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August 21, 2008 10:25

• Russia hands 63 peaceful residents of South Ossetia over to Georgia

  Today, as a result of negotiations between Georgian officials and Russian militaries, 63 peaceful residents of Georgian villages of South Ossetia have been released.

August 21, 2008 10:22

• Danielyan: beatings of journalists evidence that Armenian authorities disregard the PACE resolution

  Beating of Grach Melkumyan, acting head of the Yerevan office of Radio Liberty, same as beating of Lusine Barsegyan, journalist of the "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper, demonstrate that nothing changes in Armenia, and the authorities pay no attention to the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

August 21, 2008 10:19

• UN Security Council fails to adopt resolution on Georgia

  Again, the Security Council of the United Nations could not adopt the resolution on Georgia. This time, a number of Council members refused to support the draft resolution on situation in Georgia, which was brought to consideration by the Russian delegation.

August 21, 2008 10:08

• Georgia and South Ossetia accuse each other of ethnic cleanings

  After Russia had launched its armed operation in the context of the intervention of Georgian troops into Tskhinvali, residents of the villages controlled by Georgia started to report about facts of revenge by residents of South Ossetia, complaining about nationality-motivated murders of Georgians. Observers remark that the victims of this short but severe war from both parties had lived through ethnically motivated sufferings.

August 20, 2008 12:49

• Committee to Protect Journalists demands from Georgia to unblock Russian-language TV Channels

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asks the government of Georgia to unblock the broadcasting of Russian TV Channels and web-sites in the territory of Georgia.

August 20, 2008 12:46

• Azerbaijani Appeal Court considers the case about attack on journalist Halil

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court in Azerbaijan, presided by Gail Mamedov, held a preparatory session on the case about Sergey Strekalin's attack on Agil Halil, journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, committed on March 13 this year.

August 20, 2008 12:43

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria asks to return property of her husband killed in special operation

  Elena Tengizova, a resident of Nalchik, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov with a request to return the car and other property confiscated during a search conducted after death of her husband Anzor Tengizov who was killed in a special operation.

August 20, 2008 12:14

• Khatazhukov: world community must recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The war in South Ossetia has shown that Russia lacks forces to ensure safety of the peaceful population, therefore, the world community must recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, asserts Valery Khatazhukov, chairman of the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria.

August 20, 2008 12:10

• Authorities of South Ossetia report about 1492 casualties of Georgia's attack

  According to updated information of South-Ossetian authorities, the attack of Georgia took away lives of 1492 residents of South Ossetia.

August 20, 2008 12:06

• Investigatory Committee counts 133 lost peaceful residents of South Ossetia

  133 persons from among civilian population of South Ossetia have been recognized as casualties of the Georgian aggression. Apart from these 133 victims many burial places have not been studied yet.

August 20, 2008 11:58

• Student kidnapped in the capital of Chechnya

  In the evening on August 18, Tamerlan Nasipov, 19, a fifth year student of the State Grozny Oil Institute (SGOI), was kidnapped by a group of armed persons in masks from his house in the Leninskiy District of the city of Grozny.

August 20, 2008 11:56

• In Armenia, head of local Radio Liberty service beaten

  On August 19, Grach Melkumyan, head of the Radio Liberty service in Armenia, was beaten in the centre of Yerevan. People at the Radio office convinced that the attack is directly related to the journalist's professional activities.

August 20, 2008 11:52

• Georgia: local residents return to Gori

  Indications have appeared evidencing the beginning of withdrawal of Russian troops from Gori. Thus, last night Russian forces closed two checkpoints in the city, as the correspondent of the Tbilisi bureau of Radio Liberty reports.

August 19, 2008 11:40

• President of Czechia finds Georgia responsible for conflict in Caucasus

  The aggravation of situation around South Ossetia has taken place for the guilt of Georgian politicians, said President of Czechia Vaclav Klaus in his interview published on August 18 in the Prague-based newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

August 19, 2008 11:33

• Abkhazian creative associations demand to make USA responsible for supporting Georgia

  Creative unions of Abkhazia believe that the USA, as the country that rendered permanent military aid to Georgia, cannot further act as intermediaries in settling conflicts, and should bear political and legal responsibility for the consequences of its policy.

August 19, 2008 11:30

• Abkhazia states aircraft intrusion into its air space

  Today at night, an intrusion of an unknown aircraft into the air space of Abkhazia was prevented, as Anatoly Zaitsev, Chief of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of Abkhazia, told the journalists.

August 19, 2008 11:24

• Lukashenko approves Russia's actions in South Ossetia

  President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Russia did everything "accurately and beautifully" during Georgia's aggression on South Ossetia. At his meeting with Dmitri Medvedev in Sochi he thanked Russia "for wisdom."

August 19, 2008 11:21

• In Azerbaijan, poet-satirist Mirza Sakit starts hunger strike in custody

  On August 18, Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov), a satirist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is serving his term at the Penitentiary Establishment No. 14, went on a hunger strike.

August 19, 2008 11:16

• Russian Joint Staff: withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia will be situation-dependant

  General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Russian Armed Forces, has stated today that the troops' withdrawal schedule away from the conflict zone in Georgia "will depend on the situation."

August 19, 2008 11:12

• Georgia and Russia exchange prisoners

  Today at 11:00 a.m. (10:00 a.m. Moscow time), near Igoeti village (some 40 km off the capital of Georgia), at the checkpoint set up by Russian militaries, the exchange of prisoners took place.