News

March 25, 2008 13:10

• Opposition in Georgia stops hunger strike

  Tonight, on the 17th day of the protest action, the opposition of Georgia has made a decision to stop the hunger strike. Despite the end of the hunger strike, the protest action near the building of the Parliament will go on, Georgiy Khaindrava, one of the leaders of the opposition, has stated.

March 25, 2008 13:07

• In Armenia, GALA TV Company managed to raise money to pay the fine

  Tonight, people in Armenia have succeeded in raising the necessary sum of money to cover the fine imposed by the Administrative Court of the city of Gyumri on the GALA TV Company.

March 25, 2008 13:03

• Regular Tbilisi-Moscow flight takes off from Georgia

  Today the air traffic between Georgia and Russia that was interrupted in 2006 has resumed. By the end of this week, the Georgia-Russia marine traffic will also restart.

March 25, 2008 12:56

• Ex-prime minister of Armenia charged of organizing mass disorders

  The Special Investigatory Group has presented an indictment under several Articles of the Criminal Code of Armenia to Aram Sarkisyan, former prime minister, leader of the "Republic" Party and member of the Central Election Office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

March 24, 2008 12:49

• Spontaneous march of people dispersed by police in Armenian capital

  In the evening on March 24, reinforced police units of Armenia pushed away the people who had gathered in the Severny Avenue of Yerevan, about one thousand in total.

March 24, 2008 12:46

• Health condition of satirist Zakhidov convicted in Azerbaijan remains heavy

  Satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov who is in custody in Azerbaijan is still heavily sick and needs serious treatment.

March 24, 2008 12:42

• Matthew Bryza discloses negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh

  The American co-chairman of the Minsk OSCE Group Matthew Bryza has disclosed some details of the negotiations: firstly, recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan; secondly, return of 7 districts to Azerbaijan and return of forced migrants to these regions; thirdly, withdrawal of Armenian troops; fourthly, setting up a corridor ensuring communication of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia; fifthly, debate on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh that can be decided on the basis of compromises during negotiations.

March 24, 2008 12:38

• Opposition rallied at the Parliament of Georgia demands to restore "Imedi"

  About thirty thousand persons have gathered to take part in the action of the United Opposition in front of the Parliament of Georgia in defence of the "Imedi" TV Company. Appeals are heard not to disperse until the authorities restart broadcasting of the "Imedi".

March 24, 2008 12:32

• Film "Missing Lives": over 3000 persons still missing in Chechnya

  More than 3000 persons are still considered missing in Chechnya. They disappeared in the course of the "counterterrorist operation" that was conducted since 1999 - the time of Vladimir Putin's advent to power in Russia.

March 24, 2008 12:28

• In Dagestan, militiamen demand resignation of MIA head and Public Prosecutor

  Yesterday, on March 23, militiamen of Makhachkala held a rally with a demand of dismissal of the Interior Minister and Public Prosecutor of Dagestan.

March 24, 2008 12:25

• "Kommersant": Wahhabites could murder STRC "Dagestan" chairman

  By one of the versions of the murder of Gaji Abashilov, Chairman of the State Television and Radio Company (STRC) "Dagestan", the crime was committed with the aim to weaken the influence of Dagestan President Mukhu Aliev.

March 22, 2008 12:28

• In Stavropol Territory, colleagues speak in defence of the teacher accused of driving a pupil to suicide

  The teachers' collective and administration of School No. 2 of Aleksandrovskoe village, Stavropol Territory, where Valentina Neumyvakina, who is accused of driving a 9th form pupil to suicide, works, think the teacher to be innocent of what has happened.

March 22, 2008 12:25

• Melamedov: Dagestan journalists Shurpaev and Abashilov were on the "black list"

  According to Andrei Melamedov, former editor-in-chief of the private Dagestan newspaper "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), the surnames of journalists Ilyas Shurpaev and Gaji Abashilov, who were murdered on Friday, were on the list of persons prohibited to mentioning.

March 22, 2008 12:22

• Foreigners to investigate disorders in Armenia

  The authorities of Armenia agree to admit the participation of international experts in the investigation of disorders on March 1-2 in Yerevan. This was stated today by the General Public Prosecutor of Armenia at his meeting with Peter Semnebi, Special EU's Representative in South Caucasus.

March 22, 2008 12:20

• Participants of hunger strike in Georgia have sharp aggravation of health condition

  Today, on the 14th day of the hunger strike, the state of health of the leaders of the United Opposition of Georgia has worsened, and quarantine was introduced near the building of Parliament in Tbilisi in the Rustaveli Avenue.

March 22, 2008 12:16

• Stomakhin's defenders mark two years of his arrest

  On March 21, a picket was held in Moscow in defence of Boris Stomakhin, the author of the Chechen separatists' website "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism. The action was dated to the second anniversary of journalist's arrest.

March 22, 2008 12:13

• ChCNS asks Spanish authorities not to deport Ingushetian refugee to Russia

  According to the statement of Ruslan Badalov, Chairman of the Chechen Committee for National Salvation (ChCNS), human rights activists are protesting against a possible decision of the authorities of Spain to deport Murat Gasaev, a refugee from Ingushetia, to Russia.

March 21, 2008 14:34

• European Court obliges Russia to pay for consequences of mudslide in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The European Court for Human Rights has obliged the Russian Federation to pay 85,000 euros to six relatives of the victims of the mudslide in the city of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria on July 18, 2000.

March 21, 2008 14:27

• Experts: Moscow takes the lead by number of attacks on natives from Caucasus and Central Asia

  Attacks on natives from Caucasus and Central Asia in the cities of Russia become more violent. It was stated by the participants of the press conference "Xenophobic Moods in Russian Youth Take Form of Epidemic", held today, on the All-European Day against Racism, at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

March 21, 2008 14:15

• An hour before his own death, Chairman of STRC "Dagestan" spoke about Ilyas Shurpaev's murder in Moscow

  An hour before his own murder, Chairman of the State Television and Radio Company "Dagestan" Gaji Abashilov spoke about the journalist of Channel One Ilyas Shurpaev who was killed in Moscow.