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10:00, 24 July 2010

On July 23, Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament of Georgia, filed a claim to the Tbilisi City Court against the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, the newspaper Prime Time and the Internet edition "Droni.ge" for dissemination, as she asserts, of false information.

08:00, 24 July 2010

Two supposed militants liquidated in special operation in Ingushetia

Today in the afternoon, in the course of a special operation conducted in the vicinity of Ekazhevo and Surkhakhi villages, Nazran District of Ingushetia, two suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were assassinated.

23:00, 23 July 2010

Head of rural settlement shot dead in Dagestan

As reported by a source in the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Rasul Magomedov, head of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, was shot dead.

21:00, 23 July 2010

Refugees from Abkhazia hold rally at the Ministry of Economy

Abkhazian refugees came to hold a rally near the building of the Ministry of Economy in Tbilisi, demanding a meeting with Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, to address the problem of their worthy housing.

20:00, 23 July 2010

Orlov petitions to close the criminal case initiated by Kadyrov

Today, Oleg Orlov, chairman of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and his advocate Genry Reznik signed a protocol that they had got acquainted with the materials of the slander criminal case initiated against Orlov by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

19:00, 23 July 2010

Dagestan: locals block "Kavkaz" Federal Highway

Near the city of Izberbash residents of Karanaiaul village blocked the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway demanding that the authorities of Dagestan interfere with the date of their fellow villager Usman Garisov, convicted in Azerbaijan for drug contraband and use.

18:00, 23 July 2010

Kozak: Sochi Olympiad will cost 185 billion roubles

As reported today by Dmitri Kozak, Russian Vice-Premier, during his working trip to Sochi, the 2014 Winter Olympiad will cost 185 billion roubles, of which the budget will allot 80 billion, and the rest will come, as they plan, from private investors.

17:00, 23 July 2010

Azerbaijan rejects the Hague Court's verdict on Kosovo independence

Despite the advisory opinion of the UN International Court in The Hague of July 22 on legitimacy of Kosovo's independence, Azerbaijan is still recognizing the territorial integrity of Serbia.

17:00, 23 July 2010

Kabardino-Balkaria sums up youth forum "Kavkaz-2020"

The main outcome of the youth forum "Kavkaz-2020", held in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accumulation of the "bank of projects" for developments of Northern Caucasus. About 20 such projects were presented by the participants of the forum.

16:00, 23 July 2010

"Committee in Defence of Freedom of Speech": less attacks on journalists in Armenia

As compared with last year, in 2010 the number of cases of physical violence over journalists in Armenia has more than halved, Ahsot Melikyan, head of the "Committee in Defence of Freedom of Speech", told journalists.

15:00, 23 July 2010

Final charges are presented to figurants in Markelov's murder case

In the near future, the figurants in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova - Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis - will start studying the materials of the case.

13:00, 23 July 2010

Dagestan: Chief Engineer of "Sulak Hydropower Cascade" kidnapped

In Shamilkala village, Untsukul District of Dagestan, unidentified persons kidnapped Vladimir Redkin, Chief Engineer of the Company "Sulak Hydropower Cascade".

12:00, 23 July 2010

Malgobek resident asks rights defenders to help his son detained by militia

Bersnako Nalgiev, a resident of Ingushetia, has addressed human rights activists with a request to help in defending the rights of his son Alaudin, 19, who was detained on July 14 in Malgobek as a suspect of helping militants. As he said, his son was beaten at detention.

11:00, 23 July 2010

Seven casualties in road accident in Georgia

On July 22, a minibus fell down into the Argun River from a mountain road. Out of 10 persons inside, 7, including 2 children, were lost.

10:00, 23 July 2010

Dagestan: explosion in railway, one person wounded

A self-made explosion device was triggered today in the railway section Inchkhe-Kayakent in Dagestan. As a result of the explosion an employee of the extradepartmental security service was wounded.

22:00, 22 July 2010

Georgia: refugees from Abkhazia demand better living conditions

Today in Tbilisi, near the Avlabar President's residence, refugees from Abkhazia held a rally, demanding from the head of the state to provide them with decent housing conditions; this was said in a special statement delivered to the presidential administration by the participants of the protest action.

20:00, 22 July 2010

ECtHR fines Russia by 207,000 euros under claims of Chechen residents

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has concluded that Russia had broken a number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), namely, the right to life, prohibition of torture and the right to freedom and personal immunity in relation to three residents of Chechnya in 2002 and 2003.

19:00, 22 July 2010

Georgia to introduce two-level education system

The 12-year-long education system in Georgia is not quite reasonable, as pupils of senior classes often miss lessons; therefore, their training in these classes should be voluntary. This was stated today by President Mikhail Saakashvili at his meeting today with top officials of the Ministry of Education.

18:00, 22 July 2010

Ilyumzhinov not to stay head of Kalmykia for his fifth term

The head of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov will apply to Dmitri Medvedev not to consider his candidature at appointing a new head of the republic. His application will be satisfied by the Kremlin upon expiry of his term in October 2010.

17:00, 22 July 2010

Six militiamen wounded by explosion in Abkhazia

Today in the Gal District of Abkhazia, as a result of explosion of a land mine planted by unidentified persons, six employees of the Bagryab district police of the Gal District received different gravity wounds.

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