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January 19, 2008 12:01

• European observers express remarks on Georgian election

  The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.

January 19, 2008 11:57

• Mukhu Aliev: Makhachkala is in the state of emergency

  Today, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has held an emergency meeting on the critical situation with electricity and heat supplies to residents of Makhachkala.

January 19, 2008 11:51

• European Parliament demands peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem

  The resolution of the European Parliament on South Caucasus' unsettled conflicts, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue inclusive, states that the conflicts should be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiations.

January 19, 2008 11:46

• Every fourth Russia's resident thinks special agencies involved in murdering Politkovskaya and Litvinenko

  Every fourth resident of the Russian Federation is convinced that Russian special agencies were involved in the resonant murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

January 18, 2008 11:35

• Azerbaijani advocates complain to the European Court against the authorities

  Advocates Intigam Aliev and Annagi Gadzhibeili lodged a suit to the European Court for Human Rights against the Azerbaijani government.

January 18, 2008 11:20

• On Saakashvili's inauguration day, the Georgia opposition to hold a rally at the hippodrome

  The United Opposition of Georgia plans to hold a rally on the day of inauguration of Mikhail Saakashvili, January 20, and calls the public to come to the hippodrome.

January 18, 2008 10:47

• Krasnodar holds seminar "Public Control: Power and Society"

  In Krasnodar, Moscow and local human rights activists have discussed, in the course of the seminar "Public Control: Power and Society", organized by the Moscow "Demos" Centre, the civil supervision over the activities of law enforcement bodies.

January 18, 2008 10:33

• Antimonopoly bodies of Dagestan bring electricity suppliers to responsibility

  The supervisory bodies, monopolists and the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "City Electric Power Grid" should be responsible for absence of electric power in dwelling districts of Makhachkala.

January 18, 2008 10:28

• "Izvestia": Kaloev becomes deputy minister in North Ossetia

  Vitaly Kaloev, who was released in November 2007 from a Swiss prison, will be employed from Monday, January 21, at the civil service.

January 17, 2008 14:20

• European Court: Russia to pay 110,000 euros for execution of Muscovites in Ingushetia

  The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.

January 17, 2008 14:16

• European Court passes two decisions against Azerbaijan

  The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.

January 17, 2008 14:13

• Kabardino-Balkaria: Nalchik SIZO inmates complain of oppressions against Moslems

  The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.

January 17, 2008 13:42

• Court to consider early release of Stomakhin

  The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

January 17, 2008 13:26

• In Dagestan capital electricity supply breaks complicate the work of hospitals

  Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.

January 17, 2008 13:11

• Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice ignores messages about tortures and extortions in colony

  Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.

January 16, 2008 12:28

• Tbilisi Court refuses to cancel the election outcomes

  The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.

January 16, 2008 12:05

• "Beslan Mothers": prosecution of "Voice of Beslan" can cause interethnic collisions

  The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".

January 16, 2008 11:58

• In Chechnya power agents would not give out the body of murdered militant to his relatives

  Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.

January 16, 2008 11:50

• "Memorial": closure of "Peacekeeping Centre" in Chechnya is politically motivated

  In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".

January 16, 2008 11:35

• "Memorial" to verify information on tortures in Chechen Colony of Chernokozovo

  At this date, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has no information about tortures and rough violations of custody regulations in relation of the inmates of Colony No. 2 located in Chernokozovo settlement of Chechnya, but is going to check the information of this sort.