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April 11, 2008 14:52

• Armenian oppositionists suspend their hunger strike

  In response to the request of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of Armenia and leader of the opposition, the arrested oppositionists stopped their hunger strike on April 11.

April 11, 2008 14:47

• Moscow City Court will not consider the "Ingushetia.Ru" case

  Today, the Moscow City Court has refused to consider the case about recognition of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" as an extremist one and its ban.

April 11, 2008 14:42

• Charny: Moscow authorities conceal growth of ethnic-motivated crimes

  According to Semyon Charny, expert of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, recently Moscow has witnessed a rise in number of interethnic crimes, but the authorities of Russia hush up these facts and figures.

April 10, 2008 18:19

• Petros Makeyan, Armenian oppositionist on hunger strike refuses to drink water

  Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Homeland Party, who is kept in the Penitentiary Establishment "Nubarashen" and who declared a termless hunger strike on April 2, on April 9 refused to drink water.

April 10, 2008 18:12

• In the capital of Georgia, political and public figures commemorated the events of April 9, 1989

  A roundtable "April 9: Lessons of the Past", dedicated to the events 19 years ago, was held at the Tbilisi International Press Centre of the RIA "Novosti".

April 10, 2008 18:05

• 13 years ago in Chechnya, Russian militaries massacred residents of Samashki village

  In April 1995, regiments of federal armed forces made a punitive "zachistka" (clean-up) in the village of Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, which turned into massacre of unarmed people, robberies and marauding.

April 10, 2008 18:01

• Old Ritualists want to sell their land in Sochi at $200,000 for a hundredth of hectare

  The Christian Old Ritualists who are evicted now from the Imereti Valley in Sochi want to be redeemed by the authorities for the land alienated from them for erection of Olympic objects at the rate of at least $200,000 for a hundredth of hectare.

April 10, 2008 17:58

• Armenia: protest actions as accompaniment to concert in honour of Sarkisyan's inauguration

  The celebratory concert organized in the evening on April 9 in the Republic Square of Yerevan in honour of inauguration of Serzh Sarkisyan, newly elected President of Armenia, from time to time was accompanied by chants performed of isolated groups of people: "Serzhik, go away!", "Levon is President!"

April 09, 2008 12:18

• Relatives of arrested activists of Armenian opposition demand release

  The wives, sisters and mothers of the arrested activists of the opposition of Armenia have addressed the authorities with a demand to release political prisoners and stop prosecutions of their family members.

April 09, 2008 12:15

• Armenians of Los Angeles demand not to recognize Sarkisyan as president-elect of Armenia

  In connection with the inauguration of Serzh Sarkisyan, in the evening on April 8, more than five thousand Armenians went out to the protest action in the vicinity of Los Angeles called "Minor Armenia" with a demand not to recognize Sarkisyan president-elect of Armenia.

April 09, 2008 12:09

• Suit of the Ministry of Property of Dagestan to the "Women's Charitable Hospital" to be considered on April 11

  Today, the Arbitration Court of Dagestan has considered the suit of the Ministry of Property and Land Relations of Dagestan to the Regional Public Foundation "Women's Charitable Hospital". The case was postponed till April 11.

April 09, 2008 12:07

• Miklos Harasti calls President of Azerbaijan to release arrested journalists

  President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev shall release the arrested journalists. This statement was made by Miklos Harasti, OSCE spokesman for the freedom of speech, at the press conference on the outcomes of his visit to Azerbaijan.

April 09, 2008 11:56

• In Dagestan, editor-in-chief of the "Dagestanians" newspaper acquitted

  Today, the Leninskiy Federal Court of the capital of Dagestan has finished the trial of Alisultan Gazimagomedov, editor-in-chief of the "Dagestanians" newspaper.

April 09, 2008 11:51

• Ecologists suggest UN representatives to remove Sochi Olympiad objects away from reserves

  Public ecological organizations are protesting against construction of some of the Olympic objects. They think it was a blunder to select Sochi as the place for Winter Olympics. This opinion was made public at the meeting that took place on April 8th at the central office of the Sochi National Park.

April 09, 2008 11:47

• In Armenia, during inauguration of Serzh Sarkisyan police tried to disperse the mourning action

  Today in Armenia, on the day of inauguration of the newly elected President Serzh Sarkisyan, friends and relatives of the casualties at night of March 1 held a rally; and the police tried to disperse it.

April 08, 2008 13:24

• Medvedev asked to investigate disappearances of people in Northern Caucasus

  Human rights activists want a letter to be sent to Russian president-elect Dmitri Medvedev with a demand to hold an efficient and fair investigation into disappearances of people in Northern Caucasus.

April 08, 2008 13:16

• Chapliani: Gipsies should be integrated into Georgian society

  Koba Chapliani, Director of the Centre of National Minorities at the Office of Ombudsman of Georgia, thinks that the time has come for the state to make Gipsies an integral part of the Georgian society.

April 08, 2008 13:07

• Azerbaijan: journalist Agyl Khalil denies his links with homosexuals

  It follows from the message of the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan, which was read on air of the state TV Channel, that the reason of the attempt on Agyl Khalil, an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper was the offence of his rejected sexual partner Sergey Strekalin.

April 08, 2008 12:35

• In Armenia, policemen detain hunger-strikers from Razdan

  In Armenia, early on April 8, in Vanatur district of the city of Razdan, policemen detained nine participants of the hunger strike in support of oppositional activist Sasun Mikaelyan and brought them to the police station.

April 08, 2008 12:32

• Igor Sazhin: Russia's authorities save money by underpaying Chechen war veterans

  One of the reasons why authorities of Russia refuse to pay money compensations to former servicemen in Chechnya is in the authorities' intention to minimize expenses on militaries, asserts Igor Sazhin, Chairman of the Komi Human Rights Committee "Memorial".