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November 20, 2007 21:06

• Soso Baratashvili hopes for restart of "Imedi" broadcasting before presidential election in Georgia

  The "Imedi" TV and Radio Company has hopes for restart of broadcasting before the forthcoming presidential election in Georgia.

November 20, 2007 21:01

• Tarzan Kokoity: Georgian police plants drugs on captured Ossetians

  Georgia continues capturing peaceful residents of South Ossetia by planting drugs and weapons on them. This was the comment of Tarzan Kokoity, Chairman of the Parliament of the RSO, on detention by Georgian special agencies of Ossetian Dzhambolat Kokaev, accused by the Georgian party of keeping drugs.

November 20, 2007 20:49

• WWF is dissatisfied with how the oil spillage in the Kerch Strait is eliminated

  Representatives of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) assert that liquidation works of the oil spillage consequences in the Kerch Strait are inefficient.

November 19, 2007 13:08

• NTV: Georgian authorities used acoustic system to disperse the November 7 meeting

  It is quite probable that the authorities of Georgia used a special acoustic system for dispersing the opposition meeting on November 7; the operation of the system causes sharp pain in ears and a feeling of inexplicable and uncontrollable fear and panic in humans.

November 19, 2007 13:01

• Iran: activist of the Movement for the Rights of Azerbaijanis of South Azerbaijan dies in prison

  In Gyzylkhesar prison of the Iranian city of Karadzh, Medzhid Khudai Gamidoglu, an activist of the Movement for the Rights of South Azerbaijan Azerbaijanis and a member of the Party for Independence of South Azerbaijan, was lost.

November 19, 2007 12:48

• Armenian opposition condemns beating of the leader of youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni"

  Liudmila Sarkisyan, Chairperson of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party of Armenia, has condemned the beating of Narek Galstyan, leader of the youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Party.

November 19, 2007 12:43

• Georgian authorities prevent to restart broadcasting of the "Imedi" Radio

  The government of Georgia does not allow the "Imedi" Radio Station to resume broadcasting.

November 19, 2007 12:40

• Moscow City Court leaves three suspects of involvement in Politkovskaya's murder under arrest

  The Moscow City Court has rejected the complaints lodged by advocates of the brothers Tamerlan and Ibragim Makhmudovs and Magomed Demelkhanov who asked to release the three convicts in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.

November 19, 2007 12:24

• Sydoruk: militants received $1.5 million on destabilization of the situation in Northern Caucasus

  Terrorists have received over one and a half million US dollars for destabilization of the situation in Northern Caucasus before the forthcoming parliamentary elections, and the law enforcement bodies failed to block the channels of funding the militants.

November 19, 2007 12:00

• Krasnodar: doctors who have mutilated Sonya Kulivets convicted to a year in colony

  In Krasnodar both defendants in the case of newborn Sonya Kulivets - doctor Vladimir Pelipenko and nurse Elena Senicheva - have been sentenced to one year of imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

November 17, 2007 15:27

• Georgia: second Okruashvili's sentence in absentia to arrest

  In Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the State Office of Public Prosecutor and ruled in absentia another pre-trial arrest for Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence.

November 17, 2007 15:23

• Opposition of Ingushetia warns the authorities against attempts to hamper the rally

  The opposition of Ingushetia is warning the authorities against any attempts to prevent to hold an all-Republic's protest rally.

November 17, 2007 15:17

• United Nations welcome lifting the state of emergency in Georgia

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed the cancelling of the state of emergency in Georgia and expressed his hope for a fast and complete restoration of the freedom of all the mass media operating in this country.

November 17, 2007 15:12

• Main versions of Kerch Strait catastrophes made public

  The investigators have announced the main reasons of the numerous ship-wrecks on November 11 in the Kerch Strait.

November 17, 2007 15:04

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria dies by jumping down from the fourth floor of the UBOP building

  Zeitun Gaev, 29, a resident of Gerpegezh village, who was detained on November 15, died in Kabardino-Balkaria.

November 16, 2007 23:29

• European Court condemns Russian authorities on three complaints from Chechnya

  On November 15, the European Court for Human Rights (ECfHR) satisfied three complaints lodged by Chechen residents and found Russia guilty of violent disappearances, extrajudicial executions and illegal capture and destruction of private property in Chechnya.

November 16, 2007 11:33

• "Ingushetia.ru" calls on Internet users to give up services of Telecom LLC and ITT CJSC

  The Internet resource "Ingushetia.ru", where access had been stopped by the order of the authorities of Ingushetia, has made a statement calling on the Ingush Internet users to refuse from the services of the Internet providers - the Telecom Limited Liability Company and the ITT Closed Joint-Stock Company.

November 16, 2007 11:24

• Scientists warned the authorities about the forthcoming catastrophe in the Kerch Strait

  The Ukrainian scientists had tried to warn the authorities about the catastrophe that was approaching in the Kerch Strait; however, nobody listened to them.

November 16, 2007 11:21

• Whole circulation of the book about Azerbaijani printed media destroyed

  According to the ruling of the Binagadinskiy District Court of Azerbaijan, the whole circulation of the book "Public TV in the Press Mirror" will be confiscated and destroyed.

November 16, 2007 11:16

• A man beaten at dispersal of the opposition meeting dies in the capital of Georgia

  In Georgia, a craniocerebral trauma has caused death of a man who suffered during the dispersal of the meeting of the united opposition held in Tbilisi on November 7.