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May 09, 2009 12:00

• Police of Armenia: violence against journalists is one of major problems

  Colonel Ovanes Tamanyan, Chief of the Criminal Search Department of the Police of the Republic of Armenia, has assured journalists that facts of violence against their colleagues are in the focus of attention of law enforcers. According to his story, this issue is one of the police's priorities.

May 09, 2009 11:00

• Rescuers look for Russian students who disappeared in Abkhazia

  On May 7, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia was addressed by parents of students from the Vladimir Polytechnic Institute, who had left for Abkhazia to make kayak rafting, but failed to leave the place back on due date.

May 09, 2009 10:00

• In Georgia, 27 doctors arrested on charge of trafficking in children

  On May 8, employees of Georgian MIA detained a group of 27 physicians and employees of gynaecologic clinics, who are accused of trafficking in newborns.

May 09, 2009 09:00

• Azerbaijani authorities strengthen religion control

  On May 8, the Parliament of Azerbaijan passed amendments to the law "On Freedom of Religion", which stipulated stronger control over the religion sphere. The amendments assume re-registration of all religion communities and specify the mechanisms of their registration cancellation.

May 09, 2009 07:00

• Parliament of Israel decides not to consider Armenians' genocide issue

  The Israeli Knesseth (Parliament) has rejected an official application on recognition of Armenians' genocide, submitted by the leader of the Left-Wing Party "Merez" Haim Oron, who suggested setting up a Knesseth group for discussing this issue.

May 09, 2009 05:00

• Zakareishvili: negotiations of Georgian opposition with Parliament Speaker are senseless

  Georgian political scientist Paata Zakareishvili believes that negotiations of the leaders of the opposition with David Bakradze, Speaker of the Parliament, are senseless, as in Georgia nothing depends on this person.

May 09, 2009 04:00

• In Ingushetia, persons guilty of extrajudicial execution of local resident are searched

  Law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are looking for criminals, who murdered, at night on May 8, a local resident in one of pre-border villages of Sunzha District.

May 09, 2009 03:00

• Armenian Transport Minister: country's transport system is ready to opening Turkish border

  Gurgen Sarkisyan, Transport Minister, told journalists that the transport system of Armenia is ready to opening of the Armenian-Turkish border.

May 09, 2009 02:00

• In Georgia, political scientist accused of espionage arrested

  The City Court of Tbilisi has sentenced political scientist Vakhtang Maisaya, who was accused of espionage and arrested on May 5 by counter-intelligence agents, to two months of pre-trial detention.

May 09, 2009 01:00

• In Stavropol, unidentified persons drew swastikas on house walls

  In the city of Stavropol, unidentified persons covered walls of buildings with fascist swastikas and inscriptions. Linguistic examination has revealed that inscriptions contained extremist appeals.

May 08, 2009 23:30

• CPJ calls Rostov authorities to investigate into attack on editor-in-chief of "Corruption and Criminality"

  Authorities in Rostov-on-Don must launch a criminal investigation into a possible attack on the editor-in-chief of an independent newspaper, who was found unconscious with a head wound in the early morning of April 30, as stated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

May 08, 2009 23:00

• Court of Volgograd to consider cassation of convicted Chechen native

  On May 12, the Volgograd Regional Court will have a cassation session on the case of Zubair Zubairaev, a convicted native of Chechnya, who is now serving his term in Colony LIU-15 (medical-corrective establishment) in Volgograd region.

May 08, 2009 22:00

• Armenian Ombudsman to strengthen litigation control

  With account of numerous complaints of the witnesses who figure in the former "Case of Seven" on application of torture and violence to them with the aim "to obtain evidences wanted by the investigation," Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman in Armenia, has made a decision to add personnel to his office with the aim to monitor the trials.

May 08, 2009 21:10

• Former prisoner tells how Dagestan citizen was tortured in Kirov colony

  The convicted resident of Dagestan Sultan Umashev is tortured in a colony of the Kirov Region and forced to confess of committing terror acts under orders of Zakaev and Berezovskiy; this was reported by a former prisoner, who served his term in this colony up to the end of 2008.

May 08, 2009 21:10

• Ingushetia: investigation into two large corruption cases is over

  Under the war on corruption announced the new head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov practically immediately after he took the office, investigation into two most resonant criminal cases is over. Former top managers of large Republic's enterprises are accused of plundering budgetary funds.

May 08, 2009 21:00

• Congress of forced Chechen migrants in Ingushetia planned for June 1 cancelled

  The congress of forced migrants from Chechnya living in Ingushetia to be held in Nazran on June 1 was cancelled. On May 7, this decision was announced by Aslambek Apaev, one of the organizers, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus and Chairman of the Committee in Defence of Forced Migrants' Rights.

May 08, 2009 19:00

• In Saratov, case of militiamen accused of burning up an Armenian sent to court

  The indictment against three operative agents of the Leninskiy RUVD (District Interior Department) of the city of Saratov, accused of murdering Armen Gasparyan, a citizen of Armenia, in October 2008, has been approved.

May 08, 2009 18:00

• Ingushetia buries casualties of militiamen vs. civilians skirmish; Evkurov supervises investigation

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has taken the investigation into the fire-fight that resulted in loss of his security and a civilian under his personal control. On April 29, Mr Evkurov was present at the casualties' funerals.

May 07, 2009 23:30

• Panuashvili: main traumas at dispersal of opposition in Georgia were caused by rubber bullets

  As a result of clashes in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in the evening on May 6, main traumas in the victims were caused by shots of special pistols and guns using traumatic bullets. This was stated by Soso Panuashvili, representative of the organization named "Human Rights" in Tbilisi.

May 07, 2009 23:00

• Fact-finding group on March 1 events: policeman's death needs new examination

  The fact-finding group about the events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan believes that the materials of the criminal case dealing with death of police officer Hamlet Tadevosyan have obvious contradictions and violations of the law. In particular, repeated complex technical and medical examinations are required with participation of international experts.