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18:05, 5 July 2007

Defender of ex-head of Armenian MFA to appeal against court's verdict in Arzumanian's case

Ovik Arsenyan, advocate of Alexander Arzumanian, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, has filed a petition to the Appeal Court claiming to appeal against the first instance court's decision on extension by two months the ex-Minister's custody term.

16:09, 5 July 2007

Amnesty International: refugees are in disaster in Azerbaijan

Some 700,000 Azerbaijanis, who have received, after 1994, the status of internally displaced persons in connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, are facing serious discrimination and segregation in Azerbaijan.

15:04, 5 July 2007

State Duma toughens punishment for extremism

On July 4, the State Duma approved in the second reading amendments to the Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," to the Criminal Code and a number of other legislative acts.

14:16, 5 July 2007

A new meeting of residents of Manaskent village held in Dagestan

On July 4, hundreds of local residents rallied in Manaskent village (Dagestan) with the demand to hold an objective investigation and punish those guilty of murdering local resident Kamil Chamsudinov.

11:10, 5 July 2007

Sochi will host 2014 Winter Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games will take place in the city of Sochi. It was announced in Guatemala at the session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

17:34, 4 July 2007

Prosecutor's office finds no violations in dispersal of the "Disagreement March" in Moscow

The Moscow City Prosecutor's Office has found no excess of official powers by militiamen at dispersal of the "Disagreement March" on April 14, and refused to initiate any criminal cases.

15:30, 4 July 2007

Official charges presented to editor of "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper

The Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan has presented two charges to Einullah Fatullaev, editor of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan," under Articles 214 (1) and 283 (2.2) of the Criminal Code.

14:41, 4 July 2007

Action against Olympic Games dispersed in Moscow because of a jest about Putin

On July 3, an authorized picket against Sochi Olympics was held in the Triumphal Square of Moscow under the slogan "Sochi will win - nature and people will lose!"

12:18, 4 July 2007

Iranian mass media continue insulting Azerbaijanis

Iranian mass media have again published offensive materials against ethnic Azerbaijanis. Currently the Iranian TV is spinning up a social advertising campaign with an obvious attempt to show the backwardness of Azerbaijanis and, on the contrary, the superiority of Persians.

11:09, 4 July 2007

Azerbaijanis are repressed again in Iran

In connection with the annual ascent to Fortress Bazz, located in South Azerbaijan (region in northwest of Iran), the police detained most of the participants of the march.

22:19, 3 July 2007

CPJ concerned about health of jailed editor

The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today about the health and well-being of Boris Stomakhin, editor of the small Moscow monthly Radikalnaya Politika (Radical Politics), who has been imprisoned for the past 15 months.

20:28, 3 July 2007

"Voice of Beslan": Beslan residents' complaint to the European Court is legally justified

The relatives of the victims of the Beslan terror act have applied for help to the European Court. The applications were signed by 89 victims.

18:24, 3 July 2007

Refugees ask Gukasyan to collect compensation for their broken rights from Azerbaijan

On June 29, 2007, the network of the Civil Society "Refugees and International Law" sent the first package with Azerbaijani refugees' petitions, addressed to the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), to the NKR President.

18:21, 3 July 2007

Parliament of Armenia fails to vote on mass media laws

In the morning on July 3, at its extraordinary session, the National Assembly of Armenia failed to vote on the bill of amendments to the current laws "On Television and Radio" and "On State Duties."

18:18, 3 July 2007

Verdict to Kaloev who killed SkyGuide's air traffic controller commuted

The Swiss Zurich canton court has cut the prison term for Vitaly Kaloev, a Russian citizen and resident of North Ossetia, down to 5 years and three months.

17:15, 3 July 2007

Keilin's advocate addresses Ombudsman of Stavropol Territory

Roman Belan, advocate of Andrei Keilin, a native of Cherkessk, 20, detained on suspicion of murdering two Stavropol students, has addressed the Ombudsman for the Stavropol Territory Alexei Selyukov with a complaint against illegal, in the opinion of the defence, arrest and detention of his client.

16:28, 3 July 2007

Anonymous burials in Chechnya can keep remains of 3000 persons

In Chechnya, mass burials can keep remains of more than three thousand persons, both peaceful citizens and Russian servicemen.

16:13, 3 July 2007

Kabardino-Balkaria: court condemns militiamen who have beaten teenagers to two years of imprisonment

The Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria passed a verdict of guilty to three employees of the Elborus District Interior Department (ROVD) for abuse of their official powers.

15:47, 3 July 2007

Peacemakers: situation in South Ossetia gets out of control

The situation in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone is growing still tenser; it is deliberately aggravated and can get out of control, lieutenant colonel Yuri Vereschak, commander's assistant of the Mixed Peacekeeping Forces (MPKF) in the Georgia-Ossetia conflict zone, has stated today.

19:31, 2 July 2007

Kuznetsov: Trepashkin deprived of medicines

The defense of Mikhail Trepashkin convicted for the disclosure of a state secret claim that the convict's health has deteriorated.

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