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November 24, 2008 12:33

• Kaczynski asks not to blame anybody for the incident in Georgia

  President of Poland Lech Kaczynski asks not to blame anybody for the incident in Georgia when unknown persons opened fire near the cars, which carried himself and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. According to Mr Kaczynski, it was he who asked to change the route of the presidential cortege.

November 24, 2008 12:26

• Chechnya investigates the terror act that killed four persons

  Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic continue investigating the circumstances of the terror act in Sadovoe village, Grozny District, committed at night on November 23, when three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, and one local resident were killed, and eight more person, five militiamen among them, were heavily wounded.

November 24, 2008 12:22

• Moscow holds picket in memory of Farid Babaev killed in Dagestan

  A memory picket of Dagestan human rights activist and member of the "Yabloko" Party Farid Babaev took place today in Moscow near "Kropotkinskaya" Metro from 11:15 to 12:00 a.m. Moscow time.

November 24, 2008 12:18

• Russian Prosecutor's Office: mercenaries fought for Georgia in conflict with South Ossetia

  Alexander Bastrykin, head of the ICPO, asserts that in the August conflict with South Ossetia, Georgia made use of mercenaries recruited in several countries.

November 24, 2008 12:15

• Medvedev ratifies treaties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has signed the ratification laws of the treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Kremlin press service said today.

November 24, 2008 12:13

• Chechen Prosecutor's Office: military inspectors to take Sulim Yamadaev's case now

  Further investigation of the criminal cases initiated against former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Ministry of Defence of Russia Lieutenant Colonel Sulim Yamadaev will be held by military investigatory bodies.

November 24, 2008 12:10

• Body count of November 6 Vladikavkaz terror act is now 12 persons

  The death roll of the explosion of a fixed-route taxi in the centre of Vladikavkaz has reached 12 persons, the spokesman of the Ministry of Public Health of North Ossetia has reported today.

November 24, 2008 12:07

• European parliamentarian finds missing South-Ossetian young men

  European MP from Italy Julietto Chieza has managed to establish the whereabouts of the missing young men from South Ossetia, who had been taken in captivity by Georgian militaries and whose fate remained unknown.

November 24, 2008 12:04

• Court rejects convicted journalist's claim against Azerbaijani MFA head

  Today, the Yasamal District Court of Baku, presided by Judge Fardy Mekhraliev, has rejected the claim filed by Einullah Fatullaev, imprisoned founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", against Elmar Mamedyarov, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan.

November 22, 2008 21:23

• Ingushetia: detainee's relatives complain that he is tortured

  Residents of Ingushetia have informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that power agencies of the Republic are fabricating a criminal case against their relative Ruslan Terkakiev, 23, and subject him to torture.

November 22, 2008 19:17

• A year ago Farid Babaev was assassinated in Dagestan

  Saturday, November 21, 2008, is exactly one year after the murder of Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party, a prominent public figure and human rights activist.

November 22, 2008 18:12

• Armenia opens monument to the national currency

  Today, an opening ceremony took place in the capital of Armenia - of the monument to the national currency - dram, which was officially accepted as the national payment unit on November 22, 1993. In the opinion of Armenian authorities, the monument is "a serious work of art", which will be interesting for foreign tourists.

November 22, 2008 16:07

• HRC "Memorial": Chechen authorities fail with their housing guarantees

  Former inhabitants of the Temporary Accommodation Centres in Chechnya, whom the Republic's authorities promised to provide housing in the first order, now have to pay for leased apartments or live with their relatives, reports the Human Rights Centre "Memorial".

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.