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June 04, 2008 13:33

• Beslan terror act victims demand to bring case against Putin

  On June 4, the members of the all-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" lodged an application to the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation with a demand to interrogate the former president, and nowadays the prime minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin as a witness in case about the terror act in Beslan school in September 2004, and to initiate a criminal case against him.

June 04, 2008 12:30

• Presentation of the book on use of prisoners' labour in USSR held in Rostov-on-Don

  The city of Rostov-on-Don was the venue the present the book named "Prisoners at Communism Construction Sites. GULAG and Power Engineering Sites. Collection of Documents and Photos".

June 03, 2008 22:39

• Residents of Chechnya are indignant with removal of deportation victims' memorial to the garbage dump

  In Chechnya, the conflict continues, caused by the intention of the authorities to remove the Memorial erected in 1992 in the Chechen capital in memory of the victims of 1944 deportation to a city suburb. People are revolted with the fact that the place allocated for the new memorial is now a garbage dump.

June 03, 2008 20:33

• Israel wants to buy gas from Azerbaijan

  Israel plans to sign a long-term contract with Azerbaijan on delivery of natural gas. This was announced today by Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister for National infrastructure, in a press conference in Baku.

June 03, 2008 20:27

• Moscow: mass fight with participation of Armenian natives

  Today at night, a mass fight with participation of Armenian natives burst out in the Stavropolskaya Street of Moscow. The law enforcement bodies do not exclude the ethnic pretext of the conflict, although there is no official confirmation.

June 03, 2008 19:21

• Supreme Court of Russia upholds the verdict to North Ossetian kidnappers

  Today, the Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the guilty verdict to three participants of the criminal grouping who kidnapped people in North Ossetia, in spite of the fact that the victims in case insisted on cancelling the verdict.

June 03, 2008 17:16

• Militants who shelled Mi-8 helicopter are searched in Chechnya

  The militants are searched in the Vedeno District of Chechnya who shelled on June 2 a Mi-8 helicopter, which was carrying militaries of a special subdivision of the Interior Troops.

June 03, 2008 12:12

• Shamil Buraev arrested on Politkovskaya's case set free

  The investigation has decided to release another figurant of the criminal case on Anna Politkovskaya's murder - Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya.

June 03, 2008 10:08

• Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdict to Fatullaev

  Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan presided by Judge Muzaffar Agazade has considered a cassation complaint lodged by Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief and founder of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" (Daily Azerbaijan).

June 02, 2008 20:13

• USA and NATO are concerned with deployment of Russia's railway battalion in Abkhazia

  The USA and NATO are worried about the deployment of the railway troops of the Russian Ministry of Defence in Abkhazia, and think that such actions will not lead to improvement of Russian-Georgian relations.

June 02, 2008 17:56

• Ramzan Kadyrov: removal of memorial to victims of repressions is reasonable

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has approved the decision of the city administration of Grozny on removal of the complex in memory of victims of the 1944 deportation from the central part of city to a suburb and stated that the monument to the victims of repressions should be grandiose.

June 02, 2008 16:43

• Victims of 1999 terror act in Moscow ask Medvedev to hold independent investigation

  The victims of the explosion of an apartment house in the Guryanova Street in 1999 in Moscow demand from Dmitri Medvedev, the new president of Russia, to initiate an independent investigation, explaining that the case has many suspicious circumstances and "facts hidden under the table cloth."

June 02, 2008 15:25

• Azerbaijani parliament amends the Electoral Code

  Today, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan has adopted amendments and additions to the national Electoral Code. The changes were brought in by President Ilham Aliev in the form of his legislative initiative.

June 02, 2008 15:00

• Georgian journalists demand to reinstate "Imedi' radio managers

  The statement of journalists of Georgia with a demand to reinstate former managers of the "Imedi" Radio Station in their previous positions was disseminated in all media after Nona Kandiashvili, Broadcasting Director of the "Imedi", and Irakliy Khetereli, Director General, were dismissed on May 30, 2008.

June 02, 2008 14:18

• UN ecologists call on Russia to revise location of Sochi Olympiad sites

  The UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme - has supported the appeals of the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace of Russia to remove the sledge and bobsleigh complex and the Olympic Village to be erected for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics from the Grushevoy Ridge to some alternative locations.

June 02, 2008 13:13

• Three Azerbaijanis wounded in a fight with Dagestanians in St-Petersburg

  Three citizens of Azerbaijan were hospitalized with traumas and knife wounds after a fight with the natives of Dagestan in the Nevskiy District of St-Petersburg.

May 31, 2008 21:27

• Russian railway troops to rebuilt the railway in Abkhazia

  A battalion of railway troops of Russia has arrived to Abkhazia with a mission to repair the railway section running from Sukhum to Ochamchira in the east of Abkhazia. The battalion is equipped with all the necessary machinery for the aim of the mission.

May 31, 2008 16:18

• USA to allocate 0.7 million dollars on GUAM development

  The US Government plans to provide about 700,000 dollars for structural development of the GUAM - the economic-political association of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova.

May 31, 2008 15:13

• Chkheidze: parliamentary elections in Georgia were more democratic that the presidential one

  According to Georgiy Chkheidze, Chairman of the NGO named "Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia" (AYLG), the parliamentary elections in Georgia were more democratic than the presidential one: this time, more attention was given to observers' complaints.

May 31, 2008 14:57

• United States criticize the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan

  The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour of the US Department of State has published its annual report on the status with human rights and democracy in the world. The chapter on Azerbaijan runs that support of human rights there remains bad and has aggravated in certain areas.