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December 15, 2008 13:33

• In Armenia, advocates in "Case of Seven" find evidences insufficient

  The verdict of guilty in the "Case of Seven" lacks evidences, which could justify sending the case to the court, runs the letter of a group of advocates to Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, about the violations and drawbacks found in the verdict of guilty.

December 15, 2008 13:30

• Armenia: during events on March 1, sniper was instructed by former internal troop's commander

  At the closed hearing of the ad hoc commission of the National Assembly of Armenia for studying events on March 1, General-Lieutenant Grigor Grigoryan, ex-commander of internal troops, has confessed that on March 1 in the evening he gave an order to the sniper "to neutralize" the armed participants of the rally.

December 15, 2008 13:24

• Slaschev School pupils in Volgograd Region feel satisfactory

  The hospitalized pupils of the Slaschev boarding school located in Kumylzhen District of Volgograd Region are receiving in full all the necessary medical aid. Now, the doctors assess their health condition as satisfactory. A special operative staff is engaged in investigating the incident.

December 15, 2008 13:22

• Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners concerned with Atspanyan's health condition

  The life of Sarkis Atspanyan who started as of December 1 his termless hunger strike is in danger. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by human rights activist Vardan Arutyunyan, a member of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners.

December 15, 2008 13:18

• Trial on Anna Politkovskaya's murder suspended till December 17

  The judicial process on the murder of observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya has announced a break till December 17. Today, at the Moscow Regional Military Court, the defence has started presenting evidences of the defendants' innocence.

December 13, 2008 23:34

• In Azerbaijan, three persons perish in explosion of dwelling house

  As a result of an explosion today morning in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, in a five-floor apartment house, three persons were lost. The press-service of the Azerbaijani MIA reports that several persons with wounds and burns, including a child, were hospitalized from the place of the incident.

December 13, 2008 22:40

• MIA of Georgia: Russian troops are back in Perevi

  Russia has re-opened its block-post and scales up its military contingent in the village of Perevi located in the border with South Ossetia, the MIA of Georgia reports.

December 13, 2008 20:25

• In Ingushetia, militia posts shelled three times in one day

  Within the last 24 hours, in different areas of Ingushetia, there were three incidents with fire opened at employees of law enforcement bodies. Three militiamen were wounded.

December 13, 2008 19:21

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of breaching Medvedev-Sarkozy plan

  The South-Ossetian Ministry of Defence reports that Georgia has deployed its special troops near the border with South Ossetia, which is a direct violation of the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement reached after the Russian-Georgian August military conflict.

December 13, 2008 17:17

• March in defence of human rights held in Azerbaijani capital

  On December 12, the "Dalga" (Wave) Youth Movement held an action in Baku within the Week of Human Rights on the issue of restrictions imposed on the freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan.

December 13, 2008 16:09

• Rostov Region strengthens people's credit of militia

  The project "We know our rights. And you?", realized in the Rostov Region by the Union "Women of Don Region", has promoted stronger trust of the population to law enforcement bodies, as Valentina Cherevatenko, leader of the Union, believes.

December 13, 2008 15:02

• Ingush public call authorities to return the Prigorodny District

  Representatives of public organizations of Ingushetia have addressed the leaders of the Republic with an appeal to return the Prigorodny District, belonging nowadays to North Ossetia, back within administrative borders of Ingushetia.

December 13, 2008 13:55

• Residents of Rostov Region collect books for South-Ossetian children

  In Rostov-on-Don, the regional children's library is gathering books for the children's library in South Ossetia.

December 13, 2008 12:45

• In Adygea, officials are ordered to be more careful when driving service cars

  The government of Adygea has passed a statement instructing state servants not to use their service cars for personal needs and not to drive them personally.

December 13, 2008 10:24

• NAChO: distribution system of presidential grants needs reforming

  The National Association of Charitable Organizations (NAChO) of Russia has studied the peculiarities of allocation of presidential grants and concluded that budgetary funds in the country are often granted to organizations and projects whose aims are foggy, and relation to declared activities y is non-evident.

December 12, 2008 19:51

• Movement "Dalga" holds action near Iranian embassy in Baku

  On Thursday, December 11, the Youth Organization "Dalga" (Wave), acting within the Week of Human Rights, held a protest action before the embassy of Iran to Baku.

December 12, 2008 19:49

• Russian Supreme Court refuses to revise Boris Stomakhin's verdict

  The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has refused to revise the verdict to the publicist of the website "Kavkaz-Centre" Boris Stomakhin convicted to five years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by his mother Regina Stomakhina.

December 12, 2008 19:44

• Institute of Media Rights states problems with freedom of press in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijani Institute of Media Rights (IMR) has promulgated a report on situation with mass media of the country in November. The document, now at the disposal of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, runs that in the reporting period five facts of pressure on journalists were registered.

December 12, 2008 13:51

• Pliev: Judge in Magomed Evloev's case is under prosecutors' pressure

  The judge refused to re-qualify the case dealing with the murder of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", into another article of the Criminal Code because of the pressure exerted by the prosecutor's office. This opinion was stated by human rights activist and advocate Musa Pliev, now appointed as adviser of President of Ingushetia to coordinate the work of power agencies.

December 12, 2008 13:48

• Linguistic experts say they never called the Dagestan newspaper "Time of Actions" as extremist

  Representatives of the Association of Linguistic Experts named "Argument", who were engaged in analyzing articles from the newspaper "Time of Actions", have stated that never treated the paper as extremist. Since judicial bodies only are entitled to qualify and, moreover, recognize this or that text or mass media as extremist.