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June 06, 2008 18:46

• Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet in St-Petersburg

  St-Petersburg was the venue of the first meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Serzh Sarkisyan and Ilham Aliev have agreed to continue negotiations on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of Madrid proposals.

June 06, 2008 15:38

• Moscow court stops "Ingushetia.Ru" opposition website

  Today, the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow has stopped the operation of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", thus having satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, which stuck to the opinion that the site was disseminating extremist information.

June 06, 2008 15:09

• Solana discussed in Abkhazia settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

  Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, has discussed the issues settling the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict with Abkhazian leaders.

June 06, 2008 13:23

• Prime minister of Armenia brings an action against ex-prime minister

  Tigran Sarkisyan, former Chairman of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia and nowadays the Prime Minister of the country, has lodged a claim on protection of his honour, dignity and professional reputation against Grant Bagratyan, leader of the oppositional non-parliamentary party "Azatyutyun" (Freedom), who was the prime minister of Armenia in 1993-1996.

June 06, 2008 11:07

• Two burials with remains of kidnapped persons found in Chechnya

  During several recent days, in the Gudermes and Vedeno Districts of Chechnya, several burials have been detected. The authorities of Chechnya assert that all the casualties fell victims of extrajudicial executions of the militaries of the "Vostok" (East) battalion commanded by Sulim Yamadaev.

June 05, 2008 18:31

• EU High Commissioner will not become intermediary between Georgian opposition and authorities

  Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, who has arrived today to Tbilisi, has stated that he would not mediate the conflict between the opposition and the authorities of Georgia.

June 05, 2008 13:27

• Azerbaijan: "Azadlyg" opposition block boycotts presidential election

  Three oppositional parties - the People's Front, Party of Citizens and Development and Liberal Party of Azerbaijan, united into the block named "Azadlyg", have officially declared their boycott of the presidential election appointed for October 15, 2008.

June 05, 2008 10:24

• In Ingushetia, nationwide opposition rally postponed

  In Ingushetia, representatives of the opposition have made a decision to postpone for indefinite time the rallies in five dwelling settlements of Ingushetia, which were appointed for tomorrow, June 6.

June 05, 2008 08:17

• Georgia sums up parliamentary elections

  The Central Electoral Commission of Georgia has promulgated the final totals of the parliamentary elections held May 21. Five parties will form the parliament of the country.

June 05, 2008 07:12

• Kozak: cost of Sochi Olympic objects will be defined by end of year

  Dmitri Kozak, Minister for Regional Development of the Russian Federation, has stated that the final construction cost of all the objects erected for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympiad will be defined by the end of 2008 after finalizing the project and budget documentation.

June 04, 2008 22:26

• Capital of Chechnya getting ready for international film festival

  On June 13-19, the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, will host the First International Film Festival under the name of "Noah's Ark". Preparation for the event is now especially fast.

June 04, 2008 19:21

• "Gazprom" offers Azerbaijan European gas prices

  The offer made by the "Gazprom" on gas purchase from Azerbaijan is a long-term deal based on the commercial European price. This news was made public on June 4 by Vasily Istratov, Russia's Ambassador to Baku, in a press conference.

June 04, 2008 18:57

• Editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta" would not find Politkovskaya's murder cleared

  The murder case of the "Novaya Gazeta" observer Anna Politkovskaya cannot be regarded as cleared. This was stated by Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the paper, who made his comments on the statement of inspector Vladimir Markin that by June 20 they plan to announce the end of the preliminary investigation of this crime.

June 04, 2008 17:49

• Subari: after elections, situation with human rights in Georgia is poor

  After the parliamentary elections, Georgia faces a miserable situation in the sphere of human rights, which surely demands estimation, the National Defender of Georgia (Ombudsman) Sozar Subari has stated in today's press conference.

June 04, 2008 14:38

• Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia calls on people not to go to June 6 rallies

  The Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia treats the rallies planned for June 6 by the opposition of the Republic in several dwelling settlements as illegitimate and calls the residents "not to be on the bit of the offenders."

June 04, 2008 13:33

• Beslan terror act victims demand to bring case against Putin

  On June 4, the members of the all-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" lodged an application to the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation with a demand to interrogate the former president, and nowadays the prime minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin as a witness in case about the terror act in Beslan school in September 2004, and to initiate a criminal case against him.

June 04, 2008 12:30

• Presentation of the book on use of prisoners' labour in USSR held in Rostov-on-Don

  The city of Rostov-on-Don was the venue the present the book named "Prisoners at Communism Construction Sites. GULAG and Power Engineering Sites. Collection of Documents and Photos".

June 03, 2008 22:39

• Residents of Chechnya are indignant with removal of deportation victims' memorial to the garbage dump

  In Chechnya, the conflict continues, caused by the intention of the authorities to remove the Memorial erected in 1992 in the Chechen capital in memory of the victims of 1944 deportation to a city suburb. People are revolted with the fact that the place allocated for the new memorial is now a garbage dump.

June 03, 2008 20:33

• Israel wants to buy gas from Azerbaijan

  Israel plans to sign a long-term contract with Azerbaijan on delivery of natural gas. This was announced today by Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister for National infrastructure, in a press conference in Baku.

June 03, 2008 20:27

• Moscow: mass fight with participation of Armenian natives

  Today at night, a mass fight with participation of Armenian natives burst out in the Stavropolskaya Street of Moscow. The law enforcement bodies do not exclude the ethnic pretext of the conflict, although there is no official confirmation.