for freedom of speech yet

  In Armenia, it's not yet the time for the freedom of speech, Boris Navasardyan, President of the Yerevan Press Club, said today at the press conference dated to the World Press Freedom Day.

May 03, 2010 21:20

• Ochamchira residents block railway in Abkhazia

  Today in the morning, residents of several villages of the Ochamchira District, located in Eastern Abkhazia, blocked the railway and stopped 13 cars that moved to take up to 700 tons of coal from Ochamchira.

May 03, 2010 21:00

• Azeri public activists state freedom of speech worsening

  The World Press Freedom Day - May 3 - was traditionally marked by representatives of Azerbaijani democratic public by paying visits to tombs of perished journalists Elmar Guseinov and Nadzhaf Nadzafov.

May 03, 2010 20:00

• RWB puts Putin and Kadyrov on the list of "press persecutors"

  On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day marked today, the Reporters Without Borders (RWB) have published a new list of those whom human rights defenders regard to be "press persecutors". Along the Chairman of the Peoples Republic of China Hu Jintao and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the list now contains Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

May 03, 2010 19:00

• Victims of terror act in Nalchik to get 150,000-700,000 roubles

  Today, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has signed an instruction on payment of lump sum compensations to the citizens injured at the terror act in Nalchik on May 1. For this purpose the government of Kabardino-Balkaria will get up to 10 million roubles.