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September 14, 2007 18:37

• Book by the former Public Prosecutor of Georgia presented in Tbilisi

  The book entitled "Law and Life," written by Giya Meparishvili, former General Public Prosecutor of Georgia and currently Professor of the Tbilisi Ivane Dzhavakhishvili State University and deputy of the Parliament of Georgia (fraction "Independent Majoritarians"), was presented on September 12 at the International Tbilisi Press Centre of the RIA "Novosti."

September 14, 2007 18:34

• Prosecutor asks 11 years of prison for ex-Minister of Economy in Azerbaijan

  Today, Public Prosecutor Nazir Bairamov has spoken to the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan at the hearings on the case of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister of Economic Development, and other 18 persons.

September 14, 2007 18:31

• Three dead Chechen girls found in Polish mountains

  In the Bieszczady mountain massif near the border with Ukraine, Polish frontier guards detained an illegal woman from Chechnya with a baby in her arms, and then found bodies of three Chechen girls not far from the mountain border.

September 14, 2007 18:26

• RSO's press centre: Georgian authorities force schoolboys to take part in "Peace March"

  In the city of Gori (Georgia) active propaganda in underway at schools among 5-8-year pupils to persuade them to take part in the "Peace March" that is planned by Georgian leaders on September 15, 2007.

September 14, 2007 18:19

• "Beslan Mothers" intend to find out who threatened their advocate

  The "Beslan Mothers" Committee will start searching a new defender after it has cleared out who had threatened their former advocate Taimuraz Chedzhemov.

September 13, 2007 18:57

• First issue of the newspaper "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" published in Chechnya

  Presentation of the newspaper named "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" was held in the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

September 13, 2007 18:53

• Head of rural administration assassinated in Abkhazia

  Igor Dzhindzholiya, administration head of Mukhur village, Tkuarchal District of Abkhazia, was killed today at night, at about 2 a.m. Moscow time.

September 13, 2007 18:47

• Ecologists protest against "Moon Meadow" in Adygea

  Today, ecologists of Northern Caucasus have held a picket near the building of the Government of Adygea.

September 13, 2007 18:43

• Journalists arrested in Azerbaijan appeal for pardon

  Einullah Fatullaev, Samir Sadatoglu and Rafik Tagi have petitioned for pardon to the Azerbaijani leader.

September 13, 2007 18:39

• Russian community in Azerbaijan is concerned with destruction of cemetery

  The Russian community of Azerbaijan is extremely anxious about the destruction of the Russian cemetery in the Narimanovskiy District of the city of Baku.

September 13, 2007 18:24

• Kalyonov and Zelenyuk, suspects of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, are at large

  Currently, only one suspect of participating in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train is in custody, and the remaining two - residents of St-Petersburg Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk - have been released by the Prosecutor's Office.

September 12, 2007 21:25

• Charges of undermining the "Neva-Express" presented to nobody so far

  The Prosecutor's Office has not yet presented any official charges to any of the persons detained on suspicion in participation of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train on August 13.

September 12, 2007 21:20

• Person accused of terror acts in North Ossetia found to be sane

  The experts' opinion that was announced on September 11 during judicial hearings on the case of Alikhan Ozdoev, accused of committing a terror act in North Ossetia, did not reveal any mental violations in the defendant.

September 12, 2007 21:14

• Well-known sportsman Khizri Mutaev kidnapped in Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, Dagestan, Khizri Mutaev, 1997 world champion in ushu-syanda was kidnapped, as the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan has informed today.

September 12, 2007 21:11

• Person kidnapped in southwest of Chechnya was former deputy of the Parliament of Ichkeria

  According to special agencies, the person kidnapped on September 10 in Yandi-Kotar village of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya turned out to be Vagap Tutakov, former deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Ichkeria.

September 12, 2007 20:59

• Ryaguzov is suspected of disclosing Politkovskaya's residence

  Pavel Ryaguzov, Lieutenant Colonel of the Moscow's FSB Department, is suspected of illegal disclosure of data about residence address of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

September 11, 2007 23:49

• People in Moscow commemorated September 11 terror act victims

  On September 11, it is 6 years from the date of the largest and most violent act of terror in human history. A memorial service was held in Moscow on the victims of world terrorism.

September 11, 2007 23:40

• Azerbaijani businessman attacked in Moscow

  The attack was accomplished today in the morning, at 8:45 a.m. near the house in the 2nd Troitskiy Pereulok. As a result the businessman received a heavy gunshot wound.

September 11, 2007 23:34

• Attacker on militiamen imprisoned for 19 years in Chechnya

  On September 10, the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic passed a verdict to Rizvan Gutsiev, a resident of the Sunzha District, who was detained in 2006 on charges of taking part in armed formations and an attack on employees of law enforcement bodies.

September 11, 2007 23:26

• Killers of three Gipsies are searched in Ingushetia

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia continue searching the killers of three residents of the Republic, Gipsies by nationality.