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21:22, 25 October 2008

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.

21:15, 25 October 2008

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.

19:59, 25 October 2008

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".

18:49, 25 October 2008

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.

17:23, 25 October 2008

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.

16:07, 25 October 2008

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.

14:35, 25 October 2008

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.

13:39, 25 October 2008

"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."

16:08, 24 October 2008

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.

16:05, 24 October 2008

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").

16:02, 24 October 2008

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.

13:21, 24 October 2008

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.

13:14, 24 October 2008

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.

23:44, 23 October 2008

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.

23:27, 23 October 2008

Dagestan: persons accused of murdering Farid Babaev refuse to admit their guilt

In Dagestan, Rasul Mamedrizaev and Seferali Sefimirzoev, accused of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, have refused to plead guilty.

00:30, 23 October 2008

Yuri Budanov's early release rejected again

The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) has denied the petition on conditional-early release of former Colonel Yuri Budanov.

00:27, 23 October 2008

In Armenia, term of office of the commission for investigating March 1 events extended

On October 22, the National Assembly of Armenia passed a decision to extend the term of office of the temporary parliamentary commission set up to investigate March 1 events in Yerevan by four months, till February 25.

00:10, 23 October 2008

Moscow commemorates "Nord-Ost" victims

Today, Moscow remembers the victims of the tragedy in "Dubrovka" Theatrical Centre - six years ago during performance terrorists took almost one thousand actors and spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages.

13:17, 22 October 2008

Azerbaijan: father of imprisoned journalist asserts that his son's life is in danger

The life of Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is kept at Penitentiary Establishment No. 12, is under threat, his father Emin Fatullaev has stated.

13:13, 22 October 2008

Veterans of Afghan war stop their hunger strike in Dagestan

On October 21 in Makhachkala, the negotiations of servicemen-"Afghans" with representatives of the Republic's Government and State Duma deputies from Dagestan came to the end. As a result of the arrangements reached, the "Afghans" agreed not to restart their temporarily interrupted hunger strike.

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