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21:23, 16 October 2008

Opposition asserts that presidential election in Azerbaijan was illegitimate

Members of the country's oppositional parties insist that the October 15 election of the head of Azerbaijan was not free, fair, honest or transparent and did not meet the respective international standards.

21:20, 16 October 2008

Khazbiev: Maksharip Aushev could have been killed during search in his house in Ingushetia

Magomed Khazbiev, head of the Nationwide Rally of Ingush People and Maksharip Aushev's comrade-in-arms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Maksharip, present owner of the independent Internet portal "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org"), whose house was searched today in the morning again without due sanction, is under threat of physical liquidation.

15:10, 15 October 2008

Iraqi government deploys troops in Mosul to protect Armenians

The Iraqi government has brought troops into the city of Mosul for defending local Armenians after armed Sunnite extremists attacked them, killing the owner of the shop of musical instruments and injuring his nephew.

15:03, 15 October 2008

David Sanakoev: Georgian schools are not closed in South Ossetia

Ombudsman for South Ossetia David Sanakoev has refuted the rumours that Georgian schools are closed in the Leninogorsk District of the Republic.

14:58, 15 October 2008

Khazbiev: Maksharip Aushev's house in Ingushetia is illegally searched

The house of Maksharip Aushev, the present owner of the independent Internet portal "Ingushetia.Ru" (now, "Ingushetia.Org"), is again surrounded. Magomed Khazbiev, Maksharip Aushev's comrade-in-arms and leader of the Nationwide Rally of Ingush People, who had earlier asked not to treat him and Maksharip Aushev as oppositionists, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that this was an intimidating action held by the Ingushetian MIA.

14:47, 15 October 2008

Russian Prosecutor-General's Office asks to leave those blamed of Politkovskaya's murder behind bars

Today, the Moscow District Military Court has begun preliminary hearing of the case on journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder. The General Prosecutor's Office asks to keep the persons accused of her murder in custody for other six months.

14:45, 15 October 2008

Shamba: Abkhazia dislikes the status offered to it in Geneva

Sergey Shamba, head of Abkhazia's MFA, told journalists that Abkhazia is not satisfied with the status offered to it at the international discussion in Geneva.

14:41, 15 October 2008

Abkhazia refutes information about shelling Georgian Rukhi village

Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali District Interior Department, has refuted the information about shelling by the Abkhazian party of the Georgian village of Rukhi.

14:38, 15 October 2008

Opposition states numerous violations at presidential election in Azerbaijan

In the course of the voting at presidential election in Azerbaijan serious facts of breaking the law have been fixed. This is the topic of the statement made by the Opposition Cooperation Centre (OCC), whose representatives are observing the course of election in different regions of the country, and delivered to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

14:13, 15 October 2008

Norwegian Helsinki Committee: Azerbaijan lacks room for free elections

The presidential election in Azerbaijan are taking place in the atmosphere, where free and fair elections are impossible, runs the statement of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (Den Norske Helsingforsko Mite), now at disposal of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

14:08, 15 October 2008

In Sochi, OMON fighters sentenced to 3-5 years in colony for beating teenagers

In Sochi today, a sentence was passed to eight OMON (Special Militia) fighters, accused of mass beating tourists in the children's boarding house "Druzhba" (Friendship). They will have to spend from three to five years in a colony.

15:03, 14 October 2008

Protests held in the capital of Dagestan against electricity breaks

On October 13, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, city residents twice blocked the traffic in the Ahmet-Khan Sultan Avenue demanding to resume electricity supply to their houses.

14:58, 14 October 2008

Kabardino-Balkaria: another BEBP member beaten

Today, about two o'clock in the afternoon, at an entrance of the house, where the office of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP) is located, an attack was made on Dalkhat Baidaev, a member of the Board, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

14:54, 14 October 2008

"Reporters without Borders": Azerbaijani media are not objective in informing about presidential candidates

The mass media funded from the state budget do not allow Azerbaijani voters to have a complete idea about presidential candidates and make a proper choice when voting. This is the main conclusion made on October 15 after a month-long monitoring of three TV-channels and four newspapers by the international organization in defence of the press named "Reporters without Borders".

14:49, 14 October 2008

Advocate in Politkovskaya's case reports an attempt to poison her

Karina Moskalenko, advocate in the case of assassinated journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, says that somebody tried to poison her in Strasbourg. According to the lawyer, pretty much "substance looking like mercury" was found in her car.

14:44, 14 October 2008

Earthquake in Chechnya caused more damage than announced earlier

As a result of the earthquake on October 11 in the territory of the Chechen Republic several thousands of buildings and private households suffered. The statistics of the damage caused by the calamity is updated as additional information arrives from the regions.

14:37, 14 October 2008

Sochi townspeople plan rallying against corruption

Residents of Sochi plan to hold a rally "In defence of Sochi dwellers who fell victims of lawlessness, arbitrariness and corruption of city bureaucrats". The action will take place on October 25, on the All-Russian Day of People's Anger - a number of Russian regions plan to hold actions of social protest on this day.

14:03, 14 October 2008

Georgian MFA: Russia has twice intruded into Georgian air space

In the evening on October 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has disseminated its official statement that on the previous day the country's air space was twice broken by Russian military aircrafts.

15:31, 13 October 2008

In Kalmykia, "Elistinskaya Panorama" newspaper is still away from parliament

Journalists of "Elistinskaya Panorama" are still not admitted to the Parliament of Kalmykia - National Hural, referring to the absence of the necessary accreditation.

15:27, 13 October 2008

In Azerbaijan, imprisoned journalist Fatullaev put into dungeon

On Sunday, October 12, advocate Isakhan Ashurov visited his client, Einullah Fatullaev, former editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper, who is serving his term in colonies No. 12 situated in Gyuzdek village. The visit was caused by the fact that on October 10 Mr Fatullaev was placed into a punishment cell (dungeon).

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