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October 18, 2008 17:09

• Rally of Ingush opposition relocated to Moscow

  The Ingush opposition will hold their protest rally against the biased, in their opinion, investigation into the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", in Moscow.

October 18, 2008 14:21

• Volgograd Region: entrepreneurs punished for advertising drugs among children

  The prosecutor's inspection held in a clothing marketplace in the Volgograd Region has detected products intended for children, bearing an image of a hemp (cannabis) leaf. Those guilty will pay a fine.

October 18, 2008 11:15

• Russian bards to hold charitable concerts in North and South Ossetia

  On October 18, Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and on October 19, Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, will host charitable concerts of participants and laureates of traditional and widely known Valery Grushin All-Russian Festivals of Bards' Songs.

October 17, 2008 19:48

• In Dagestan, Afghan war veterans suspend hunger strike

  The participants of the hunger strike initiated by the so-called "Afghan veterans" on October 6 in Makhachkala made a decision, after meeting Shamil Zainalov, Chairman of the Government of Dagestan, to suspend their protest action.

October 17, 2008 19:11

• Moscow-Tbilisi TV conference: Georgian refugees' problems need urgent solution

  While politicians quarrel, the problems of Georgian refugees should be promptly addressed, and cooperation of Russian and Georgian civil societies should be promoted - this is the conclusion reached, according to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, by the participants of the television conference between Moscow and Tbilisi on the topic "Are peoples of Georgia and Russia able to strike hands?" held at the press centre of the RIA "Novosti" on October 16.

October 17, 2008 19:05

• Book "South Ossetia - Chronicle of Customized Murder" published

  The book-album named "South Ossetia - Chronicle of Customized Murder", which was in early October presented to PACE delegates and at the OSCE conference on human dimension in Warsaw, has caused public resonance. On October 16, representatives of public organizations held a press conference on the topic.

October 17, 2008 19:02

• Independent monitoring fixes gross violations at Azerbaijani election

  A group of regular voters has promulgated preliminary monitoring results of the October 15 presidential election in Azerbaijan. The press release that was disseminated today runs that the report, which was drafted on the basis of inputs from 1500 registered observers, has registered gross violations.

October 17, 2008 18:55

• In Azerbaijan, "Reporters without Borders" give money to families of arrested journalists

  The "Reporters without Borders", an international organization in defence of the freedom of press, has rendered financial aid to the families of three imprisoned journalists: Sakit Zakhidov, Ganimat Zakhidov and Mushfig Guseinov.

October 17, 2008 18:49

• Physically impaired passenger adjudges 50,000 roubles from airline

  The Cheryomushki District Court of Moscow has satisfied the claim of Natalia Prisetskaya against the S7 Airline; on June 30, the claimant was not admitted on board of the Moscow-Vladikavkaz aircraft, since she could move only in a wheelchair and got registered for the flight without an accompanying person.

October 17, 2008 18:44

• Ingushetia: two persons kidnapped by armed men in masks

  Two persons have been kidnapped by unidentified armed people in different dwelling settlements of Ingushetia.

October 16, 2008 22:13

• Administration of Makhachkala is ready to give land plots to soldiers-internationalists

  Said Amirov, head of the administration of Makhachkala, has addressed the Afghan war veterans, who are on hunger strike now, called them to stop their protest action and said that the city administration is ready to grant land plots for summer cottages to soldiers-internationalists and families of perished servicemen, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

October 16, 2008 22:04

• Chechnya's CEC recognizes the outcomes of October 12 elections

  The elections of deputies of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic, held last Sunday, October 12, in the territory of Chechnya, with the voter turnover "traditional" for the Republic and exceeding 95 percent, have been recognized valid.

October 16, 2008 21:27

• Georgia is happy with UN Court's decision, Russia doubts its competence

  Tina Burdzaliani, Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia, has stated that the decision on provisional measures in defence of the rights of the population of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia passed by the International Court is just what Georgia had wanted, when filed its claim to the major judicial body of the United Nations. Russia asserts that this Court has no jurisdiction to pass decisions on this claim.

October 16, 2008 21:23

• Opposition asserts that presidential election in Azerbaijan was illegitimate

  Members of the country's oppositional parties insist that the October 15 election of the head of Azerbaijan was not free, fair, honest or transparent and did not meet the respective international standards.

October 16, 2008 21:20

• Khazbiev: Maksharip Aushev could have been killed during search in his house in Ingushetia

  Magomed Khazbiev, head of the Nationwide Rally of Ingush People and Maksharip Aushev's comrade-in-arms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Maksharip, present owner of the independent Internet portal "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org"), whose house was searched today in the morning again without due sanction, is under threat of physical liquidation.

October 15, 2008 15:10

• Iraqi government deploys troops in Mosul to protect Armenians

  The Iraqi government has brought troops into the city of Mosul for defending local Armenians after armed Sunnite extremists attacked them, killing the owner of the shop of musical instruments and injuring his nephew.

October 15, 2008 15:03

• David Sanakoev: Georgian schools are not closed in South Ossetia

  Ombudsman for South Ossetia David Sanakoev has refuted the rumours that Georgian schools are closed in the Leninogorsk District of the Republic.

October 15, 2008 14:58

• Khazbiev: Maksharip Aushev's house in Ingushetia is illegally searched

  The house of Maksharip Aushev, the present owner of the independent Internet portal "Ingushetia.Ru" (now, "Ingushetia.Org"), is again surrounded. Magomed Khazbiev, Maksharip Aushev's comrade-in-arms and leader of the Nationwide Rally of Ingush People, who had earlier asked not to treat him and Maksharip Aushev as oppositionists, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that this was an intimidating action held by the Ingushetian MIA.

October 15, 2008 14:47

• Russian Prosecutor-General's Office asks to leave those blamed of Politkovskaya's murder behind bars

  Today, the Moscow District Military Court has begun preliminary hearing of the case on journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder. The General Prosecutor's Office asks to keep the persons accused of her murder in custody for other six months.

October 15, 2008 14:45

• Shamba: Abkhazia dislikes the status offered to it in Geneva

  Sergey Shamba, head of Abkhazia's MFA, told journalists that Abkhazia is not satisfied with the status offered to it at the international discussion in Geneva.