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July 23, 2007 01:15

• Dagestan authorities want to deprive the charitable hospital of its building

  Today, the Arbitration Court of Dagestan has begun considering the suit of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan on cancelling the order of the Ministry of Property of the Republic on allocation of premises to the Regional Public Foundation "Charitable Women's Hospital."

July 23, 2007 01:10

• Police disperses a youth protest action in Azerbaijan

  On July 22, in the central mini-park of the capital of Azerbaijan, in the Fountains Square, the police severely dispersed the participants of the protest action held by the "Dalga" Youth Organization.

July 21, 2007 21:31

• CEC of Nagorno-Karabakh announces final election results

  The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh has made public the final results of the presidential election, according to which Bako Saakyan was declared President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

July 21, 2007 19:04

• Soldier who has disappeared in North Ossetia returns to Volgograd Region

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, told at the meeting with journalists that this May parents of a young man had addressed him asking to search their son.

July 21, 2007 12:20

• Victims of Beslan terror act punished for pogrom in the courtroom

  Three ladies-activists of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee - Rita Techieva, Zalina Guburova and Mziya Kochishvili - were fined for the pogrom in the building of the Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia, which had considered the case of three militiamen accused of negligence in connection with the capture of hostages in Beslan in 2004.

July 21, 2007 12:11

• Ingushetia investigates into a murder of local religious figure

  Today about 1 p.m., in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, a murder was accomplished of Vakha Vedzizhev, a well-known religious figure of the Republic and imam of the Barsuki mosque.

July 21, 2007 12:05

• European Union demands release of journalists arrested in Azerbaijan

  In the course of the visit to Azerbaijan of Peter Semneby, EU's Special Representative for South Caucasus, the issue of releasing convicted journalists was specifically raised.

July 21, 2007 11:18

• Residents of dismantled apartment house in the capital of Georgia hold protest actions

  In Tbilisi, under decision of the mayoralty of the capital, the authorities continue dismantling a new 13-storied apartment house erected in the city centre.

July 21, 2007 10:57

• Attack on ecologists' camp in Angarsk

  Early in the morning on July 21, the camp of radical ecologists in Angarsk (Irkutsk Region), who are holding a protest action against processing of nuclear wastes at the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine, was attacked by a group of about 20 unknown persons. The eyewitness has supposed that among the victims there could be activists from the South Federal District (SFD) of Russia.

July 20, 2007 23:26

• Presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh won by Bako Saakyan

  Sergey Nasibyan, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh, has announced preliminary results of the elections.

July 20, 2007 19:34

• NGO demands to recognize cleansings of Christian population of Georgia

  A press conference on the topic "Recognition of the fact of cleansings of Christian population in Meskhetiya (Georgia) in 1918-1919" has been held today by the NGO "National Education Union" in the "Sumshoblo" Publishing House.

July 20, 2007 18:43

• Greenpeace accuses LLC "Lukoil" of deliberate polluting land and air of Volgograd Region

  During a joint spot-check of the territory of the Svetloyarskiy District, Volgograd Region, the Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Greenpeace international ecological organization revealed a small lake full of liquid of unknown origin.

July 20, 2007 18:01

• Relatives of arrested journalists beg Azerbaijani leader of pardon

  It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev can pardon the arrested journalists only if they lodge respective pardon petitions.

July 20, 2007 13:07

• Statement of the HRC "Memorial" on tragic events in Ingushetia

  On July 19, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" made a statement on tragic events in Ingushetia.

July 20, 2007 12:52

• Relatives of Azamat Gorbakov, detained in Ingushetia, deny his involvement in criminal activities

  On May 13 in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, a special targeted operation was conducted by employees of the FSB Department for the Republic jointly with representatives of the Department for Public Safety of the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs and Investigatory group of the RF State Office of Public Prosecutor for the South Federal District (SFD), as a result of which Azamat Gorbakov, a local resident of 24, was detained.

July 19, 2007 23:28

• Trepashkin has adjudged three thousand euros from Russia

  The European Court for Human Rights has satisfied the complaint of Mikhail Trepashkin, retired FSB colonel, against his custody conditions at the Pre-Trial Detention Facility (SIZO) of the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Dmitrov.

July 19, 2007 21:20

• Presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh are over

  According to Sergey Nasibyan, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), out of 92,117 voters in the lists, 70,235 persons, or 76.25 percent, have cast their ballot papers.

July 19, 2007 20:32

• Supreme Court approves 13 years of imprisonment for Chechnya natives

  Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the guilty verdict to two natives of Chechnya - Bislan Badalov and Hasambek Ahmetkhanov - and their accomplices condemned by the Tver Regional Court for kidnapping and extortion.

July 19, 2007 12:38

• "Unwanted" journalists turned away from Public Prosecutor's press conference in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the correspondent of the IA "Regnum" and a number of other journalists who have been long working in the Republic were not admitted to the press conference of Oleg Zharikov, newly-appointed Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria.

July 19, 2007 11:21

• Azerbaijan: Armenians are accused of destroying historical monuments

  Armenians have erased ancient inscriptions and pictures from the walls of the "Sary Musa" sanctuary in the Hachyntyurbetli village of the occupied Agdam District. Instead, they pictures crosses and inscriptions in the Armenian language.