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10:08, 21 August 2008

Georgia and South Ossetia accuse each other of ethnic cleanings

After Russia had launched its armed operation in the context of the intervention of Georgian troops into Tskhinvali, residents of the villages controlled by Georgia started to report about facts of revenge by residents of South Ossetia, complaining about nationality-motivated murders of Georgians. Observers remark that the victims of this short but severe war from both parties had lived through ethnically motivated sufferings.

12:49, 20 August 2008

Committee to Protect Journalists demands from Georgia to unblock Russian-language TV Channels

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asks the government of Georgia to unblock the broadcasting of Russian TV Channels and web-sites in the territory of Georgia.

12:46, 20 August 2008

Azerbaijani Appeal Court considers the case about attack on journalist Halil

Today, the Baku Appeal Court in Azerbaijan, presided by Gail Mamedov, held a preparatory session on the case about Sergey Strekalin's attack on Agil Halil, journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, committed on March 13 this year.

12:43, 20 August 2008

Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria asks to return property of her husband killed in special operation

Elena Tengizova, a resident of Nalchik, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov with a request to return the car and other property confiscated during a search conducted after death of her husband Anzor Tengizov who was killed in a special operation.

12:14, 20 August 2008

Khatazhukov: world community must recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

The war in South Ossetia has shown that Russia lacks forces to ensure safety of the peaceful population, therefore, the world community must recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, asserts Valery Khatazhukov, chairman of the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria.

12:10, 20 August 2008

Authorities of South Ossetia report about 1492 casualties of Georgia's attack

According to updated information of South-Ossetian authorities, the attack of Georgia took away lives of 1492 residents of South Ossetia.

12:06, 20 August 2008

Investigatory Committee counts 133 lost peaceful residents of South Ossetia

133 persons from among civilian population of South Ossetia have been recognized as casualties of the Georgian aggression. Apart from these 133 victims many burial places have not been studied yet.

11:58, 20 August 2008

Student kidnapped in the capital of Chechnya

In the evening on August 18, Tamerlan Nasipov, 19, a fifth year student of the State Grozny Oil Institute (SGOI), was kidnapped by a group of armed persons in masks from his house in the Leninskiy District of the city of Grozny.

11:56, 20 August 2008

In Armenia, head of local Radio Liberty service beaten

On August 19, Grach Melkumyan, head of the Radio Liberty service in Armenia, was beaten in the centre of Yerevan. People at the Radio office convinced that the attack is directly related to the journalist's professional activities.

11:52, 20 August 2008

Georgia: local residents return to Gori

Indications have appeared evidencing the beginning of withdrawal of Russian troops from Gori. Thus, last night Russian forces closed two checkpoints in the city, as the correspondent of the Tbilisi bureau of Radio Liberty reports.

11:40, 19 August 2008

President of Czechia finds Georgia responsible for conflict in Caucasus

The aggravation of situation around South Ossetia has taken place for the guilt of Georgian politicians, said President of Czechia Vaclav Klaus in his interview published on August 18 in the Prague-based newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

11:33, 19 August 2008

Abkhazian creative associations demand to make USA responsible for supporting Georgia

Creative unions of Abkhazia believe that the USA, as the country that rendered permanent military aid to Georgia, cannot further act as intermediaries in settling conflicts, and should bear political and legal responsibility for the consequences of its policy.

11:30, 19 August 2008

Abkhazia states aircraft intrusion into its air space

Today at night, an intrusion of an unknown aircraft into the air space of Abkhazia was prevented, as Anatoly Zaitsev, Chief of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of Abkhazia, told the journalists.

11:24, 19 August 2008

Lukashenko approves Russia's actions in South Ossetia

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Russia did everything "accurately and beautifully" during Georgia's aggression on South Ossetia. At his meeting with Dmitri Medvedev in Sochi he thanked Russia "for wisdom."

11:21, 19 August 2008

In Azerbaijan, poet-satirist Mirza Sakit starts hunger strike in custody

On August 18, Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov), a satirist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is serving his term at the Penitentiary Establishment No. 14, went on a hunger strike.

11:16, 19 August 2008

Russian Joint Staff: withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia will be situation-dependant

General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Russian Armed Forces, has stated today that the troops' withdrawal schedule away from the conflict zone in Georgia "will depend on the situation."

11:12, 19 August 2008

Georgia and Russia exchange prisoners

Today at 11:00 a.m. (10:00 a.m. Moscow time), near Igoeti village (some 40 km off the capital of Georgia), at the checkpoint set up by Russian militaries, the exchange of prisoners took place.

10:51, 19 August 2008

Eight residents of Dagestan accused of preparing mosque explosion acquitted

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has acquitted nine defendants accused of terrorism and illegal keeping of weapon. It became known at the trial that the defendants had been tortured.

12:58, 18 August 2008

Zaitsev: Georgia deliberately misled participants of negotiations on Abkhazia

On August 17, General Anatoly Zaitsev, commander of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of Abkhazia, has stated that after liberation of the upper section of Kodori Gorge it became clear that Georgia was roughly breaking the Moscow ceasefire agreement and misinforming the parties in the negotiation process.

12:55, 18 August 2008

Georgia does not confirm that Russian troops are leaving

Russia has announced the start of withdrawal of her military contingent from Georgia, however, the Georgian party has not confirmed the start of this process.

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