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August 25, 2009 22:40

• Azerbaijan: SC to reconsider journalist's complaint against Nakhichevan police boss

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) (located in Azerbaijan) has considered the appeal complaint lodged by Khakimeldost Mekhtiev, a correspondent of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), against the decision of the Nakhichevan Court to reject Mr Mekhtiev's claim against Sabukhi Novruzov, boss of the city police.

August 25, 2009 22:00

• In Krasnodar, cars with special license number plates are revealed as TRs infringers

  Spot-checks are organized in this city by local UVD (Interior Department) together with the city-based road-guard regiment aimed to reveal infringers of Traffic Regulations (TRs) driving cars without number plates and with the so-called "special number series". However, local residents find these actions inefficient.

August 25, 2009 21:10

• MIA of Chechnya has established the person of suicide bomber

  The terrorist-suicide bomber, who has blown up militiamen today in the morning in the Shali District of Chechnya, was a member of the grouping of field commander Muslim Gakaev. His name was Magomed Shakhidov, a resident of Argun, as asserted by local law enforcers.

August 25, 2009 21:00

• Katsitadze: Georgian authorities suggest to move Guantanamo prisoners to local prisons

  Kakha Katsitadze, a Georgian political scientist, does not believe that the States are seriously considering any transfer of Guantanamo inmates to Georgian prisons; he thinks that this is an initiative of local authorities.

August 25, 2009 21:00

• Blacky candidate from Volgograd Region hopes to "cure" racism in local residents

  In Russia, where the count of racially-motivated crimes is on a rapid rise, same as the army of skinheads, the decision of black-skinned Joachim Krima to run for a duma deputy of the Sredneakhtuba District of the Volgograd Region has caused a stormy interest. Along with solution of domestic problems of his fellow villagers, the candidate is ready, if elected to the local government, to overcome the racism, so deeply rooted in the consciousness of local residents.

August 25, 2009 20:00

• "Memorial": in Dagestan, missing resident was found among liquidated militants

  The resident of Dagestan, who disappeared right from his workplace on August 17, was found on August 19 among the "trophies" of a special operation. Over 20 bullets were extracted from his body, which had numerous traces of violence. As reported by the HRC "Memorial", the body would not be given out to relatives, until it is proved that the man was not involved in terrorism.

August 25, 2009 19:00

• Relatives of kidnapped persons hold rally in Makhachkala

  Today, in the square in front of the house of government of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, relatives of kidnapped persons have held their rally. According to different sources, from 50 to 200 persons took part in it demanding to stop kidnappings and murders of young people in the republic.

August 25, 2009 18:00

• Moscow: participants of Estemirova's commemoration demand Kadyrov's resignation

  In the evening on August 24, activists who rallied in the Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow to commemorate Natalia Estemirova on the 40th day after her murder demanded resignation of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

August 24, 2009 23:20

• In Georgia, court adjudges Eka Beseliya's relatives

  The Kobuleti City Court has set free on bail Rati Milorava, son of Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the oppositional party "Movement for United Georgia", while her brother Sergo Beseliya will have to spend two months in pre-trial custody.

August 24, 2009 23:10

• A powerful bomb blows up in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On August 23, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), when a local district militiaman was moving in his car, a powerful explosive was triggered. The militiaman did not suffer; and as reported by a source in the republic's power bodies, the culprits have been established.

August 24, 2009 23:00

• Teenager wounded by explosion in Chechnya

  On August 23, in the submontane Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, a local minor was wounded by explosion of unidentified ordnance.

August 24, 2009 22:00

• Moscow: Azerbaijani suspected of kidnapping his fellow countryman detained

  It was reported by Moscow law enforcement bodies that they detained a citizen of Azerbaijan, suspected of kidnapping, together with his four accomplices, of a compatriot with further extortion of some 800,000 US dollars from him.

August 24, 2009 22:00

• Chechnya: a serviceman killed and four other wounded in a clash

  On August 23, in the course of a combat clash that burst out in the Shali District of Chechnya, a soldier of the Internal Troops of Russian MIA was lost, and four militaries were wounded.

August 24, 2009 21:00

• In Armenia, NGOs call authorities to defend Mariam Sukhudyan

  Young members of a number of Armenian NGOs have addressed the president, prime minister and speaker of the parliament with an appeal to immediately publicly defend Mariam Sukhudyan, who is accused of disseminating false information about sexual harassments of pupils by a boarding school teacher.

August 24, 2009 20:00

• Militants commit terror acts in Chechnya aiming to win a pause, power agents assert

  The Chechen MIA believes that militants are committing terror acts with the use of suicide bombers with the aim to distract power agencies from broad-scale special operations in the mountains. President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that in no case the intensity of operations conducted against armed underground groupings will go down.

August 24, 2009 19:00

• Woman from Astrakhan fined for criticizing Governor Zhilkin

  In Astrakhan, a magistrate judge of the Kirov District has recognized local resident Nadiya Fokina guilty of hooliganism and sentenced her to a fine of 500 roubles; on August 17, she criticized Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, in the presence of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, when the former demonstrated a repaired embankment to the latter.

August 24, 2009 18:00

• In Chechnya, human rights activists fear repressions against terrorists' relatives

  Experts of some Chechen NGOs stick to the opinion that relatives and family members of the two suicide bombers, who blew themselves in the afternoon on August 21 in Grozny killing four employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya and a young woman, are under threat of punitive and repressive measures.

August 22, 2009 22:00

• President of Ingushetia: I'd have forgiven my attempters

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said, at his first press conference after his return to the republic that would have been ready to pardon the terrorist who had attempted on him, should the latter have remained alive.

August 22, 2009 18:12

• Georgia is ready to accommodate Guantanamo inmates

  Georgia has expressed its readiness to accept prisoners from the American base in Guantanamo within its territory. This information was disseminated today by some Georgian and American media.

August 22, 2009 18:00

• Evkurov interrupts treatment and returns to Ingushetia

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who interrupted his rehabilitation course at a sanatorium near Moscow, has arrived in his republic. He made this decision because of aggravated situation in Ingushetia.