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November 09, 2006 22:09

• Editors-in-chief of leading Azerbaijani media are on hunger strike

  Today, a hunger-strike action in protest against expulsion of the "Azadlyg" newspaper out of its own office was launched by the heads of six mass media of Azerbaijan, namely.

November 08, 2006 23:33

• Azerbaijani police dispersed a students' picket in Baku

  The students of the University "Independent Azerbaijan" held a picket in front of the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan.

November 08, 2006 23:30

• Applicant to the European Court fears that her relatives were killed by Russian servicemen in Chechnya

  Tomorrow, on November 9, 2006, the European Court for Human Rights will make its decision on disappearance in Chechnya of father and son Imakaevs.

November 08, 2006 23:08

• Jabrailov's words that Alkhanov should resign in favour of Kadyrov were perceived ambiguously in Chechnya

  The statement of Umar Jabrailov, Chechnya's Senator at the Council of Federation of Russia, on the need for Alu Alkhanov, today's head of the Republic, to pass over his authorities to Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Cabinet of Ministers, caused an ambiguous reaction in Chechnya.

November 08, 2006 22:57

• European Court will consider the case on kidnappings of Chechnya residents

  On November 9, 2006, the European Court for Human Rights will make its decision on disappearance in Chechnya of father and son Imakaevs.

November 08, 2006 22:53

• Vyacheslav Zhuravlyov, suspect of Politkovskaya's murder, asserts his non-involvement

  Vyacheslav Zhuravlyov, a militiaman from Nizhnevartovsk, suspected by the State Office of Public Prosecutor of implication in killing journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has stated in his interview to the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" newspaper that he had nothing to do with the murder, and moreover, in no case could have been its executor.

November 07, 2006 23:00

• Torshin: 380 militants responded to amnesty in Russia

  According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), from the moment of announcing the amnesty, a total of 380 militants have voluntarily surrendered in Russia.

November 07, 2006 21:39

• The Guardian: militiamen hide their colleagues suspected of Politkovskaya's murder

  Today, it is precisely one month after the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

November 07, 2006 21:28

• Journalists to start hunger strike in Azerbaijan against pressure on the press

  At their today's sitting, the Board of Editors of Azerbaijani mass media made a decision to hold a series of protest actions in the context of the facts of pressure on the press and attempts to move the "Azadlyg" newspaper out of its building.

November 07, 2006 21:23

• Alu Alkhanov, president of Chechnya, was suggested to pass the power over to Ramzan Kadyrov

  Mr. Umar Jabrailov, Chechnya's representative in the Council of Federation, thinks that Alu Alkhanov, president of Chechnya, should resign and pass over his powers to Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the government.

November 07, 2006 21:18

• "Russian March" to be held in Moscow again

  The Organizing Committee of the "Russian March" is going to hold another march dedicated to Stalin's birthday.

November 05, 2006 13:04

• Meeting of anti-fascists in the Bolotnaya Square is over

  The meeting has adopted a resolution, in which participants declared a reality of a threat of fascism in Russia and emphasized that stand for Russia for all nations.

November 04, 2006 22:58

• "Russian March" was rather peaceful in Russia

  In Moscow, despite all the earlier multiple declarations of the authorities on the ban of any marches, the "Russian March," nevertheless, took place.

November 04, 2006 22:56

• Hunger strike against pressure on media lasts in Azerbaijan for a week already

  Functionaries of the "Azadlyg" Block are holding their hunger strike for the sixth day today in the building where the editorial board of the newspaper "Azadlyg" is located.

November 04, 2006 22:53

• Rashid Gadzhily: situation with mass media in Azerbaijan is close to dangerous threshold

  Recently, mass media of Azerbaijan have confronted the pressure of the authorities, unprecedented by force and scale. Jurisprudent Rashid Gadzhily, Director of the Media Rights Institute, thinks that the situation with printed and electronic mass media "is approaching a dangerous threshold."

November 04, 2006 22:49

• Several meetings held in Dagestan

  On the occasion of the holiday, a solemn rally was held in the Dagestan House of Government.

November 04, 2006 00:11

• Consulate of Georgia: 2681 Georgians deported from Russia

  According to the Embassy of Georgia in Moscow, a total of 2681 citizens of Georgia have been deported from Russia under court judgements, and 1194 Georgians more "were forced to leave the country without any legal judgements."

November 03, 2006 23:44

• Prosecution: investigation of murders in Kondopoga to be over by mid-November

  The Kondopoga prosecutor's office promises to finish, by the middle of November, the investigation of the murder of local citizens that had entailed massive ethnic-motivated disorders.

November 03, 2006 23:41

• HRC "Memorial": those in power are responsible for rampancy of nationalism in Russia

  Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" informed repeatedly that on November 4 in a number of cities of Russia, nationalistically-inclined parties and organizations would hold the so-called "Russian Marches."

November 03, 2006 23:38

• Alksnis: no "Russian March" in metro

  Moscow authorities gave a permit to the Party "Narodnaya Volya" (People's Will) and Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII) to hold a meeting on November 4 in the place in Moscow known as Devichye Pole.