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November 26, 2009 23:10

• Only 15 percent of Armenian women are ready to state violence applied to them

  In Armenia, psychological pressure is the most widespread form of violence applied to women; sexual, physical and economic forms of violence are also widespread. This was stated on November 25 by Gene Sargizova, head of the UN programme "Against Gender Violence in South Caucasus".

November 26, 2009 23:00

• Actions demanding to stop "Electrozink" continue in Vladikavkaz

  The conflict around frequent hazardous emissions by the "Electrozink" factory would not abate in the capital of North Ossetia. Despite assurances of the enterprise managers that emissions into the atmosphere took place only on October 5 and 28, people go on complaining of periodical unpleasant smell in the air.

November 26, 2009 22:20

• South Ossetia offers Georgia to exchange detainees on condition "all for all"

  As reported today by Stanislav Kochiev, chairman of the parliament of South Ossetia, who is now in Moscow, South Ossetia offers Georgia to make a simultaneous exchange of all detained Georgians and Ossetians without any preconditions.

November 26, 2009 22:00

• Human rights defenders summoned to interrogation on Kadyrov-vs-Orlov case

  Tatiana Lokshina, deputy director of the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch, was summoned as a witness in the criminal case, initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on the charge of slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. A number of other human rights activists also received summons.

November 26, 2009 19:00

• European Court convicts Russia for kidnapping five Chechen residents in 2003

  At the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Russia has lost another case to relatives of five residents of Chechnya kidnapped in 2003. Under the decision of the Court, the victims should get in total 215,000 euros of compensation.

November 26, 2009 18:00

• Court sees no law violations in picketers' actions

  Ms Chechenova, M. S., Magistrate Judge of Judicial District No. 8 of the city of Nalchik, having considered the materials of the case related to the six persons, detained yesterday for their picket and accused of an administrative offence, has ruled to stop the case because of absence of any offence attributes in their actions.

November 25, 2009 23:00

• AI: special agencies of Egypt torture detained native of Ingushetia

  Egyptian human rights activists beat an alarm. Under their information, Ibragim Mankiev, 32, a citizen of the Russian Federation, who is kept by the State Security Body of the Arab Republic of Egypt, is exposed to torture. This was reported by the bureau of the Amnesty International (AI) in Alexandria.

November 25, 2009 22:50

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan finds facts of drugs overpricing in republic's pharmacies

  The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has launched a check of observance of the pricing legislation in the pharmaceutical market of the republic. Numerous cases when drugs were sold too expensive have been revealed.

November 25, 2009 22:20

• In Karachai-Circassia, prosecutors find violations in "Nadezhda" social and rehabilitation centre

  The Prosecutor's Office of Karachai-Circassia had revealed a number of violations in the work of the Republic's Social and Rehabilitation Children's Centre named "Nadezhda" (Hope). Prosecutors believe that certain provisions of the Centre's charter contradict the legislation.

November 25, 2009 22:10

• Hammarberg: Russia is not active enough in enforcing stability in Northern Caucasus

  Russia should strain harder towards stability in Northern Caucasus. This was stated by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights, in his report published on November 24 on the outcomes of his visit to Chechnya and Ingushetia in September 2009.

November 25, 2009 22:00

• Moscow demands that Georgia stops provocations against Russian citizens

  The Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs demands from Georgian authorities to stop unprovoked, according to the MFA's statement, detentions of citizens of the Russian Federation.

November 25, 2009 21:20

• Georgia: arrested son of the first president rejects medical help

  The health condition of Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is in pre-trial custody under the charge of a deliberate murder attempt, where he went on hunger strike, continues to aggravate.

November 25, 2009 21:00

• Bakradze: murder of Abkhazian native was provoked by atmosphere of interethnic enmity in Russia

  David Bakradze, head of the Georgian parliament, has accused, in his comments on the murder in the evening on November 23 in Moscow of Eduard Gurtskaya, 19, a native of Abkhazia, Russia of ethnically-motivated persecution of people.

November 25, 2009 19:00

• SC upholds acquittal on the case of disorders in Ingushetia

  The Supreme Court (SC) has refused to cancel the verdict passed to Ingush oppositionists, including Maksharip Aushev, assassinated a month ago, on the case about organization of mass disorders in Ingushetia.

November 25, 2009 18:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: detained picketers sent from OVD to court

  The persons detained today at an attempt to hold a picket in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria were illegally kept at the OVD (Interior Unit) No. 1 of Nalchik, where a protocol on administrative offence was drawn up; then, they were transported to the court. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Elena Bairamkulova, an advocate and a colleague of Magomed Abubakarov, who is defending the interests of those accused under the case about the 2005 events in Nalchik.

November 24, 2009 23:50

• Russia prepares its answer to European Court on Georgia's complaint about events of South Ossetia

  Russia is preparing an answer to the interstate complaint submitted by Georgia on the events in South Ossetia and received by Russia from the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on February 11, 2009. This was stated today by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation.

November 24, 2009 23:30

• In Armenia, children's and teenagers' criminality went up by 4.9 percent

  In the first 9 months of this year Armenia registered 383 crimes committed by minors. As compared with the same period of 2008, the count of such crimes went up by 4.9 percent. This was reported by Colonel Ovanes Tamamyan, head of the Chief Criminal Search Department of the Police of Armenia.

November 24, 2009 23:00

• Facts of drug overpricing revealed in Karachai-Circassia

  The local prosecutor's office made another audit of the chemist's network and revealed facts of deliberate overpricing of drugs in Karachai-Circassia.

November 24, 2009 22:50

• Three activists of "November 7" movement detained on anniversary of "revolutions of roses" in Georgia

  On November 23, at 6 p.m., near the building of the Georgian parliament, three activists of the social movement "November 7" - Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, Dagi Tsoguriya and Irakli Kordzaya - were detained. They were found guilty of breaking the law on rallies.

November 24, 2009 22:20

• Among versions of militiamen's murder in Kabardino-Balkaria is extremists' response to article "Shura Decapitated"

  Inspectors consider several versions of the death of two law enforcers in the city of Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria, whose decapitated bodies were found yesterday in the luggage compartment of the car left in the roadside. Among the versions - an answer of the militants to an article published in a local newspapers about liquidation of the leaders of the republic's extremist underground - Shura.