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November 28, 2008 11:56

• Saakashvili: in August Georgia tried to set control over South Ossetia

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has confirmed his decision to launch the warfare aimed at establishment of control over Tskhinvali. He told this today to the ad hoc parliamentary commission in charge of investigating into the August events.

November 28, 2008 11:53

• Russian GPO: trial on Evloev's murder in Ingushetia cannot be impartial

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) suggests to transfer the consideration of the murder case of Magomed Evloev, former owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru", who was killed after detention by law enforcers, to some other region, since the future local trial cannot be fair. The respective petition has already been lodged.

November 28, 2008 11:49

• Investigation: lynch law is the main version of women's murder in Chechnya

  The six young women, whose bodies were found in the morning on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of Chechnya could be killed as punishment for their immoral behaviour, the investigation assumes.

November 27, 2008 18:48

• Prosecutor's Office of Armenia: one of attackers on journalist Edik Bagdasaryan pleads guilty

  On November 27, certain Karen Arutyunyan appeared at law enforcement bodies of Armenia and pled guilty of taking part in the attack on the well-known journalist Edik Bagdasaryan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Sona Truzyan, press secretary of the General Public Prosecutor.

November 27, 2008 18:44

• Armenia's GPP dissatisfied with Hammarberg's statements

  Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor (GPP) of Armenia, has expressed severe criticism of the statements made by Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, about the course of investigation and court decisions made in relation to the events of March 1.

November 27, 2008 18:41

• Lokshina: people are still leaving South Ossetia for Georgia

  The population of the Akhalgori (Leningori) District of South Ossetia, frightened by Ossetian civil guardsmen, continues leaving for Georgia, while the enclave Georgian villages are completely burnt down. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Tatiana Lokshina, representative of the Human Rights Watch (HRW).

November 27, 2008 12:35

• President of Ingushetia meets human rights activists

  On November 25, in the city of Magas, President of the Republic of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov held a meeting with representatives of a number of NGOs, namely, the "Mashr" Human Rights Organization, Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation", regional representative office of the HRC "Memorial" and the Associations of Ingushetian Students.

November 27, 2008 12:21

• Five of six women killed in Chechnya identified

  The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have established the persons of five young women, whose bodies were found on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of the Republic. One killed woman is not identified yet. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from a source in the Republic's law enforcement bodies.

November 27, 2008 11:53

• In Abkhazia, kidnappers release an elderly resident of Gali District

  Today, Goneri Badzagua, 70, a resident of the village of Nabakevi, Gali District of Abkhazia, who was kidnapped on November 22, was set free. Under preliminary information, the kidnappers extorted money from Mr Badzagua.

November 27, 2008 11:51

• "Ossetian Jama'at" claims responsible for killing Vladikavkaz Mayor

  An organization named "Ossetian Jama'at Kataib al Khoul" has proclaimed itself to execute the murder of Vitaly Karaev, Mayor of the city of Vladikavkaz. A respective statement appeared in one of Chechen separatists' websites.

November 27, 2008 11:44

• Beslan terror act victims refuse to leave court building

  About 60 residents of Beslan refuse to leave the building of the Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz until the chair at the trial meets them. The reason is in the permanent postponement of the court sessions. Today's one has also failed.

November 27, 2008 11:38

• Musaev: big political boss is a figure in Politkovskaya's case

  Yesterday, on November 26, ahead of the sitting of the Moscow Regional Military Court, where the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya is now considered, Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the defendants, had stated that some big Russian politician is a figurant in the case.

November 26, 2008 14:28

• Armenian opposition insists on sending the audio record of March 1 events to examination

  The Armenian National Congress (ANC) possesses an audio record from the place of tragic events on March 1 in Yerevan. According to some evidences, one can hear in the record not only machine-gun shots, but also fire from other weapons. In the opinion of the opposition of Armenia, the record should be sent to audio examination.

November 26, 2008 14:25

• Sokiryanskaya: Russian soldiers in South Ossetia are in rigour

  Russian soldiers, whom human rights activists met in their visit to the Leningor District of South Ossetia, complained of heavy conditions of their service. For a long time they had to sleep in entrenchments under clear sky and sometimes even to starve. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial".

November 26, 2008 14:20

• Kitsmarishvili: for four years Saakashvili wished to drag Georgia into war

  Today, ex-ambassador of Georgia Erosi Kitsmarishvili has re-confirmed his assertions made earlier. As he said, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili had long lusted and strived for war.

November 26, 2008 14:16

• Adygea: facts of logging in the territory of World Natural Heritage are checked by law enforcers

  Not only ecologists, but also law enforcement bodies have registered the facts of forest felling in the territory of the object of the World Natural Heritage (WNH) "Western Caucasus" in Adygea. In the next few days, criminal cases will be initiated on these facts.

November 26, 2008 14:14

• Same judge will run Anna Politkovskaya's murder case

  Today Evgeniy Zubov, Judge of the Moscow Regional Military Court, has refused to self-disqualify from the process on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

November 26, 2008 14:08

• Former advocate of ex-senator from Kalmykia Chakhmakhchyan applies against Russia to the European court

  Boris Kuznetsov, former advocate of Levon Chakhmakhchyan, ex-senator from Kalmykia, who was convicted to nine years of deprivation of freedom, has filed a claim against Russia to Strasbourg to the European Court for Human Rights.

November 26, 2008 13:15

• Sokiryanskaya: residents of Georgian villages in South Ossetia feel extremely unsafe

  On November 21, 2008, Russian human rights activists made a visit to the Leningor District of South Ossetia bordering on Georgia. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a representative of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who took part in the visit, told the "Caucasian Knot" in her interview about the distress of the villagers in the District.

November 25, 2008 13:50

• Azerbaijani politicians: Ukraine excessively politicizes Holodomor topic

  The topic of Holodomor (also known as Famine-1933) in Ukraine is being excessively politicized, however, the position of Ukrainian President on the issue deserves understanding, Azerbaijani politicians and political scientists believe.