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16:18, 31 May 2008

USA to allocate 0.7 million dollars on GUAM development

The US Government plans to provide about 700,000 dollars for structural development of the GUAM - the economic-political association of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova.

15:13, 31 May 2008

Chkheidze: parliamentary elections in Georgia were more democratic that the presidential one

According to Georgiy Chkheidze, Chairman of the NGO named "Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia" (AYLG), the parliamentary elections in Georgia were more democratic than the presidential one: this time, more attention was given to observers' complaints.

14:57, 31 May 2008

United States criticize the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan

The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour of the US Department of State has published its annual report on the status with human rights and democracy in the world. The chapter on Azerbaijan runs that support of human rights there remains bad and has aggravated in certain areas.

12:26, 31 May 2008

Armenia: hunger strike in "Erablur" military pantheon continues

The protest hunger strike initiated on May 27 by ex-combatants and members of the "Republic" Party is held for the fifth day already near the chapel of the "Erablur" military pantheon in Yerevan. The participants of the action demand to release all the political prisoners in fulfilment of the PACE's Resolution No. 1609 in relation to Armenia.

19:54, 30 May 2008

Akbulatov: Russia fails to completely fulfil European Court's decisions on Chechnya

Head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Shakhman Akbulatov has stated, while making his comments on the May 29 decision of the European Court for Human Rights obliging Russia to pay out money compensation to five residents of Chechnya, that Russia fails to completely fulfil the decisions of the European Court.

18:30, 30 May 2008

Several oppositionists beaten in Georgia

Amiran Iobashvili, a member of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", was beaten in the morning near his house by five person in masks armed with truncheons. Earlier, at night, two members of the block "United Opposition: National Council - Right-Wingers" and the Republican Party were beaten in Tbilisi and Gori.

18:03, 30 May 2008

Pogromists of Azerbaijanis convicted in Transbaikalia

Today, the Khilok District Court of the Transbaikalian Territory has announced a verdict on the criminal case against 32 local residents accused of attacking in May 2006 families of Azerbaijani natives in the village of Kharagun, where 11 persons suffered and one perished.

16:46, 30 May 2008

Ruslan Aushev's cousin heavily wounded in Ingushetia

In Ingushetia, Vakha Evloev, cousin of the ex-president of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev, was heavily wounded. His car was shelled in the Surkhakhi village. Mr Evloev with gunshot wounds was delivered to the central hospital of Nazran in a critical condition.

15:06, 30 May 2008

Suspects of funding Chechen separatists detained in Bulgaria

Bulgaria has stopped a criminal group suspected of financing militants in Chechnya.

14:21, 30 May 2008

Armenian human rights activists ask to punish those who attacked Kharatyan

Thirteen NGOs and human rights organizations of Armenia have disseminated a statement demanding to hold an objective investigation of the attack on the head of the Youth Movement "It Has Begun" Arsen Kharatyan and to punish the criminals.

13:03, 30 May 2008

Historical buildings dismantled in Tbilisi

On May 29, the organization for preservation of Tbilisi named "Tbilisi Amkari" held a preventive protest action with posters "SOS Tbilisi", standing against dismantling historical buildings in the centre of the Georgian capital.

11:40, 29 May 2008

Memorial to 1944 deportation victims dismantled in Chechnya

Today, in the Leninskiy District of the capital of Chechnya, building workers have started dismantling the memorial complex erected in Grozny during Dzhokhar Dudaev's rule in memory of the victims of mass deportation of Chechens undertaken in February 1944.

11:09, 29 May 2008

PACE concerned with Armenia's reaction to Resolution No. 1609

The authorities of Armenia have made "imperceptible" steps to enforce PACE's Resolution No. 1609 dealing with the freedom of democratic institutes in the country. This conclusion was made at the recent session of the PACE's Monitoring Commission held in Kiev.

11:03, 29 May 2008

Victims of terror act in South Ossetia brought to Vladikavkaz

Four persons out of those wounded in South Ossetia by explosion in the territory of the South-Ossetian OMON (Special Militia) unit in the centre of the city of Tskhinvali have been forwarded to the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia.

10:54, 29 May 2008

European Court awards 70,000 euros to relatives of Chechnya residents kidnapped in 2003

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has made public its decisions on five cases related to residents of Chechnya.

10:48, 29 May 2008

Kabardino-Balkaria: trial on attack on Nalchik to continue on June 11

Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has continued, at its next session on the case considering the attack on Nalchik, selection of jurymen. Then, the court announced a break till June 11.

10:41, 29 May 2008

Picket in defence of Ingushetia residents' rights held in Moscow

Today, the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow was the venue of a 40 persons-strong picket held against violations of human rights and freedoms in Ingushetia. The participants have expressed their concern with the growth of violence and their protest against prosecution of independent media and oppositional leaders in Ingushetia.

14:51, 28 May 2008

Abkhazian authorities reiterate their stand on refugee return

On the issue of return of the refugees, the position of Abkhazian leadership remains constant - stage-by-stage return at an initial stage only to the Galskiy District.

14:42, 28 May 2008

Leader of youth movement injured in the capital of Armenia

Today, in the centre of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, not far from the Republic Square, Arsen Kharatyan, leader of the youth civil movement named "Sksela" (Beginning), was attacked, got a head trauma and was hospitalized.

14:35, 28 May 2008

Scientist from Kabardino-Balkaria: much of Russia's political practice can be treated as radicalism

Dangerous (ideological and political-ideological) forms of radicalism are fed and provoked by seemingly harmless manifestations of radicalism that abound in our life.

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