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13:05, 23 January 2008

Residents of Makhachkala block Imam Shamil Avenue

In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, today starting from 5 p.m., local residents have blocked traffic along the Imam Shamil Avenue in protest against electricity cut-offs.

13:01, 23 January 2008

Khidasheli: OSCE is rather critical in assessing the presidential election in Georgia

Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party of Georgia and representative of the United Opposition, believes that in reality the OSCE's estimates of the election was critical enough, but because of tendentious presenting the Georgian television this criticism was somehow lost.

12:55, 23 January 2008

Human Rights Watch concerned with trial of "Voice of Beslan"

The International Human Rights Watch Organization has expressed its anxiety with the pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, in whose materials the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has revealed extremist information.

12:34, 23 January 2008

Contract soldiers from Dagestan protest against nationality-motivated dismissals

On January 22, over two hundred Dagestanians-contract soldiers from the military units deployed in Khankala held a picket in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against their nationality-motivated dismissals.

12:01, 23 January 2008

Militants planned terror act at rally in Ingushetia

According to today's information of Svetlana Gorbakova, senior assistant to the head of the investigatory department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, the explosive that blew up in a car on January 22 in Nazran (Ingushetia) was intended for the rally to be held on January 26.

12:52, 22 January 2008

Armenians of Krasnodar Territory demand from Turkish authorities to solve Hrant Dink's murder

On January 20, a meeting of leaders of a number of Armenian NGOs of the Krasnodar Territory was held in Tenginka village of the Tuapse District. The meeting was in memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos" published in Turkey who was killed one year ago.

12:46, 22 January 2008

So far, Poland fails to grant refugee's status to the Chechen woman whose children died in the mountains

The family from Chechnya, which had lost three daughters in Bieszczady mountains during their illegal crossing of the Ukrainian-Polish border, could not get the refugee's status in Poland, although it had been personally promised to them by Maria Kachinska, wife of the incumbent president of this country.

12:40, 22 January 2008

People's Party holds rally opposite US Embassy in Georgia

Today, the People's Party has held a rally near the building of the US Embassy in the capital of Georgia, having accused the USA of supporting the election falsifications.

12:33, 22 January 2008

Edelev: special operations in Dagestan and Ingushetia can continue till March

Special actions conducted by militia in Dagestan and Ingushetia can go on till March.

12:26, 22 January 2008

Dagestan: accused militants' accomplice released from the courtroom

In Dagestan the court has acquitted Arsen Dzhanbatyrov in exchange of him giving up. Prior to criminal prosecution Dzhanbatyrov was registered as kidnapped.

10:34, 21 January 2008

Memory of Hrant Dink honoured in capital of Georgia

On January 19, an event was held at the office of Georgian Ombudsman under the motto "Journalists - Victims of Freedom of Speech" dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos", published in Istanbul, who was killed in Turkey, and also in memory of Giorgiy Sanaya, Anna Politkovskaya and many other journalists who fell victim of their professional work.

10:27, 21 January 2008

Andrei Rudomakha: local ecologists not invited to roundtable in Sochi

The roundtable entitled "Environmental Problems in Construction of Olympic Objects in Sochi - Ways of Solution", to be held in the Red Valley (Krasnodar Territory), planned on January 23, will take place without local ecologists who were not invited.

10:03, 21 January 2008

Public and politicians are concerned of atmosphere of fear in Armenia

The Public and Political Movement "Legitimate President 2008" is stating facts of illegal propaganda organized by the authorities of the Armenia and stirring up the atmosphere of fear in the country before the elections.

09:59, 21 January 2008

Court decides to find Manana Aslamazyan for in presentio trial

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has rejected the complaint against announcement of search of Manana Aslamazyan, director of the "Internews".

09:54, 21 January 2008

Agency asks Dagestan Interior Minister to defend domestic journalists

The "Caucasus Times" News Agency has addressed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan with a demand "to restrain those who exerts unreasonable and illegal pressure on journalists and the 'Free Republic' newspaper."

12:04, 19 January 2008

Subari: Georgia has serious successes in fighting trafficking

A meeting on trafficking problems was held in the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia.

12:01, 19 January 2008

European observers express remarks on Georgian election

The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.

11:57, 19 January 2008

Mukhu Aliev: Makhachkala is in the state of emergency

Today, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has held an emergency meeting on the critical situation with electricity and heat supplies to residents of Makhachkala.

11:51, 19 January 2008

European Parliament demands peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem

The resolution of the European Parliament on South Caucasus' unsettled conflicts, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue inclusive, states that the conflicts should be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiations.

11:46, 19 January 2008

Every fourth Russia's resident thinks special agencies involved in murdering Politkovskaya and Litvinenko

Every fourth resident of the Russian Federation is convinced that Russian special agencies were involved in the resonant murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

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