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August 20, 2008 12:43

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria asks to return property of her husband killed in special operation

  Elena Tengizova, a resident of Nalchik, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov with a request to return the car and other property confiscated during a search conducted after death of her husband Anzor Tengizov who was killed in a special operation.

August 20, 2008 12:14

• Khatazhukov: world community must recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The war in South Ossetia has shown that Russia lacks forces to ensure safety of the peaceful population, therefore, the world community must recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, asserts Valery Khatazhukov, chairman of the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria.

August 20, 2008 12:10

• Authorities of South Ossetia report about 1492 casualties of Georgia's attack

  According to updated information of South-Ossetian authorities, the attack of Georgia took away lives of 1492 residents of South Ossetia.

August 20, 2008 12:06

• Investigatory Committee counts 133 lost peaceful residents of South Ossetia

  133 persons from among civilian population of South Ossetia have been recognized as casualties of the Georgian aggression. Apart from these 133 victims many burial places have not been studied yet.

August 20, 2008 11:58

• Student kidnapped in the capital of Chechnya

  In the evening on August 18, Tamerlan Nasipov, 19, a fifth year student of the State Grozny Oil Institute (SGOI), was kidnapped by a group of armed persons in masks from his house in the Leninskiy District of the city of Grozny.

August 20, 2008 11:56

• In Armenia, head of local Radio Liberty service beaten

  On August 19, Grach Melkumyan, head of the Radio Liberty service in Armenia, was beaten in the centre of Yerevan. People at the Radio office convinced that the attack is directly related to the journalist's professional activities.

August 20, 2008 11:52

• Georgia: local residents return to Gori

  Indications have appeared evidencing the beginning of withdrawal of Russian troops from Gori. Thus, last night Russian forces closed two checkpoints in the city, as the correspondent of the Tbilisi bureau of Radio Liberty reports.

August 19, 2008 11:40

• President of Czechia finds Georgia responsible for conflict in Caucasus

  The aggravation of situation around South Ossetia has taken place for the guilt of Georgian politicians, said President of Czechia Vaclav Klaus in his interview published on August 18 in the Prague-based newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

August 19, 2008 11:33

• Abkhazian creative associations demand to make USA responsible for supporting Georgia

  Creative unions of Abkhazia believe that the USA, as the country that rendered permanent military aid to Georgia, cannot further act as intermediaries in settling conflicts, and should bear political and legal responsibility for the consequences of its policy.

August 19, 2008 11:30

• Abkhazia states aircraft intrusion into its air space

  Today at night, an intrusion of an unknown aircraft into the air space of Abkhazia was prevented, as Anatoly Zaitsev, Chief of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of Abkhazia, told the journalists.

August 19, 2008 11:24

• Lukashenko approves Russia's actions in South Ossetia

  President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Russia did everything "accurately and beautifully" during Georgia's aggression on South Ossetia. At his meeting with Dmitri Medvedev in Sochi he thanked Russia "for wisdom."

August 19, 2008 11:21

• In Azerbaijan, poet-satirist Mirza Sakit starts hunger strike in custody

  On August 18, Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov), a satirist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is serving his term at the Penitentiary Establishment No. 14, went on a hunger strike.

August 19, 2008 11:16

• Russian Joint Staff: withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia will be situation-dependant

  General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Russian Armed Forces, has stated today that the troops' withdrawal schedule away from the conflict zone in Georgia "will depend on the situation."

August 19, 2008 11:12

• Georgia and Russia exchange prisoners

  Today at 11:00 a.m. (10:00 a.m. Moscow time), near Igoeti village (some 40 km off the capital of Georgia), at the checkpoint set up by Russian militaries, the exchange of prisoners took place.

August 19, 2008 10:51

• Eight residents of Dagestan accused of preparing mosque explosion acquitted

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan has acquitted nine defendants accused of terrorism and illegal keeping of weapon. It became known at the trial that the defendants had been tortured.

August 18, 2008 12:58

• Zaitsev: Georgia deliberately misled participants of negotiations on Abkhazia

  On August 17, General Anatoly Zaitsev, commander of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of Abkhazia, has stated that after liberation of the upper section of Kodori Gorge it became clear that Georgia was roughly breaking the Moscow ceasefire agreement and misinforming the parties in the negotiation process.

August 18, 2008 12:55

• Georgia does not confirm that Russian troops are leaving

  Russia has announced the start of withdrawal of her military contingent from Georgia, however, the Georgian party has not confirmed the start of this process.

August 18, 2008 12:52

• Exchange of prisoners between Russia and Georgia failed

  The would-be today's exchange of prisoners of war between Georgia and Russia has failed. The parties are accusing each other.

August 18, 2008 12:44

• Russian MFA: Georgian refugees have the right to return to South Ossetia

  Yesterday, on August 17, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) informed that, despite the statement of President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity, Georgian refugees are fully entitled to return to their villages abandoned by them after aggravation of the conflict.

August 18, 2008 12:38

• Azerbaijani MIA studies two versions of exploding "Abu-Bekr" Mosque

  According to updated information, as a result of explosion in "Abu-Bekr" Mosque located in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, two believers were lost and 13 more were wounded. Seven are still in hospital, two of them in heavy condition. The law enforcers examine different versions, including a terror act and personal vengeance.