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23:01, 22 March 2007

Public prosecutor demands from 2.5 to 5 years of prison for instigators of fight in Kondopoga

Debates of the parties have taken place in the City Court of Kondopoga on Sergey Mozgalyov and Yuri Pliev's criminal case; these defendants were the instigators of the fight at the "Chaika" (Seagull) restaurant.

22:46, 22 March 2007

Chechnya: TAC residents are forced out of their housing

On March 19, a commission comprising representatives of the administration of Leninskiy District and employees of the Leninskiy "ROVD" (Interior Department) arrived to the Temporary Accommodation Centre (TAC) located in Malgobek Street of the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.

22:36, 22 March 2007

Azerbaijan offered EU to buy gas round about Russia

Azerbaijan has offered European Union a sort of an "energy friendship" through bypassing Russia: to purchase gas directly in Turkmenia, not from "Gazprom," and to transport it through the these-days commissioned South Caucasian gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and the perspective trans-Caspian one.

22:24, 22 March 2007

Joint group will continue investigation of Kodor Gorge incident

A joint investigatory group will conduct an additional investigation into the incident in the upper section of the Kodor Gorge connected with the shelling on the night of March 12.

22:03, 22 March 2007

Collision of Cossacks with Chechen "OMON" in Stavropol Territory

In the morning of March 21, the workers of the "Peresvet" Private Security Company (PSC) who are the Cossacks of the Mineralovodskiy Unit of the Tersk Army arrived to the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) to take guard of the building of the local sewing factory.

22:59, 21 March 2007

Kadyrov rejects sovereignty for Chechnya

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has declared that the issue of signing a powers delimitative treaty between Russia and Chechnya is no longer actual.

22:39, 21 March 2007

Abkhazian opposition accuses authorities of using administrative resources

Former opposition candidates to parliament deputies - Emma Hodzha, Vitaly Gabniya, Almasbei Kchach, Daur Achugba and Marina Bartsyts - are going to lodge complaints to the Supreme Court of Abkhazia.

22:37, 21 March 2007

Charges on the criminal case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train presented

The jurymen have passed an accusatory verdict on the criminal case related to blowing up of the Grozny-Moscow train committed on June 12, 2005.

22:33, 21 March 2007

Nagorny Karabakh gets ready to elect president

The "Artsakh" Democratic Party that has a majority in the Parliament of Nagorny Karabakh has started consultations on nominating or supporting a candidate to the position of the president.

22:30, 21 March 2007

Clashes of Kazakhs with Chechnya natives in Kazakhstan

On March 20, it became known about mass collisions between natives of Chechnya and Kazakhs that burst out in Kazakhstan.

23:27, 20 March 2007

Public prosecutor demands life sentence for an attempt on the head of the Dagestan Pension Fund

At the process on the case on the attempt committed on Amuchi Amutinov, former vice-premier of the Republic and head of the Dagestan branch of the Russian Pension Fund, the public prosecutor has demanded the court to sentence brothers Magomed and Gazimagomed Gairbekov to life imprisonment.

23:23, 20 March 2007

Kadyrov will tell the USA about conflict-settlement in Chechnya

Arkadiy Yedelev, deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia, stated on Tuesday in Grozny that in April a delegation of the US Department of State will arrive to Chechnya to borrow the experience of settling regional conflicts.

23:19, 20 March 2007

Trial of OMON pogromists of children's camp continues in Sochi

Today, the Lazarevskiy District Court of the city of Sochi has continued the process on allegations of a group of OMON (special militia) fighters of exceeding their official powers with application of violence in the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp last summer.

22:17, 20 March 2007

Azerbaijani human rights defenders think the problem of political prisoners still exists

The Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan (HRCA) is satisfied with the govt's efforts to settle the problem of political prisoners.

22:15, 20 March 2007

Abkhazian MoD accuses Georgia of provocation

Sultan Sosnaliev, Abkhazian defence minister, has blamed as 'prevocational' the information of the Georgian party that "last night, two MI-24 combat helicopters and two SU-25 aircrafts flew into the Kodor Gorge from the territory of Abkhazia and remained over it for half an hour."

23:35, 19 March 2007

Azerbaijani ex-minister of public health accuses authorities of murdering ex-minister of education

At today's trial on the case of Ali Insanov, ex-minister of public health of Azerbaijan, the defendant made another sensational statement. This time, he has accused the authorities of political assassination of Rafik Feizullaev, former minister of education.

23:34, 19 March 2007

General Yedelev: 37 militants' groups are operative in Chechnya

Currently, 37 armed groupings with a total strength of 450 persons operate in Chechnya, general-colonel Arkady Yedelev, head of the operations headquarters for North Caucasus, has told today to the press conference in Grozny.

23:32, 19 March 2007

Armenia now receives gas from Iran

On March 19, an opening ceremony of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline was held with participation of Robert Kocharyan and Mahmud Ahmadinejad, presidents of Armenia and Iran.

22:58, 19 March 2007

Trial of Prophet Mohammed abusing publicists again postponed in Azerbaijan

Today, the Sabailskiy Court of the capital of Azerbaijan held a preparatory session on the case of publicist Rafik Tagi and Samir Sadagatoglu, editor of the "Sanat" newspaper.

22:53, 19 March 2007

Operation to liquidate militants failed in Dagestan

As a result of a special operation conducted today in the Untsukulskiy District of Dagestan, no militants were detained or liquidated.

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