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January 10, 2009 20:13

• Georgia-USA Cooperation Charter causes constrained emotions in Georgian politicians

  Most of Georgian political parties has welcomed signing the Georgia-USA Strategic Partnership Charter, however, they have warned the society against increased expectations from the document, and also expressed discontent with the non-transparent procedure of its drafting and adoption.

January 10, 2009 19:00

• Armenian opposition complains of inmate beaten in prison

  Arman Musinyan, press secretary of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), has declared today that on December 23 ten persons in masks and camouflage came into the cell of inmate Vardges Gaspari, attacked him and started beating him.

January 10, 2009 18:00

• Brayza: nobody recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia except for Russia, Nicaragua and HAMAS

  The USA will always recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia, and there are no chances that the States will ever recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, so far recognized only by Russia, Nicaragua and HAMAS, as Matthew Brayza, the US under secretary of state, has declared today.

January 10, 2009 17:12

• In Turkey, Prosecutor's Office starts investigation against those who apologised for genocide of Armenians

  The Turkish Public Prosecutor has launched an investigation against a group of Turkish citizens who published in one of Turkish websites a public apology to the Armenian nation for the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

January 10, 2009 10:09

• EIU: in 2008, Russia and Georgia departed a lot away from democracy

  By the outcomes of the study carried out by the analytical group named "The Economist Intelligence Unit" (EIU), by the level of democracy development, Georgia takes the 104th place in the world, and Russia - the 107th. The document notes that among the post-Soviet countries these two powers lost most rating points compared with the previous research made in 2006.

January 10, 2009 09:00

• Georgian media predict Prime Minister's resignation

  On Friday, January 9, the Georgian newspaper "Resonansi" reported, with reference to its own sources, that Prime Minister of Georgia Grigol Mgaloblishvili is going to declare his resignation.

January 10, 2009 07:00

• Woman-skier dies under avalanche in Kabardino-Balkaria

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, a woman-alpinist-skier from St-Petersburg was killed by a snow slide, when she tried to ski down the Elborus.

January 03, 2009 20:00

• In Kalmykia, director of football club fined for illegal employment of footballers

  Valery Bembinov, Director General of the "Elista" Football Club (FC), was fined by the city court of the capital of Kalmykia by 80,000 roubles for illegal employment of football players into the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "Energoservice", where he was also director.

January 03, 2009 17:07

• In Armenia, national minorities are concerned with problems of education and culture

  Representatives of the national minorities living in Armenia are most of all worried about the problems of education and culture. This was stated by Vardan Asatryan, head of the Department on National Minorities and Religions of the governmental office of Armenia.

January 03, 2009 17:00

• In Krasnodar Territory ecologists stop construction in wildlife reserve

  Today, ecologists have stopped an attempt to start construction of a highway in the wildlife reserve "Bolshoi Utrish" in the Krasnodar Territory, having blocked the construction machinery.

January 03, 2009 16:12

• President of Georgia pardons 246 prisoners

  On December 31, 2008, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree on releasing 246 prisoners.

January 03, 2009 15:00

• Russian President signs the law on land alienation in Sochi

  Today, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has signed the Federal Law "On Making Changes in Some Legal Acts of the Russian Federation", which defines the order of alienation of land for construction of Olympic objects in Sochi. In particular, the Law stipulates a possibility not to alienate land plots from the owners for constructing Olympic objects, but to lease them for restricted usage.

January 03, 2009 14:00

• In 2008, Armenia was visited by 600,000 tourists

  Last year Armenia received about 600,000 tourists. It is by 20 percent more than in 2006, as reported by Mekhak Apresyan, head of the Department for Tourism of the Ministry of Economy of Armenia.

January 03, 2009 13:09

• In Georgia, Ombudsman accuses MIA head of criminal acts

  In Georgia, Ombudsman Sozar Subari, while speaking on December 30 at the extraordinary sitting of the parliament, made a statement that before the dispersal of the rally in November 2007 the heads of the power ministries of Georgia had a secret meeting in the study of Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs, where they had planned their actions on dispersal of the protesters.

January 03, 2009 12:00

• Dry-cargo ship with crew of Azerbaijanis and Georgians receives a hull breach in Black Sea

  Today in the morning, a dry-cargo ship "Kardelia" flying the flag of Cambodia and sailing to Georgia with three thousand tons of wheat was damaged near the Black Sea port Kavkaz in the Krasnodar Territory. 12 citizens of Azerbaijan and Georgia are onboard the ship.

January 03, 2009 11:00

• Year 2008: friends and foes in Russia

  In 2008 in Russia, at least 87 murders were committed on motives of interethnic enmity and at least 378 persons were wounded as a result of racist attacks. These are preliminary figures of the "Sova" Information and Analytical Centre, which, in the opinion of the authors, will surely increase.

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January 03, 2009 09:00

• Baku: group of Moslems protests against Israelis' actions in Gaza Strip

  On January 2, about 40 persons rallied near the Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan to voice their protest against Israel's actions of in Gaza Strip.

January 03, 2009 08:00

• In Ingushetia, two persons wounded by shelling of Magas and explosion in Karabulak

  On January 2 at about 8:00 p.m. Moscow time a military was wounded in shelling of a security post at the building of the FSB Department for Ingushetia in Magas; and about 6:00 p.m. Moscow time in the city of Karabulak near a multi-flat house, an small-power explosive blew up, as a result of which an occasional passer-by was wounded.

December 30, 2008 23:00

• Ecologists claim that a presidential residence is under construction in Utrish

  Ecologists claim that many highly placed functionaries in Krasnodar krai are sure that "president himself" keeps the track of construction of the Sukko-Utrish highway on the territory of the resort town Anapa. The functionaries make a conclusion that the "project is going to be implemented in any case, whatever the protests of the community".

December 30, 2008 22:00

• Court of Armenia extends the custody of Atspanian who is on hunger strike

  Today the first instance court of the communities Kentron-Nork-Marash in Armenia, chaired by judge Gayane Karakhanian, has granted the application of the investigation agency to extend the custody of Sarkis Atspanian, citizen of France who took part in the Karabakh war, by two more months.