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October 22, 2007 10:54

• Azerbaijani penitentiary service fails to confirm the journalist's hunger strike

  On October 20 journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov) announced a termless hunger strike in protest against his returning for further custody to Colony No. 14.

October 22, 2007 10:50

• Defence of Dubrovka victims accuses the authorities of falsification

  The advocates of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre demand to initiate criminal cases on falsification against a number of officials in connection with presentation to the Strasbourg Court of the memorandum dated to the events that happened five years ago.

October 20, 2007 11:18

• Armed attack in North Ossetia - one person killed, two wounded

  In the village of Bazorkino (Chermen) of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia local residents-Ingushes have been assassinated.

October 20, 2007 11:15

• OSCE Secretary General calls on Azerbaijani authorities to release journalists

  During his visit to Azerbaijan, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the OSCE, has called the leaders of the Republic to release the journalists who are kept in prisons.

October 20, 2007 11:09

• Problems of peace-making journalism discussed in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Under the Project "Journalism and Peacemaking," implemented with support of the International Alert organization, at the editorial board of the Shushi newspaper "Shushi" a discussion was held on the topic "Does the peacemaking journalism exists and how much Karabakh media needs it?"

October 20, 2007 11:04

• Armenia: TV Companies are recommended not to cover the actions of the opposition

  A number of public journalists' organizations have disseminated a statement, expressing their concern with the situation observed currently in the mass media of Armenia.

October 20, 2007 11:00

• Charges presented to the figurant of the case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  The Prosecutor's Office has indicted Khasan Didigov, a native of Chechnya and a suspect of undermining the "Neva-Express" train.

October 20, 2007 10:54

• Residents of Dagestan capital prepare mass protest actions

  Despite the promises given to residents of the microdistrict located in Shamil Avenue in Makhachkala who yesterday blocked the main transport route of the capital in protest against cutting off electricity supply, their houses are still without electricity.

October 19, 2007 12:14

• Prosecutor's Office of Adygea indicts the person who placed video of execution of Dagestan and Tajikistan natives in the Internet

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea has presented charges to the student from the city of Maikop, who had placed in the Internet a video record showing an execution of the natives of Dagestan and Tajikistan.

October 19, 2007 12:10

• Case against advocate Kodzaeva can be initiated in North Ossetia

  On October 17, the Leninskiy Court of North Ossetia made a conclusion about the presence of attributes of a crime in the actions of advocate Irina Kodzaeva, who had earlier accused the inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office of beating her.

October 19, 2007 12:06

• Over 700 cases of trafficking registered for 3 years in Azerbaijan

  Starting from 2004, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has registered over 700 cases of trafficking (trading in people). Only in the period from 2004 to 2006, 689 criminal cases of this sort were considered.

October 19, 2007 12:02

• Russian human rights activists discuss human rights in Dagestan

  Today, a group of Russian human rights activists, Sergey Kovalyov and Valery Borschov, co-chairmen of the human rights fraction of the "Yabloko" Party, and Sharip Tsuruev, chairman of the regional branch of "Yabloko," among them, took part in the roundtable organized in Makhachkala by Farid Babaev, head of the Dagestan Regional Association of the "Yabloko" Party.

October 19, 2007 11:58

• "Siberia" Airline is made respondent on Tu-154 terror act

  The court of the city of Ob, Novosibirsk Region, has recognized the "Siberia" Airline and insurers the Open Insurance Joint-Stock Company "Ingosstrakh" and the Open Joint-Stock Company "Afes" to be respondents to the claim of the family that had lost the breadwinner in the accident of Tu-154 airplane belonging to the "Siberia" Airline in August 2004.

October 18, 2007 18:10

• In Stavropol Territory lieutenant sentenced to conditional 18 months for death of a private

  The Pyatigorsk Garrison Military Court, Stavropol Territory, has sentenced Pyotr Vasyutenko, commander of the frontier post of the Military Unit 2011, accused of excess of his official powers entailing grave consequences, to one and half years of conditional imprisonment.

October 18, 2007 18:07

• 21 US Congressmen refused to support the resolution on genocide of Armenians

  21 American congressmen have refused to support Resolution 106 on genocide of Armenians. Only during the latest 2 days 12 US legislators recalled their signatures under the document.

October 18, 2007 18:00

• People demand release of arrested activists of the Movement "Georgia Without Violence"

  Representatives of the youth organization of the "Freedom" Political Movement demand immediate release of the four arrested activists of the Youth Movement "Georgia Without Violence."

October 18, 2007 17:57

• Prisoner stops his hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  Colonel Alizade Guseinov, head of the Gobustan Closed Prison, has informed that life prisoner Mekhman Muradov, who is kept in this prison, has stopped his hunger strike.

October 18, 2007 17:55

• Trepashkin's defenders accuse law enforcement bodies of breaching his rights

  The advocate and public defenders of the former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving his term at a general custody colony for disclosure of state secrets, have told in detail about how law enforcement bodies are breaching his rights.

October 18, 2007 17:51

• Murder of Kortikov family investigated in Ingushetia

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia continue investigating the incident in the city of Karabulak, where on October 15 as a result of shelling two local Russian-speaking residents were killed and two more persons wounded.

October 17, 2007 11:59

• Nine persons are accused on Anna Politkovskaya's case

  Currently, there are nine persons accused in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, Public Prosecutor Vyacheslav Smirnov has informed.