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June 20, 2008 17:43

• Refugees from Chechnya want to leave Azerbaijan

  A statement promulgated by the press service of the Council of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan runs that the refugees who now live in Azerbaijan want to leave this country since they think that their life and freedom are under threat.

June 20, 2008 15:29

• European parliamentarians nominate "Memorial" Society to Nobel Peace Award

  A group of European parliamentarians has offered to nominate the International Society "Memorial", which deals, among other things, with investigations of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, to the Nobel Peace Award.

June 20, 2008 12:23

• Fried: unblocking of Turkish-Armenian border should not be associated with Nagorno-Karabakh

  Daniel Fried, assistant of the US Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, told on June 18 at the hearing held in the Committee for Foreign Matters of the US Congress that unblocking of the Turkish-Armenian border should not be interlinked with settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

June 20, 2008 10:18

• Burial of 800 persons found in Chechnya

  Human rights activists have detected another mass burial from the time of the 1995 Chechen war. This is already the third burial found in Chechnya during the last month.

June 19, 2008 18:36

• Abkhazia exhibits her investment projects to international economic forum

  Kristina Ozgan, Minister of Economy of Abkhazia, has noted, while speaking to the participants of the International Economic Forum "Abkhazia-2008. Investments and Prospects", the needs to have investments made into agriculture, industry, wholesale trade, power engineering, construction and transports.

June 19, 2008 18:26

• Eva Biaudet calls on Azerbaijani authorities to join NGOs in combating trafficking

  Special OSCE representative in fighting trafficking in humans Eva Biaudet has invited the authorities of Azerbaijan to cooperate with NGOs in combating trafficking in humans.

June 19, 2008 18:20

• Prosecutor's Office investigates disorders in Rostov Colony

  On June 18, a group of inmates of the general custody No. 10 made a fight with the sentries. There are injured persons among the colony officers and the inmates, several persons were hospitalized with grave traumas.

June 19, 2008 18:15

• International Federation of Journalists asks to punish Politkovskaya's killers

  The human rights organization named "The International Federation of Journalists", based in Brussels, is satisfied with the charges presented to the three journalists suspected of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya and demands that they should be properly punished.

June 19, 2008 17:14

• Advocates appeal against closure of the "Ingushetia.Ru" website

  Authors of the "Ingushetia.Ru" website have lodged a cassation complaint against the ruling of the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow that prescribes to stop the operation of the Internet resource.

June 19, 2008 16:35

• Guarding of Russian military railwaymen in Abkhazia strengthened

  After two explosions on June 18 in Sukhumi suburb, the guard of Russian railway troop servicemen, who are repairing the railway in Abkhazia, was intensified.

June 19, 2008 12:59

• Kabardino-Balkaria: Ambassadors of Belgium and Netherlands meet mother of a militant accused of attacking Nalchik

  On June 18, during their visit to Kabardino-Balkaria, plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands and Belgium Yan-Paul Dirkse and Bertrand de Krommeburg had a meeting with Mariam Akhmatova, mother of a suspect in the criminal case related to the attack on Nalchik in October 2005.

June 18, 2008 19:25

• Chechnya: attempt to intimidate employees of the HRC "Memorial"

  On June 17, power agents detained four employees of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya and threatened to execute them.

June 18, 2008 17:20

• Armenian General Prosecutor's Office refused to recognize casualties of March 1 events in Yerevan to be victims

  The official answer of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia to the request of the Chairman of the Helsinki Association of Armenia Mikael Danielyan of May 11 runs that none of the March 1 casualties has been qualified as a victim.

June 18, 2008 15:12

• Azerbaijani Avars ask President of Dagestan to protect them from "Azerization"

  Today, the Executive Committee of the Avar National Council has addressed an open letter to President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev. The appeal makes emphasis on the situation with the Avars who live in Azerbaijan.

June 18, 2008 14:08

• Paul Khlebnikov's murder case returned to the prosecutor's office

  The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia has rejected the cassation presentation lodged by the General Prosecutor's Office on the murder case of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes Magazine Paul Khlebnikov. The case will go back to the prosecutor's office.

June 18, 2008 14:02

• Investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder is over

  The Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office has informed today about the completion of the investigation in relation to the persons accused of murdering the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya.

June 18, 2008 12:49

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of building frontier fortifications

  Sources in South Ossetia assert that Georgia is hurriedly erecting fortifications in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. The South-Ossetian part of the MCC (Mixed Control Commission) appeals to the peacekeepers and the OSCE to register these violations.

June 18, 2008 11:42

• Residents of Kalmykia mark Buddha's birthday

  In Kalmykia, June 18 has been announced a day-off in honour of Buddha Shakyamuni's birthday. President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has signed a corresponding decree.

June 17, 2008 14:40

• US Helsinki Commission to assess situation in Ingushetia

  On June 19 in Washington, representatives of the US Helsinki Commission and Russian experts on the Northern Caucasus will speak to a briefing on aggravation of situation in Ingushetia.

June 17, 2008 14:04

• PACE mission members meet the first Armenian President of Armenia Ter-Petrosyan

  On June 16 late at night, co-Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Mission George Colombier and John Prescott had a meeting with Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of Armenia. They discussed the fulfilment process of the PACE's Resolution No. 1609 and ways out of the internal political crisis in Armenia.