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September 06, 2007 09:58

• North Ossetia: investigator of the General Prosecutor's Office beats an advocate

  On August 27, 2007, in Vladikavkaz, in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia, Victor Pereverznev, investigator of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation thrashed advocate Irina Kodzaeva.

September 06, 2007 09:52

• MHG expert demands from President of Russia to interfere into situation in Ingushetia and Chechnya

  As of today, the situation in the territory of the Republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya continues to worsen, and the events underway in these republics and in their neighbouring regions can completely get out of control of the federal centre, Aslambek Apaev believes.

September 06, 2007 09:49

• Aflatun Amashov: 70 percent of the press engaged in racket in Azerbaijan

  Aflatun Amashov: Today in Azerbaijan, 70% of the press editions are engaged in racketeering, 20-25% of the printed media are politicized, and only 5% are independent.

September 05, 2007 17:53

• Trial of organizer of meeting in memory of Politkovskaya failed today

  The trial of Andrei Nalyotov, organizer of the meeting in memory of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya will not take place today.

September 05, 2007 17:49

• Chernobyl liquidators from the Rostov Region will get their debts before the end of the year

  The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Region informed that under the claims of the Chernobyl accident liquidators from the Rostov Region, the judicial bodies passed more than six thousand decisions on indexing the sums intended for compensation of harm to their health and other monetary payments.

September 05, 2007 17:41

• Two servicemen lost in shelling of Azerbaijani positions

  In the evening on September 4 and at night on September 5, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled near the villages of Dzhavakhirli and Sarydzaly of the Agdam District, of Gasangaya of the Tertersk District and unnumbered hill in the Geranboy District.

September 05, 2007 17:38

• About 24,000 chickens incinerated in Krasnodar Territory

  About 24,000 chickens are incinerated at the poultry farm of the Closed Joint-Stock Company "Lebyazhie-Chepiginskoe," where an outbreak of avian flue was revealed.

September 05, 2007 17:28

• Mayor of the capital of Azerbaijan can be made responsible for collapse of the building

  Akif Magerramov, head of the apartment-cooperative service of the mayoralty of the capital of Azerbaijan, has been brought to criminal responsibility under Article 308.1 (abuse of service position) in case about the building that collapsed on August 28 in Mukhtarova Street.

September 05, 2007 17:23

• Relatives of the victims of the Boden Lake tragedy are dissatisfied with the verdict to SkyGuide employees

  The employees of the SkyGuide air traffic control company, accused of admitting the crash of two aircrafts in 2002 and sentenced to conditional custody by the Swiss court, can pay money in exchange of their punishment.

September 04, 2007 20:40

• Up to 15 militants attack the Gukhoy village in Chechnya

  The attack on the village of Gukhoy of the Itum-Kalinskiy District of Chechnya, as result of which one militiaman was killed and four other wounded, was committed by up to 15 militants.

September 04, 2007 20:37

• Parents of children poisoned in Stavropol Territory are indignant at the incident

  The parents of the children who suffered at the outbreak of dysentery in the Georgievskiy District of the Stavropol Territory are extremely indignant at what has happened.

September 04, 2007 20:33

• New charge presented to editor of "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper

  The Ministry of National Security has put forward a new charge against Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan."

September 04, 2007 20:23

• Hearings on "Cadet's case" postponed again in Chechnya

  The continuation of the trial on the case of Sergey Lapin, former senior lieutenant of Nizhnevartovsk District Interior Department, that was appointed for September 3 at the Oktiabrskiy Court of Grozny did not take place because of non-appearance of the defendant's advocate.

September 04, 2007 20:19

• Azerbaijanis in Georgia to protest against violations of their rights

  In the Square of Heroes in Tbilisi activists and leaders of the parties and public associations united into the Movement "Forward, Georgia!" have announced the start of a series of actions against violations of civil rights of the Azerbaijanis living in Georgia.

September 04, 2007 20:15

• Azerbaijan: convicted satirist is feeling worse

  The health condition of satirist Sakit Zakhidov, journalist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, convicted in Azerbaijan, has seriously aggravated.

September 03, 2007 18:30

• Action of anarchists in defence of the persons accused of blowing up the "Neva Express" train dispersed by militia

  In the centre of Moscow, at the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, the militia has dispersed an action held by a dozen of anarchists in defence of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk.

September 03, 2007 18:26

• Figurant in Politkovskaya's case complains of tortures again

  The advocate of one of the defendants in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya has lodged another complaint to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office about application of tortures to his client.

September 03, 2007 18:22

• General Prosecutor's Office: a suspect of attack on teacher's family arrested in Ingushetia

  Resident of city Karabulak Iles Dolgiev, born in 1984, detained as a suspect of committing the murder of the family of the school teacher Vera Draganchuk, is now under arrest.

September 03, 2007 00:40

• Two oppositional newspapers restart in Azerbaijan

  On September 5 the newspapers "Sanat" ("Arts") and "Baky Khabar" will restart their publications.

September 03, 2007 00:33

• Human rights activist from Chechnya goes on hunger strike in Strasbourg

  From September 1 in Strasbourg, Said-Emin Ibragimov, a refugee from Chechnya and President of the International Association "World and Human Rights" is holding a hunger strike.