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12:12, 3 June 2008

Shamil Buraev arrested on Politkovskaya's case set free

The investigation has decided to release another figurant of the criminal case on Anna Politkovskaya's murder - Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya.

10:08, 3 June 2008

Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdict to Fatullaev

Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan presided by Judge Muzaffar Agazade has considered a cassation complaint lodged by Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief and founder of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" (Daily Azerbaijan).

20:13, 2 June 2008

USA and NATO are concerned with deployment of Russia's railway battalion in Abkhazia

The USA and NATO are worried about the deployment of the railway troops of the Russian Ministry of Defence in Abkhazia, and think that such actions will not lead to improvement of Russian-Georgian relations.

17:56, 2 June 2008

Ramzan Kadyrov: removal of memorial to victims of repressions is reasonable

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has approved the decision of the city administration of Grozny on removal of the complex in memory of victims of the 1944 deportation from the central part of city to a suburb and stated that the monument to the victims of repressions should be grandiose.

16:43, 2 June 2008

Victims of 1999 terror act in Moscow ask Medvedev to hold independent investigation

The victims of the explosion of an apartment house in the Guryanova Street in 1999 in Moscow demand from Dmitri Medvedev, the new president of Russia, to initiate an independent investigation, explaining that the case has many suspicious circumstances and "facts hidden under the table cloth."

15:25, 2 June 2008

Azerbaijani parliament amends the Electoral Code

Today, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan has adopted amendments and additions to the national Electoral Code. The changes were brought in by President Ilham Aliev in the form of his legislative initiative.

15:00, 2 June 2008

Georgian journalists demand to reinstate "Imedi' radio managers

The statement of journalists of Georgia with a demand to reinstate former managers of the "Imedi" Radio Station in their previous positions was disseminated in all media after Nona Kandiashvili, Broadcasting Director of the "Imedi", and Irakliy Khetereli, Director General, were dismissed on May 30, 2008.

14:18, 2 June 2008

UN ecologists call on Russia to revise location of Sochi Olympiad sites

The UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme - has supported the appeals of the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace of Russia to remove the sledge and bobsleigh complex and the Olympic Village to be erected for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics from the Grushevoy Ridge to some alternative locations.

13:13, 2 June 2008

Three Azerbaijanis wounded in a fight with Dagestanians in St-Petersburg

Three citizens of Azerbaijan were hospitalized with traumas and knife wounds after a fight with the natives of Dagestan in the Nevskiy District of St-Petersburg.

21:27, 31 May 2008

Russian railway troops to rebuilt the railway in Abkhazia

A battalion of railway troops of Russia has arrived to Abkhazia with a mission to repair the railway section running from Sukhum to Ochamchira in the east of Abkhazia. The battalion is equipped with all the necessary machinery for the aim of the mission.

16:18, 31 May 2008

USA to allocate 0.7 million dollars on GUAM development

The US Government plans to provide about 700,000 dollars for structural development of the GUAM - the economic-political association of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova.

15:13, 31 May 2008

Chkheidze: parliamentary elections in Georgia were more democratic that the presidential one

According to Georgiy Chkheidze, Chairman of the NGO named "Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia" (AYLG), the parliamentary elections in Georgia were more democratic than the presidential one: this time, more attention was given to observers' complaints.

14:57, 31 May 2008

United States criticize the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan

The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour of the US Department of State has published its annual report on the status with human rights and democracy in the world. The chapter on Azerbaijan runs that support of human rights there remains bad and has aggravated in certain areas.

12:26, 31 May 2008

Armenia: hunger strike in "Erablur" military pantheon continues

The protest hunger strike initiated on May 27 by ex-combatants and members of the "Republic" Party is held for the fifth day already near the chapel of the "Erablur" military pantheon in Yerevan. The participants of the action demand to release all the political prisoners in fulfilment of the PACE's Resolution No. 1609 in relation to Armenia.

19:54, 30 May 2008

Akbulatov: Russia fails to completely fulfil European Court's decisions on Chechnya

Head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Shakhman Akbulatov has stated, while making his comments on the May 29 decision of the European Court for Human Rights obliging Russia to pay out money compensation to five residents of Chechnya, that Russia fails to completely fulfil the decisions of the European Court.

18:30, 30 May 2008

Several oppositionists beaten in Georgia

Amiran Iobashvili, a member of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", was beaten in the morning near his house by five person in masks armed with truncheons. Earlier, at night, two members of the block "United Opposition: National Council - Right-Wingers" and the Republican Party were beaten in Tbilisi and Gori.

18:03, 30 May 2008

Pogromists of Azerbaijanis convicted in Transbaikalia

Today, the Khilok District Court of the Transbaikalian Territory has announced a verdict on the criminal case against 32 local residents accused of attacking in May 2006 families of Azerbaijani natives in the village of Kharagun, where 11 persons suffered and one perished.

16:46, 30 May 2008

Ruslan Aushev's cousin heavily wounded in Ingushetia

In Ingushetia, Vakha Evloev, cousin of the ex-president of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev, was heavily wounded. His car was shelled in the Surkhakhi village. Mr Evloev with gunshot wounds was delivered to the central hospital of Nazran in a critical condition.

15:06, 30 May 2008

Suspects of funding Chechen separatists detained in Bulgaria

Bulgaria has stopped a criminal group suspected of financing militants in Chechnya.

14:21, 30 May 2008

Armenian human rights activists ask to punish those who attacked Kharatyan

Thirteen NGOs and human rights organizations of Armenia have disseminated a statement demanding to hold an objective investigation of the attack on the head of the Youth Movement "It Has Begun" Arsen Kharatyan and to punish the criminals.

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