News

March 10, 2008 11:09

• Prosecutor's office of Armenia presents charges to 59 oppositionists

  Charges of taking part in mass disorders in Yerevan, during which eight persons were lost, have been presented to 59 persons by the Prosecutor's Office of Armenia.

March 10, 2008 11:05

• In Georgia, Okruashvili's supporter Giorgi Tsagareishvili goes on hunger strike

  Today, Giorgi Tsagareishvili, one of the leaders of the opposition and representative of the Movement for United Georgia, where Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, is the leader, has joined the hunger strike held in front of the Parliament of Georgia. Now, there are about 15 persons holding a protest hunger strike at the building of the Parliament.

March 08, 2008 11:11

• Constitutional Court of Armenia recognizes outcomes of presidential election as valid

  Tonight at 7:45 p.m. local time, the Constitutional Court of Armenia announced its verdict on the suit lodged by two presidential candidates - Tigran Karapetyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan - on recognition of the outcomes of the presidential election held on February 19 null and void.

March 08, 2008 11:08

• Additional troops and armoured vehicles deployed in Nazran

  Additional forces of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and armoured vehicles have been deployed in the city of Nazran (Ingushetia).

March 08, 2008 11:05

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, a rally was held in memory of victims of deportation of the Balkar people

  Today, in Nalchik at the Memorial to Victims of Repressions against Balkar People, a public rally was organized in memory of the victims of mass deportation of Balkars in 1943.

March 08, 2008 10:56

• Movement against War in Northern Caucasus asks Alexis II to help Maskhadov's relatives to get his remains for burial

  On the day of the third anniversary of the death of Aslan Maskhadov the participants of the Movement against War in Northern Caucasus have addressed Patriarch Alexis II for assistance in giving out of the remains of the former President of Chechnya to his relatives.

March 07, 2008 14:41

• General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia: 46 participants of March 1 disorders arrested

  According to the latest data of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia, 125 persons were brought to police stations during the disorders on March 1, of them 46 persons were indicted and arrested, and 20 more are detained and wait for indictments to be presented to them within three days.

March 07, 2008 14:37

• Coalition of Georgian NGOs condemns persecutions on Ter-Petrosyan's supporters in Armenia

  The Coalition of Nongovernmental Organizations of Georgia has passed a petition in support of the Armenian people and condemned repressions against supporters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan in Armenia.

March 07, 2008 14:32

• CPRF of Dagestan declares distortion of voting results

  The Dagestan Republic's Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has declared that in Dagestan, the observers of the Party registered rough and mass distortions of the will of the voters during the presidential election.

March 07, 2008 14:21

• Levon Ter-Petrosyan talks to the head of the PACE's observation missions in Armenia

  Today in Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan had a meeting with John Prescott, chairman of the temporary commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), who is now in Yerevan.

March 07, 2008 14:16

• Advocates of the journalist convicted in Azerbaijan want to address the European Court

  Today the Yasamal District Court of Baku has sentenced Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg", to four years of deprivation of freedom on charges of "hooliganism and causing damage to the health of a human."

March 07, 2008 14:09

• Abkhazia applies to UN and Parliaments for recognition

  Today, the Parliament of Abkhazia has passed two appeals with a demand to recognize the state independence of the Republic of Abkhazia.

March 06, 2008 16:16

• Former troopers who beat Turkish builders in Krasnodar receive conditional terms

  On March 4, a verdict was passed in Krasnodar to former troopers who beat Turkish construction workers.

March 06, 2008 16:11

• US and Russian Armenians call the authorities of Armenia and opposition to restraint

  On March 5, in the district of Los Angeles known as "Small Armenia", several thousands protesters rallied to voice against the violence applied to peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan on March 1.

March 06, 2008 16:08

• Released Georgian journalists confirm that they were in Abkhazia without documents

  Today at 11:30 a.m. Moscow time, the Service of State Security of Abkhazia released two Georgian journalists of the TV Company "Mze" Malkhaz Basilaya and David Tsotsoriya and handed them over to employees of the UN Office for Human Rights.

March 06, 2008 16:04

• HRC "Memorial" is concerned with detention in Moscow of the head of the Anti-War Club

  The Human Rights Centre "Memorial" is concerned with detention of human rights activist Mikhail Kriger, coordinator of the Anti-War Club, who was a regular participant of pickets against the policy of the Kremlin in Northern Caucasus and the war in Chechnya, in particular.

March 06, 2008 16:01

• 132 oppositionists detained in Armenia

  As of the present moment, 132 activists of the opposition have been arrested in Armenia; they were charges under a number of Articles of the Criminal Code.

March 06, 2008 15:57

• Because of corruption in Stavropol Territory, Tersk Cossacks threaten to give up Russian citizenship

  The Cossacks of the Tersk Army are indignant with the corruption in the Stavropol Territory and the course of investigation of the murder of Ataman Andrei Khanin, 34.

March 06, 2008 15:52

• Supreme Court upholds acquittal of Ingush militiamen on Beslan events

  Today, the Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the acquittal verdict to commanders of the Malgobek ROVD of Ingushetia accused of professional negligence during the events in Beslan in September 2004.

March 05, 2008 10:55

• Krasnodar Territory: militiaman convicted for excess of powers

  In the Krasnodar territory, a militiaman was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for beating Nishik Sloyan, a resident of Pshekhskaya village, during interrogating the latter.