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September 29, 2007 12:48

• Political scientists: Okruashvili's arrest is a blunder of Georgian authorities

  The former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili was sentenced by decision of the Tbilisi City Court to two months of custodial arrest for the period of investigation.

September 29, 2007 12:41

• Funeral of religious figure grow into a meeting in Dagestan

  Practically all the residents of the village, as well as of the neighbouring ones, came to the funeral of Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, minister of the local mosque, who was killed today morning in the Dagestan village of Gubden. They regard that the murder was motivated by religious hatred.

September 29, 2007 12:37

• Social workers of Dagestan breached the rights of Chernobyl liquidators

  The Dagestan residents of the city of Kizilyurt, who suffered from radiation when liquidating the implications of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, failed to receive their due allowances.

September 29, 2007 12:25

• Relatives of Galaev brothers, killed in Ingushetia, released

  Three relatives of the Galaev brothers, who were arrested on September 27, have been released. The brothers were killed on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations.

September 28, 2007 12:14

• Irakliy Okruashvili's defenders were not admitted to the courtroom

  The advocates of the former Georgian Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili were not admitted into the courtroom, where his freedom restriction measure was decided.

September 28, 2007 12:10

• Participant of meeting in Georgia: we came not for the sake of Okruashvili, but for the sake of justice

  The several thousand strong protest action launched by the opposition parties at two p.m. at the building of the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi, is over.

September 28, 2007 12:05

• Ingushetia doubts that killed Galaev brothers were militants

  On September 27, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia reported about a special operation conducted in Sagopshi settlement of the Malgobek District, as a result of which brothers Said-Magomed and Ruslan Galaev, active participants of illegal armed formations, were assassinated.

September 28, 2007 12:02

• Ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan sent to remote colony

  Ali Insanov, former Azerbaijani Minister of Public Health, was sent to Colony No. 13 for further serving his punishment.

September 28, 2007 11:58

• Hunger strike of Zverevo residents suspended in the Rostov Region

  On September 28, Vladimir Vlasov, Public Prosecutor of the city of Zverevo, informed that the eight hunger-strikers had suspended their protest action.

September 28, 2007 11:50

• Broadcasts on Islam are still removed from TV in Azerbaijan

  The Public TV of Azerbaijan will no longer broadcast the religious program "Friday Talks."

September 28, 2007 11:47

• Deceived depositor attempts to commit suicide in North Ossetia

  In the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, a deceived depositor of the "Social Initiative" Construction Corporation has tried to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge into River Terek.

September 28, 2007 11:37

• Trepashkin transferred from his colony to Ekaterinburg's SIZO

  On September 27, Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-lieutenant colonel of the FSB, condemned for disclosure of state secrets, was delivered from Corrective Colony No. 13 of Nizhni Tagil, where he was serving his term, to SIZO-1 of Ekaterinburg.

September 28, 2007 11:29

• Andrei Rudomakha: Adygea is under risk of becoming UNESCO's opponent

  The broad international community will soon firmly associate Adygea with destruction of objects of the World Natural Heritage.

September 27, 2007 17:55

• Azerbaijan: CPJ urges president to halt persecution of reporter, family

  The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by the seizure, beating, and imprisonment of Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev, regional correspondent for the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat, by officials in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic last weekend.

September 27, 2007 17:30

• Former deputy minister interrogated by SC of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of Ingush militiamen

  On September 26, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued the trial of the leaders of the Malgobek ROVD of Ingushetia, accused of negligence that had led to Beslan terror act.

September 27, 2007 17:26

• In Stavropol Territory Kislovodsk administration again bans a protest meeting

  The administration of the city of Kislovodsk has again refused to "coordinate" the notification about holding a meeting of protest organized by the city branch of the All-Russia Public Organization "Russian Pensioners" and planned for September 29.

September 27, 2007 17:20

• Opposition journalist released in Azerbaijan

  Today morning, Khakimeldostu Mekhtiev, the earlier arrested Nakhichevan correspondent of the "Eni Musavat" newspaper, was released.

September 27, 2007 17:18

• Azerbaijan: trial of "Azadlyg" journalist begins

  Today, the Yasamal District Court presided by Judge S. Ahmedova has held a preparatory session on the claim of Geidar Babaev, Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, against the "Azadlyg" newspaper and its journalist Agyl Khalil.

September 27, 2007 17:14

• Okruashvili can be accused of treason in Georgia

  Today, Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, was arrested on charges of extortion, money-laundering, excess of powers, as well as service negligence.

September 27, 2007 17:08

• People in Chechnya are dissatisfied with the cancel of prisoners' return

  Many residents of the Republic are dissatisfied with the decision of the Federal Service of Enforcement of Penalties not to deliver the Chechen inmates who are serving their terms in Russian colonies to Chechnya.