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June 08, 2009 23:10

• Members of Makhachkala antiterrorist commission criticise the work of militia

  Today, the Mayoralty of Makhachkala hosted a regular sitting of the city's antiterrorist commission, which brought together activists, workers of power agencies, intellectuals, mass media and leaders of official confessions. In the course of the sitting, the participants criticised the work of militia.

June 08, 2009 23:00

• In Armenia, fact-finding group on opposition's collisions with police disbanded

  President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has signed an order to nullify his Decree of October 23, 2008, which stipulated setting up and formation order of the fact-finding group about clashes of the opposition with the police on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan.

June 08, 2009 22:00

• Fight for Dagestan presidency is one of the versions under Interior Minister's murder

  The murder of Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, can have something to do with the presidential election to be held in February 2010. According to some sources, Mr Magomedtagirov could be considered as a candidate for President of Dagestan, should the Kremlin decide to bank on a "strong hand" in the republic.

June 08, 2009 22:00

• Dispersal victims of November 7, 2007, in Georgia file complaint to European Court

  Advocates of the NGO named "Priority of Human Rights" have sent a complaint of the citizens, who suffered in the course of dispersal of a protest action in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007, to the European Court on Human Rights.

June 08, 2009 21:10

• Murder of assistant of First Vice-Premier of Chechnya could be militants' revenge

  Law enforcers of Chechnya are now searching the unknown person who shot dead, last Saturday, on June 6, in Argun, Musost Khutiev, assistant for power agencies of the First Vice-Premier of the Government of Chechnya and former Brigade General of Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Militants' revenge is viewed by inspectors as the main versions of the murder.

June 08, 2009 21:00

• Canadian model runs a new programme on Chechen TV

  Starting June 7, the "Grozny" Chechen State Television and Radio Company (ChSTRC) broadcasts an English-language new programme "View from within by Crystall Callahan" run by a Canadian model. It is planned that the programme will appear once a week, every Sunday.

June 08, 2009 20:00

• Dzhavadly: Herd Bucerius Prize is a support of Azerbaijani free press

  According to Natik Dzhavadly, a correspondent of the "Bizim Yol" newspaper, the Herd Bucerius Award granted to workers of Azerbaijani media is a serious support of the advocates of free press in this country.

June 08, 2009 19:00

• Observer at election of Yerevan Mayor arrested in Armenia

  Arshaluis Akopyan, a photo journalist of the website of the Helsinki Association and a member of a human rights NGO, who acted as an observer at election of Yerevan Mayor on May 31, was arrested on June 5 in Armenia and charged under Article 316, part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia (CC RA): "Resistance to power officials".

June 08, 2009 18:00

• Advocates in Nalchik attack case challenge the court but fail

  Today, at the regular session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria considering the criminal case dealing with the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, a dispute burst out between accusers and defenders in the course of interrogating a witness about the procedure of announcing witnesses' evidences in the course of preliminary investigation.

June 06, 2009 22:08

• CEC of Armenia refuses to nullify Yerevan elections

  The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has refused to consider the application of the opposition demanding to recognize the outcomes elections to the Board of Elders of Yerevan null and void.

June 06, 2009 21:00

• Apartment house collapses in Tbilisi killing a woman

  A four-level apartment block has collapsed in the Vaki District of Georgian capital. As a result of the accident, Makvala Bitsadze, 68, who happened to be inside the house at the moment, was killed.

June 06, 2009 20:00

• Dagestan President: Magomedtagirov was enticed to wedding party to be murdered

  Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was not going to visit the wedding party on June 5, where he was killed, and, most likely, people linked with the customers of the murder urged him to go there. This was stated today by President Mukhu Aliev.

June 06, 2009 19:00

• Saakashvili: UN Secretary General's report was made under Russia's influence

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated that the report presented by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in May at the UN Security Council was drafted under the influence of Russia.

June 06, 2009 18:00

• North Ossetia holds scientific conference on genealogy of Caucasian nations

  The international scientific and practical conference "Genealogy of Caucasian Nations. Traditions and Contemporaneity" was held on June 6 in the North-Ossetian Institute of Humanitarian and Social Researches (known as "SOIGSI").

June 06, 2009 17:32

• World Bank predicts stabilization of Armenian economy

  The World Bank (WB) expects stabilization in Armenian economy by the end of 2009. This was stated by Aristomene Varudakis, head of the Yerevan-based WB's office.

June 06, 2009 17:00

• "Olympstroy" rejects second seaport in Sochi

  The "Olympstroy" has decided to give up its plans to build the second seaport in Sochi, as reported today by Vice-Premier Dmitri Kozak, supervisor of preparation for 2014 Winter Olympic Games, to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

June 06, 2009 13:08

• Oppositional paper to pay 10,000 US dollars to family of Armenian ex-President

  The general court of Yerevan communities Centre-Nork-Marash has passed a decision to partially satisfy the claim lodged by the family of ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan against the oppositional newspaper "Armenian Time"; that is the paper shall pay 3.62 million drams (about 10,000 US dollars) to Kocharyan family, instead of claimed 16 million drams (42,000 US dollars).

June 06, 2009 12:00

• Mukhu Aliev: Interior Minister of Dagestan had many enemies

  The assassinated Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov had plenty of enemies: members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and thousands of criminals. It was reported by President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev at an emergency sitting of the antiterrorist commission.

June 06, 2009 03:00

• Armenia: opposition demands nullifying Yerevan elections

  The Armenian opposition has demanded that the Republic's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) recognize null and void the outcomes of voting on May 31 for the Board of Elders of Yerevan, according to which the ruling Republican Party of Armenia proved to be the winner.

June 05, 2009 23:10

• Oppositional members of fact-finding group are sure the group is deliberately disorganized

  Seda Safaryan and Andrannik Kocharyan, members of the fact-finding group set up to investigate the opposition's clashes with the police on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan, who had been nominated to the group by the opposition, told journalists that purposeful actions to disrupt their work began after their decision to publish the final report on May 19.