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19:52, 28 June 2007

Capital of South Ossetia shelled, two persons wounded

Today at about 8:15 a.m. Georgian special agents opened aiming fire at the militia post in the northern suburb of the city of Tskhinval. As a result of the bombardment, one civil person and one militiaman were severely wounded.

18:43, 28 June 2007

OSCE concerned of mass media bills in Armenia

Today, Miklosh Kharashti, OSCE's mass media representative, has stated his concern of the bills prepared in Armenia in relation to activities of mass media.

18:37, 28 June 2007

The RF Constitutional Court upholds the decision not to give the militants' bodies out

Today, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has announced its decision on the complaint of the parents of militants Kunak Guziev and Elena Karmova who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria.

18:13, 28 June 2007

Police disrupts Islamists' conference in Azerbaijan

Yesterday, on June 27, the police disrupted the conference to be held by the Gyandzha Branch of the Islamic Party.

13:25, 28 June 2007

Deputy Director of the National Museum of Adygea: Sochi needs archaeological examination

Ruslan Achmiz, Deputy Director of the National Museum of Adygea, asserted that, apart from the ecological examination, the Sochi Olympic construction sites also need a mandatory archaeological examination.

18:20, 27 June 2007

Two militants were killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

Today in the morning, in the city of Nalchik, Ruslan Odizhev, who had been announced into search, and certain Tengizov were killed. According to the materials of the investigation, during the events of October 13, 2005, Ruslan Odizhev commanded the group of militants that made an attack on the OMON base of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

15:27, 27 June 2007

Belan: "I think that Andrei Keilin's case is already not so much of criminal character, but rather of political one"

Today, the Judicial Panel of the Stavropol Territorial Court, having considered the cassation petition lodged by Andrei Keilin, 20, a resident of Cherkessk, detained on suspicion of participation in the murder of two Stavropol students, that requested to change his freedom restriction measure (release from custody), has rejected the petition.

15:10, 27 June 2007

Russian Federation creates Council for defending the rights of Russians living in non-recognized republics

The Council for defending the rights of Russian citizens living in non-recognized republics will include representatives of three Republics - Abkhazia, Transdniestria and South Ossetia.

14:41, 27 June 2007

"United Protest Front" holds an action at the "Kholodny Rodnik" (Cold Spring) Memorial in Stavropol

The press service of the public organization "United Protest Front" informed that the participants of the action in the number of 15-20 persons blocked the access to the construction site.

14:25, 27 June 2007

Victims of April disorders in Tallinn listened to at the European Parliament

On June 26, at the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels, the deputies held a meeting with the victims of the actions of the Estonian police during the April disorders, which were caused by the decision to dismantle the Soldier-Liberator monument in Tallinn.

13:53, 27 June 2007

Residents of Ingushetian village beat their fellow villager back from FSB

Residents of Surkhakhi village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, have prevented detainment by FSB agents of the man, whose deceased brother was suspected of attacks on servicemen and preparation of Beslan School seizure.

12:34, 27 June 2007

St Petersburg Public Prosecutor's Office investigates into the beating of a lady-participant of "Disagreement March"

On Monday June 25, 70 days after the "Disagreement March" in St Petersburg, the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Admiralty District of the city initiated a criminal case on the fact of beating by an OMON (Special Militia) fighter of Olga Tsepilova, a participant of the opposition action and a member of the "Yabloko" Party Bureau.

16:02, 26 June 2007

Borozdinovskaya refugees hold protest meeting in Dagestan

Now, two years after the clean-up ("zachistka") in Borozdinovskaya village of Chechnya, the identified organizers of the tragedy remain unpunished, while the truth is concealed from the victims - their requests and petitions remain unanswered.

15:44, 26 June 2007

No charges presented so far to editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper

The Helsinki Civil Assembly expresses a serious concern in connection with the facts of beating and prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan and recognizes the journalists convicted in Azerbaijan to be the prisoners of conscience.

15:10, 26 June 2007

South Ossetia: decree of Georgian leader contradicts the Viennese Convention

Several days ago, the Georgian party announced that this April President M. Saakashvili signed a decree on denouncement of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Georgia on cooperation in restoring the economy in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, and in returning refugees home, dated December 23, 2000. South Ossetia and Russia think this decree to be illegitimate.

12:21, 26 June 2007

Brinikh: Sochi National Park is being seized under pretext of Olympiad preparation

Valery Brinikh, head of the Maikop City Public Organization of the All-Russia Wildlife Protection Society and a member of the Board of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus, has expressed this opinion in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

11:33, 26 June 2007

PACE holds up Azerbaijan as a model of tolerance to Jews

Deputy Samed Seidov, head of Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE, declared that today at the debates in PACE's Democratic Group on the topic of anti-Semitism, Azerbaijan was mentioned as a good example of tolerance in relation to Jews.

16:48, 25 June 2007

Public prosecutors searching human rights activists' houses trying to find Ulman

Chechen Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev has stated that the Office of Public Prosecutor is putting pressure on representatives of the victims in Ulman's case thinking that they have kidnapped and are detaining the convicted special fighters announced into search.

14:34, 25 June 2007

Timur Muzaev: fight of Russian nationalists with Caucasian natives in Moscow was a provocation

On June 22 late at night in the vicinity of the Slavyanskaya Square in the centre of Moscow mass collisions burst out between the members of nationalist and fascist groupings and Caucasian natives.

12:26, 25 June 2007

Minasyan: Georgia blocks Armenia's social and economic programs in Dzhavakh

The Armenian population of Samtskhe-Dzhavakhetia is convinced that social and economic problems of the region stem basically from discriminative policy of Georgian authorities.

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