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17:59, 28 May 2007

One of earlier closed mosques reopens in Kabardino-Balkaria

One of the five mosques closed by the authorities in August 2004 has reopened in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in the "Aleksandrovka" dwelling district.

16:43, 28 May 2007

Opposition web site blocked in Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, the satirical web site Tinsoмbeti.com was hacked and blocked. People at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Security are sure that the hacker's attack was undertaken under the command of Azerbaijani authorities who are resolutely and regularly criticising the web site.

21:36, 26 May 2007

NGOs of South Ossetia: our people will never reconcile with live within Georgian state

Today, the NGOs of the Republic of South Ossetia have disseminated their Appeal to International Community. The Appeal was sent to the United Nations, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), OSCE, NATO, and European NGOs and public organizations.

19:19, 26 May 2007

Representatives of Abkhazian NGO arrive to Nagorny Karabakh

At the NGO Resource Centre (RC) of Stepanakert, a meeting took place of the leaders of NGOs of Nagorny Karabakh with Batal Kobakhiya and Liana Kvarcheliya, representatives of the Centre for Humanitarian Programmes of Abkhazia.

18:54, 26 May 2007

Criminal case initiated on mass fight in Stavropol

In the city of Stavropol, in the evening of May 24, a mass fight burst out near one of the casinos, in which, by different sources, from 100 to 300 young people took part. As a result of the fight, Gilani Ataev, a 2-year law student of the Modern Humanities Academy, was killed.

18:31, 26 May 2007

Azerbaijan will get connected with Nakhichevan by railway via Turkey

Azerbaijan is negotiating with Turkey on construction of a branch line from the basic Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway. The branch will run to the Turkish city of Igdyr and further to the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

15:19, 26 May 2007

Azerbaijani journalist asks for political asylum in Russia

Sardar Alibeili, editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani Nota Bene newspaper, has applied for political asylum in Russia and lodged a respective petition to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Azerbaijan.

23:32, 25 May 2007

Minsk OSCE Group: regions around Nagorny Karabakh should be returned to Azerbaijan

In the course of the meetings in Yerevan and Baku, the co-chairmen of the Minsk OSCE Group Bernard Fussier and Yuri Merzlyakov have discussed the basic principles of Karabakh settlement with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

22:21, 25 May 2007

Georgia: meeting of Chochiev and Antadze was not planned

The press service of the authorities of South Ossetia has disseminated a statement that "because of the sharply aggravated situation in the conflict zone, a consultative meeting should have taken place in Tskhinval today of co-chairmen of the South Ossetian and Georgian parts of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) Boris Chochiev and Merab Antadze."

21:11, 25 May 2007

Georgia: South Ossetia opens fire on Georgian villages

Tonight, the Ossetian party has opened fire in the direction of Georgian villages located in the Grand Liakhva Gorge.

18:52, 25 May 2007

Riots resumed in South Azerbaijan

The protest actions against by arrest of Nadir Mekhdi Garabagi took place in Dzhulfa, Iran, and in Tabriz, the largest city of South Azerbaijan.

15:15, 25 May 2007

Advocate of Azerbaijani ex-Minister for Economic Development thinks him to be a political prisoner

Litigation on the case of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister for Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is conducted with serious violations and in fact in closed regime.

14:26, 25 May 2007

A citizen of Armenia killed in Moscow

Another citizen of Armenia, Ashot Tigranyan, 30, was murdered in Moscow.

22:36, 24 May 2007

Court would wait for the report on searching Ulman

The proceedings on Ulman's case continued in Rostov-on-Don. Only one of the four defendants - Alexei Perelevskiy - has appeared at the courtroom.

21:24, 24 May 2007

Ahmetgaliev: criminal case against Dzutsev is connected with his civil stand

Ramil Ahmetgaliev explained that the pretext of charges against Dzutsev should be sought in the general tendency "to cut oxygen" to NGOs and activists.

20:40, 24 May 2007

Newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" stopped

Shakhvaled Chobanoglu, Chief Editor of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan," said that he made this decision in protest against attacks of the authorities.

18:29, 24 May 2007

Strasbourg Court accepts Tsakoevs' complaint from Kabardino-Balkaria

European Court in Strasbourg sent a notification that the complaint on the fact of death of Rasul Tsakoev, resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accepted to consideration.

23:04, 23 May 2007

Consideration of Beslan militiamen's case postponed till May 29

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that the court session on the case of the employees of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit) accused of criminal negligence entailing mass death of people during the act of terrorism in Beslan School was postponed till Tuesday, May 29, because of the judge's illness.

22:48, 23 May 2007

YouTube cancels a video clip about tortures in Chechnya finding it excessively cruel

Editorial board of the "Kavkaz-Centre" has received a notification from the YouTube service about removal of the video clip laid out by the web site and demonstrating tortures in Chechnya, since it shows "much violence"; and then – an anonymous letter running that the clip was removed at the request of the Kremlin.

22:19, 23 May 2007

Kabardino-Balkaria: relatives of deceased militants ask to return automobiles

The residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, whose relatives perished on October 13, 2005, complain of illegal confiscation and dekitting of automobiles by the employees of power agencies.

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