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12:22, 16 September 2008

Medvedev signs draft treaties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

On September 15, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev signed his statements about conclusion of treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

12:16, 16 September 2008

Lavrov: during warfare in South Ossetia, all the parties were "exorbitant"

Sergey Lavrov, head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has admitted that all the parties of the military actions in South Ossetia were "exorbitant" in their warfare.

12:13, 16 September 2008

Citizens of Azerbaijan and Chechnya assassinated in Moscow

On September 15, in the territory of Russian capital, two unidentified persons beat and knifed a citizen of Azerbaijan. Earlier in Moscow, a native of Chechnya was killed.

12:06, 16 September 2008

Davidis: prosecution of Kuzmin, ex-Mayor of Stavropol, is politically motivated

In the opinion of Moscow electoral expert Sergey Davidis, the prosecution of former Mayor of Stavropol Dmitri Kuzmin, who has applied for political asylum in one of European countries, has political character and is connected with the victory of the Party "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia), which was headed by Kuzmin, at elections to the Territorial Parliament in March 2007.

12:01, 16 September 2008

Russian Ministry for Emergencies: 33,000 refugees return to South Ossetia

The Information Department of the Ministry for Emergencies of the Russian Federation has reported that almost 33,000 persons, who had left South Ossetia after Georgia's attack, have returned to their homeland. In total, according to the Federal Migratory Service, over 34,500 persons had left the Republic.

13:00, 15 September 2008

Lavrov: Russia and Abkhazia to have transparent border

In the long term, the border between Russia and Abkhazia will be transparent, same as between EU countries, said the head of Russian MFA Sergey Lavrov, who paid a visit to Abkhazia.

12:56, 15 September 2008

Moscow: explosion of self-made bomb injures a native of Azerbaijan

Under the updated information, the explosion in the marketplace located at No. 1 Lianozovskiy Proezd, committed on Sunday, September 14 in the afternoon, wounded four persons, including a high school pupil, a citizen of Azerbaijan and a woman-pensioner of 68.

12:52, 15 September 2008

Armenian opposition ready to hold a mass rally

Today, the Armenian opposition has declared its intention to hold a mass nationwide rally. In the opinion of Levon Zarubyan, spokesman of the oppositional Armenian National Congress, the rally should become the "decisive event."

12:37, 15 September 2008

Georgian authorities report loss of 168 militaries in conflict with Russia

Today at a joint press conference in Tbilisi, spokesmen of the Ministries of Defence, Internal Affairs and Public Health gave new figures of Georgian casualties in the conflict with Russia. Under the aggregated data, 168 militaries were lost. Meanwhile, the Russian military reconnaissance asserts that Georgia had lost about three thousand power agents.

12:33, 15 September 2008

EU sends 200 observers to Georgia

Today, the EU Council has made an official decision to send a mission of 200 European observers to Georgia. It is planned to place them in the buffer zone adjacent from the Georgian side to the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

12:30, 15 September 2008

In Ingushetia, houses of oppositionists Maksharip Aushev and Magomed Khazbiev searched

Today, Ingushetia's law enforcers have conducted searches in houses of Maksharip Aushev and Magomed Khazbiev, Ingush oppositionists. However, according to Mr Khazbiev, nothing was confiscated in the course of these searches.

12:28, 15 September 2008

Okruashvili: Saakashvili's long intention was to attack South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili stated on September 14 that President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili had been planning for a long time a military operation with the aim to regain control over South Ossetia. According to his version, back in 2005 Georgia was developing plans of capturing Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

14:08, 13 September 2008

Criminal case opened in Rostov Region on trafficking in humans

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Volgodonsk (Rostov Region) has studied and recognized lawful the initiation of Criminal Case No. 2008717504 of September 5, 2008, on the fact of trafficking in people committed in relation to two and more persons with confiscation of IDs of the victims.

14:05, 13 September 2008

Armenian Ombudsman calls to examine the film about March 1 events

Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, has called the temporary parliamentary commission in charge of investigating the events of March 1 to scrutinize the facts presented in the film prepared by the public commission for studying the events on March 1, and if necessary, to take measures to examine the film for defining its authenticity.

14:02, 13 September 2008

In Armenia, young oppositionists fight police

In the evening on September 12, in the centre of Yerevan, capital of Armenia, near the building of the Yerevan State Conservatory, a fight burst out between members of oppositional youth public organizations and the police.

13:57, 13 September 2008

Russia's MNRE calls President of Adygea to protect World Natural Heritage

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (MNRE) of the Russian Federation tries to urge the government of the Republic of Adygea (RA) to take measures for supporting safety of the object of the World Natural Heritage named "Western Caucasus" situated in the territory of this republic.

13:50, 13 September 2008

Ecologists disclose another intrusion of Olympic builders into Sochi National Park

The Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus has revealed new violations of the nature-protecting legislation in the territory of the Sochi National Park at preparation to 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

13:44, 13 September 2008

Joint Staff of Russian Armed Forces: Ukraine was leader in arms deliveries to Georgia

Prior to events in South Ossetia in August, Ukraine was the leading supplier of weapons to Georgia; it was stated by Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

13:34, 13 September 2008

Fazil Iskander: any idea of new war in Abkhazia is disgusting

The famous Russian writer Fazil Iskander is confident that there will be no new war in Abkhazia. He told about it in his TV appeal to his compatriots broadcast today by the Abkhazian television.

13:25, 13 September 2008

Georgian special troops to be deployed in pre-border regions with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, has declared at a press conference that ordinary policemen, now working in the territories, adjacent to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, will be replaced by special troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

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