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June 18, 2008 11:42

• Residents of Kalmykia mark Buddha's birthday

  In Kalmykia, June 18 has been announced a day-off in honour of Buddha Shakyamuni's birthday. President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has signed a corresponding decree.

June 17, 2008 14:40

• US Helsinki Commission to assess situation in Ingushetia

  On June 19 in Washington, representatives of the US Helsinki Commission and Russian experts on the Northern Caucasus will speak to a briefing on aggravation of situation in Ingushetia.

June 17, 2008 14:04

• PACE mission members meet the first Armenian President of Armenia Ter-Petrosyan

  On June 16 late at night, co-Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Mission George Colombier and John Prescott had a meeting with Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of Armenia. They discussed the fulfilment process of the PACE's Resolution No. 1609 and ways out of the internal political crisis in Armenia.

June 17, 2008 13:15

• Russian MFA: withdrawal of peacemakers from Abkhazia will aggravate situation

  Andrei Nesterenko, and official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, has stated today that phasing out the peacemaking operation in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone will entail aggravation of the situation in the region.

June 17, 2008 11:17

• Azerbaijan: health condition of the journalist hospitalized after arrest remains grave

  In Azerbaijan, the health condition of journalist Emin Guseinov, who was exposed on June 14 to physical and moral pressure at a police station, remains grave. He is still unable to eat and drink anything but water, experiences strong pains in his head and dizziness, and cannot move by himself.

June 16, 2008 18:34

• Conflict of "Vostok" battalion versus authorities of Chechnya to continue on the Internet

  Soon a new website can appear on the Internet - an attempt of the command of the GRU's "Vostok" (East) battalion to break through the information blockade held against it by the authorities of Chechnya.

June 16, 2008 18:28

• Institute for Peace and Democracy demands to punish the policemen who beat journalists in Azerbaijan

  The Institute for Peace and Democracy has moved a demand to punish the policemen who thrashed on June 14th in the capital of Azerbaijan the journalists and human rights activist who celebrated the 80th birthday of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto (Che) Guevara.

June 16, 2008 17:18

• Armenia: protest action demands to release oppositional editor

  Today is two years after arrest of Armand Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the "Zhamanak-Yerevan" newspaper. A group of his colleagues, journalists and NGO representatives have held a protest action today in the capital of Armenia with a demand to release Mr Babadzhanyan.

June 16, 2008 14:14

• "Kinotaurus" Russian Film Festival over in Sochi

  Today, the Sochi Winter Theatre has held the official closing ceremony of the 19th "Kinotaurus" Russian Open Film Festival. The prize for the best feature film was given to the "Shultes" film by director-debutant Bakur Bakuradze. The monetary worth of the prize is 625,000 roubles.

June 16, 2008 12:08

• In Chechnya, three frontier guards lost in militants' attack on motor column

  Three frontier guards were killed and five more wounded in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, where militants attacked a motor column of the FSB Department.

June 16, 2008 10:04

• European Court for Human Rights accepts a complaint from Dagestan

  On June 16, 2008, Adilgerey Omarov, an advocate from Dagestan, received a notification letter from Strasbourg saying that his claim about collecting 3 million euros from the Russian budget in favour of his client Gasan Baisultanov has been accepted for consideration by the European Court for Human Rights.

June 14, 2008 13:23

• Azerbaijan: force applied to journalists at protest action

  On June 13, about one hundred of parents of high school graduates who failed their test examination came to the building of the Parliament of Azerbaijan to express their protest against the new procedure of issuing certificates. A conflict burst out between the journalists who covered the action and law enforcement bodies.

June 14, 2008 13:19

• Swedish parliament rejects resolution on Armenians' genocide

  The Parliament of Sweden (Riksdag) has refused to adopt a resolution to recognize the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey during WW I to be an act of genocide.

June 14, 2008 13:16

• Georgia refuses to negotiate Russia's accession to WTO

  The talks in Geneva on the new version of the report of the working group on Russia's accession to the WTO, planned for June 16, will pass without participation of Georgia.

June 14, 2008 13:10

• Russian and Ukrainian scientists to study Azov Sea problems

  One of the projects of the South Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, supported by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine and the Russian Fund of Fundamental Researches, will deal with fighting pollution of the Azov Sea.

June 14, 2008 13:00

• Azerbaijani authorities refuse to further amend their Electoral Code

  The authorities of Azerbaijan have no intention to make any more changes in the Electoral Code of the country.

June 14, 2008 12:55

• In Stavropol Region, people commemorate victims of militants' attack on Budyonnovsk

  Today, from early morning, the temples and churches of the city of Budyonnovsk (Stavropol Territory) have hosted sermons in memory of the victims of the 1995 attack on the city of armed militants under command of Shamil Basaev.

June 14, 2008 12:50

• Armenian opposition to hold rallies despite authorities' ban

  In the context of the refusal of the Mayoralty of the capital of Armenia to sanction the oppositional rally and march planned on June 20, the Nationwide Movement has made a statement that the opposition "would give another chance" to the authorities to sanction the events, but the rally will take place despite any possible prohibition.

June 13, 2008 22:57

• European Court: Russia to pay 120,000 euros to residents of Chechnya

  The European Court for Human Rights has satisfied two claims lodged by Chechnya's natives who had accused Russian authorities of implication in kidnapping their relatives in 2001-2003 and ruled that Russian government should to pay out over 120,000 euros of compensation.

June 13, 2008 22:51

• 5 persons convicted in Azerbaijan for espionage in favour of Russia

  Today, the Court on Heavy Military Crimes of Azerbaijan has finalized the process on the case of a group of former securities of the Baku Airport, accused of cooperating with Russian special agencies.