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November 14, 2007 14:45

• Georgia: "Imedi" TV Company appeals against suspension of its broadcasting license

  The managers of the "Imedi" TV Company are going to appeal against the ruling of the Tbilisi City Court to suspend the Company's broadcasting license and arrest its property.

November 14, 2007 14:34

• Oppositional web site still blocked in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, the blockade of the oppositional web site "Ingushetia.ru" continues, however, as of 10 a.m. both providers (ITT Closed Joint-Stock Company and Telecom Limited Liability Company) have removed the readdressing of the visitors to a porno web site.

November 14, 2007 14:29

• Kabardino-Balkaria: court rules the decision to bury militants to be illegal

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Nalchik City Court has ruled that the statement, instructing to bury the persons killed in the process of suppressing an act of terror, to be illegal and unjustified.

November 13, 2007 20:40

• Internet providers in Ingushetia refrain from commenting on the blockage of the opposition site

  On November 12, since 23.00, when attempting to open the site "Ingushetia.ru", the users were automatically referred to some pornographic site. Magomed Yevloyev, the site owner, thinks that the main reason for closing his site in Ingushetia is the fear of President Murat Zyazikov that people may learn the truth about the situation in the republic.

November 13, 2007 20:33

• Ecologists: consequences of Kerch Straits contamination may be felt after decades

  The consequences of the Kerch Straits contamination may be felt after several decades. Ecologists have already registered mass deaths among birds and fish in the vicinity of the accident.

November 13, 2007 20:30

• "Institute of Peace and Democracy": freedom of speech destroyed in Azerbaijan

  The Azeri authorities use all possible mechanisms for destroying the freedom of speech in the country, director of the "Institute of Peace and Democracy" Leila Yunus states.

November 13, 2007 20:27

• Militants killed in Dagestan could be preparing seizure of a gymnasium

  Representatives of the law enforcement agencies do not preclude the possibility that the militants killed on November 12 in the Dagestan capital intended to capture hostages in the gymnasium No 7 located nearby.

November 13, 2007 20:23

• Kaloev, resident of North Ossetia, has returned to Russia from Switzerland

  Vitaly Kaloev, resident of North Ossetia who was serving a prison term in Switzerland for the murder of Peter Nilsen, Skyguide air carrier air traffic controller, and released before term, has returned to Moscow.

November 13, 2007 20:15

• Chechen residents detained in Moscow in May may be accused of preparing an attempt on Kadyrov's life

  The Chechen residents arrested in Moscow in May who, according to the investigators, have to do with the car loaded with explosives and left near the "Profsoyuznaya" metro station, may be accused of preparing an attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov's life.

November 12, 2007 21:25

• Amnesty International: Georgian authorities must urgently investigate the actions by the police in dispersing demonstrators

  Amnesty International has called upon the Georgian authorities to promptly conduct a careful, impartial and independent investigation of reports on applying excessive force by special police units during the dispersal of anti-government demonstrations on November 7 in Tbilisi.

November 12, 2007 21:22

• Bryza: USA want Georgian authorities to lift the emergency state

  Matthew Bryza, assistant of the US State Secretary, states that lifting of the emergency state in the Georgian capital is one of the main requests of the USA.

November 12, 2007 21:18

• The militants killed in the course of secret operation in Makhachkala identified in Dagestan

  The Dagestan MIA has cited the names of seven militants killed in the course of a secret operation conducted today in Makhachkala.

November 12, 2007 21:12

• Life-guards continue search for seamen from "Nakhichevan" dry cargo ship in Krasnodar krai

  Search is under way in the Kerch Strait, Krasnodar krai, for the crew members of the "Nakhichevan" dry cargo ship which sank in the Azov Sea on November 11.

November 12, 2007 21:08

• Andrei Rudomakha: environmental catastrophe in Kerch Strait was inevitable

  On November 11, six Russian sea vessels crashed in Kerch Strait in the storm (two dry cargo ships with sulfur load sank, a tanker cracked, and a non-self-propelled barge and a sea floating crane stuck in low water).

November 12, 2007 21:04

• Russian specialists shot at in Ingushetia: one killed and three wounded

  A car with Russian specialists in mobile communications has been shot at in the center of Nazran, Ingushetia. One person has been killed and three more wounded.

November 10, 2007 14:47

• Kvarcheliya: Saakashvili's policy takes Georgia away from democracy

  In the opinion of political scientist Liana Kvarcheliya, employee of Abkhasian Centre of Humanitarian Programs (CHP), the policy of Mikhail Saakashvili, the current Georgian president, is methodically and consistently taking the country away from democracy.

November 10, 2007 14:42

• Militiamen extort money from military servicemen under contract in Stavropol krai

  Two militiamen of a permanent unit at the railway station in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol krai, have been detained. They were extorting money from servicemen going to Chechnya and back.

November 10, 2007 14:35

• 32 terrorist acts registered in SFD during 9 months

  The Russian MIA department on SFD reports that 32 terrorist acts have been registered in the southern regions of Russia during 9 months of the current year.

November 10, 2007 14:30

• Trial of Irakli Okruashvili to start in Georgia on November 16

  The trial over Irakli Okruashvili, leader of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia", former Georgian Minister of Defense who is currently in Germany, is scheduled for November 16.

November 10, 2007 14:27

• Ingushetia residents indignant about murder of a six-year-old child

  The events in Chemulga village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia where a six-year-old child had been killed in the course of a secret operation in a private household caused a wave of indignation among the republic's residents.