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November 22, 2008 15:03

• In Georgia, Labourites again call for Saakashvili's resignation

  The Labour Party of Georgia has offered all the political parties and organizations of the country to draft and sign a joint general declaration with a demand of immediate resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili.

November 22, 2008 14:00

• Ingush pilgrims depart to Mecca from Sochi

  On November 21, the first group of Russian pilgrims departed from the seaport of Sochi to Mecca. 200 believers, most of them are residents of Ingushetia, will initially cross the Black Sea by a ferry, and then continue their Hajj by land transport.

November 22, 2008 13:56

• In North Ossetia, enterprises lay workers off because of crisis

  North Ossetia is affected by the global financial crisis. Today, it is manifested, first of all, through cutting of jobs by the major local enterprises.

November 22, 2008 12:49

• General Public Prosecutor of Armenia: none of the victims on March 1 was killed by sniper

  According to the examination, none of the bullets extracted from the bodies of casualties and wounded persons of the events on March 1 in Yerevan was shot from a sniper's rifle, Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, told Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, who came to Yerevan.

November 22, 2008 11:20

• Somali pirates set free six citizens of Georgia

  Somali pirates received ransom and released tanker "Jenius", captured on September 27. Among the crew members there are six citizens of Georgia.

November 22, 2008 10:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, people help to stop illegal gambling centres

  The press service of the President of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reported that residents helped law enforcement bodies to stop illegal gambling establishments.

November 21, 2008 13:27

• Ella Kesaeva: Russian special agencies were involved in Beslan terror act

  Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", asserts that the so-called "Beslan terrorists", who seized the school in this North-Ossetian city four years ago, could be the agents of Russian special agencies - UBOP (Unit for Fighting Organized Crime) and FSB (Federal Security Bureau. This can be concluded, according to Kesaeva, from biography details of the attackers.

November 21, 2008 13:25

• Nikoyan: firearms were used on March 1 in Yerevan

  Samvel Nikoyan, Chairman of the ad hoc commission of the National Assembly of Armenia, which was set up to study the events on March 1 in Yerevan, has confirmed in his conversation with journalists the words that he addressed to a foreign correspondent that firearms were used and a sniper worked in the course of the said events.

November 21, 2008 13:20

• Three defendants from Kabardino-Balkaria have their custody extended

  Yesterday, on November 20, the court prolonged the term of custody for three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who are kept in Pyatigorsk SIZO, till January 11, 2009. According to advocate Magomed Abubakarov, in the course of investigation the suspects were exposed to violence.

November 21, 2008 13:12

• In Ingushetia, detainees complain of torture by the militia

  Four residents of Ingushetia have stated their illegal arrest and torture at militia units. According to their statement, they were forced into confession of the crime they never committed.

November 21, 2008 13:09

• Judge in Politkovskaya's murder case can be brought to disciplinary responsibility

  Judge Evgeniy Zubov can be brought to disciplinary responsibility, if it is proved that his decision to make the trial of Anna Politkovskaya's murder case closed was illegal.

November 21, 2008 13:06

• Dagestan SC reopens trial of Farid Babaev's murder

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan has made a decision to continue consideration of the murder case of Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of "Yabloko" Party in the open regime.

November 21, 2008 13:02

• Trial on Nalchik attack: candidates for jurymen polled

  Today, in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the proceedings on events of October 13, 2005, the prosecution asked questions to candidates for jurymen. A break was made in the trial till November 28, when the defence and prosecution should present their motivated challenges.

November 20, 2008 14:06

• Kramer: USA wait for Azerbaijan to pardon convicted journalists

  The States as a whole are satisfied with the progress in their relations with Azerbaijan, but Washington has some questions which are causing concern. Among them is the situation with the freedom of speech. This was discussed yesterday, on November 19, at the press conference in Baku, which was given by David Kramer, under Secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labour.

November 20, 2008 14:02

• Rostov Military Court denies complaint of soldier's father against decision of NCMD Prosecutor

  The Rostov Garrison Military Court has rejected the complaint of Valery Markaryan, father of a mandatory service soldier, against the decision of the Military Public Prosecutor of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD), who had reversed the inspector's decision to initiate a criminal case against officer Alexei Gvozdkov. The latter, according to Markaryan, incited him to bribery for making the verdict to his son more lenient.

November 20, 2008 13:59

• Armenia: Smbat Aivazyan, ex-minister of state revenues, sentenced to two years

  On Wednesday, November 19, the general court of Yerevan communities Kentron and Noek-Marash convicted Smbat Aivazyan, a member of the Board of the "Republic" opposition party and former minister of state revenues, to two years of imprisonment and fined him by 300,000 drams (about 1000 US dollars).

November 20, 2008 13:57

• Trial on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case interrupted till early December

  The Moscow Regional Military Court has announced a break in considering the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", till December 1.

November 20, 2008 13:53

• On March 1, snipers were at work in Yerevan, opposition says

  During the press conference on November 20, Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the centre of the Armenian National Congress, promulgated an audio record of the interview of Samvel Nikoyan, chairman of the ad hoc parliamentary commission to a foreign journalist, where he said that during the events on March 1 snipers were used in the capital of Armenia.

November 20, 2008 13:48

• Trial on attack on Nalchik continues choosing jurymen

  Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued selecting reserve jurymen for the case on the attack of militants on Nalchik in October 2005.

November 20, 2008 13:46

• Doctor convicted in Sofia Kulivets' case commits suicide in Krasnodar SIZO

  Today at night, at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of Krasnodar, doctor Vladimir Pelipenko, sentenced to eleven months of imprisonment in the case of newborn Sofia Kulivets, whose arm was amputated, has committed suicide.