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September 27, 2007 17:04

• Automobiles with tinted glass and without license plates to be prohibited in Ingushetia

  One of the planned measures in the fight against criminality will be a ban on use of cars with tinted window glass and without license plates in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia.

September 26, 2007 22:17

• Azerbaijani opposition suggests an antiterrorist operation in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The "Union for Sake of Democracy", which unites three opposition parties (Classical People's Front, of People's Democracy and "Azadlyg") suggests undertaking an antiterrorist operation in Nagorno-Karabakh in order to regain the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

September 26, 2007 22:13

• Azerbaijani student believes that he was deprived of his scholarship for political reasons

  Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, a student from Azerbaijan, who is taking his master courses at the Harvard University in the USA, thinks that he was deprived of his state scholarship for political motives.

September 26, 2007 22:05

• Picket in Moscow against amendments to land ownership law

  A picket against adoption of amendments to the land ownership law was held in the Theatrical Square of Moscow by activists of the Movement named "Popular-Democratic Youth Union".

September 26, 2007 18:01

• Sakvarelidze: Okruashvili is under threat of arrest

  The performance of Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, live on air of the "Imedi" (Hope) TV Company on September 25 has caused a resonance in the society.

September 26, 2007 17:57

• Tutakov released in Chechnya hospitalized

  Vagap Tutakov, former separatists' representative in Strasbourg, who was released in Chechnya after almost two weeks in custody, was hospitalized.

September 26, 2007 17:54

• Police of Azerbaijani capital brutally disperses a youth action

  Today, the police of the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, have violently dispersed the action of the members of the "Dalga" Youth Movement, when they tried to hold a march along the central streets of the capital.

September 26, 2007 17:48

• Bombardment of Tskhinval, capital of South Ossetia, stopped

  The bombardment of the city of Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia, from the territory of Georgia that has lasted tonight for almost two hours was stopped.

September 25, 2007 20:53

• Ingushetia: Estoev brothers detained and tortured

  In Ingushetia, on September 24, in the settlement of Barsuki, dozens of armed persons in masks rushed into house and took away Estoev brothers - Musa Muradovich, born in 1974, and Adam Muradovich, born in 1987, in unknown direction.

September 25, 2007 20:49

• Prosecutor's office of Rostov Region denies miner's death during picket in Zverevo

  According to the press service of the Rostov Regional Prosecutor's Office, Kravchenko, Mikhail Romanovich, former drift miner of the Zverevo Mining Administration (retired in 2000), did not take part in the picket that started in the city of Zverevo on September 14, 2007.

September 25, 2007 20:46

• Journalist arrested in Azerbaijan

  On September 22, Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev, regional correspondent of the "Eni Musavat" newspaper for the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan, was sentenced by the Sharur District Court to a 15-day administrative arrest.

September 25, 2007 20:43

• Azerbaijani ex-Minister of Public Health warns about a would-be attempt on him

  Togrul Babaev, defender of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health, has informed that an attempt is being prepared on his client.

September 25, 2007 20:39

• The States are anxious about the situation with mass media in Azerbaijan

  The US position in relation to the freedom of the media and status of journalists in Azerbaijan is very simple and transparent: journalists should not be subject to imprisonment because of their expressed thoughts.

September 25, 2007 20:37

• Court states Arakcheev's sub-machine gun unfit for examination

  Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has continued hearing the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya.

September 25, 2007 20:34

• Acquittal verdict on murder case of Sardaryan, a native of Armenia, cancelled

  The Supreme Court of Russia has cancelled the non-guilty verdict in the case of murdering Arthur Sardaryan, an Armenian of 19, committed in a Moscow suburban electric train in May 2006.

September 24, 2007 21:35

• CPJ to Honor Four International Journalists

  The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four courageous journalists from Russia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico with 2007 International Press Freedom Awards in November.

September 24, 2007 10:59

• South Ossetia: Georgians kidnap residents of Kabardino-Balkaria

  "Citizens of Russia were kidnapped by the Georgian police in the village of Avnev of the Znaur District of South Ossetia, occupied by power agencies of Georgia," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the United Press Centre of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO).

September 24, 2007 10:55

• Bagapsh: human rights activists should take care of captured Abkhazian frontier guards

  President of Abkhazia has informed that negotiations on releasing Abkhazian border servicemen are conducted with Thomas Hammerberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and with those international structures who should deal with it.

September 24, 2007 10:50

• Abkhazian Ministry of Defence: Georgian militaries shot dead two Abkhazian prisoners

  Sources in Abkhazia are asserting that two Abkhazian servicemen were executed by Georgian militaries already after capture, and they had rendered no resistance.

September 24, 2007 10:44

• Ingushetia.Ru: crimes are not registered in the Republic

  Everywhere in Ingushetia, local militia bodies are obeying to the oral order of Musa Medov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI), not to register crimes connected with bombardments, explosions and other acts of terror.