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22:14, 19 March 2008

Ren-TV: address of Ingush deputies to Russian authorities looks like denunciation

The website of the Ren-TV Channel has placed a reaction to the request of Ingush MPs to stop broadcasting of the Channel in the territory of the Republic.

22:10, 19 March 2008

Stavropol Territory: teacher is accused of driving a pupil to suicide

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case has been initiated against a teacher of secondary school No. 2 of the village of Aleksandrovskoye under the article on driving to suicide of a 9th form pupil.

22:06, 19 March 2008

Ter-Petrosyan's Election Office: oppositionists detained in Armenia are tortured

Sources from the Election Office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan assert that 12 activists of Armenian opposition have been exposed to tortures at the penitentiary establishments of Yerevan.

22:04, 19 March 2008

Sergeant suspected of beating soldier detained in Krasnodar

In Krasnodar, a sergeant suspected of beating soldier Alexander Ivanov, was placed on March 18 into the temporary insulation facility.

22:00, 19 March 2008

"Rustavi-2": KGB of South Ossetia interferes into the work of OSCE and UN missions

Today, representatives of the OSCE Mission and engineers from the United Nations Mission have arrived to Tskhinvali for preparation to implementation of one of the projects. According to the news item of the Georgian TV Company "Rustavi-2", the work of the members of international organizations was disrupted by the KGB of South Ossetia.

21:53, 19 March 2008

Court of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria prohibits advocate Dorogova to visit SIZO

The Nalchik City Court has rejected the complaint of advocate Larissa Dorogova claiming to recognize illegitimate the actions of the employees of the Nalchik SIZO in Kabardino-Balkaria who refused to let her in to her client Zaur Tokhov for rendering legal assistance to him.

21:46, 19 March 2008

Chechen human rights activists ask Kadyrov to investigate tortures in ORB-2

The NGO Board under the Ombudsman and the Public Chamber of Chechnya ask Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to investigate the activities of Ahmed Khasambekov who headed the ORB-2 (Operations and Search Bureau) in 2000-2007.

21:43, 19 March 2008

Russia's culture figures ask Alexis II to help Maskhadov's family in getting his remains

Well-known workers of culture have joined the appeal of the participants of the movement against the war in Northern Caucasus to Patriarch Alexis II with an appeal to assist in handing the remains of Aslan Maskhadov, second President of Chechnya and leader of separatists, out to his relatives.

21:29, 19 March 2008

Azerbaijani President pardons 59 persons

On March 18, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev signed a Decree to pardon 59 prisoners. The convicted journalists and well-known political prisoners are not in the list.

13:08, 18 March 2008

Ban on rallies and protest actions in Armenia

The ban on mass events has found the force of a law in Armenia until the end of the criminal case on the disorders in Yerevan at night on March 1 and early on March 2.

13:01, 18 March 2008

Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refuses to close the "Ingushetia.Ru" website

The "Echo Moskvy" Radio has reported that the Russian Supreme Court has rejected the suit on closing the "Ingushetia.Ru" website, accused by the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia of publishing materials directed at excitation of national hatred and enmity in the society.

12:46, 18 March 2008

In Dagestan, journalists accuse newspaper founder of attempting to get rid of unwanted workers

After having dismissed Andrei Melamedov, editor-in-chief of the paper, Rizvan Rizvanov, founder of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper, now makes attempts to get rid of others unwanted employees.

12:43, 18 March 2008

Azerbaijan: decisions of the European Court will be published in the Azerbaijani language

For the first time the citizens of Azerbaijan will be able to study the cases in proceedings and decisions of the European Court for Human Rights in the Azerbaijani language.

12:33, 18 March 2008

Council of Federation cannot stop Ren-TV in Ingushetia

The RF Council of Federation cannot stop broadcasting of the Ren-TV in the territory of Ingushetia, as it was demanded today by Republic's MPs.

12:29, 18 March 2008

Russian SC cancels liquidation of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People

The "Gazeta.Ru" reports that today the Judicial Panel on Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has satisfied the cassation of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People and cancelled the decision of the Kabardino-Balkarian SC to ban the activity of the Board, having ruled to send the case to re-consideration.

12:21, 18 March 2008

The "Voice of Beslan" insists on re-examining terror act victims' bodies

Today, the "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian NGO has lodged a cassation complaint to the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia against the decision of this Court upholding the legality of victims' bodies' examination.

17:01, 17 March 2008

12 opposition members brought to hospital in Georgian capital after hunger strike

In Tbilisi, the number of Georgian opposition members put to hospital in the course of the hunger strike has reached 12 people. About 70 people continue the strike.

16:58, 17 March 2008

Pensioners in Stavropol Krai demand that corruption be stopped in Kislovodsk

Pensioners in Kislovodsk (Stavropol Krai) demand that the fight with corruption in the city should be accomplished. They put their demand into an appeal submitted to the prosecutor's offices of SFD, Stavropol Krai and the city of Kislovodsk, to the Krai Duma and administration, administration of Kislovodsk and chair of the city Council of Deputies.

16:51, 17 March 2008

Tuapse resident tries to burn himself in protest against eviction

In Krasnodar Krai, Anatoli Malyshev, resident of Tuapse, tried to burn himself in protest against his family eviction from the dormitory.

16:47, 17 March 2008

Sentence to officer who wounded a woman in Rostov oblast becomes effective

Today, the North Caucasus military district tribunal declined the cassation appeal of General Vasili Fomin, deputy commander of the North Caucasus military district internal troops of RF MoI, against the judgment of Rostov military garrison tribunal.

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