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March 10, 2009 21:00

• Novorossisk hosts a picket for cancellation of curfew for teenagers

  On March 7, another rally was held in the city of Novorossisk, Krasnodar Territory, demanding to cancel the curfew for children. The picketers voiced protest against two articles of the Law of the Krasnodar Territory of 21.07.2008 No. 1539-KZ "On Measures to Prevent Child Neglect and Minors' Offences in Krasnodar Territory".

March 10, 2009 20:00

• Till March 19, only one defendant will attend sessions on "Case of Seven"

  The today's session on the "Case of Seven" lasted for a couple of minutes only and was postponed till March 11. The reason was the absence of advocate Stepan Voskanyan, who was busy in some other litigation. At the same time, only one defendant - Grigor Voskerchyan - was present at the session.

March 10, 2009 20:00

• Relatives of Ingushetian inmates hope for meeting with Evkurov

  Today at the picket in the city of Magas, relatives of the 12 inmates kept at the local IVS (pre-trial custody) have reported that they cherish hope for the meeting with President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. The meeting should take place tomorrow, on March 11, in the President's Administration. The relatives demand to stop protracting the litigation.

March 10, 2009 19:20

• Brinikh: Imereti residents at risk to stay landless

  In relation to the people, whose houses are within the construction zone of Olympiad-2014 objects, the authorities of Sochi are holding the tactics "by hook or by crook". Valery Brinikh, co-chairman of the board of the international NGO named "Social-Ecological Union", told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

March 10, 2009 19:00

• Azerbaijan: opposition calls to boycott referendum

  The Public Movement "For Karabakh and Republic" has announced a boycott of the referendum appointed on March 18 on amendments to the Constitution. The decision was made today at the meeting of the leaders of the parties and NGOs-members of the Public Movement.

March 10, 2009 18:00

• Advocates in attack-on-Nalchik case appeal against cancellation of juries

  A group of advocates involved in the case about the attack on power bodies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) in October 2005 have sent a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court of Russia against the decision of the KBR's Supreme Court to cancel the jury. The lawyers ask to cancel the decision because it worsens the status of defendants, which is forbidden by the laws of the Russian Federation (RF).

March 09, 2009 22:00

• Georgian MPs offer studying the problems of Georgians living in Azerbaijan

  At the session of the Georgian parliamentary committee for relations with compatriots abroad, the MPs offered to set up a working group for dealing with the problems the Georgian living in Azerbaijan.

March 09, 2009 21:00

• In Armenia, a defendant on "Case of Seven" has poor health condition

  Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan told journalists about his intention to address the Ministry of Justice because health condition of Shant Arutyunyan, one of the defendants in the "Case of Seven", is very grave.

March 09, 2009 20:00

• Kitsmarishvili, former Georgia's ambassador to Russia complains of beating by MIA General

  Former ambassador of Georgia Erosi Kitsmarishvili has accused Irakliy Kodua, a high-ranking official of Georgian MIA, and his relatives of beating him, which, as he said, was politically motivated.

March 09, 2009 20:00

• Parents fix responsibility on authorities for death of their children on March 1 2008

  Alla Ovanisyan, mother of Tigran Khachatryan, 23, who died as a result of application by the police of gas weapon "Cheryomukha-7" in the course of dispersal of the oppositional action on March 1, 2008, has stated that her son was killed by the authorities.

March 09, 2009 19:00

• About 50,000 residents of Georgia are ready to demand Saakashvili's resignation

  The oppositional parties of Georgia have gathered some 50,000 signatures of Tbilisi residents, who are ready to take part in the rally on April 9 in the centre of the capital with a resignation demand of President Mikhail Saakashvili. The signing-in campaign will continue, as Eka Beseliya, one of the leaders of the United Opposition of Georgia, said today at a briefing.

March 09, 2009 19:00

• In Tbilisi, police disperses action of oppositional movement named "November 7"

  Today in Tbilisi, the police has dispersed the action, organized in Rustaveli Avenue by the members of youth organizations who have united into the oppositional movement "November 7".

March 09, 2009 18:30

• Armenia to resume hearings on "Case of Seven"

  Today in Yerevan, the process on "Case of Seven" about disorders in the capital of Armenian on March 1, 2008, will continue.

March 09, 2009 18:00

• Relatives of IVS inmates hold picket in Ingushetia

  In Nazran, in the yard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, a picket was held by the relatives of the defendants, figuring in the case about attack on Ingushetia in 2004 and kept at the pre-trial prison (the so-called "IVS") of the MIA of Ingushetia; the picketers demanded that the date of consideration of the case be appointed.

March 07, 2009 19:00

• Ocherkhadzhi: Khalidov is agent of Norwegian special agencies

  Magomed Ocherkhadzhi, one of the leaders of Chechen community in Norway, who, according to Ruslan Khalidov, a native of Chechnya, should have been killed by the latter under the alleged order of Ramzan Kadyrov, said that Khalidov himself had been recruited by Norwegian special agencies.

March 07, 2009 18:00

• Georgia accuses South Ossetia of repressions, Tskhinvali refutes everything

  Georgian media have promulgated, with reference to a source in the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the information that the authorities of South Ossetia had launched mass repressions against those Ossetians, who took part, on November 12, 2006, in alternative election of the President of South Ossetia held in the territory earlier controlled by Tbilisi. Tskhinvali refutes all statements of this sort.

March 07, 2009 16:10

• Moscow holds picket for release of Zara Murtazalieva

  Today in Moscow, a picket was held with a demand to set free Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, convicted on accusation of preparing a terror act, and to release other women-political prisoners.

March 07, 2009 15:00

• Rostov Region: three persons wounded in raiders' attack on refinery

  In the Kamensk District, Rostov Region, an attempt was made by members of one of private security agencies (PSA) to capture a large oil refinery in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy. Three persons were wounded.

March 07, 2009 14:00

• Evkurov: war on corruption returned 14 million roubles back into the budget of Ingushetia

  Yunus-Bek Evkurov, President of the Republic of Ingushetia, said that his anticorruption actions have returned 14 million roubles back into the Republic's budget.

March 07, 2009 13:00

• Human rights activists of Kabardino-Balkaria link restriction of juries with the Nalchik attack case

  The participants of the roundtable, held at the Public Human Rights Centre of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic believe that the restriction of juries is related to the particular criminal case, which considers the events on October 13, 2005, in Kabardino-Balkaria.