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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.

May 03, 2010 18:00

• Dagestan: another earlier kidnapped local released

  Today, Murad Magomedaliev, a resident of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District, kidnapped together with his brothers Mukhtar and Magomedrasul back on April 29 in Kizlyar by unidentified armed persons, has come back home.

May 01, 2010 23:00

• Irakli Alasaniya runs for the post of Tbilisi Mayor

  The leader of the "Alliance for Georgia" Irakli Alasaniya has submitted an application to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) about his intention to run for the post of Tbilisi Mayor.

May 01, 2010 21:00

• After explosion in Nalchik residents of Northern Caucasus fear terror acts on Victory Day

  The today's explosion in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, where, under the latest data, one person was killed and 22 others were hospitalized, has caused active debates in the Internet. Many users express fears that the Nalchik tragedy may be followed by terror acts in other regions of Northern Caucasus on the day of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory.

May 01, 2010 18:00

• In Nazran, man opened fire on militiamen and was shot dead

  The militiamen who were guarding the Nazran sports complex were shelled by a man from his pistol; he was shot dead by response fire.

May 01, 2010 17:00

• Georgia: 16 parties and three blocks to take part in local elections

  On May 30, 16 parties and three electoral blocks will take part in elections of local government bodies. Nine of them have nominated their candidates for the post of Tbilisi Mayor, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was reported at the press service of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

May 01, 2010 16:00

• Armenian police boss apologizes for disinformation about Khalafyan's death

  General-Lieutenant Alik Sarkisyan, head of the police of Armenia, begged citizens' pardon for his earlier statement that the police had not applied violence to Vaan Khalafyan, who was summoned for interrogation.