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March 27, 2010 06:00

• Dagestan: unidentified persons shell local residents near mosque wounding five persons

  Five persons were heavily wounded, when unidentified persons opened fire on a group of residents of Aksai village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic reports.

March 26, 2010 23:30

• Chechen parliament founds alternative Peace Prize

  On March 25, Chechen MPs made a decision to establish an annual prize and a medal named after Ahmat Kadyrov, former President of Chechnya, assassinated in a terror act at the Grozny "Dynamo" Stadium on May 9, 2004. This award, as conceived by Chechen parliamentarians, should become a sort of an analogue of the Nobel Peace Prize.

March 26, 2010 23:00

• In Tbilisi, opposition demands releasing political prisoners

  On March 25, in Tbilisi, at the building of the Ministry for Punishment Enforcement, an action was held by the opposition with a demand to release political prisoners and illegal detainees.

March 26, 2010 23:00

• Diplomats in Azerbaijan were indifferent to human rights poll

  The embassies of the EU countries in Azerbaijan have revealed no due interest in the action of the South-Caucasian human rights network aimed to draw attention to human rights activists' problems. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Tatiana Kryuchkina, a representative of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS). According to her story, only the embassy of Italy and representative office of the European Commission have officially answered to the questionnaires about the work conducted in this direction.

March 26, 2010 22:40

• FIDH calls Armenian authorities to release political prisoners

  In the run-up to the Congress of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), to take place in Yerevan on April 6-8, the Federation has appealed to the authorities of Armenia to release all the country's political prisoners.

March 26, 2010 22:40

• Vladikavkaz: veterans of power agencies hold rally

  On March 25, the capital of North Ossetia was the venue of a rally held by the public organization of power agents-veterans "Law Is Above Power" with a demand to return the privileges and compensatory payments.

March 26, 2010 22:30

• Public activists of Adygea find it reasonable to recognize Circassians' genocide

  Most of the Circassians of the world support the idea of recognition of Adygs' genocide, Zaur Zaukozhev, deputy chairman of the Circassian Congress of Adygea believes. He is supported by other Adyg public activists of the republic.

March 26, 2010 22:20

• "Freedom Charter" restricts Georgian citizens' freedom, oppositionists assert

  On March 25, the parliamentary committee for legislation of Georgia held discussion of the bill "Freedom Charter", presented by Giya Tortladze, leader of the oppositional faction "Strong Georgia". As a matter of fact, the Charter unites two legal documents: "Law on Lustration" and the so-called "Patriotic Act". In Mr Tortladze's opinion, currently both documents are equally important for Georgia's safety.

March 26, 2010 22:20

• Ecologists: erection of waste incinerator in Baku will only aggravate environmental problems

  In Baku today the issue of garbage disposal is quite pressing; however, the construction of a waste incinerate factory launched last year will not only fail to solve the ecology problems of the Azerbaijani capital but will only aggravate them, local ecologists assert.

March 26, 2010 22:10

• Lawyer-human rights defender from Azerbaijan awarded British "Index on Censorship" Prize

  Rashid Gadzhily, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute of Media Rights (IMR), became a laureate of the prestigious prize "Freedom of Expression" of the British human rights organization "Index on Censorship" in nomination "For Fight Against Repressions and Actions Towards Changing Political Climate". The awarding ceremony took place on March 25 in London.

March 26, 2010 22:00

• Two Russian servicemen who disappeared in South Ossetia found

  Two Russian soldiers, who were considered as disappearances since the warfare in South Ossetia in August 2008, are found. This was stated today by General-Major Alexander Kirillin, head of the Department of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation for Commemoration of Perished Homeland Defenders.

March 26, 2010 21:30

• Russia sanctions several Georgian Airways' charter flights to Moscow

  The Russian authorities gave a permit to the Georgian Airline "Airzena-Georgian Airways" to make in early April a series of Tbilisi-Moscow charter flights dated to the approaching Easter.

March 26, 2010 21:10

• Armenian detained near Moscow on suspicion of using slave labour

  Criminal inspectors of the MIA have released 30 Vietnamese from an illegal factory situated in Egorievsk near Moscow; they came to Russia for earnings and found themselves in slavery of their factory boss - a native of Armenia.

March 26, 2010 20:00

• Medvedev: Audit Chamber's report on Olympic expenditures may be delivered to the Prosecutor's Office

  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev called inefficient use of budgetary funds as one of the reasons of unsuccessful performance of the Russian national team at the Olympiad in Vancouver and did not exclude that the results of the check conducted to this end by the Audit Chamber would be sent to the Prosecutor's Office.

March 26, 2010 19:00

• Russian MIA: about 500 militants operate in Northern Caucasus

  According to General Nikolai Rogozhkin, Commander-in-Chief of Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, up to 500 militants, mainly young men aged 25-28, can currently operate in the territory of Northern Caucasus.

March 26, 2010 18:00

• "Mothers of Beslan": efforts to promote peace in the Caucasus are linked with Olympiad-2014

  The Caucasus is in the "wait condition", since nobody knows precisely there, what policy will be pursued by the country and what the "card deal" will be after Olympiad-2014. This was stated by Aneta Gadieva, a member of the Association of victims of terror acts named "Mothers of Beslan".

March 25, 2010 22:40

• GPO returns Astrakhan journalists' beating case to additional inquiry

  After interference of the commission of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation, the criminal case about beating journalists in Astrakhan during the elections on October 11, 2009 by securities of the regional duma deputy was returned to additional check.

March 25, 2010 22:30

• Rally against corruption to be held in Vladikavkaz

  Today in Vladikavkaz, the public organization of veterans of power agencies of North Ossetia "Law Is Above Power" will organize a rally in protest against arbitrariness of "high Ossetian corrupt officials."

March 25, 2010 22:10

• Dick Marti promises Ingush residents to inform PACE about situation in Northern Caucasus

  On March 24, Dick Marti, Rapporteur of the PACE on Human Rights in Northern Caucasus, met activists of public organizations of Ingushetia, President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and heads of power agencies. In his voyage, Mr Marti was accompanied by Gunter Schirmer, secretary of the delegation and secretary on legal issues and human rights of the PACE, Ilyas Umakhanov, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valery Levitskiy, deputy head of the office of international cooperation of the State Duma, and Victor Solodov, officer of the MIA of the Russian Federation.

March 25, 2010 22:00

• Jury finds Ryno and Skachevskiy guilty of murder attempt

  A board of jurymen of the Moscow City Court has recognized Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy, heads of a grouping of nationalists, guilty of a murder attempt.