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September 11, 2008 20:24

• Putin: by defending South Ossetia, Russia stopped NGOs from breaking RF down

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated that some nongovernmental and non-commercial organizations (NGOs and NCOs) in Russia had been preparing a breakaway of a number of republics should Russia had failed to defend South Ossetia.

September 10, 2008 22:25

• Russia insists on arms embargo for Georgia

  Vitaly Churkin, Russia's permanent UN representative, believes that ban to further militarization of Georgia will contribute to normalization of the situation with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

September 10, 2008 22:23

• US Senator: reconnaissance confirms that Georgia was the first to attack South Ossetia

  Republican Dana Rohrabacher, deputy chairman of subcommittee for international organizations of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, has stated that according to the data of American reconnaissance services the latest warfare in South Ossetia was started by Georgia.

September 10, 2008 22:19

• In Chechnya, a woman of 52 kidnapped and executed by unknown persons

  Last night, in the south-east of Chechnya, a group of unknown persons kidnapped a woman-local resident. Later, her body with numerous gunshot wounds was found by employees of law enforcement bodies. The motives of the crime remain unknown.

September 10, 2008 22:14

• The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Georgian Joint Staff was against invading South Ossetia

  Commanders of Georgian military forces have reported at the Brussels NATO Headquarters that they were against the military invasion into South Ossetia. They assert that should they have been given a chance, they would have persuaded President Mikhail Saakashvili not to invade.

September 10, 2008 22:10

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, the case of beating editor-in chief of "Paper of the South" goes to the Investigatory Committee

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, the case of beating Miloslav Bitokov, editor-in-chief of the "Paper of the South", has been delivered to the Russian Investigatory Committee for the city of Nalchik.

September 10, 2008 22:04

• France refuses to deport Irakliy Okruashvili to Georgia

  The Appeal Court of France has rejected the Georgia's petition to extradite former Defence Minister of the country Irakliy Okruashvili.

September 10, 2008 21:58

• Murder of Evloev, owner of "Ingushetia.Ru", to be dealt with by Moscow inspectors

  Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office, has ordered his subordinate Departments for the South Federal District (SFD) to make an objective inquiry into the death of journalist Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru".

September 10, 2008 21:52

• Solana: EU observers shall be placed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The European Union believes that in spite of the statements of the head of Russian MFA Sergey Lavrov EU observers shall be deployed in the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

September 09, 2008 13:44

• Local residents stop fencing Sochi Cargo Port

  For the third time already, residents of the Imereti Valley have stopped the builders of the "Second Cargo District of Sochi Port", or more precisely, the construction of the protective fence around this object. Same as before, the builders could not present any required permits.

September 09, 2008 13:33

• Ezhiev: militants convicted for diversions in Chechnya gave their evidences under torture

  Mikael Ezhiev, leader of the NGO named "Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic" has stated that residents of Chechnya Salavatov, Matsiev, Dzhantemirov and Khabibulaev, sentenced last week by the Supreme Court of Chechnya to long terms of imprisonment, gave their evidences of guilt under torture.

September 09, 2008 13:30

• In Georgia, arrested Tsotne Gamsakhurdia goes on hunger strike

  The son of the ex-president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, detained on September 3 in the Tbilisi Airport under accusations of a putsch attempt, has announced a hunger strike.

September 09, 2008 13:27

• Lavrov: EU guarantees non-use of force by Georgia

  Sergey Lavrov, head of the Russian MFA, has stated today that the European Union has become the basic guarantor of force non-use by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A written notification on the fact was received by Presidents of Georgia and Russia Mikhail Saakashvili and Dmitri Medvedev.

September 09, 2008 13:24

• "New Right-Wingers" Party demands Saakashvili's resignation

  David Gamkrelidze, leader of the oppositional Georgian Party named "New Right-Wingers", has stated that President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili should resign and appoint early presidential and parliamentary elections.

September 09, 2008 13:20

• Zurabyan: Armenian special agents tap oppositionists' phones for a year

  Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), told journalists that telephones of the members of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's team have been secretly tapped since last September till today.

September 09, 2008 12:21

• Russia sets up diplomatic relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Russia has officially established diplomatic relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This fact was announced by Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia, at today's press conference in Moscow.

September 09, 2008 12:16

• Criminals accused of blowing up a bus in Nevinnomyssk sentenced to 24 and 23 years of imprisonment

  Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court has sentenced residents of Ingushetia Ruslan Kostoev and Zurab Tsuroev, accused of blowing up the "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" bus at the bus station in the city of Nevinnomyssk on December 9, 2007, to 24 and 23 years of deprivation of freedom.

September 08, 2008 13:49

• President of Czechia: Georgia was the first to attack South Ossetia

  President of Czechia Vaclav Klaus has made Georgia responsible for the military conflict in the Caucasus, having accused it of attacking South Ossetia.

September 08, 2008 13:45

• Documents on Kondopoga disorders recognized falsified

  The Supreme Court of Karelia, where the trial on criminal case on Kondopoga disorders continues, has announced the results of the handwriting examination, which have confirmed the fact of falsification of some procedural documents.

September 08, 2008 13:41

• Abkhazia reports murder of local resident by Georgian raiding group

  Guram Kekeliya, a resident of Kutol village, was killed today in the frontier Gali District of Abkhazia. Journalists were informed about it by Laurence Kogoniya, head of the Gali ROVD (District Interior Department). As he said, the incident took place at 1:45 p.m. Moscow time; near the centre of Dikhazurga village Kekeliya was shelled from an ambush by a Georgian raiding unit.