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22:51, 30 April 2008

Deputies ask Armenian prosecutor to release their colleagues from arrest

The parliamentary faction "Heritage" which about a week ago started to collect signatures in the Armenia's National Assembly under the address to the Prosecutor General with a request to change the measure of restraint with regard to the deputies arrested in connection with the March 1 events, has already handed the petition to the prosecutor's office.

22:42, 30 April 2008

No second performance of play about "Nord-Ost" in Dagestan was staged

The play "In Your Hands" about "Nord-Ost" which failed to be staged in Dagestan after the first show may be staged at the local theatre in Beslan, North Ossetia.

12:58, 29 April 2008

Dagestan cancels refusal to open a criminal case against Director General of "Nastoyascheye Vremya"

The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the Republic of Dagestan has cancelled its previous statement not to initiate a criminal case against Rizvan Rizvanov, Director General of the Limited Liability Company "Editorial Board of the Weekly 'Nastoyascheye Vremya' (Present Time)".

12:53, 29 April 2008

Sarishvili to appeal against verdict to Giorgadze supporters at the Supreme Court of Georgia and European Court

Irina Sarishvili plans to bring the suit of Giorgadze supporters to the Supreme Court of Georgia and, in parallel, to the European Court for Human Rights. This has become known after the Tbilisi Court of Appeal failed to satisfy the claim lodged by supporters of Igor Giorgadze, ex-Minister for Security of Georgia and leader of the "Justice" opposition party.

12:49, 29 April 2008

In Dagestan, court rules Charitable Women's Hospital to move out

Today, Magomed Isaev, Judge of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Dagestan, made a decision to satisfy the suit of the Dagestan Ministry for Property and Land Relations to the Regional Public Foundation "Charitable Women's Hospital" and ruled that the Hospital shall vacate the currently occupied premises.

12:05, 29 April 2008

Four persons arrested in Astrakhan Region on charges of kindling anti-Semitism

The RIA "Novosti" has reported today, with reference to the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, that four residents of the city of Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan Regions), accused of setting up an extremist community, were arrested for propaganda of anti-Semitism.

12:05, 29 April 2008

Russia to pay 72,000 euros to Chechen woman for loss of relatives

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has passed a decision on the case of Khadizhat Kaplanova, a resident of Chechnya, obliging the Russian Federation to pay 72,000 euros to her as material compensation for loss of her relatives in Grozny.

11:47, 29 April 2008

Russian Foreign Affairs: Georgia gets ready to military operation against Abkhazia

Georgia is transporting weapons, POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants), foodstuffs and other material and technical means to the upper section of the Kodor Gorge, and deploys national armed forces there. This is reported in today's comment of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

11:11, 29 April 2008

Chechen MIA: Yamadaevs' involvement in kidnapping and murder confirmed by "Vostok" battalion

The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs asserts that Yamadaev brothers' participation in kidnapping and subsequent murdering Yusup and Yunus Arsamakovs has been evidenced by a former fighter of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion.

10:56, 28 April 2008

In Kislovodsk, head of Union of Pensioners fired out

In Kislovodsk, Gennady Popkov, leader of the city branch of the NGO named "The Union of Pensioners of Kislovodsk", was dismissed from his main work at the city hospital "for alleged absenteeism", as the victim himself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

10:54, 28 April 2008

In Dagestan, Chernobyl liquidators demand housing certificates

In Makhachkala, a picket was held at the building of Dagestan government by members of the local organization of Chernobyl accident liquidators of the Buinak District, who demanded that the court ruling on issuance of housing certificates were enforced.

10:50, 28 April 2008

Stavropol Territory receives 34 housing certificates for 1500 refugees

This year, Stavropol Territory has received only 34 housing certificates for forced migrants, while today's waiting list comprises 1500 persons.

10:47, 28 April 2008

Mironov: Russia may use force to defend its compatriots in South Ossetia and Abkhazia

If necessary, Russia will defend its citizens living in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sergey Mironov, Speaker of the Federation Council, has stated today, having noted that Russia has also the right to apply force, if required.

10:43, 28 April 2008

Russian journalist's film "Plan Kavkaz" caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan

The investigation made by Anton Vernitskiy, journalist of Channel One, in his film "Plan Kavkaz", shown on April 22 and dedicated to the attempts in early 1990s of external forces, including Baku and Ankara, to separate Chechnya from Russia, has caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan.

10:38, 28 April 2008

Abkhazia refutes information about attack on the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees

Abkhazia has denied the news about the attack on the office of the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees in the Galskiy District of Republic that was undertaken today at night, according to the information of Georgian TV Companies.

10:33, 28 April 2008

In Sochi, Old Ritualists made a photo of the bureaucrat who had provoked fight with militia

In the Imereti Bay, Old Ritualists managed to make a photo of the official who had provoked a collision with militiamen. According to the updated information, the name of the girl who suffered on April 23 during the collision with militia and OMON is Anna Tkachenko.

18:20, 27 April 2008

Court in Ingushetia fines and expels US woman out of Russia

By the ruling of the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia, Mack Shannon Lie, a US citizen, who has broken the sojourn regulations of the Russian Federation, was fined and expelled from the country.

14:11, 26 April 2008

Armenians all over the world have honoured genocide victims

In many countries of the world, where Armenians live, actions were held on April 24-25 dedicated to the memory of the victims of 1915 Armenian genocide.

14:08, 26 April 2008

Meeting in memory of Chernobyl victims to be held in Rostov-on-Don

Today, Rostov-on-Don will mark another anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The mournful meeting will take place near the city's monument to tragedy victims.

14:03, 26 April 2008

British Ambassador to Georgia meets Abkhazian politicians

At the meeting with Dennis Kief, GB's Ambassador to Georgia who arrived to Sukhumi on Friday, prime minister of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab expressed his surprise with the negative reaction of the leading European countries, who criticised Russia's lifting up of economic sanctions against Abkhazia.

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