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January 15, 2008 15:01

• MoE: explosion of apartment block in Zheleznovodsk was not terror act

  While making his comments on the reasons of the explosion of the apartment block in the city of Zheleznovodsk, Alexander Kolupaev, head of the South Regional Centre of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, has emphasized that the accident has nothing to do with a terror act, and what happened in Zheleznovodsk is just a household disaster.

January 15, 2008 14:57

• Chechnya: tortures in Chernokozovo not confirmed

  Representatives of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, who have visited Colony No. 2 located in the settlement of Chernokozovo, the Naur District of the Republic, found no confirmation of the data about tortures and beatings of the prisoners who are kept in this corrective establishment.

January 15, 2008 14:50

• United Opposition of Georgia starts its protest rally in Tbilisi

  A protest action of the United Opposition of Georgia has been launched in Tbilisi, in front of the Public Television building; the participants demand to hold the second round of early presidential election in the country.

January 15, 2008 14:40

• Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office demands to close foreign NGO branch

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic demands to liquidate the branch of the organization "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre", located in Grozny.

January 15, 2008 14:36

• Mass detentions of Gipsies continue in Volgograd Region

  In the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsk militiamen commit mass detentions of Gipsy nationals.

January 15, 2008 14:33

• In Dagestan power agents pursue the followers of Turkish theologian Said Nursi

  On January 15, a search was conducted and goods were confiscated from one of private shops in the capital of Dagestan. The owner of the shop regards that the actions of power agents were explained by his belonging to the followers of the Turkish philosopher and theologian Said Nursi.

January 15, 2008 11:30

• Kesaeva is satisfied with transfer of the "Voice of Beslan" trial to North Ossetia

  Today, the Nazran Court of Ingushetia has passed a decision to transfer the hearing on the case of recognition of the materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" to be extremist ones to North Ossetia in spite of the fact that the Acting Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia had insisted that the trial should take place in Nazran.

January 14, 2008 14:25

• 80 applicants for political asylum from Chechnya stay at the Paris airport

  The Paris airport Roissie-Charles de Gaulle is overwhelmed by applicants for political asylum from Chechnya. The refugees are in the conditions unfit for long stay of people.

January 14, 2008 14:22

• Victims of explosion in apartment block in Stavropol Territory are now six in number

  The number of casualties of the explosion of utility gas in the five-storey apartment block in Lenina Street in Zheleznovodsk has reached six persons.

January 14, 2008 14:19

• Up to now, no electricity and heat at hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan

  Despite the assurances of the officials about restoration of electricity and heat supplies in Makhachkala, many hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan continue to survive without heating.

January 14, 2008 14:15

• Life prisoners go on hunger strike again in Azerbaijan

  The inmates of the Gobustan Prison in Azerbaijan sentenced to life imprisonment have started a hunger strike in protest against their custody conditions.

January 14, 2008 14:11

• Georgian NGOs: consideration of complaints on election outcomes is not less important than the election itself

  The consideration of the complaints related to the election and tabulation of the final results of the election in Georgia are the same important steps of the electoral process like the pre-election period and the voting day, Georgian NGOs state.

January 14, 2008 13:01

• Ella Kesaeva: no more grounds to postpone the trial on "Voice of Beslan"

  Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, has stated that all the necessary documents have been submitted to the Court of Nazran for restart of the trial on charges of extremism.

January 14, 2008 12:56

• Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria stops the Board of Elders of Balkar People

  The Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has passed a decision to liquidate the Board of Elders of Balkar People (CEBP) as an extremist organization.

January 14, 2008 12:51

• Batiashvili: problem of political prisoners in Georgia is still acute

  Irakliy Batiashvili, one of the prominent leaders of the opposition and the leader of the Movement "Go Ahead, Georgia!", who had been recently released from custody, believes that the problem of political prisoners is still acute in the country.

January 12, 2008 12:19

• Kabardino-Balkaria: court wants to verify the legality of evidences of those accused of attack on Nalchik

  The Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic has satisfied, during its preliminary hearings on the criminal case about the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the petition on appointing a public prosecutor's examination on the fact of application to defendants of unlawful methods of investigation.

January 12, 2008 12:16

• Levan Gachechiladze: Georgia's fate is at stake; the country should be saved

  "The fight goes on, and I'll never reconcile with injustice. The destiny of the country is at stake, our homeland needs salvation" Levan Gachechiladze, candidate from the United Opposition, said live in the "Prime Time" program on "Rustavi-2" Channel on January 10.

January 12, 2008 12:12

• Georgian MFA: journalist distorts the words of the head of OSCE mission about election

  The journalist has misunderstood the words of Dieter Boden, head of the long-term OSCE observation mission, about the election in Georgia.

January 12, 2008 11:59

• Governor in Austria demands the government stop granting shelter to refugees from Chechnya

  Jorg Haider, Governor the Land Carinthia (Austria), has demanded from the Austrian government "to immediately and completely" stop granting shelter to refugees from Chechnya.

January 12, 2008 11:54

• Residents of Makhachkala demand resignation of Dagestan and city leaders and prosecutors

  The situation with electricity and heat supply continues to remain strained in Makhachkala. Many houses lack electricity and heat, and people demand resignation of the leaders of Dagestan, city authorities and law enforcement bodies.