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September 08, 2008 12:09

• UN Court in The Hague considers Georgia's suit against Russia

  The UN International Court in The Hague has started three-day hearing of Georgia's claim against Russia.

September 06, 2008 19:53

• Austria to open its embassies in Georgia and Azerbaijan

  Austria is studying the expediency of opening its embassies in the capitals of Georgia and Azerbaijan - Tbilisi and Baku. This was stated by Ursula Plassnik, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, on September 5.

September 06, 2008 19:51

• Krasnodar Territory opens a cemetery of German soldiers

  Today, the Apsheron District, Krasnodar Territory, held an official opening ceremony of a cemetery where German soldiers are buried. Their relatives took part in the ceremony.

September 06, 2008 17:44

• NATO mission to come to Georgia

  Tomorrow, on September 7, a NATO delegation will arrive to Tbilisi, Revaz Beshidze, Georgia's representative in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, told journalists.

September 06, 2008 16:39

• Number of candidates to Azerbaijani presidency has halved

  On September 5 was the deadline for presenting to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan of subscription lists in support of registration of candidates for the top country's post. Out of 21 applicants initially approved by the CEC only 10 have submitted their subscription lists.

September 06, 2008 15:06

• President of Armenia accepts invitation to visit Ankara

  President of Turkey has invited his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisyan to come to watch the football match of the two countries to be held in Turkey. Mr Sarkisyan has accepted the invitation.

September 06, 2008 12:34

• Human rights activist Mutsolgov disbelieves in accidental murder of Magomed Evloev in Ingushetia

  Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights activist from Ingushetia and leader of the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr", does not believe that Magomed Evloev, owner of the "Ingushetia.Ru" oppositional website, was fatally wounded as a result of a random shot.

September 06, 2008 10:30

• By-elections to Georgian Parliament to be held in November

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree to reappoint by-elections to Parliament of Georgia and elections to Supreme Soviet of Adzharia, previously scheduled for October 4, to November 3.

September 06, 2008 09:47

• Dagestan: two powerful bombs detected in the place of special operation in Khasavyurt

  On September 4, in the area, where a special operation against militants was held in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, two powerful self-made explosives were found, which were blown up in situ, a source in law enforcement bodies has reported today.

September 05, 2008 07:39

• "Beslan Mothers" challenge the chief inspector in Beslan case

  The "Beslan Mothers" Association of Terror Act Victims has challenged inspector Solzhenitsyn, who heads the investigation of the case on the terror act in Beslan, and sent a petition to Mr Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russian Federation.

September 05, 2008 07:36

• Azerbaijani opposition states illegality of forthcoming presidential election

  Today, a number of leading oppositional forces of Azerbaijan have made a joint statement about their non-recognition of the legitimacy of the presidential election due on October 15.

September 05, 2008 07:32

• CSTO leaders supported Russia's actions in South Ossetia

  The leaders of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) have treated negatively the Georgia's actions in South Ossetia and have supported those of Russia, said Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the press conference after the CSTO session held in Moscow.

September 05, 2008 07:30

• Seven parties found eligible for parliamentary elections in Chechnya

  Seven out of eight regional branches of political parties, which have announced about their intention to take part in the parliamentary elections to be held on October 12, have got registered by the Chechen Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

September 05, 2008 07:25

• In Moscow, explosion occurs at commemoration held by natives from Caucasus

  Late at night on September 4, in Moscow, near the summer cafe named "Artizan", located near the "Domodedovskaya" metro station, where natives from the Caucasus were holding their commemoration party, an explosion took place. As a result of it, one person was killed and about a dozen were wounded.

September 05, 2008 07:23

• Evloev's fellow accuses head of Ingush MIA of murder

  On September 4, Magomed Khazbiev, chairman of the organizing committee of the Ingush Nationwide Rally, declared in Moscow that Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", was shot dead even before the departure from the territory of the airport, and there are grounds to think that it could be done by Musa Medov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

September 04, 2008 12:44

• In Azerbaijan, suspects of blowing up Abu Bekr Mosques arrested

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan reports about arrest of 11 persons suspected in organizing explosions in Abu Bekr Mosque in Baku and the power substation located in the Khatainskiy District of the capital.

September 04, 2008 12:39

• Dagestan commemorates victims of terror acts in Makhachkala and Buinaksk

  Today, mourning actions were held in Makhachkala and Buinaksk in memory of the victims of two terror acts - on September 4, 1998, in Parkhomenko Street in Makhachkala and in Buinaksk on September 4, 1999, where an apartment house was blown up in the military settlement.

September 04, 2008 12:36

• "Voice of Beslan" demands international investigation of Beslan terror act

  The all-Russian public organization "Voice of Beslan" demands an international investigation into the terror act in Beslan. Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the organization, emphasizes that the decision to appeal to the international community was adopted because of Russia's failure to hold an objective investigation and inspectors' refusal to institute criminal prosecution against high-ranking officials.

September 04, 2008 12:32

• Georgia: Tsotne Gamsakhurdia accused of putsch attempt refuses to plead guilty

  The middle son of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne, detained on September 3 in Tbilisi Airport on charges of a coup d'etat in Georgia, refuses to plead guilty, reports Keti Bekauri, one of his advocates.

September 04, 2008 12:25

• Leader of "Dagestan Mothers": killed Zakaryaev pursued Butdaev

  Gyulnara Rustamova, leader of the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and sister of Vadim Butdaev, who is accused of murdering journalist Telman Alishaev and UBOP Major Arsen Zakaryaev, has stated that the latter had been long prosecuted her family.