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November 12, 2007 21:22

• Bryza: USA want Georgian authorities to lift the emergency state

  Matthew Bryza, assistant of the US State Secretary, states that lifting of the emergency state in the Georgian capital is one of the main requests of the USA.

November 12, 2007 21:18

• The militants killed in the course of secret operation in Makhachkala identified in Dagestan

  The Dagestan MIA has cited the names of seven militants killed in the course of a secret operation conducted today in Makhachkala.

November 12, 2007 21:12

• Life-guards continue search for seamen from "Nakhichevan" dry cargo ship in Krasnodar krai

  Search is under way in the Kerch Strait, Krasnodar krai, for the crew members of the "Nakhichevan" dry cargo ship which sank in the Azov Sea on November 11.

November 12, 2007 21:08

• Andrei Rudomakha: environmental catastrophe in Kerch Strait was inevitable

  On November 11, six Russian sea vessels crashed in Kerch Strait in the storm (two dry cargo ships with sulfur load sank, a tanker cracked, and a non-self-propelled barge and a sea floating crane stuck in low water).

November 12, 2007 21:04

• Russian specialists shot at in Ingushetia: one killed and three wounded

  A car with Russian specialists in mobile communications has been shot at in the center of Nazran, Ingushetia. One person has been killed and three more wounded.

November 10, 2007 14:47

• Kvarcheliya: Saakashvili's policy takes Georgia away from democracy

  In the opinion of political scientist Liana Kvarcheliya, employee of Abkhasian Centre of Humanitarian Programs (CHP), the policy of Mikhail Saakashvili, the current Georgian president, is methodically and consistently taking the country away from democracy.

November 10, 2007 14:42

• Militiamen extort money from military servicemen under contract in Stavropol krai

  Two militiamen of a permanent unit at the railway station in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol krai, have been detained. They were extorting money from servicemen going to Chechnya and back.

November 10, 2007 14:35

• 32 terrorist acts registered in SFD during 9 months

  The Russian MIA department on SFD reports that 32 terrorist acts have been registered in the southern regions of Russia during 9 months of the current year.

November 10, 2007 14:30

• Trial of Irakli Okruashvili to start in Georgia on November 16

  The trial over Irakli Okruashvili, leader of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia", former Georgian Minister of Defense who is currently in Germany, is scheduled for November 16.

November 10, 2007 14:27

• Ingushetia residents indignant about murder of a six-year-old child

  The events in Chemulga village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia where a six-year-old child had been killed in the course of a secret operation in a private household caused a wave of indignation among the republic's residents.

November 10, 2007 14:16

• Dagestan court acquits persons accused of preparing terrorist act

  On Friday, November 9, the Soviet district court of Makhachkala passed a ruling which is unprecedented for Dagestan. The court held that Said Sultanbekov, Magomed Radzhabov and Ramazan Umarov accused of preparing a terrorist act in Makhachkala were not guilty while the evidence had been planted on them by militiamen.

November 09, 2007 12:52

• Child of 6 fatally wounded in a special operation in Ingushetia

  On November 9, in the course of a special operation in one of private households in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, a six-year old child was occasionally injured. The boy died in the place of the incident from the inflicted wound.

November 09, 2007 11:22

• Court to consider complaint against the verdict on "Ulman's case" in a closed session

  The sitting of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of Russia on the so-called "Ulman's case" has been postponed till November 29. The hearing of the complaint against the verdict to Ulman and his colleagues will be held in the closed mode.

November 09, 2007 11:17

• Meeting in defence of human rights to be held in Azerbaijan

  On December 10, a meeting will be held in Azerbaijan dedicated to defence of human rights, which is called to be a response to the attempts to restrict the freedom of speech and human rights.

November 09, 2007 11:11

• European Union criticizes the arrest of the editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper

  The European Union has resolutely blamed the verdict delivered on October 30, 2007, by the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan on condemning the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev to 8.5 years of imprisonment.

November 09, 2007 10:44

• Court decision on zoning the Sochi National Park cancelled in Adygea

  On November 9, the Supreme Court of Adygea cancelled the decision of the Maikop City Court made (on October 22) in favour of ecologist Valery Brinikh against the illegal, in his opinion, zoning of the Sochi National Park.

November 09, 2007 10:28

• Russian TV channels resumed in Georgia

  After about a 36-hour suspension, several hours ago Russian TV channels were restored in the cable television network of Tbilisi. Along with that, some of the Georgian channels are still off. This is the case with the "Imedi" (both TV and radio) and "Kavkasia".

November 09, 2007 10:25

• General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia brings a case on mass disorders

  The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of mass clashes during the opposition meeting in Tbilisi on November 7.

November 08, 2007 19:44

• Whereabouts of Louisa Teboeva, missing resident of Ingushetia, not established yet

  The fate of Louisa Teboeva, a resident of Ekazhevo village (Ingushetia) who disappeared on October 19, is still unknown.

November 08, 2007 19:39

• North Ossetian native Kaloev released from Swiss prison will come back home in a week

  Vitaly Kaloev, a native of North Ossetia, convicted in Switzerland for murdering a "SkyGuide" Company's air traffic controller and released from prison before his term, will return to Russia in the nearest seven or eight days.