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June 30, 2007 16:55

• Committee to protect journalists concerned about an attack of Russian officers on Georgian journalist

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned about an attack of Russian officers on Nukri Kacharayev, cameraman of the MZE independent Georgian TV company, when he was covering the withdrawal of Russian military machinery from the military base in Batumi (Ajaria, Georgia) on June 28.

June 30, 2007 16:34

• An oppositionist shoots at police in Azerbaijan

  Today morning, Nizami Ghuliyev, resident of Balakian and head of the local unit of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, has opened fire from a hunting rifle at police officers who came to his house. Nizami Ghuliyev, father of six children, has been unable to find a job due to political reasons.

June 30, 2007 15:47

• UN reacts to application of cheated shareholders in Stavropol

  A response has come to the photo-report on the situation of cheated shareholders in Stavropol, sent to Cezare Ottolini, president of "International Alliance of Residents" and representative of UN-Habitat.

June 29, 2007 21:29

• International monitoring group confirms shelling of South Ossetia

  On June 29, the international monitoring group (comprising military observers from the Russian, Ossetian and Georgian parties and military monitoring officers of the OSCE Mission in Georgia) conducted their monitoring and confirmed the statement of South Ossetia about shelling of its territory from the positions of armed formations under President Saakashvili's control.

June 29, 2007 19:43

• Ingushetia: protests against kidnappings and illegal detentions

  Today, on June 29, a spontaneous meeting of Ingush residents started on the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway in the vicinity of the so-called Ekazhev Circle in the Nazran District.

June 29, 2007 18:54

• Persons on trial in Kabardino-Balkaria voice protest against cremation of militants' bodies

  13 detainees kept in the Nalchik pre-trial facility (SIZO) refused from their further participation in investigatory actions in protest against cremation of the bodies of the victims of the events on October 13, 2005.

June 29, 2007 18:32

• Lokshina: Russian militiamen lose professionalism in Chechnya

  Starting from the end of 2005, the Human Rights Centre "Demos" is implementing its inter-regional project "Drawing Public Attention to the Chechen Conflict from Viewpoint of Social Adaptation and Veterans' Professional Activities." On June 28, 2007, the results of almost two years of work were presented at the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

June 29, 2007 15:04

• Deceived Stavropol shareholders return from Moscow

  Today, the delegation of deceived shareholders returns from Moscow, told Vladimir Prikhodkin, leader of the Stavropol Organization of Deceived Shareholders, and added that as a whole in Stavropol there are 25 construction objects with deceived shareholders.

June 29, 2007 14:30

• Human rights activists are concerned over situation with life inmates in Azerbaijan

  On June 18, 2007, 38 life inmates started a hunger strike in the Gobustan prison to draw the authorities' attention to their status. This is the fifth mass hunger strike in the Gobustan prison since 1999.

June 29, 2007 14:12

• "The Correspondent": lady-journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria moves to the States because of persecutions

  Fatima Tlisova was regularly beaten and persecuted while working as journalist in Russia. However, on the day when last year she found her son of 16 at a militia station amidst drunken militiamen, who told her that the boy's name had been put into the list of suspicious persons, she decided to leave the country.

June 28, 2007 20:01

• Peacemakers are poured over with gasoline and shelled in Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone

  According to preliminary information, the Georgian party has brought about 800 persons in civilian clothes to the border with Ossetian Khetagurovo village. They behaved extremely aggressively, started to pour gasoline over peacemakers and under a threat of setting fire tried to displace them off the location of the post.

June 28, 2007 19:52

• Capital of South Ossetia shelled, two persons wounded

  Today at about 8:15 a.m. Georgian special agents opened aiming fire at the militia post in the northern suburb of the city of Tskhinval. As a result of the bombardment, one civil person and one militiaman were severely wounded.

June 28, 2007 18:43

• OSCE concerned of mass media bills in Armenia

  Today, Miklosh Kharashti, OSCE's mass media representative, has stated his concern of the bills prepared in Armenia in relation to activities of mass media.

June 28, 2007 18:37

• The RF Constitutional Court upholds the decision not to give the militants' bodies out

  Today, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has announced its decision on the complaint of the parents of militants Kunak Guziev and Elena Karmova who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria.

June 28, 2007 18:13

• Police disrupts Islamists' conference in Azerbaijan

  Yesterday, on June 27, the police disrupted the conference to be held by the Gyandzha Branch of the Islamic Party.

June 28, 2007 13:25

• Deputy Director of the National Museum of Adygea: Sochi needs archaeological examination

  Ruslan Achmiz, Deputy Director of the National Museum of Adygea, asserted that, apart from the ecological examination, the Sochi Olympic construction sites also need a mandatory archaeological examination.

June 27, 2007 18:20

• Two militants were killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today in the morning, in the city of Nalchik, Ruslan Odizhev, who had been announced into search, and certain Tengizov were killed. According to the materials of the investigation, during the events of October 13, 2005, Ruslan Odizhev commanded the group of militants that made an attack on the OMON base of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

June 27, 2007 15:27

• Belan: "I think that Andrei Keilin's case is already not so much of criminal character, but rather of political one"

  Today, the Judicial Panel of the Stavropol Territorial Court, having considered the cassation petition lodged by Andrei Keilin, 20, a resident of Cherkessk, detained on suspicion of participation in the murder of two Stavropol students, that requested to change his freedom restriction measure (release from custody), has rejected the petition.

June 27, 2007 15:10

• Russian Federation creates Council for defending the rights of Russians living in non-recognized republics

  The Council for defending the rights of Russian citizens living in non-recognized republics will include representatives of three Republics - Abkhazia, Transdniestria and South Ossetia.

June 27, 2007 14:41

• "United Protest Front" holds an action at the "Kholodny Rodnik" (Cold Spring) Memorial in Stavropol

  The press service of the public organization "United Protest Front" informed that the participants of the action in the number of 15-20 persons blocked the access to the construction site.