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October 27, 2008 13:27

• "Memorial": actions of power agents provoke militants' response in Northern Caucasus

  On October 20, Paris hosted another consultation round between Russian human rights activists and EU representatives. The former had noted the fact of activation of armed underground in Northern Caucasus in reply to tortures, extrajudicial executions and preventive violence exercised by power agents.

October 27, 2008 13:24

• Azerbaijan: foreign diplomats visit imprisoned journalist

  On October 27, representatives of the Baku OSCE office, US, French and Norwegian embassies and local human rights organizations paid a visit to Colony No. 14 to meet the convicted satirist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov).

October 27, 2008 13:19

• Armenian Ombudsman to take part in fact-finding group on March 1 events

  Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman in Armenia, gave his consent to take part in the work of the newly created group, the mission of which will be to collect on the events of March 1 in Yerevan. The Ombudsman has motivated this decision by saying that the work of the group will have more positive than negative aspects.

October 27, 2008 13:06

• New war in Georgia is on the edge, experts think

  Russian and Georgian experts believe that recurrence of August events is possible in Georgia in near future.

October 27, 2008 13:01

• Abkhazia calls UN to give objective appreciation to Georgia's actions

  Sergey Shamba, Abkhazian Minister of Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to Zhang Esui, Chairman of the UN Security Council, because of the aggravation of the situation in the Abkhazian Gali District, which borders on Georgia.

October 25, 2008 21:58

• Union of Imereti Valley Residents founded at rally in Sochi

  Today, under the All-Russian action "Day of People's Anger", Sochi has held a rally "In defence of Sochi residents-victims of lawlessness, arbitrariness, corruption of city officials, judges and MIA workers". The event participants have founded the Union of Imereti Valley Residents.

October 25, 2008 21:22

• Krasnodar, Sochi and Astrakhan took part in All-Russian "Day of Anger"

  Quite a number of Russian regions were planning to hold social protest actions on October 25 within the agenda of the All-Russian "Day of People's Anger". In particular, the action was held today in the cities of Astrakhan, Krasnodar and Sochi.

October 25, 2008 21:15

• Georgian Security Council convoked on emergency

  Today, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has convoked an emergency sitting of the National Security Council in the context of the armed incident in the Tsalendzhikh District in the West of Georgia where Giya Meboniya, head of the local administration, was lost.

October 25, 2008 19:59

• President of Dagestan: billionaire Kerimov ready to buy "Anzhi"

  President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has confirmed at the press conference in Makhachkala the intention of Russian senator from Dagestan, businessman-billionaire Suleiman Kerimov to the Dagestan football club "Anzhi".

October 25, 2008 18:49

• Ministry of Emergencies: no new earthquakes expected in Chechnya

  Specialists of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Chechnya believe that the territory of the Republic will not experience any more strong earthquakes with large-scale destructions like it was in Chechnya on October 11.

October 25, 2008 17:23

• Military exercises held in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Today, Nagorno-Karabakh was the venue of exercises in tactics with field firing with participation of all types of fighting equipment. Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Serzh Sarkisyan and Bako Saakyan watched the event.

October 25, 2008 16:07

• Famous singer from Azerbaijan Muslim Magomaev dies in Moscow

  In Moscow at night on October 25 Muslim Magomaev, an outstanding singer from Azerbaijan and master of Soviet variety art died in his 67th year from a sudden heart arrest.

October 25, 2008 14:35

• Salvador Dali's masterpieces on show in Rostov museum

  An exhibition of original works of Salvador Dali is on at the Rostov local lore regional museum. This is a new project of Russian collector Alexander Shadrin from Ekaterinburg.

October 25, 2008 13:39

• "Caucasian Knot" receives "black mark" from Chechnya's authorities

  The "Caucasian Knot" was involved into participation in the action entitled "President of the Chechen Republic as Mirrored by Media" and was awarded the "Black Galosh", having failed to score enough "positive materials on the activities of the leadership of the Chechen Republic."

October 24, 2008 16:08

• Azerbaijani CEC disappointed with EU's criticism of presidential election

  In the evening on October 22, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) expressed its disappointment with the statement of the EU Presidency on the presidential election in the country held on October 15.

October 24, 2008 16:05

• Ingushetia: Magomed Evloev's murder case sent to court

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has finished the investigation and sent to the court the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org").

October 24, 2008 16:02

• IPD Director calls to sue Azerbaijani prison bosses

  Leila Yunus, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has made a statement inviting to lodge claims against bosses of penitentiary establishments.

October 24, 2008 13:21

• Three Chechen militiamen can be among those kidnapped in Ingushetia

  Late at night on October 23, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia (bordering on Chechnya), unknown persons kidnapped about 15 persons. Three Chechen militiamen can be among them. This information was provided by a source in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.

October 24, 2008 13:14

• Malashenko: Chechnya experiences re-Islamization

  Alexei Malashenko, expert of the Carnegie Foundation, asserts that today Chechnya is in the process of re-Islamization. In his opinion, by strengthening the Sufi branch of Islam in Chechnya and spreading the Sufi values President Ramzan Kadyrov is fighting against Salafites - his religious and political opponents, and by reviving traditional Islamic norms of behaviour, he keeps the society under control.

October 23, 2008 23:44

• Investigation: no attempt to poison Politkovskaya's advocate

  Karina Moskalenko, advocate of the family of the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was not poisoned in France and, accordingly, there was no attempt on her life, police inspectors in the city of Strasbourg assert referencing to the former owner of the car now owned by Ms Moskalenko.