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October 15, 2008 14:41

• Abkhazia refutes information about shelling Georgian Rukhi village

  Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali District Interior Department, has refuted the information about shelling by the Abkhazian party of the Georgian village of Rukhi.

October 15, 2008 14:38

• Opposition states numerous violations at presidential election in Azerbaijan

  In the course of the voting at presidential election in Azerbaijan serious facts of breaking the law have been fixed. This is the topic of the statement made by the Opposition Cooperation Centre (OCC), whose representatives are observing the course of election in different regions of the country, and delivered to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 15, 2008 14:13

• Norwegian Helsinki Committee: Azerbaijan lacks room for free elections

  The presidential election in Azerbaijan are taking place in the atmosphere, where free and fair elections are impossible, runs the statement of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (Den Norske Helsingforsko Mite), now at disposal of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 15, 2008 14:08

• In Sochi, OMON fighters sentenced to 3-5 years in colony for beating teenagers

  In Sochi today, a sentence was passed to eight OMON (Special Militia) fighters, accused of mass beating tourists in the children's boarding house "Druzhba" (Friendship). They will have to spend from three to five years in a colony.

October 14, 2008 15:03

• Protests held in the capital of Dagestan against electricity breaks

  On October 13, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, city residents twice blocked the traffic in the Ahmet-Khan Sultan Avenue demanding to resume electricity supply to their houses.

October 14, 2008 14:58

• Kabardino-Balkaria: another BEBP member beaten

  Today, about two o'clock in the afternoon, at an entrance of the house, where the office of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP) is located, an attack was made on Dalkhat Baidaev, a member of the Board, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

October 14, 2008 14:54

• "Reporters without Borders": Azerbaijani media are not objective in informing about presidential candidates

  The mass media funded from the state budget do not allow Azerbaijani voters to have a complete idea about presidential candidates and make a proper choice when voting. This is the main conclusion made on October 15 after a month-long monitoring of three TV-channels and four newspapers by the international organization in defence of the press named "Reporters without Borders".

October 14, 2008 14:49

• Advocate in Politkovskaya's case reports an attempt to poison her

  Karina Moskalenko, advocate in the case of assassinated journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, says that somebody tried to poison her in Strasbourg. According to the lawyer, pretty much "substance looking like mercury" was found in her car.

October 14, 2008 14:44

• Earthquake in Chechnya caused more damage than announced earlier

  As a result of the earthquake on October 11 in the territory of the Chechen Republic several thousands of buildings and private households suffered. The statistics of the damage caused by the calamity is updated as additional information arrives from the regions.

October 14, 2008 14:37

• Sochi townspeople plan rallying against corruption

  Residents of Sochi plan to hold a rally "In defence of Sochi dwellers who fell victims of lawlessness, arbitrariness and corruption of city bureaucrats". The action will take place on October 25, on the All-Russian Day of People's Anger - a number of Russian regions plan to hold actions of social protest on this day.

October 14, 2008 14:03

• Georgian MFA: Russia has twice intruded into Georgian air space

  In the evening on October 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has disseminated its official statement that on the previous day the country's air space was twice broken by Russian military aircrafts.

October 13, 2008 15:31

• In Kalmykia, "Elistinskaya Panorama" newspaper is still away from parliament

  Journalists of "Elistinskaya Panorama" are still not admitted to the Parliament of Kalmykia - National Hural, referring to the absence of the necessary accreditation.

October 13, 2008 15:27

• In Azerbaijan, imprisoned journalist Fatullaev put into dungeon

  On Sunday, October 12, advocate Isakhan Ashurov visited his client, Einullah Fatullaev, former editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper, who is serving his term in colonies No. 12 situated in Gyuzdek village. The visit was caused by the fact that on October 10 Mr Fatullaev was placed into a punishment cell (dungeon).

October 13, 2008 15:20

• Mankiev: alternative Ingush parliament will fight against kidnappings committed by power agents

  Bamatgirey Mankiev, former deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia of the previous convocation, who now heads the "alternative" Ingush parliament, has stated that the new structure will raise the problems of kidnappings committed by members of power structures.

October 13, 2008 15:14

• Georgian and Russian NGOs call Geneva summit to take care of the rights of Caucasian residents

  Public organizations of Georgia and Russia and international human rights bodies urge the parties of the Geneva summit to be held on October 15, 2008, on the conflict in South Caucasus to make human rights a priority within international efforts aimed at settling the conflict.

October 13, 2008 15:08

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, parents of perished attackers on Nalchik want to know the story of their sons' bodies

  Today, Kabardino-Balkaria marks the third anniversary of tragic events on October 13, 2005, when armed people made an attack on Nalchik. Parents of the casualties want to know where their sons were buried.

October 13, 2008 15:02

• Independent observers: elections in Chechnya were predictable

  In Chechnya, early elections of deputies of national parliament of the second convocation are over. In the opinion of independent observers, the results of the "nation's will show" are no surprise.

October 11, 2008 22:44

• Caucasus suffers from earthquake

  On October 11, a wave of an earthquake rolled over a number of regions in North and South Caucasus. The underground shocks were felt in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, South and North Ossetia and in the Stavropol krai, as well as in Armenia and Georgia. The epicenter was in Chechnya, its magnitude was 8 points. The biggest damage was inflicted on Chechnya.

October 11, 2008 19:58

• 12 persons killed in Chechnya as a result of the earthquake

  The underground quakes which have occurred in waves today across North Caucasus killed 12 persons in Chechnya. These are the data from the republic's Ministry of Health. No casualties are reported from the other regions.

October 11, 2008 18:24

• Afghanistan war veterans in Dagestan continue hunger strike

  The Afghanistan war veterans who entered their sixth day of hunger strike in the Dagestan capital do not intend to drop their demands, despite the death of one of the participants and hospitalization of another one.