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23:40, 7 December 2006

Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia initiates a criminal case on Litvinenko's murder

The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has initiated a criminal case on the fact of assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee.

23:36, 7 December 2006

Anna Politkovskaya is awarded the "World Press Hero" title

The International Press Institute (IRI) has awarded the title of the "World Free Press Hero" to Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously.

22:10, 7 December 2006

Human rights activists are searching those guilty of death of Georgian native Manana Jabelia

On December 6, the Independent Press Centre held a press conference on the death of Manana Jabelia, a forced migrant from Abkhazia.

22:08, 7 December 2006

EU head expresses concern with the murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko

Taria Halonen, president of Finland, called the situation with assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, who criticized the Kremlin policy in Chechnya and in Russia as a whole, to be alarming.

22:00, 7 December 2006

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."

23:23, 6 December 2006

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.

23:18, 6 December 2006

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.

22:19, 6 December 2006

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.

22:11, 6 December 2006

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.

22:07, 6 December 2006

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.

23:52, 5 December 2006

"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.

23:30, 5 December 2006

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.

23:02, 5 December 2006

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.

22:47, 5 December 2006

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.

22:48, 4 December 2006

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.

22:45, 4 December 2006

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.

22:43, 4 December 2006

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.

22:38, 4 December 2006

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.

22:33, 4 December 2006

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.

22:15, 2 December 2006

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.

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