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January 24, 2008 23:00

• Access to Internet stopped in Ingushetia on the eve of opposition rally

  On the eve of the rally of the opposition against corruption, kidnappings and unlawful executions, planned for January 26, two Ingushetian Internet providers - the Closed Joint-Stock Company "ITT" and the Limited Liability Company "Telecom" - have received orders today to stop the service of connecting their clients to the Internet.

January 24, 2008 22:49

• Most complaints against Russia in the Strasbourg Court are on events in Chechnya

  The report of the European Court for Human Rights published on January 23 notes that last year the Court revealed 175 facts of human rights violations in Russia.

January 24, 2008 22:44

• Main reasons of November 2007 catastrophe in Kerch Strait announced

  The Russian Ministry of Transportation has announced that the principal causes of vessels' destruction in the Kerch Strait in November 2007 were complicated weather conditions and poor control over navigation safety.

January 23, 2008 13:05

• Residents of Makhachkala block Imam Shamil Avenue

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, today starting from 5 p.m., local residents have blocked traffic along the Imam Shamil Avenue in protest against electricity cut-offs.

January 23, 2008 13:01

• Khidasheli: OSCE is rather critical in assessing the presidential election in Georgia

  Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party of Georgia and representative of the United Opposition, believes that in reality the OSCE's estimates of the election was critical enough, but because of tendentious presenting the Georgian television this criticism was somehow lost.

January 23, 2008 12:55

• Human Rights Watch concerned with trial of "Voice of Beslan"

  The International Human Rights Watch Organization has expressed its anxiety with the pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, in whose materials the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has revealed extremist information.

January 23, 2008 12:34

• Contract soldiers from Dagestan protest against nationality-motivated dismissals

  On January 22, over two hundred Dagestanians-contract soldiers from the military units deployed in Khankala held a picket in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against their nationality-motivated dismissals.

January 23, 2008 12:01

• Militants planned terror act at rally in Ingushetia

  According to today's information of Svetlana Gorbakova, senior assistant to the head of the investigatory department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, the explosive that blew up in a car on January 22 in Nazran (Ingushetia) was intended for the rally to be held on January 26.

January 22, 2008 12:52

• Armenians of Krasnodar Territory demand from Turkish authorities to solve Hrant Dink's murder

  On January 20, a meeting of leaders of a number of Armenian NGOs of the Krasnodar Territory was held in Tenginka village of the Tuapse District. The meeting was in memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos" published in Turkey who was killed one year ago.

January 22, 2008 12:46

• So far, Poland fails to grant refugee's status to the Chechen woman whose children died in the mountains

  The family from Chechnya, which had lost three daughters in Bieszczady mountains during their illegal crossing of the Ukrainian-Polish border, could not get the refugee's status in Poland, although it had been personally promised to them by Maria Kachinska, wife of the incumbent president of this country.

January 22, 2008 12:40

• People's Party holds rally opposite US Embassy in Georgia

  Today, the People's Party has held a rally near the building of the US Embassy in the capital of Georgia, having accused the USA of supporting the election falsifications.

January 22, 2008 12:33

• Edelev: special operations in Dagestan and Ingushetia can continue till March

  Special actions conducted by militia in Dagestan and Ingushetia can go on till March.

January 22, 2008 12:26

• Dagestan: accused militants' accomplice released from the courtroom

  In Dagestan the court has acquitted Arsen Dzhanbatyrov in exchange of him giving up. Prior to criminal prosecution Dzhanbatyrov was registered as kidnapped.

January 21, 2008 10:34

• Memory of Hrant Dink honoured in capital of Georgia

  On January 19, an event was held at the office of Georgian Ombudsman under the motto "Journalists - Victims of Freedom of Speech" dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos", published in Istanbul, who was killed in Turkey, and also in memory of Giorgiy Sanaya, Anna Politkovskaya and many other journalists who fell victim of their professional work.

January 21, 2008 10:27

• Andrei Rudomakha: local ecologists not invited to roundtable in Sochi

  The roundtable entitled "Environmental Problems in Construction of Olympic Objects in Sochi - Ways of Solution", to be held in the Red Valley (Krasnodar Territory), planned on January 23, will take place without local ecologists who were not invited.

January 21, 2008 10:03

• Public and politicians are concerned of atmosphere of fear in Armenia

  The Public and Political Movement "Legitimate President 2008" is stating facts of illegal propaganda organized by the authorities of the Armenia and stirring up the atmosphere of fear in the country before the elections.

January 21, 2008 09:59

• Court decides to find Manana Aslamazyan for in presentio trial

  Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has rejected the complaint against announcement of search of Manana Aslamazyan, director of the "Internews".

January 21, 2008 09:54

• Agency asks Dagestan Interior Minister to defend domestic journalists

  The "Caucasus Times" News Agency has addressed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan with a demand "to restrain those who exerts unreasonable and illegal pressure on journalists and the 'Free Republic' newspaper."

January 19, 2008 12:04

• Subari: Georgia has serious successes in fighting trafficking

  A meeting on trafficking problems was held in the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia.

January 19, 2008 12:01

• European observers express remarks on Georgian election

  The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.