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August 29, 2009 11:00

• Edelev: Said Buryatskiy's self-explosion in Nazran is disinformation

  The information about the death of Said Buryatskiy as a suicide bomber at the building of the Nazran GOVD is disinformation, Arcadiy Edelev, Deputy Interior Minister of Russia, believes.

August 29, 2009 10:00

• Azerbaijani Ombudsperson does not exclude amicable agreement on bloggers' case

  On Friday, August 28, Elmira Suleimanova, Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan, had a meeting at the Baku pre-trial prison with young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism. According to Ms Suleimanova, she had applied to respective bodies on settling the case by amicable agreement of the parties, and this "issue remains in the focus."

August 28, 2009 23:40

• Krasnoyarsk: skirmish between natives of Azerbaijan and China bursts out and brings victims

  On August 26, in Krasnoyarsk, in the Southern marketplace, a skirmish took place with participation of Azerbaijani natives. According to the militia, three persons received light wounds, one of them was hospitalized. Under informal information, one person was lost.

August 28, 2009 23:20

• In Rostov, militiaman who knocked down 11 persons is tried

  On August 27, the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don started consideration of the case opened against a former militiaman, who knocked down by his car 11 persons standing at a bus stop.

August 28, 2009 23:00

• Inspector who issued statement on Evloev's delivery was told to keep silent and not to "ruffle"

  The inspector who made a decision to force Magomed Evloev, an oppositionist and owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", to the police station on the day of his murder, on August 31, 2008, was ordered to keep silent and not to take any actions. This is stated in the explanatory note of Lieutenant of Justice Zhambulat Shankhoev, an inspector of the investigatory division at the Nazran OVD.

August 28, 2009 22:10

• Armenian prisoners show their works at exhibition in Yerevan

  A selling exhibition of creations made by about 50 inmates of criminal-corrective establishments of Armenia, organized with the help of the "Foundation for Helping Convicts", acting under the Ministry of Justice, is on now in the Armenia capital.

August 28, 2009 22:00

• Russian ICPO and Chechen MIA report differently about Shali suicide bombers

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia reports that suicide bombers came up to a police squad in the centre of Chechen city of Shali and triggered their bombs. However, the MIA of Chechnya asserts that the militants blew themselves up in the course of a special operation aimed to detain them.

August 28, 2009 21:00

• Abkhazia refutes Georgian MIA's statements about shelling of Ganmukhuri

  Zurab Marganiya, head of a frontier detachment of the Abkhazian State Security Service, has stated that the Abkhazian party has nothing to do with the incident in Zugdidi District.

August 28, 2009 20:00

• CTO regime lifted in Dagestan capital

  As reported by the PR Group of the FSB Department for Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the Primorskiy District of Makhachkala, has been cancelled with the end of special actions.

August 28, 2009 19:00

• President of Georgia pardons 238 prisoners

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has signed a decree on pardoning 238 prisoners. As reported at today's press conference by Dmitri Shashkin, Minister of Punishment Enforcement, Probation and Legal Aid, 169 prisoners will be set free.

August 28, 2009 18:00

• Three could-be militants liquidated in CTO in KBR

  In an armed clash near Karagach village, Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced tonight, three IAF (illegal armed formation) members are killed and one law enforcer wounded, as reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.

August 27, 2009 23:40

• Abkhazian delegation to visit Nicaragua

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh plans to send an official delegation to the Republic of Nicaragua, "being guided by the desire to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all areas of modern life." This is stated in the letter sent on August 26 by Sergey Bagapsh to the President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega Saavedra.

August 27, 2009 23:30

• Stavropol: boss of building company who deceived 350 would-be dwellers sentenced to 12 years in jail

  The Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol has found director of the building company LLC "Spas-XXI" and his two subordinates guilty of a swindle and causing 200-million roubles damage to citizens.

August 27, 2009 23:00

• Militia lieutenant wounded in Ingushetia

  On August 26 in the evening, in Sunzha District of Ingushetia, five unknown persons in masks, armed with automatic firearms, rushed into the house of a militia lieutenant, where he lived with his family, and wounded him from a pistol.

August 27, 2009 22:10

• Officials' bodyguards were dispersing rally on March 1, 2008, in Armenia, oppositionists assert

  Bodyguards of oligarchs and high-ranking officials of Armenia, including Ovik Abramyan, speaker of the parliament, Mger Sedrakyan, prefect of the community Erebuni, and Suren Khachatryan, governor of Syunik, took part in dispersing the peaceful rally on March 1, 2008. This was reported on August 27 at a press conference by the members of the fact-finding group about the March 1 events, which was disbanded by President's decree.

August 27, 2009 22:00

• Person found in burned down car in Dagestan identified

  In Dagestan, one of the three persons, whose bodies were found yesterday, on August 26, in a burned down car, has been identified. Father of Arthur Butaev - Yuri - could recognize his son only by his personal belongings, as the body was strongly scorched. The earlier identified young man had been kidnapped by unidentified persons.

August 27, 2009 22:00

• Ex-judge from Volgograd: I was sacked for "wrong" decision on "ordered" case

  Judge Marianna Lukyanovskaya, who was dismissed from the Volgograd Regional Court, has filed a complaint to the cassation panel of the Supreme Court of Russia. It is her last resort among Russian instances to achieve restoration in her position; further, she is going to apply to Strasbourg. The judge asserts that she was sacked for making a "wrong" decision on an "ordered" case.

August 27, 2009 21:00

• Defendant in Nalchik attack case petitions on returning the case to public prosecutor

  Today, at the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the criminal case about the events on October 13, 2005, the parties in the process discussed the petition filed by defendant Azamat Akhkubekov in favour of returning the criminal case to the public prosecutor, since, in his opinion, there are significant discrepancies between the indictment and the materials of the criminal case.

August 27, 2009 20:00

• Armenia: court extends custody of oppositional editor

  The court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan community Tsentr-Nork-Marash has passed a decision to extend by two month the pre-trial custody of Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" and activist of the "Armenian National Congress" who voluntarily surrendered to law enforcers on July 1.

August 27, 2009 19:00

• In Dagestan, NGOs ask Russian President to "pacify" power agents

  Today an extraordinary session of the Union of NGOs "Homeland" was convoked to discuss actions in defence of constitutional rights of Dagestan citizens.