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07:15, 10 June 2008

The opening ceremony of the "Noah's Ark" First International Movie Festival to be held on June 13-19 in the capital of Chechnya will be visited by well-known American actors Mark Dacascos and Armand Assante.

07:08, 10 June 2008

Pitsunda to host international forum "Abkhazia-2008. Investments, Prospects"

The international economic forum under the motto "Abkhazia-2008. Investments, Prospects", organized by Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Abkhazia with the help of the Republic's Government, will take place on June 17-21 in the sea report of Pitsunda.

21:54, 9 June 2008

Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group to visit Azerbaijan and Armenia

Azerbaijan and Armenia have decided to continue negotiations on settling the Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group, and later in June the co-chairs of the Group will visit the conflict region again.

18:51, 9 June 2008

Georgia: 60 women-inmates start hunger strike

On June 8, some 60 prisoners of women's colony in Tbilisi announced a hunger strike demanding revision of their verdicts.

13:45, 9 June 2008

Oreshkin: today's presidents of Chechnya and Ingushetia are Kremlin's favourites

Dmitri Oreshkin, a Russian political scientist, believes that the current presidents of Chechnya and Ingushetia are gainful for the Kremlin: Ramzan Kadyrov controls Chechnya, and Murat Zyazikov is loyal to the Russian leadership.

12:41, 9 June 2008

Karabakh marks change of Azerbaijani tactics in conflict settlement

At the debate held on June 8 in Stepanakert on the topic "People's Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities", representatives of Karabakh NGOs and state structures registered a change in Azerbaijani tactics towards settling the Karabakh conflict.

11:36, 9 June 2008

US Ambassador: Georgia and Ukraine are not yet ready to be NATO members

Victoria Nuland, US Ambassador to NATO, asserts that Ukraine and Georgia, whose accession to NATO's Membership Action Plan was postponed till December, are not yet ready to become members of the Alliance.

10:33, 9 June 2008

Election Monitoring Centre scarifies amendments to Azerbaijani Electoral Code

In their essence, the amendment in the Electoral Code, recently approved by the Parliament of Azerbaijan, create no legal guarantees for eliminating the main problems on the road towards free and fair elections. This conclusion was made by the experts of the Election Monitoring Centre (EMC).

09:26, 9 June 2008

Militants who were searched killed in Dagestan

The bodies of three young men killed in the Hasavyurt District on June 7 as a result of a skirmish with militiamen in Dagestan have been identified. Two of them had been searched.

19:55, 7 June 2008

Armenia: rallies in defence of political prisoners continue

In the district of Vanatur of the Razdan city in Armenia, a hunger strike with a demand to release all political prisoners was launched by war veterans of the voluntary regiment Arshavir Bazinyan, Ashot Nersisyan, Norik Sarkisyan, Samvel Panosyan, Eduard Sarkisyan and widow Janet Nersisyan.

17:46, 7 June 2008

Rostov Region: ecologists bag subscriptions against NPP construction

In Rostov-on-Don, ecology activists have started to bag subscriptions under a petition of townspeople to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev with an appeal to refrain from building new nuclear power plants.

15:43, 7 June 2008

In Georgia, opposition failed to hamper the parliament

Today, the capital of Georgia hosted the first sitting of the parliament of the new convocation elected on May 21. The sitting was attended by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia Elias the Second.

12:39, 7 June 2008

Movie Festival "Kinotaurus" starts in Sochi

Tonight, Sochi will host the opening ceremony of the 21st "Kinotaurus" Open Russian Movie Festival. In total, the jury will choose among 14 films, 9 of them made by debutants.

11:30, 7 June 2008

Russian railway troops can stay on in Abkhazia

Restoration of the railway in Abkhazia can take more than two months, said Sergey Shamba, head of the Abkhazian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when making comments on the statement of the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov that the units of the railway troops of Russia will leave the territory of Abkhazia within the nearest two months.

10:24, 7 June 2008

Chechnya's parliament to become unicameral

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has signed a new law on election of deputies to the Parliament of Chechnya, according to which the legislature will become unicameral.

21:56, 6 June 2008

United Opposition of Georgia would not give up boycotting the parliament

Despite the doubts of its individual members, the United Opposition of Georgia sticks to its decision to boycott the work of the new parliament, which has appointed its first session on June 7.

19:52, 6 June 2008

Trutnev: ecologists' complains on Sochi preparation for the Olympiad destroy the image of Russia

Yuri Trutnev, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, believes that the claims put forward by ecologists in the context of preparation for 2014 Sochi Olympiad can undermine the image of Russia.

18:46, 6 June 2008

Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet in St-Petersburg

St-Petersburg was the venue of the first meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Serzh Sarkisyan and Ilham Aliev have agreed to continue negotiations on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of Madrid proposals.

15:38, 6 June 2008

Moscow court stops "Ingushetia.Ru" opposition website

Today, the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow has stopped the operation of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", thus having satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, which stuck to the opinion that the site was disseminating extremist information.

15:09, 6 June 2008

Solana discussed in Abkhazia settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, has discussed the issues settling the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict with Abkhazian leaders.

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