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July 02, 2008 11:55

• Explosion in Kabardino-Balkaria injures militiaman and his children

  Today in the morning, an explosion took place Khasanya village located in the suburb of the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, as a result of which a militiaman and his children were wounded.

July 02, 2008 11:44

• "Rostekhnadzor" gives no cause yet of explosion in Sochi house

  The explosion that took place today at 5:01 a.m. in Sochi killed a woman, born in 1941, and her grandson, born in 1993. 16 other victims applied for medical and psychological help. One woman had a hypertonic crisis.

July 02, 2008 11:39

• "Beslan Mothers" hope for cooperation with the new city newspaper

  On July 1, the first issue of the newspaper named "Vestnik Beslana" (Beslan Mercury) appeared, where the administration of local self-government of Beslan is the founder.

July 02, 2008 10:38

• Human rights activists: Azerbaijani authorities manage to suppress critics even in Europe

  The inflow of petrodollars allows the authorities of Azerbaijan to suppress critical voices not only at home but even abroad, for example, in Europe. This was a conclusion made by a group of Azerbaijani human rights activists who observed the work of the PACE summer session in Strasbourg.

July 02, 2008 10:36

• Nukhazhiev: 300 persons buried in a mass grave in Chechnya

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic, has reported that about 300 human remains have been found buried in the Grozny District of Chechnya, near the territory of a former asphalt plant.

July 01, 2008 13:14

• Media leaders of North Ossetia discuss journalists' problems

  Today, the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has hosted a meeting of the leaders of Republic's mass media. During the roundtable on the topic "Role of Mass Media in North Ossetia. Problems and Prospects", the participants have discussed a number of issues, including those related to the freedom of speech, independence and efficiency of mass media in the Republic.

July 01, 2008 13:10

• US Ambassador calls Azerbaijani authorities to defend journalists

  Ambassador of the USA Ann Dersey has called the authorities of Azerbaijan to strictly punish the persons guilty of violence against journalists.

July 01, 2008 13:07

• HRC "Memorial" presents Part Four of Violence Chronicle in Chechnya

  On June 27, a press conference was held at the central library of Grozny, where the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" (HRC "Memorial") presented Part Four of the Violence Chronicle in Chechnya named "People Live Here", covering the period from July to September 2001.

July 01, 2008 13:03

• Editorial board of "Novaya Gazeta" indignant by disclosing whereabouts of the person accused of murdering Politkovskaya

  The editorial board of "Novaya Gazeta", where the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya worked as an observer, will demand "initiation of a criminal case on the fact of information leaks from the bowels of the State Office of Public Prosecutor."

July 01, 2008 13:01

• Residents of Chechnya suspect "Vostok" of concealing tombs of their victims

  Residents of the Gudermes District of Chechnya suspect that the militaries of the special-purpose battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) "Vostok" (East) are destroying the tombs of their victims.

July 01, 2008 12:58

• In Azerbaijan, court decides to force journalist Halil to trial

  Today, the Nasiminskiy District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Shakhin Abdullaev, has continued the trial of Sergey Strekalin accused of inflicting a knife wound on March 13, 2008, to Agil Halil, a journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper.

July 01, 2008 12:54

• "Voice of Beslan" leader elected co-chair of the All-Russian Civil Congress

  Ella Kesaeva, co-chairperson of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" from North Ossetia, was elected to co-chair the All-Russian Civil Congress (ARCC).

June 30, 2008 15:05

• Relatives of the victims of special operation in Dagestan reject the official version

  Relatives of Rashid Gazilaliev, who was killed in a special operation in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, assert that they offered to give out the person who was in the blocked apartment without fight, but militiamen had rejected the offer.

June 30, 2008 14:57

• Militiamen in North Ossetia accused of extortion and illegal detention of teenagers

  On June 27, the criminal case on three militiamen accused of extorting money from illegally detained minors was delivered to the court of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.

June 30, 2008 14:54

• Azerbaijani journalists insist on putting monument to Elmar Guseinov

  On June 30, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has repeatedly addressed President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev with a request to fix up a monument in Baku, in the Metbuat Avenue, to the editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine Elmar Guseinov who was assassinated on March 2, 2005.

June 30, 2008 14:43

• Authorities of South Ossetia report kidnapping of a North Ossetian native by Georgian special services

  In Tskhinval, at night of June 30, Georgian special services kidnapped Valery Tadtaev, 32, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a native of North Ossetia, runs a statement of the State Committee for Information and Press of South Ossetia.

June 30, 2008 14:39

• Bagapsh blames Georgian special agencies of Sukhumi terror act

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has treated the today's explosions near the Sukhumi marketplace to be an act of terrorism and accused Georgian special services for committing it. Sergey Bagapsh has also ordered starting from July 1 to ban any traffic in Georgian-Abkhazian border that runs along River Ingur.

June 30, 2008 14:32

• Six persons injured by explosions in the capital of Abkhazia

  Four citizens out of six who received fragmental wounds as a result of today's explosions in the area of Sukhumi marketplace in Abkhazia were hospitalized to the Sukhumi clinical hospital, and now their lives are under no threat.

June 30, 2008 14:28

• Local residents thought to be missing found in Dagestan SIZOs

  Today, relatives of the missing residents of Dagestan Ali Zalitdinov and Idris Guchakaev, who have again rallied near the building of the Republic's Prosecutor's Office, were told both guys were detained by militiamen and are now kept in the SIZO (pre-trial detention facility).

June 28, 2008 19:21

• Three persons killed in special operation in Dagestan

  At night on June 28, in the vicinity of a 9-storey apartment house in the Akushinskiy Avenue in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the regime of counterterrorist operation was introduced. According to law enforcement bodies, militants were blocked in one of the apartments.