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October 08, 2007 19:05

• "North-Caucasian Platform" pickets Russian Embassy in Turkey

  The protest action held on October 4 at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul (Turkey) was organized by the "North-Caucasian Platform."

October 08, 2007 19:01

• Lagunina: Radio Liberty never said that Trepashkin accused advocate Kosik of her links with FSB

  The Radio Liberty has nothing in common with the information disseminated by media on its behalf that ex-FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, condemned for disclosure of state secrets, suspects his advocate Lyubov Kosik of her tie-up with the FSB and work in the interests of the prosecution.

October 08, 2007 18:53

• Azerbaijani refugees ask Bako Saakyan to consider their petitions

  The Civil Society Network named "Refugees and International Law" asks President of Nagorno-Karabakh Bako Saakyan to help refugees from Azerbaijan.

October 08, 2007 18:49

• Okruashvili's evidences are a surprise for Georgian opposition

  The evidences given by Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia and now the leader of the opposition party "For United Georgia," have stirred up the Georgian society.

October 08, 2007 18:44

• General Prosecutor's Office announces clearing Politkovskaya's murder

  Sources from the General Prosecutor's Office are stating that the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya has been cleared: perpetrators detained, inspectors know the killer and even have assumptions as to the customer of the crime.

October 05, 2007 17:52

• Lady journalist from Chechnya is the first Anna Politkovskaya's annual award winner

  In London, Natalia Estemirova, a journalist and human rights activist from Chechnya, has been awarded with the first annual award named after Anna Politkovskaya.

October 05, 2007 17:49

• PACE demands international investigation of Politkovskaya's murder

  A group of deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has suggested the member countries of the Council to conduct an international investigation into the circumstances of the murder committed last October of Anna Politkovskaya.

October 05, 2007 17:44

• International forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya disrupted in Nizhni Novgorod

  The international forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," which was to start today, has been disrupted.

October 05, 2007 15:58

• People in Turkey protest against the 450th anniversary of voluntary affiliation of Adygs by Russia and 2014 Olympics in Sochi

  In front of the Russian Embassy in Istanbul, on October 4, the "Zhineps" Circassian Organization of Turkey held a protest action against the celebrations of the 450th anniversary of voluntary accession of Adygs to the Russian state and against 2014 Olympiad to be held in the city of Sochi.

October 04, 2007 16:07

• Activist of the People's Front of Azerbaijan discharged from mental hospital

  Alesker Ismailov, 70, an activist of the Nakhichevan Branches of the Party of People's Front of Azerbaijan was discharged today from Psychiatric Hospital No. 1. According to Ismailov, he was placed into hospital after he had written an application to the head of the state, Baku OSCE Office, Milli Medzhlis and to the General Public Prosecutor about the emergency condition of the walls of his house.

October 04, 2007 16:03

• Ecologists demand to stop experimenting on children in Stavropol Territory

  Today, because of the mass outbreak of acute intestinal infection in kindergartens of the city of Lermontov, Stavropol Territory, the supporters of the Territorial Ecological Organization "Podorozhnik" have picketed the building of the Russian State Committee for Consumer Goods Supervision with a demand to stop experiments on children.

October 04, 2007 15:58

• Human Rights Watch reports on persecutions of Georgian natives in the Russian Federation

  The Human Rights Watch international organization has published a report on the anti-Georgian campaign in Russia, analyzing the facts of persecutions against natives of Georgia last autumn at the background of aggravated Georgian-Russian relations.

October 04, 2007 15:55

• European Court adjudges almost 200,000 euros to three women from Chechnya on cases versus Russia

  The European Court for Human Rights has obliged Russia to pay out almost 200,000 euros of compensation to three ladies - natives of Chechnya; this is a record sum for one day's work of the Court in Strasbourg.

October 04, 2007 15:52

• Materials on kidnapping of Aushev brothers sent from Ingushetia to Chechnya

  Since the kidnapping of the Aushevs, residents of the Ingush settlement of Surkhakhi, was accomplished in the territory of the Chechen Republic, the materials gathered on the case have been sent to the investigatory bodies of Chechnya.

October 04, 2007 15:49

• Another criminal case to be initiated against Stanislav Dmitrievskiy

  A new aspect has appeared in the prosecution of Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, analyst of the Nizhniy Novgorod Tolerance Support Foundation.

October 03, 2007 22:26

• The European Court will rule in two cases concerning civilian killings in Staropromyslovski district of Grozny

  On 4 October 2007, the European Court of Human Rights will rule in two cases concerning attacks on civilians in Grozny, the Chechen capital, by Russian Federal forces, in January 2000.

October 03, 2007 11:54

• Advocates of Farkhad Aliev, Azerbaijani ex-Minister of Economic Development, demand to release their client

  Today, at the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, the defenders of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, have demanded to release their client.

October 03, 2007 11:50

• Refugees' village in North Ossetia remains without gas, electricity and water

  On October 2, supplies of electricity, gas and water were cut off the Novy settlement in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, inhabited by several thousands of forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushes by nationality.

October 03, 2007 11:44

• Court requests statement about burial of militants' bodies in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Nalchik City Court has requested the statement about the burial of the persons who had perished as a result of the armed collision on October 13, 2005 in Nalchik.

October 03, 2007 11:39

• Protest action of blind people held at the mayoralty building in Tbilisi, Georgia

  Today, a protest action of the Association for Defence of Blind People's Rights took place at the mayoralty building of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.