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February 10, 2007 23:19

• Privileged patients of the Volgograd Region left without medicines

  The Volgograd Region has faced an extremely poor situation with implementing privileges in provision medicines to the population.

February 10, 2007 23:10

• Festival of films on human rights to be held in Volgograd

  On February 13-15, 2007, the city of Volgograd will host a charitable action of the International Festival of films on human rights "Stalker."

February 10, 2007 22:57

• Kadyrov has won suit to "Kommersant"

  Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya's government, has won his suit lodged against the "Kommersant" newspaper.

February 10, 2007 22:40

• "Reporters without Borders" render financial aid to Azerbaijani journalists

  Journalist Nidzhat Daglar (Guseinov) has reported about his departure from the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

February 09, 2007 23:48

• Thousands of Chechnya residents remain without pensions

  About 27,000 Chechen pensioners remained without their pensions in January this year.

February 09, 2007 23:27

• Mailyan: there are no prisoners of war and hostages in Nagorny Karabakh

  Mr. Leo Platvoet, PACE Rapporteur on the issues of missing people in South Caucasus, has prepared a report, which was also submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nagorny Karabakh.

February 09, 2007 23:04

• Mass psychosis of children from Chechnya turned out to be poisoning

  It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that at the sanatorium "Nart" in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a group of children from the Chechen Republic has undergone treatment from an unknown illness diagnosed in them earlier.

February 09, 2007 21:18

• Public television of Azerbaijan refused to provide air time to oppositionists

  The Board of Directors of the Public Television and Radio Company (PTV) of Azerbaijan has refused to provide air time to the "Musavat" opposition party.

February 09, 2007 21:17

• Abkhazia suspends talks with Georgia until release if her two state servants

  Until release of two senior employees of the Galskiy District Administration - Fridon Chakaberia and David Sigua - the leadership of Abkhazia refuses to continue dialogue with Georgia.

February 08, 2007 23:11

• OSCE has supported the initiative of South Ossetia to promptly hold a MCC's sitting

  On February 8, a meeting was held of Boris Chochiev, first deputy chair of the government of South Ossetia and co-chair of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for Settling the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict from the South Ossetian party, with Mr. Roy Reav, head of the OSCE mission in Georgia.

February 08, 2007 23:07

• Moscow: public representatives discussed growth of Russian nationalism

  A conference on the topic "Language of Enmity and Xenophobia" was held today at the House of Journalists. In the cause of discussion, the audience has touched the issue of growing nationalistic spirits in Russia.

February 08, 2007 23:04

• Goran Lenmarker: elections in Armenia will brake down settlement of Nagorny Karabakh conflict

  President Goran Lenmarker and General Secretary Spenser Oliver of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly arrived to Azerbaijan.

February 08, 2007 22:43

• Explosion has damaged Imam's house in Ingushetia

  Another attempt against a religious figure has been undertaken in Ingushetia. After an attempt against Isa-Hadzhi Khamkhoev, Mufti of the Republic, and serious wounds to his son, it became known about an attempt against Khizir Tsoloev, Imam of the central mosque of the city of Nazran.

February 08, 2007 22:37

• Threat of avian flu virus persists in Azerbaijan

  Today, Mr. Oktaj Shiraliev, Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has informed journalists that the potential threat of avian flu virus still persists in the country.

February 07, 2007 23:33

• State Duma has forbidden state servants to participate in foreign NCOs

  At its today's session, the State Duma has passed a law, in its third final reading, forbidding the state servants to be members of foreign non-commercial organizations (NCOs).

February 07, 2007 23:27

• Ingushetia: human rights defenders inquire into the death circumstances of two local residents

  In the city of Nazran, members of power agencies have swept an automobile with two men inside.

February 07, 2007 23:05

• Azerbaijani prisoner of war refuses to return home

  Samir Mamedov, an Azerbaijani soldier who is now in the Armenian captivity, has asked to give him out into a third country not to Azerbaijan.

February 07, 2007 21:03

• Another suspect of avian flu died in Azerbaijan

  On February 6, in Azerbaijan, Zamina Zeinalova, 37, a resident of the Boyat village of the Neftechalinskiy District, died at the Scientific-Research Institute of Pulmonary Diseases, where she was hospitalized with a suspicion of avian flu.

February 07, 2007 21:00

• Father of serviceman from Dagestan shot dead in Moscow strives to punish the culprits

  Father of Jabrail Ibragimov, a soldier from Dagestan who perished in one of the military unit of the Taman Division, has left for Moscow aiming to clarify all the circumstances of his son's death and demand punishment of those guilty according to the law.

February 06, 2007 23:21

• Chechnya's ombudsman revealed human rights violations in Chernokozovo's "SIZO"

  On commission of Ramzan Kadyrov, prime minister of Chechnya, an inspection was held on observance of human rights in the Grozny pre-trial detention centre ("SIZO") and the colony for the victims located in the settlement of Chernokozovo.