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January 28, 2008 10:57

• Ombudsman: Volgograd militia illegally stops criminal cases

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, has expressed, while assessing the operation of the Regional GUVD in 2007, his concern with the fact that the number of justified claims of Volgograd residents to the activities of law enforcement bodies does not go down.

January 28, 2008 10:54

• Discord remains high-pitched on Sochi Olympic construction

  The roundtable "Environmental Problems in Construction of Olympic Sites in Sochi - Ways of Settlement" held on January 23 in the most expensive Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) "Peak Hotel" had a number of acute issues.

January 28, 2008 10:51

• Board of Elders of Balkar People appeals against decision of Kabardino-Balkaria's SC to the RF Supreme Court

  The Board of Elders of the Balkar People has filed a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which challenges the lawfulness of the decision to liquidate the BEBP passed by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on January 14.

January 28, 2008 10:47

• Human Rights Watch: indignant with detention of journalists and human rights activists in Ingushetia

  The Human Rights Watch believes the detention of journalists and human rights activists during the rally in Nazran (Ingushetia) on January 26 to be an encroachment on independent coverage of events.

January 26, 2008 13:13

• New rally in Ingushetia to be held on February 23

  A decision was made in Nazran (Ingushetia) at an extraordinary sitting of the Organizing Committee of the nationwide rally, where Maksharip Aushev, Magomed Evloev and other opposition leaders were present, to hold another rally on February 23.

January 26, 2008 13:09

• Over 20 persons detained on suspicion of taking part in mass disorders in Ingushetia

  According to the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic Ingushetia, currently, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic keep detained over 20 persons suspected of involvement in mass disorders in Nazran.

January 26, 2008 13:07

• Prosecutor's Office of Georgia not to arrest the license of the "Imedi" TV Company

  According to Nikoloz Gvaramiya, former Deputy Public Prosecutor of Georgia, the broadcasting license of the "Imedi" TV Company will not be arrested; the arrest will be imposed only on the property of Badri Patarkatsishvili.

January 26, 2008 13:05

• US Congress to consider a resolution condemning Hrant Dink's murder

  In the near future, the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress will consider Resolution No. 102, which condemns the murder of Hrant Dink, evaluates his heritage and calls on Turkey to step towards defence of the freedom of speech by liquidating Article 301.

January 26, 2008 13:01

• 35 terror acts accomplished in SFD last year

  In 2007, 630 crimes of terrorist nature were committed in the South Federal District (SFD) - 83 percent of the total number committed all over Russia.

January 26, 2008 12:55

• Ingushetia: protesters move from Nazran to Magas

  The participants of the rally have stopped their mass action in Nazran (Ingushetia) and now make their way to Magas, where Murat Zyazikov, President of Ingushetia, has his residence.

January 26, 2008 11:47

• Correspondents of "Echo Moskvy", Radio Liberty and "Novaya Gazeta" detained in Ingushetia

  Today, in Nazran (Ingushetia), where a mass rally of oppositionists and their supporters was dispersed, two correspondents of "Echo Moskvy" Radio (Vladimir Varfolomeyev and Roman Plyusov), one of Radio Liberty (Danila Galperovich) and one of "Novaya Gazeta" (Olga Bobrova) were detained.

January 25, 2008 19:06

• Russians ask IOC not to admit Sochi Olympic construction in reserve territories

  Residents of 12 subjects of the Russian Federation have addressed the International Olympic Committee with a request not to allow erection of Olympic objects in the Grushevy Ridge and within buffer zone of the Caucasian Reserve. The appeal was signed by 6,074 persons.

January 25, 2008 19:04

• Jury acquits suspects of murdering Armenian near Moscow

  Jurymen have completely acquitted the defendants in the murder case of Arthur Sardaryan, 19, a native of Armenia, who was killed in a Moscow suburb on the motive of nationalist hostility.

January 25, 2008 18:25

• Armenia demands disclosing student's murder in Moscow

  The authorities of Armenia demand an immediate investigation into the murder of Armenian student Vladimir Karamdzhan, who was attacked by a mob of unidentified teenagers in Moscow and later died from received knife wounds.

January 25, 2008 18:19

• Human rights centre of Kabardino-Balkaria starts its website

  The Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre has started its Internet website at zapravakbr.com.

January 25, 2008 18:15

• Human rights activists believe that special operation in Ingushetia aims to hamper the opposition rally

  The announcement of a part of Ingushetian territory to be zone of counterterrorist operation is aimed to hamper the rally of the opposition planned for January 26 in Nazran - this is the opinion of human rights activists.

January 25, 2008 18:09

• Property of "Imedi" TV Company arrested in Georgia

  Court of Tbilisi has seized the property of the "Imedi" TV Company, where businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili is the founder, and which had planned to restart broadcasting since January 28.

January 24, 2008 23:29

• Sochi OMON commanders deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating tourists

  Commanders of Sochi OMON deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating in summer 2006 young men in the territory of children's summer camp "Druzhba".

January 24, 2008 23:25

• 5,000 Russians demand choosing another place for sleigh-bobsleigh track in Sochi

  On January 23, the Greenpeace delegation handed over to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne lists with 5,000 signatures of the Russians who demand to transfer the Sochi Olympic sleigh-bobsleigh track to another place.

January 24, 2008 23:18

• Lawyer Aliev: nobody knows how European Court's decisions on Azerbaijan are enforced

  The European Court for Human Rights has passed 11 decisions against Azerbaijan, however, the legal community of the country possesses no official information on whether the Azerbaijani government fulfils these decisions or not.