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12:34, 4 January 2008

International observers to present their estimates of the pre-electoral campaign and elections in Georgia on January 6

At a press conference held at the "ZP" Hotel in Tbilisi, international observers have told about their preliminary impressions from the course of the electoral campaign in Georgia and presented information about their activities.

12:30, 4 January 2008

Antadze: 2007 was a hard year for Georgian journalism

Iya Antadze, a journalist for the Radio Liberty who was recognized to be the best journalist of Georgia in 2007, thinks that the last year was hard for Georgian journalism.

12:21, 4 January 2008

Georgia: supporters of Gachechiladze and Gamkrelidze complain of attacks

Today in Georgia several incidents took place against supporters of oppositional candidates for President of Georgia.

13:02, 3 January 2008

Residents of Chechnya are most frequent refuge applicants in Belgium

Thirteen percent of total applicants for political asylum in Belgium are residents of Chechnya.

12:57, 3 January 2008

Novorossisk denies 7 casualties in the Azov Sea

According to the Marine Rescue Centre of Novorossisk, they found bodies of four, not of seven, out of the eleven seamen from the Bulgarian dry-cargo ship "Vanessa" that has sunk today in the Kerch Strait.

12:49, 3 January 2008

KGB (USSR State Security Committee) archives declassified in Kabardino-Balkaria

A collection of documents and materials entitled "State Security Bodies and Society. 1920-1992" is published in Kabardino-Balkaria.

15:42, 2 January 2008

Scandal in children's home in Volgograd Region: Children Ombudsperson's comments

Nina Boldyreva, Children Ombudsperson for the Volgograd Region, thinks that violations of the rights of orphans in children's homes will continue until the very principle of organizing such establishments is changed.

15:35, 2 January 2008

Diter Boden: using OSCE guidelines, Georgia can hold free elections

The responsiveness of the Georgian party to recommendations of the Observation Mission of the Office of Democratic Institutes and Human Rights of the OSCE for elections in Georgia will ultimately allow holding fair elections in this country, Mission Head Diter Boden states.

15:26, 2 January 2008

Over 1000 foreign observers intend to monitor elections in Georgia

The monitoring of the forthcoming elections in Georgia will be conducted by more than 1000 foreigners - representatives of the OSCE, EU (European Union), Council of Europe, CIS, as well as from countries of Europe, America and Asia.

13:29, 29 December 2007

Georgian NGOs state violations in pre-election campaign

Representatives of the non-government sector of Georgia have submitted reports on violations in the course of pre-election campaign at the press-conference held at the joint media center.

13:25, 29 December 2007

Human rights activists in Azerbaijan threaten to withdraw from Working Group on Political Prisoners

An incomplete list of pardoned journalists has brought about a statement of certain human rights activists on their withdrawal from the Working Group on Political Prisoners.

13:13, 29 December 2007

Pardoned journalists released in Azerbaijan

In connection with the act of pardon published on December 28 by Ilkham Aliev, more than 100 prisoners have been released from prisons today. There are mass media representatives among them: Samir Sadagatoglu, Rafik Tagi, Yashar Agazade, Rovshan Kiabirli and Faramaz Allakhverdiev.

12:54, 29 December 2007

Opposition meeting over in Georgian capital

A many-thousand people action of protest of the united people's movement headed by the united opposition in the capital of Georgia is over. The meeting organizers have stated that the aim of the action is to demand that the authorities should refrain from election falsification.

12:32, 29 December 2007

Draft law "On Education" adopted in first reading in Azerbaijan

Yesterday, on December 28, the Azeri parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law "On Education". However, despite this fact, Milli Medzhlis has failed to withdraw from the draft law the provision prohibiting the wearing of headscarves at educational establishments.

11:08, 29 December 2007

Mass disorders start in Dagestan capital due to power failure

A meeting of protest is going on in Makhachkala against power failure.

15:33, 28 December 2007

Criminal case of Nukh Nukhov sent to court in Dagestan

The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has approved the indictment on the criminal case in relation to Nukh Nukhov, former candidate to the position of the head of the administration of the Dakhadaev District.

15:26, 28 December 2007

Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria tries to prove judicially illegality of block-posts

Ilyas Timishev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has applied to the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow with a demand to recognize the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of setting up block-posts in Northern Caucasus to be illegal.

15:19, 28 December 2007

150 residents of Chechnya in inhuman conditions wait for political shelter in France

For the fourth day already, at the Paris airport, 150 applicants for refuge from Chechnya stay in the conditions not fit for residence of such a large group of people for so long.

15:04, 28 December 2007

Over three thousand land plots can be confiscated for objects of Sochi Olympiad

More than three thousand land plots can be alienated in the Krasnodar Territory for building the objects of the future Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.

14:46, 28 December 2007

Director of children's home accused of sexual abuse in Volgograd Region

A criminal case has been initiated in the Volgograd Region against director of the State Educational Establishment "Rudnyanskiy Children's Home" on the facts of his sexual harassment of minor pupils of the establishment.

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