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June 30, 2008 14:39

• Bagapsh blames Georgian special agencies of Sukhumi terror act

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has treated the today's explosions near the Sukhumi marketplace to be an act of terrorism and accused Georgian special services for committing it. Sergey Bagapsh has also ordered starting from July 1 to ban any traffic in Georgian-Abkhazian border that runs along River Ingur.

June 30, 2008 14:32

• Six persons injured by explosions in the capital of Abkhazia

  Four citizens out of six who received fragmental wounds as a result of today's explosions in the area of Sukhumi marketplace in Abkhazia were hospitalized to the Sukhumi clinical hospital, and now their lives are under no threat.

June 30, 2008 14:28

• Local residents thought to be missing found in Dagestan SIZOs

  Today, relatives of the missing residents of Dagestan Ali Zalitdinov and Idris Guchakaev, who have again rallied near the building of the Republic's Prosecutor's Office, were told both guys were detained by militiamen and are now kept in the SIZO (pre-trial detention facility).

June 28, 2008 19:21

• Three persons killed in special operation in Dagestan

  At night on June 28, in the vicinity of a 9-storey apartment house in the Akushinskiy Avenue in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the regime of counterterrorist operation was introduced. According to law enforcement bodies, militants were blocked in one of the apartments.

June 28, 2008 18:15

• USA calls on Azerbaijani authorities to ensure democratic elections

  At the regular round of American-Azerbaijani democracy dialogue that was held on June 27 in Baku, David Kramer, assistant of the US State Secretary on democracy and human rights, called the Azerbaijani authorities to ensure democratic character of the forthcoming presidential election.

June 28, 2008 17:10

• Ruslan Yamadaev: authorities of Chechnya unfold campaign against "Vostok" commander

  The government of Chechnya has launched a PR-campaign against Sulim Yamadaev, commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion with the aim to conceal their own crimes. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ruslan Yamadaev, Sulim Yamadaev's relative.

June 28, 2008 14:07

• Irakliy Okruashvili's advocate asks France to shelter her son

  Eka Beseliya, Secretary General of the Party "For United Georgia" and advocate of Irakliy Okruashvili, Party leader, is going to address the French Embassy for providing political asylum to her son Rati Milorava who is 15.

June 28, 2008 13:58

• New rallies against kidnappings possible in Dagestan

  According to Gyulnara Rustamova, an activist of the public movement "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", new protest actions organized by relatives of missing or murdered persons cannot be excluded.

June 28, 2008 12:53

• In Azerbaijan, journalist Ismailoglu fears arrest on false charges

  The well-known Azerbaijani journalist Makhal Ismailoglu, who was detained on June 27 and then released after many hours of interrogation by the police of the Apsheronsk District of Baku, is convinced that the authorities want to arrest him on false charges for his critical publications.

June 28, 2008 12:48

• Bagapsh: Abkhazia will never be part of Georgia again

  According to Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh, whatever the balance of political forces in the international arena may be, Abkhazia will never be a part of Georgia again.

June 28, 2008 10:43

• MPs of Chechnya vote for their self-dissolution

  On June 27, at their joint session, deputies of both chambers of Chechen parliament have voted for their self-dissolution. The work of the first convocation of the parliament will continue till the election of new deputies to take place, possibly, this October.

June 27, 2008 12:49

• CPJ claims lack of independent TV news in Georgia

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has disseminated a statement related to the stop of information broadcasting by the "Mze" Independent TV Channel.

June 27, 2008 12:45

• Residents of six Dagestan villages demand compensation of damage caused by construction of Irganay HPP

  Residents of six villages of Dagestan, whose land estates are gradually flooded as the reservoir of the Irganay Hydroelectric Power Plant (IHPP) is formed, demand compensation for their loss of land and houses. Additionally, the population complains of being intimidated by the authorities, who try to hide the problem from the public.

June 27, 2008 12:11

• Defender of Azerbaijanis' rights assassinated in Iran

  Afshin Irfan Khosroshakhi, a human rights activist who was engaged in defending the rights of Azerbaijanis living in Iran, was found murdered in his own office.

June 27, 2008 12:08

• Relatives of missing people rallying at prosecutor's office of Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, near the building of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, relatives of two young men, who had been kidnapped, as they assert, by employees of law enforcement bodies, have organized a spontaneous rally and blocked the traffic in the Yaragskiy Avenue.

June 27, 2008 11:56

• Azerbaijani democrats state absence of conditions for free elections

  The democratic forces of Azerbaijan believe that the country has no conditions for free elections. This was stated today during the Civil Forum held in the Baku-based Hotel "Europe" under the motto "On Situation with Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Azerbaijan before Presidential Election".

June 27, 2008 11:53

• Another oppositional journalist detained in Azerbaijan

  Today, in the capital of Azerbaijan, the police have detained the well-known journalist Makhal Ismailoglu. According to certain data, his article in the newspaper was the cause of his arrest.

June 27, 2008 11:43

• Rally in support of arrested MP held in the capital of Armenia

  The court has ruled to extend for two more months the custody term of Akop Akopyan, Deputy of Armenian Parliament, who had supported the leader of the opposition Levon Ter-Petrosyan and was deprived of his deputy's immunity after the March 1 events. A protest action in support of Akopyan was held in Yerevan.

June 26, 2008 14:10

• Moscow Mayoralty informs parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria on measures of fighting xenophobia

  The parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria has received an answer to their request to the Moscow Municipal Duma on the facts of attacks and murders in Moscow of natives of Kabardino-Balkaria committed in January-March of this year.

June 26, 2008 14:04

• Kidnappers of Moscow resident detained in Chechnya

  Employees of law enforcement bodies have detained a group of local residents suspected of kidnapping a lady-resident of Moscow in the Grozny District of Chechnya. A source in the interior bodies has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.