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09:00, 23 October 2010

Festival of ecological films "Green Carnation" is on in Sochi

Sochi has opened the first festival of ecological films "Green Carnation". Its main topic is the links of humans with nature, and its main objective is to form a new vision of the society on environmental problems.

08:00, 23 October 2010

International human rights organizations are concerned about the situation with freedom of speech in Azerbaijan

In the run-up of the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, scheduled on November 7, nine international human rights and journalist organizations have promulgated a new joint report entitled: "Freedom of speech in Azerbaijan is under threat - deterioration of media environment".

23:50, 22 October 2010

Sochi starts ecology film festival "Green Carnation"

The first open ecology film festival "Green Carnation" will be held in Sochi on October 22-25. Public will see more than 30 full- and short-length feature films, movies for kids and retro movies.

23:40, 22 October 2010

In Baku, elevator drops in a high-rise injuring 10 persons

As a result of a broken elevator rope in one of Baku skyscrapers, 10 persons suffered, including one child.

23:30, 22 October 2010

Two persons wounded in Dagestan in attack on militiamen

At night on October 22, in Komsomolskiy settlement of the city of Kizilyurt, Dagestan, an attack was committed on a district militiaman and his relative, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

23:20, 22 October 2010

Dagestan: rights defenders raise issue of violence against lawyers

On October 26, Makhachkala will host a press conference on the topic "Incessant acts of violence against lawyers". The event is initiated by well-known local human rights activists, lawyers and journalists, said Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights NGO "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

Torbjorn Jagland. Photo by http://telegraf.by

23:00, 22 October 2010

CE Secretary General: Armenian authorities shall not keep people behind bars for their political views

The Council of Europe (CE) is negative to the fact that Armenia keeps people in prison for political reasons. This was stated by Torbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, at a press conference on October 21 in Yerevan on the outcomes of the CE's Forum "In the Name of Democracy".

22:40, 22 October 2010

DFSB: militant liquidated in Ingushetia was involved in resonant terror acts

Islam Tochiev, leader of the Plievo militant grouping, liquidated in the special operation conducted in the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, had to do with a number of resonant terror acts, local law enforcers assert.

22:30, 22 October 2010

MIA: 75 militants liquidated in Chechnya since the start of year

During almost 10 months of 2010, 75 members of the armed underground were assassinated in the territory of Chechnya, including three militant leaders; and more than 160 militants were detained. These data were presented at the meeting of law enforcement officials in Grozny. Observers believe them to be overestimated.

22:10, 22 October 2010

In Dagestan, lawyer Bammatova is accused of staging the attacks on her

Gyulnara Bammatova, a lawyer with the Bar Association "Kavkaz", which had received a serious injury, according to her story, as a result of actions of the officer from the Republic's Drug Control Agency, was rejected in her attempt to open a criminal case against the attacker. Moreover, she herself was accused of insulting the drug control officer and simulating the attacks.

22:00, 22 October 2010

Chechen authorities to set up commission to count missing persons

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has reported about preparations for setting up a special commission on the persons deemed to be missing, and on making a proper list of them. Activists of some local NGOs are sceptical as to whether this will help in establishing the fate of kidnapped and missing persons.

21:00, 22 October 2010

In Georgia, shopping centre securities beat journalists and break cameras

On October 21, security agents of the shopping centre in Lilo broke video camera of Georgian TV channels and beat journalists who came to cover the fact of closing a number of commercial objects and the related protest action of traders.

20:00, 22 October 2010

Jemal: split in "Imarat Kavkaz" will help power agents in fighting Chechen militants

Split into Umarov's and Gakaev's groupings in Chechnya will complicate the work of Russian power agents in crushing the underground, since it broke the earlier clear hierarchy in the camp of the militants waging war on federal agencies, said Russian orientalist Alexei Malashenko. However, according to political scientist Orkhan Jemal, the split in "Imarat Kavkaz" will play into the hands of Russian power agencies in their fight against militants.

19:00, 22 October 2010

Public order in Stavropol will be guarded by a volunteer public order squad

On the initiative of the townsmen, units of a volunteer public order squad will be working in the territories of districts, neighbourhoods and blocks of flats in Stavropol, Press service of the municipal administration reports.

18:00, 22 October 2010

Margieva asks human rights activists to step in political prisoners' fates in South Osetia

On October, 21, Fatima Margieva, human rights activist from South Osetia, appealed to Russian and international human rights organizations asking them to "help settlement of the situation around the National party of RSO and interfere with the fates of the political prisoners".

23:40, 21 October 2010

Activation of Chechen underground may lead to new violence outbreak in the country, observers say

The attack on the building of the Chechen Parliament in Grozny on October 19 and the militants' attack committed in the end of August this year on Tsentoroi - the family village of the Chechen President - indicate serious changes in tactics and strategy of the Chechen underground, some local experts believe. In their opinion, activation of the underground may lead to a new outbreak of violence in the country.

23:30, 21 October 2010

Observation mission of OSCE/ODIHR gives first assessment of election campaign in Azerbaijan

The forthcoming elections to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan are prepared in the environment characterized by lack of dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition, runs the primary report released today by the Observation Mission of the Office for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the status of the pre-election situation in Azerbaijan.

Participants of the Conference "European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Results and Prospects", Moscow, October 20, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

23:20, 21 October 2010

Rights activists list Caucasians as group with highest risk of rights violations

Moscow hosts a scientific-practical conference "European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR): Outcomes and Prospects". Among other issues, lawyers, human rights and NGO activists raised the issue of protecting natives of the Caucasus in Moscow and other Russian cities, where they get into the most vulnerable group of population.

23:10, 21 October 2010

Resident of Yaroslavl claims rejection of his right to protection because of nationality

Yuri Petrosyan, a resident of the city of Yaroslavl, asks Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to help in fair investigation of the incident, in which he and his son-in-law, a Chechen by nationality, received gunshot wounds.

23:00, 21 October 2010

Four locals found in a mine in Kabardino-Balkaria in special operation

In the city of Tyrnyauz, where a special operation to search militants is conducted, four local residents were found in one of the mines: they were gathering scrap metal there.

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