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10:32, 11 June 2008

In Chechnya, unknown criminals tried to blow up OMON fighters

A powerful explosive detonated in a highways in southeast of Chechnya, when trucks with Perm Territory OMON (Special Militia) fighters sent to Chechnya to take their service were moving along. There no casualties and victims, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya reports.

07:44, 10 June 2008

Alan Waddams: EU to help Azerbaijan in accession to WTO

Alan Waddams, head of the representative office of the European Commission in Azerbaijan, has declared that the EU will render Azerbaijan every help in acceding the World Trade Organization (WTO).

07:37, 10 June 2008

"Dagestan Mothers" complain to public prosecutor of poor investigation of kidnappings

Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the Dagestan NGO named "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights", has complained to the public prosecutor that inspectors refuse to check the data on whereabouts of kidnapped persons.

07:32, 10 June 2008

Armenia lost a case against its citizen at the European Court

The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has passed a decision against the Republic of Armenia, having recognized illegality of Gagik Sarukhanyan's removal from elections.

07:28, 10 June 2008

Criminal case against Manana Aslamazyan closed

The Investigatory Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs has stopped the criminal case opened in relation to journalist Manana Aslamazyan after the Constitutional court of the Russian Federation ruled on May 27 that the challenged legal provision was applied illegally and is non-constitutional.

07:22, 10 June 2008

Azerbaijanis violently kept 49 Uzbeks in Moscow suburb

On June 7, militiamen of the Moscow Region released 49 natives of Uzbekistan, who were violently detaining and forced to work by citizens of Azerbaijan.

07:15, 10 June 2008

Dacascos and Assante to visit Chechnya

The opening ceremony of the "Noah's Ark" First International Movie Festival to be held on June 13-19 in the capital of Chechnya will be visited by well-known American actors Mark Dacascos and Armand Assante.

07:08, 10 June 2008

Pitsunda to host international forum "Abkhazia-2008. Investments, Prospects"

The international economic forum under the motto "Abkhazia-2008. Investments, Prospects", organized by Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Abkhazia with the help of the Republic's Government, will take place on June 17-21 in the sea report of Pitsunda.

21:54, 9 June 2008

Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group to visit Azerbaijan and Armenia

Azerbaijan and Armenia have decided to continue negotiations on settling the Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group, and later in June the co-chairs of the Group will visit the conflict region again.

18:51, 9 June 2008

Georgia: 60 women-inmates start hunger strike

On June 8, some 60 prisoners of women's colony in Tbilisi announced a hunger strike demanding revision of their verdicts.

13:45, 9 June 2008

Oreshkin: today's presidents of Chechnya and Ingushetia are Kremlin's favourites

Dmitri Oreshkin, a Russian political scientist, believes that the current presidents of Chechnya and Ingushetia are gainful for the Kremlin: Ramzan Kadyrov controls Chechnya, and Murat Zyazikov is loyal to the Russian leadership.

12:41, 9 June 2008

Karabakh marks change of Azerbaijani tactics in conflict settlement

At the debate held on June 8 in Stepanakert on the topic "People's Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities", representatives of Karabakh NGOs and state structures registered a change in Azerbaijani tactics towards settling the Karabakh conflict.

11:36, 9 June 2008

US Ambassador: Georgia and Ukraine are not yet ready to be NATO members

Victoria Nuland, US Ambassador to NATO, asserts that Ukraine and Georgia, whose accession to NATO's Membership Action Plan was postponed till December, are not yet ready to become members of the Alliance.

10:33, 9 June 2008

Election Monitoring Centre scarifies amendments to Azerbaijani Electoral Code

In their essence, the amendment in the Electoral Code, recently approved by the Parliament of Azerbaijan, create no legal guarantees for eliminating the main problems on the road towards free and fair elections. This conclusion was made by the experts of the Election Monitoring Centre (EMC).

09:26, 9 June 2008

Militants who were searched killed in Dagestan

The bodies of three young men killed in the Hasavyurt District on June 7 as a result of a skirmish with militiamen in Dagestan have been identified. Two of them had been searched.

19:55, 7 June 2008

Armenia: rallies in defence of political prisoners continue

In the district of Vanatur of the Razdan city in Armenia, a hunger strike with a demand to release all political prisoners was launched by war veterans of the voluntary regiment Arshavir Bazinyan, Ashot Nersisyan, Norik Sarkisyan, Samvel Panosyan, Eduard Sarkisyan and widow Janet Nersisyan.

17:46, 7 June 2008

Rostov Region: ecologists bag subscriptions against NPP construction

In Rostov-on-Don, ecology activists have started to bag subscriptions under a petition of townspeople to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev with an appeal to refrain from building new nuclear power plants.

15:43, 7 June 2008

In Georgia, opposition failed to hamper the parliament

Today, the capital of Georgia hosted the first sitting of the parliament of the new convocation elected on May 21. The sitting was attended by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia Elias the Second.

12:39, 7 June 2008

Movie Festival "Kinotaurus" starts in Sochi

Tonight, Sochi will host the opening ceremony of the 21st "Kinotaurus" Open Russian Movie Festival. In total, the jury will choose among 14 films, 9 of them made by debutants.

11:30, 7 June 2008

Russian railway troops can stay on in Abkhazia

Restoration of the railway in Abkhazia can take more than two months, said Sergey Shamba, head of the Abkhazian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when making comments on the statement of the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov that the units of the railway troops of Russia will leave the territory of Abkhazia within the nearest two months.

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