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September 20, 2008 17:31

• Sochi Investment Forum: 114 agreements concluded

  At the Investment Forum "Sochi-2008", which is taking place on September 18-21, Russian regions have already concluded 114 agreements and memorandums to the sum of 14.4 billion euros. The event is actively attended by the Republics, Territories and Regions of the South Federal District of Russia.

September 20, 2008 15:25

• South Ossetia celebrates its 18th independence anniversary

  Today, the capital of South Ossetia hosted celebrations on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of declaration by the Republic of its state sovereignty. For the first time this year, the Republic celebrates this date, while being officially recognized by some countries.

September 20, 2008 12:10

• Ecologists: Grushevoy Ridge near Sochi still under threat

  Even now, 2.5 months after the meeting of Vladimir Putin, now the chairman of the government of the Russian Federation, with members of ecological organizations, the acuteness of the problem to preserve the Grushevoy Ridge near Sochi has been softened a little, but not eliminated, ecologists assert.

September 20, 2008 11:58

• Russia invests into Armenian railways

  This year, the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Russian Railways" (RRWs) plans to invest 180 million US dollars into Armenian railways. Journalists were told about it by President of RRWs Vladimir Yakunin.

September 20, 2008 10:51

• Chechnya forms 437 precinct electoral commissions

  The Chechen Republic has finalized formation of Precinct Electoral Commissions (PECs). The overwhelming majority of PEC members are the persons who had worked for all the recent elections held in the territory of the Republic.

September 19, 2008 19:26

• Serbska Kraina and Gagauzia recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia has been recognized by Serbska Kraina, a Serbian ethnic formation in the territory of Croatia, proclaimed as a state in 1991 during the war in Croatia, and Gagauz Autonomy of Moldova.

September 19, 2008 17:18

• Winners of the world chess championship awarded in Nalchik

  On September 18, the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, hosted a ceremony of rewarding ladies-winner of the Women's World Chess Championship.

September 19, 2008 16:30

• European Court: Russia to pay 38,000 euros for disappearances in Chechnya

  The European Court for Human Rights has passed a decision on the case "Takhaev et al. versus Russia", where the Russian Federation was found guilty of violent disappearance of a 20-years-old men in Chechnya in November 2002. The Court has decided on the compensation for the applicants for their material and moral damage in the sum of 38,000 euros.

September 19, 2008 15:45

• Relatives of casualties in special operation in Dagestan demand to have bodies for burial

  On September 19, in Makhachkala, about thirty relatives of the persons who perished during the special operation conducted on September 17 in the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of Dagestan held a picket near the building of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, demanding the bodies to be given out to them for burial.

September 19, 2008 15:13

• UN delegation: needs of South Ossetian population for humanitarian aid "are not too great"

  The delegation of the United Nations believes that the needs of the population of South Ossetia for the humanitarian aid "are not too great". These are the outcomes of the delegation's stay in South Ossetia, who arrived there to estimate the need for the humanitarian aid of the population damaged by the warfare.

September 19, 2008 12:07

• Manana Aslamazyan's case ended with a 1000 roubles fine

  Journalist Manana Aslamazyan, head of the "Educated Media" Foundation and director of the "Internews" organization, against whom an administrative offence case was initiated earlier this July, was fined by one thousand roubles.

September 19, 2008 11:56

• Georgia rated 40th in the world by economic freedom

  According to the research conducted by the Cato and Fraser Institutes, Georgia was ranked 40th in the world by the parameter on economic freedom. The authors' partner in Georgia was the New Economic School.

September 19, 2008 10:02

• In Azerbaijan, journalist is trialled for translating Hitler's book

  The Nariman District Court of Baku is considering the claim against Avaz Zeinally, editor-in-chief of the "Hural" newspaper, who translated Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" into the Azeri language.

September 18, 2008 23:58

• Attack on militaries investigated in Ingushetia

  The investigatory bodies of Ingushetia are clearing out the circumstances of an armed attack on the militaries of the federal troops, as a result of which four employees of the Russian MIA were lost.

September 18, 2008 23:54

• Parliament of Georgia extends state of emergency till October 3

  Today, the Parliament of Georgia has made a decision to prolong the state of emergency in those regions of Georgia, where Russian troops are still present, including the peacekeeping forces, till October 3, 2008.

September 18, 2008 23:50

• "Voice of Beslan": keeping Ingushetian natives in underground prison is special agencies' provocation

  The fact of keeping certain natives of Ingushetia in an underground prison as a vengeance for the tragedy in Beslan is a "provocation of special agencies", said Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" organization, making comments on the case of Magomed Khamkhoev's kidnapping.

September 18, 2008 23:44

• Lavrov: recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is no precedent for Transdniestria and Karabakh

  Sergey Lavrov, head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke today to the Council of Federation and said that the recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia did not create any precedent for Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh.

September 18, 2008 23:31

• FSB prevents Beslan-like school capture in Dagestan

  According to the version of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau), the group of 10 militants liquidated on September 17 in Dagestan had planned to capture a secondary school located in the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of the Republic.

September 17, 2008 13:41

• Opposition rally to be held in Kalmykia

  A protest rally with a demand of resignation of the incumbent President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is planned for September 21 in the capital of Kalmykia. It is dated to the anniversary of dispersal of a similar protest action in September 2004.

September 17, 2008 13:34

• Two residents of Ingushetia disappear in Moscow

  In Moscow, two residents of Ingushetia have disappeared. Their relatives have addressed with applications to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran.