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December 07, 2006 22:00

• PACE co-rapporteur calls Azerbaijani authorities to resume ANS TV Channel

  Tony Lloyd, rapporteur of the PACE monitoring committee for Azerbaijan, said in his interview to the BBC Radio that the administrative decision to stop the ANS TV Channel was "a very reactionary step."

December 06, 2006 23:23

• Many thousands strong nation-wide public rally held in Abkhazia

  Up to 40,000 persons from all cities and regions of Abkhazia arrived to the meeting. The government has provided free transport facilities to all who wanted to take part in the event.

December 06, 2006 23:18

• Azerbaijan is concerned with situation of Azerbaijanis in Russia

  Upon instruction of the president of Russia in relation to migrants, they have started to deport people who have no registration out of Russian cities. The decision is most strictly applied to citizens of Georgia, and part of them has already been deported from the country. Among them, there are also natives of Azerbaijan.

December 06, 2006 22:19

• Azerbaijani writers ask to release the journalist who has offended the Prophet

  In Azerbaijan, a group of writers are asking to release journalist Rafik Tagi who has published his anti-Islamic article in the "Senet" (Arts) newspaper from custody.

December 06, 2006 22:11

• Litvinenko poisoning: interrogation of Lugovoj postponed

  Interrogation of Andrei Lugovoj, a Scotland Yard's suspect of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, that was tonight, has been postponed.

December 06, 2006 22:07

• R. Kadyrov: Russian militaries must respond for tortures and murders of Chechnya residents

  Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of Chechnya government, has stated that he will strive to bring to responsibility the federal troops commanders in charge of murdered or missing peaceful citizens of Chechnya.

December 05, 2006 23:52

• "Reporters without Borders" condemned the appeal of Iranian clergy to massacre Azerbaijani journalists

  The International Organization "Reporters without Borders" has spread a document condemning an appeal of Iranian spiritual leaders to assassinate two journalists from Azerbaijan.

December 05, 2006 23:30

• Council of Europe is concerned with a death of Georgian woman in Moscow

  The Council of Europe is seriously concerned with the death of a Georgian woman, whom Russian authorities were about to deport from Moscow to Tbilisi.

December 05, 2006 23:02

• Litvinenko's body was given out to his relatives

  The body of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, has been handed over to his relatives for burial.

December 05, 2006 22:47

• Stephania Kulaeva: action plan on Gypsies' problems will allow improving their situation

  In the south of Russia, the rights of the Gipsy population are violated. First of all, it refers the right for obtaining education.

December 04, 2006 22:48

• Both prosecution and defence appeal against Stomakhin's verdict

  A five-year deprivation of freedom sentence passed to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web site and co-chairman of the Revolutionary Contact Association, was appealed against at the Moscow City Court both by defence and prosecution, Karen Nersesyan, his advocate, told.

December 04, 2006 22:45

• Head of Karelia appoints compensation to Kondopoga victims

  Sergey Katanandov, Karelia's head, has signed a prescription to allocate 350,000 roubles from his reserve fund on rendering assistance to families of casualties and other victims of Kondopoga disorders.

December 04, 2006 22:43

• Scaramella blames Litvinenko of nuclear materials smuggling

  Italian Professor Mario Scaramella, who had dinner with Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, on the day of his poisoning, said that in 2000 Litvinenko was in charge of a secret operation of contraband delivery of nuclear materials from Russia to Zurich, Switzerland.

December 04, 2006 22:38

• Nationalists who committed terror act in Cherkizovskiy Market tried to blow up the Moscow State University (MSU)

  Moscow militia has completed examination of the explosive, which failed to function in the ninth level of the hostel in the MSU main building.

December 04, 2006 22:33

• Residents of Chechen mountain villages are concerned with more frequent air raids and shelling

  Air bombing of high-mountain village of Sharo-Argun in the Shatoiskiy District of the Republic is far from being a single incident if this sort in Chechnya during recent time, the residents of a number of mountainous villages of the Republic assert.

December 02, 2006 22:15

• Kondopoga residents paid tribute to citizens murdered three months ago during disorders

  Today, residents of Kondopoga have paid the tribute to the memory of the citizens who were killed three months ago - late in August this year.

December 02, 2006 22:11

• Anti-Criminal Movement published names of policemen rewarded for beating peaceful demonstrators in Armenia

  "We have at our disposal multiple documents on interference of law enforcement bodies and the Security Service of Armenia into the course of political processes," Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "New Times" Party, stated in the evening on December 1.

December 02, 2006 22:09

• November battles and diversions in North Caucasus brought at least 38 casualties

  From November 23 to 29, at least ten persons perished and five more wounded in the course of armed collisions and diversion acts in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

December 02, 2006 22:06

• Italian and British journalists know who poisoned Litvinenko

  Journalists from The News of the World newspaper have managed to find out the name of Litvinenko's poisoner.

December 02, 2006 22:03

• Mario Scaramella has no traces of radiation intoxication

  The British doctors who continue examining Italian Mario Scaramella have reported today that he has no traces of radiation intoxication.