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December 29, 2007 13:13

• Pardoned journalists released in Azerbaijan

  In connection with the act of pardon published on December 28 by Ilkham Aliev, more than 100 prisoners have been released from prisons today. There are mass media representatives among them: Samir Sadagatoglu, Rafik Tagi, Yashar Agazade, Rovshan Kiabirli and Faramaz Allakhverdiev.

December 29, 2007 12:54

• Opposition meeting over in Georgian capital

  A many-thousand people action of protest of the united people's movement headed by the united opposition in the capital of Georgia is over. The meeting organizers have stated that the aim of the action is to demand that the authorities should refrain from election falsification.

December 29, 2007 12:32

• Draft law "On Education" adopted in first reading in Azerbaijan

  Yesterday, on December 28, the Azeri parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law "On Education". However, despite this fact, Milli Medzhlis has failed to withdraw from the draft law the provision prohibiting the wearing of headscarves at educational establishments.

December 29, 2007 11:08

• Mass disorders start in Dagestan capital due to power failure

  A meeting of protest is going on in Makhachkala against power failure.

December 28, 2007 15:33

• Criminal case of Nukh Nukhov sent to court in Dagestan

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has approved the indictment on the criminal case in relation to Nukh Nukhov, former candidate to the position of the head of the administration of the Dakhadaev District.

December 28, 2007 15:26

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria tries to prove judicially illegality of block-posts

  Ilyas Timishev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has applied to the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow with a demand to recognize the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of setting up block-posts in Northern Caucasus to be illegal.

December 28, 2007 15:19

• 150 residents of Chechnya in inhuman conditions wait for political shelter in France

  For the fourth day already, at the Paris airport, 150 applicants for refuge from Chechnya stay in the conditions not fit for residence of such a large group of people for so long.

December 28, 2007 15:04

• Over three thousand land plots can be confiscated for objects of Sochi Olympiad

  More than three thousand land plots can be alienated in the Krasnodar Territory for building the objects of the future Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.

December 28, 2007 14:46

• Director of children's home accused of sexual abuse in Volgograd Region

  A criminal case has been initiated in the Volgograd Region against director of the State Educational Establishment "Rudnyanskiy Children's Home" on the facts of his sexual harassment of minor pupils of the establishment.

December 27, 2007 17:52

• 28 illegal migrants from Chechnya detained in the Polish-Czech border

  28 Chechens have been detained in Poland in the Warsaw-Vienna "Polonia" international express train; they tried to illegally cross the Czech border.

December 27, 2007 17:49

• Rabbi's house attacked in Derbent, Dagestan

  Today at night unknown persons have thrown stones over the house of Ovadiya Isakov, Rabbi of the city of Derbent. In the context of recent frequent attacks on representatives of the Jewish community of Dagestan, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has published a special statement.

December 27, 2007 17:47

• Well-known writers ask about conditional release of Stomakhin

  The Russian PEN-Centre, the Russian branch of the PEN-Club writers' international human rights organization have petitioned about early conditional release of Boris Stomakhin, a publicist of the "Kavkaz-Centre" Chechen separatists' website.

December 27, 2007 17:44

• Khudyakov and Arakcheev found guilty of murdering three Chechnya residents

  The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has found officers of Internal Troops Sergey Arakcheev and Evgeniy Khudyakov guilty of murdering three persons, residents of Chechnya.

December 27, 2007 17:42

• Azerbaijan: investigation into the death of former political prisoner completed

  The investigation of the fact of death at the prison hospital in Azerbaijan of former political prisoner Faina Kungurova is over. The case is closed since the final conclusion runs that she died a natural death.

December 27, 2007 17:35

• Investigation into felling of relic forest starts in Krasnodar Territory

  In the Krasnodar Territory, they are now investigating the fact of cutting out a section of the relic forest in the territory of the wildlife reserve "Bolshoi Utrish" (city-resort of Anapa). However, ecologists fear that no efficient measures will be applied to those guilty.

December 26, 2007 13:34

• Murder of nine hunters solved in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Boris Salmaksov, head of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, has reported today that in Kabardino-Balkaria the murder of nine hunters and huntsmen has been solved, the accused criminals have been announced into federal search.

December 26, 2007 13:31

• Charges presented to suspects of blowing up the bus in Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol Territory

  The Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South Federal District has indicted the two detainees suspected of blowing up the Pyatigorsk-Stavropol bus committed in the city of Nevinnomyssk.

December 26, 2007 13:29

• Opposition accuses Saakashvili and Georgian authorities of telephone terrorism

  On December 25, at a press conference of representatives of the united opposition on the topic of political terror, Koba Davitashvili, leader of the Party of the People, accused the authorities of "telephone terrorism" and gave Mikhail Saakashvili three days to disclose his agents.

December 26, 2007 13:26

• Azerbaijan: court refuses to release editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper

  Today, the Yasamal District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan has refused to change the freedom restriction measure - the arrest - to Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

December 26, 2007 13:21

• Trial of journalist Petrova who wrote about Caucasus delayed till January 21

  The Moskovskiy District Court of the city of Kazan has reappointed the consideration of the complaint of two militia officers against the decision to stop the criminal case against journalist Natalia Petrova who is known for her reports from "hot points" of the Caucasus, and her parents on January 21, 2008.