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July 04, 2009 19:00

• Papuashvili: Azerbaijani authorities jeopardize the work of NGOs

  Simon Papuashvili, coordinator of the organization named "Human Rights Centre" and located in Tbilisi, is sure that adoption by the authorities of Azerbaijan of amendment to the Law on NGOs will make the work of these organizations in the country impossible.

July 04, 2009 17:00

• Sunzha District of Ingushetia is blocked by power agents

  Additional militia forces from Chechnya were deployed in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. Measures of operative response have been strengthened in the district; and a broad-scale special operation was launched.

July 04, 2009 14:00

• About 13,000 jobless persons involved in public works in Astrakhan Region

  Under the programme aimed to reduce tensions in the labour market of the Astrakhan Region, by July 2, a total of 580 contracts were signed with employers of all forms of ownership about organization of public works for 12,937 persons; 6160 of them have already started their public works.

July 04, 2009 13:00

• Gasoline grows more expensive in Chechnya

  Starting the end of June, the Chechnya's fuelling stations see a growth of prices on automobile fuel. On the average, a litre of every car fuel became more expensive by 2-3 roubles (at 1 US dollar = 31 Russian roubles).

July 04, 2009 12:00

• Saakashvili: opposition has caused more damage to Georgia than war against Russia

  On July 3, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili stated that the actions of the opposition, which is holding from April 9 its actions in Tbilisi demanding resignation of the country's leader, have caused more financial damage to the nation than Russian bombardments in August 2008.

July 04, 2009 11:30

• Nine militiamen from Chechnya killed in shelling in Ingushetia

  As a result of shelling a motor vehicle with militiamen from Chechnya in Arshty village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, nine persons perished and ten more were wounded, as reported by Alexei Vorobyov, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia.

July 04, 2009 10:00

• Unemployment on the fall in North Ossetia

  Analysis of the situation in labour market of North Ossetia shows that the number of workplaces is no longer shrinking, and the number of jobless workers no longer grows, as reported Nikolai Koliev, head of the division on labour migration.

July 04, 2009 09:00

• HRC concerned of attacks on oppositional activists in Georgia

  The organization named "Human Rights Centre" (HRC) has promulgated a statement on detentions in Georgia of activists of the opposition and attacks on them, as Simon Papuashvili, coordinator of the HRC in Tbilisi, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 03, 2009 20:00

• Polyakova: Russian soldiers in South Ossetia are beaten not only by senior conscripts but also by officers

  Ella Polyakova, chair of the human rights organization "Soldier's Mothers of St Petersburg", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that regular soldiers, who take their service in South Ossetia, are in "brutal conditions" there. According to her story, soldiers in South Ossetia are beaten not only by senior conscripts, but also by officers.

July 03, 2009 19:00

• President of Ingushetia is back in consciousness

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was heavily wounded in an attempt on him, has come to his senses. Doctors managed to replenish his blood loss and stabilize his blood tension.

July 03, 2009 18:00

• Human rights activists to help deportee from Egypt Makhsud Abdullaev

  As reported by the press service of Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, local human rights activists are ready to help Maskhud Abdullaev, a native of Chechnya and deported student from Egypt, in obtaining the general civil Russian passport, and to defend his rights.

July 03, 2009 17:00

• Another case opened against advocate in "Neva-Express" case

  The Investigatory Department for the Novgorod Region of the ICPO has initiated the second criminal case against Magomed Razakov, a lawyer of the Moscow Bar, who defended a figurant accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train. This time the case was opened on the article of "Contempt of the court".

July 03, 2009 14:00

• "Chernovik" criminal cases get back to Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan

  Today, the Leninskiy Court of Makhachkala has held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case, where 5 journalists of the "Chernovik" weekly are defendants. The criminal case comes back to the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

July 03, 2009 13:00

• ICPO: 5315 persons recognized to be victims in South-Ossetian war

  Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the ICPO, has presented the above figure of those who suffered in the war in South Ossetia in August 2008 as the latest result of the investigation into the conflict in the Caucasus.

July 03, 2009 12:00

• Karachaevo-Circassia: prominent sambo athlete killed by power agents buried

  On June 1, the body of Murat Ristov, world champion in combat sambo (Russian style of self-defence), who was killed on May 28 in Kabardino-Balkaria, was rendered to the mould in his homeland - Karachaevo-Circassia. Ristov was trained and became a well-known sportsman in Adygea.

July 03, 2009 11:00

• Mutsolgov: 95 percent of bride kidnappings in Ingushetia are pre-agreed

  The majority of bride kidnappings in Ingushetia take place upon prior agreement between the families of the would-be couple. According to Magomed Mutsolgov, a member of the advisory board on human rights in Russia and leader of the human rights NGO "Mashr", only five percent of such kidnappings end with opening of criminal cases.

July 03, 2009 10:00

• Armenian opposition holds rally and street march in Yerevan

  On July 2, in the capital of Armenia, supporters of the opposition held a several thousand strong rally and then marched along the streets of Yerevan.

July 03, 2009 09:00

• Special operation is over in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Two suspected militants were blocked today at night in a flat of a dwelling block in Nalchik. As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies, they surrendered to militiamen.

July 03, 2009 08:00

• In Ingushetia, grenade blows up in household of UBOP deputy head

  Today, at about 3:30 a.m. Moscow time, an unidentified person has thrown a grenade into the yard of a private household in Nazran, where Rustam Khalukhaev, deputy head of the division for fighting extremism of the Department for Fighting Organized Crime (UBOP) of Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), lives.

July 02, 2009 22:00

• Woman from Chechnya wins her claim against Russia at ECtHR

  Russia has lost a case at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on the claim of Zina Pukhigova, a resident of Chechnya, and should pay 39,757 euros for disappearance and death of her husband Salman Abdulazizov in February 2001.