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February 19, 2008 12:23

• "Voice of Beslan" thinks Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia was initiator of criminal cases against the Committee

  The "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian Organization believes that the initiative to initiate criminal cases against the Committee belongs to the Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia.

February 19, 2008 12:19

• Advocate Dorogova files a complaint to the Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Larissa Dorogova, a lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian Bar, has lodged a complaint that she was not admitted to her defendant to O. Zharikov, Public Prosecutor of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

February 19, 2008 12:06

• State Corporation in charge of preparing Sochi Olympiad asks to amend the environmental legislation

  According to Semyon Vainshtok, head of the "Olympstroy" State Corporation, realization of the construction programs of Olympic objects in Sochi demands to make changes in the law on specially protected natural territories and in the statement on ensuring the operation of the Sochi State Natural Reserve.

February 18, 2008 16:28

• UN SC does not support Kosovo's independence as expected by Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The participants of an extraordinary sitting of the UN Security Council failed to make a decision on recognition of independence of Kosovo, the precedent of which is hunted by Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

February 18, 2008 16:25

• Areshidze: Patarkatsishvili could fall victim of FEZ-based conflict

  Mamuka Areshidze, an expert and head of the NGO "Centre of Strategic Researches of the Caucasus", believes that Badri Patarkatsishvili could have fallen victim of the struggle for the Free Economic Zone (FEZ).

February 18, 2008 16:24

• Ingushetia: meeting of opposition appointed on March 4

  The initiative group created after arrest of Maksharip Aushev has appointed a rally on March 4 at the Memorial to Victims of Repressions in Nazran.

February 18, 2008 16:21

• "Voice of Beslan" tries to find out the motives of the criminal case

  Members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee are going to visit the Investigatory Committee of North Ossetia and ask why a criminal case was initiated against the Committee.

February 16, 2008 11:41

• Islamic Party of Azerbaijan calls on Denmark to apologize to Moslems

  The Islamic Party of Azerbaijan has made a statement in connection with publication of caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers.

February 16, 2008 11:38

• Protest actions in Ingushetia postponed: authorities promise to release some of the oppositionists

  In Ingushetia, actions of civil disobedience have been postponed till February 19 against the promise of the authorities to release the first six persons arrested during the events on January 26.

February 16, 2008 11:33

• Suspect of attack on Nalchik dies in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On February 15, Valery Bolov, one of the defendants in the case about the attack to Nalchik on October 13, 2005, died in Kabardino-Balkaria from liver cirrhosis.

February 16, 2008 11:30

• Lawyer Boris Kuznetsov gets political asylum in the States

  Lawyer Boris Kuznetsov who earlier defended ex-senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmakhchyan and was suspected of disclosing state secrets was granted political asylum in the United States.

February 16, 2008 11:27

• Mother of Guantanamo prisoner Kudaev detained in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On February 14, Fatima Tekaeva, mother of Rasul Kudaev, a defendant in the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, was detained in the city of Nalchik.

February 15, 2008 15:02

• In Krasnodar Territory, human rights activists demand to settle the Kurds' problems

  The Public Organization "Southern Regional Resource Centre" has sent an application to the Regional Department of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) with a request to inspect the situation of the Kurds who are living in the Krasnodar Territory since 1992.

February 15, 2008 14:58

• Hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan goes on in Rostov-on-Don

  Human rights activist Raissa Grishechkina continues her hunger strike in support of fatally sick former vice-president of the YUKOS Company Vasily Aleksanyan in Rostov-on-Don. Now, Vasily Aleksanyan is under arrest in one of Moscow clinics.

February 15, 2008 14:55

• Officials-lawbreakers are not trialled in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On February 14, the Judicial Department of Kabardino-Balkaria held a Collegium sitting to sum up the work of the courts in 2007. Leila Zanikoeva, Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court, spoke at the sitting and noted that out of 41 officials, brought to criminal liability in 2007, none was actually punished.

February 15, 2008 14:48

• Criminal case initiated against "Voice of Beslan" activists in North Ossetia

  Today, a criminal case was initiated in North Ossetia against Ella Kesaeva, Svetlana Margieva and Emilia Bzarova - the core members of the "Voice of Beslan" Organization.

February 15, 2008 14:45

• Consideration of the suit of the Ministry of Property of Dagestan against the Women's Charitable Hospital postponed

  Today, the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Dagestan held a preliminary hearing of another suit with a demand to abandon the premises lodged by the Ministry of Property Relations against the Regional Public Foundation named "The Charitable Women's Hospital".

February 15, 2008 14:18

• Georgian opposition starts a mass protest action in the capital of the country

  Today at 2:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. Moscow time), a mass protest action of Georgian opposition has started in Tbilisi.

February 14, 2008 15:25

• Evloev, arrested in Ingushetia, is suspected of organizing mass disorders in Nazran

  Magomed Evloev, a resident of Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, who was detained on February 13 by power agents, is suspected of organizing mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, when the buildings of the Republic's newspaper "Serdalo" and hotel "Assa" were set on fire.

February 14, 2008 15:22

• Residents of Dagestan capital accuse law enforcement bodies of kidnapping

  Two residents of the capital of Dagestan - Dzhabir Kamaludinov and Shamil Omarov - declare that they were kidnapped by law enforcement bodies. They disappeared in the end of January and returned home in a week with bodily injuries.