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July 09, 2007 21:57

• Founders of the "Educated Media" declare self-liquidation

  The "Educated Media" Foundation, which is the assignee of the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Internews," has declared its self-liquidation.

July 09, 2007 21:04

• Azerbaijan: the arrested satirist starts a hunger strike

  Last Sunday, on July 8, satirical poet Mirza Sakit who had been sentenced in Azerbaijan, began his hunger strike action in colony No. 14 in protest against violation of his rights.

July 09, 2007 19:12

• Abkhazian public demands to find those attempted on Ankvab

  Today at 8:15 a.m. in the city of Gudauta, an attempt was made on Prime Minister Alexandr Ankvab. The head of Abkhazian Government was hospitalized with slight wounds in his back.

July 09, 2007 18:27

• The Armenian language can be awarded regional status in Samtskhe-Javakhetiya

  The District Assembly of Akhalkalaki (Georgia) has made a decision to set up a special board consisting of members of the Assembly and Armenian and Georgian specialists to tackle the issue of awarding the Armenian language in Samtskhe-Javakhetiya the status of the regional language along with the state Georgian language.

July 09, 2007 15:43

• Kabardino-Balkaria: trial of militiamen accused of beating teenagers postponed

  The court session of the Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of beating by employees of the local ROVD of two teenagers due to take place today has failed because of non-appearance of one of the main witnesses.

July 09, 2007 13:44

• "Novye Izvestia": Russians are not definite in their attitude to migrants

  Russians have not defined their attitude to migrants. This is the conclusion of the "Novye Izvestia" newspaper based on the poll conducted by the "Public Opinion" Foundation (POF).

July 09, 2007 11:32

• North Ossetian Ingushes protest against kidnapping of locals

  On July 7, two residents of Chermen village, Prigorodny District, Mukhazhir Gaisanov, 61, and Magomed Torshkhoev, 67, disappeared. On July 8 and 9, relatives and fellow-villagers of the missing persons took part in spontaneous meetings.

July 07, 2007 21:35

• Armenia does not believe in complete disclosure of Hrant Dink's murder

  On July 2 the first hearing took place at the Court of Istanbul of Hrant Dink's murder case. The trial of 18 defendants lasted for about 12 hours. For 12 of them, the custody was chosen to be the freedom restriction measure.

July 07, 2007 17:48

• Activists of the "Equality Institute" released in Georgia

  Representatives of the Georgian nongovernmental organization (NGO) "Equality Institute" Jaba Dzhishkariani, Leval Gogichaishvili and David Dalakishvili were released from arrest today at 2:00 p.m.

July 07, 2007 17:13

• Azerbaijan: criminal case initiated against officer who gave up his citizenship

  The conflict of the Azerbaijani officer with the top managers of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) started two years ago after inspection at the Peace-Making Battalion of Azerbaijan in Iraq, where numerous violations had been revealed.

July 07, 2007 13:23

• After approval of Sochi-2014 application the second wave of protest begins

  The residents of the Imereti Lowland are preparing their new meetings of protest against their eviction.

July 07, 2007 12:07

• Relatives of those perished in Nalchik: they burnt torture traces in crematorium

  The relatives of the militants who fell victim during the 2005 autumn attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria are convinced that cremation of the militants' bodies was nothing else but an attempt of the authorities to destroy the traces of tortures applied to them and lawless executions.

July 07, 2007 11:56

• President of Abkhazia blames Georgia for escalating the conflict

  Today, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has met Ivo Petrov, deputy special representative of the UN Secretary General in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, and chief military observer of the UN Mission General Khan-Khattak.

July 06, 2007 23:53

• Azerbaijan upholds the verdict to journalists who abused Prophet Mohammed

  Today in Azerbaijan, the Appeal Court has considered the complaint of Samir Sadatoglu, editor-in-chief of the "Sanat" (Culture) newspaper, and publicist Rafik Tagi.

July 06, 2007 23:00

• Azerbaijani human rights activists meet "Ago" Group

  The "Ago" Group that is now in Azerbaijan met human rights activists. The meeting considered the situation with the freedom of speech, the law "On Freedom of Assembly," the staff of electoral commissions, voters' lists, the problem of political prisoners, etc.

July 06, 2007 16:30

• Sh. Torosyan: Javakhk problems in Georgia should be solved systemically

  The numerous problems existing in Javakhk now have an addition: Georgian authorities intend to dismiss all the Armenians who do not speak Georgian.

July 06, 2007 16:25

• "Memorial": European Court's decisions on Chechnya do not reduce the crime count

  The judicial system of the European Court for Human Rights is far from being perfect, since it resorts to forcing a respondent-state to pay out compensation. Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," called this practice the "impunity tax."

July 06, 2007 15:57

• State Duma has passed the law on fighting extremism

  The Russian State Duma has passed in the third and final reading the law on strengthening the struggle against extremism.

July 06, 2007 15:46

• Dagestan native sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for driving his comrade-in-arms to suicide

  In February 2006, at anonymous polling on the problem of hazing in the army, held in the military unit No. 22292 of the 85th Motor Rifle Division, a number of servicemen pointed to private Ruslan Velkhiev as an infringer of statutory relations.

July 06, 2007 13:13

• Secretary of Dagestan Security Council met refugees from Borozdinovskaya village

  On July 5, Ahmed-Nabi Magdigadzhiev, Secretary of the Security Council of Dagestan, had a meeting with the initiative group of the refugees from Borozdinovskaya village.