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September 01, 2008 13:24

• Human rights defenders demand inquiry into the murder of the "Ingushetia.Ru" owner

  Russian and Ingush human rights organizations have voiced in favour of prompt investigation into the circumstance of Magomed Evloev's murder. Demands are also expressed to entrust the case to federal, not local, inspectors.

September 01, 2008 13:10

• Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia: Magomed Evloev was killed by a random shot

  Yuri Turygin, Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia, has stated today that Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", got his fatal wound as a result of a random shot. Ingushetian human rights activists and oppositionists do not trust him.

September 01, 2008 12:29

• "Kommersant": they tried to win Magomed Evloev back from Ingushetian militia

  Shortly before his death, relatives and friends of Magomed Evloev, owner of a website "Ingushetia.Ru", tried to fight the oppositionist back from militiamen.

August 30, 2008 15:01

• Sergey Bokovoy: South Ossetia is an ecological catastrophe

  Sergey Bokovoy, a member of the first group of the leading Russian ecologists and a member of the Supreme Ecological Board of Russian State Duma, believes that the territory of South Ossetia is an ecological catastrophe zone.

August 30, 2008 14:58

• North Ossetia to hold Memory Days on Beslan terror act victims

  The North Ossetia gets ready to hold Memory Days on the victims of the act of terror committed on September 1-3, 2004, in Beslan.

August 30, 2008 14:54

• South Ossetia to hold action "Future of Russia is in mothers' hands"

  On August 31, at midday, an all-Russian action under the motto "Future of Russia is in mothers' hands" is to start in the Theatre Square of Tskhinvali with participation of public organizations of North Ossetia and the "Beslan Mothers" Association of Victims of Terror Acts.

August 30, 2008 14:42

• Mayor of Tskhinvali: 80 percent of houses are damaged in the capital of South Ossetia

  As a result of the war, an essential part of households in Tskhinvali have suffered. According to the data presented by Mayor of Tskhinvali Robert Guliev, we can state that 80 percent of the city's housing fund was damaged.

August 30, 2008 14:39

• Over 400 persons registered as missing in South Ossetia

  At least 400 persons are still regarded missing in South Ossetia, and there is no information about them. In his conversation with journalists, David Sanakoev, Ombudsman in South Ossetia, said that the Georgian party denies that there are women and children among their detainees.

August 30, 2008 14:36

• In Chechnya, suicide bomber blows up "Yug" battalion base killing people

  A soldier was killed and 11 more persons were wounded in an explosion in Vedeno district centre in Chechnya. The victims were soldiers, a militiaman and a woman, occasional passer-by.

August 29, 2008 12:02

• South Ossetia and Abkhazia plan to sign agreements on mutual recognition

  South Ossetia and Abkhazia plan to sign agreements on mutual recognition and military cooperation, said Robert Kokoev, South Ossetia's ambassador to Abkhazia. Sergey Shamba, Abkhazian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has stated today that Abkhazia can join the Allied State of Russia and Belarus and by virtue of this get access to international organizations.

August 29, 2008 11:59

• A drone brought down in South Ossetia

  On August 27, a Georgian drone (pilotless aircraft) was shot down in its flight over the territory of South Ossetia by the forces of local MIA, Mikhail Mindzaev, head of the Republic's MIA, stated yesterday, on August 28, in a press conference in Tskhinvali.

August 29, 2008 11:57

• Trial on Politkovskaya's murder to start in September

  Sergey Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta", has reported that the case on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the paper, may be transferred to the court in the first decade of September.

August 29, 2008 11:54

• In Azerbaijan, Nakhichevan police ignores journalists' complaint

  Regional correspondents of the Azeri Service of Radio Liberty Malakhat Nasibova and Ilgar Nasibov, and Elman Abbasov, regional representative of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), addressed by mail to the prosecutor's office of the Babek District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

August 29, 2008 11:50

• Georgia breaks diplomatic relations with Russia

  Tomorrow, on August 30, Georgian diplomats will be recalled from Russia, reports Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Grigol Vashadze, since Georgia breaks its diplomatic relations with Russia.

August 29, 2008 11:47

• Rally on in Makhachkala demanding resignation of Dagestan MIA head

  In Makhachkala, the militia would not let to the square participants of the rally with demand of resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan. About 300 participants of the protest action have rallied in the mini-park near the central square of Makhachkala and are warning about possible provocations from the militia.

August 29, 2008 11:43

• European Union: no sanctions against Russia

  EU leaders are not going to introduce any sanctions against Russia at the forthcoming summit on the situation in Georgia, one of high-ranking diplomatic sources in France said today.

August 29, 2008 11:39

• A local resident kidnapped in Chechnya

  In Argun, the third city of Chechnya, armed persons in camouflage kidnapped a resident of the Kurchaloy District.

August 29, 2008 11:34

• South Ossetia delivers 152 captives to Georgia

  The exchange of prisoners goes with difficulties, as David Sanakoev, Ombudsman in South Ossetia who is in charge of the process told journalists yesterday, on August 28. In total, within the time of negotiations, 152 persons were handed over to the Georgian party.

August 29, 2008 11:29

• Barack Obama promises "tough diplomacy" to influence Russia

  Senator Barack Obama, the democratic candidate for US presidency, has stated that in case of his victory at presidential elections he will use "tough and direct diplomacy" to constrain "Russia's aggression."

August 28, 2008 16:57

• Investigation has five thousand proofs of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia

  The group of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has gathered almost five thousand material evidences of Georgia's attacks on South Ossetia, head of the ICPO Alexander Bastrykin told journalists today.