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March 03, 2008 16:22

• In Ingushetia, voter turnout was 92.3%

  The voter turnout at presidential election in Ingushetia made 92.3%. This was reported by Mussa Evloev, head of the Central Electoral Commission of Ingushetia, during a videoconference with the information centre of CEC of Russia "Election-2008".

March 03, 2008 16:20

• In Chechnya, 91% of voters cast their votes, 88.7% - for Medvedev

  In Chechnya, Dmitri Medvedev, the official "successor" of Vladimir Putin, was a confident winner of the presidential election.

March 03, 2008 15:06

• Residents of Volgograd voted for Medvedev, having no other choice

  On March 2, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent visited three polling stations of Volgograd and talked to voters. Many respondents said that they had voted for Dmitri Medvedev, for having no other choice.

March 03, 2008 14:45

• General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has established the persons who perished at disorders in Yerevan

  The General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has identified the personalities of all the eight victims in the clashes between supporters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the police and OMON on March 1 in Yerevan.

March 03, 2008 14:41

• General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia initiates a criminal case against Levon Ter-Petrosyan

  The State Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia has informed that Levon Ter-Petrosyan, ex-candidate for the president and leader of the opposition, is a figurant in the case about mass disorders in Yerevan on March 1.

March 03, 2008 14:36

• In Abkhazia, Sigua's relatives demand from Georgia to provide information about his whereabouts

  Today in the morning, in front of the Galskiy UN Office, a protest rally was held by relatives of David Sigua, a citizen of Abkhazia and head of the local electoral commission who was kidnapped on February 3, 2007, by Georgian special agencies.

March 03, 2008 14:29

• Abkhazian journalists ask Bagapsh to release their Georgian colleagues

  Today, a group of Abkhazian journalists have addressed the President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh with a request to release the Georgian journalists detained in the Galskiy District.

March 02, 2008 21:49

• Police Beat Peaceful Protesters in Yerevan

  Armenian police on March 1 used excessive force and violence to disperse demonstrators protesting peacefully against recent election results, Human Rights Watch said today.

March 02, 2008 21:32

• Civilians Die as Police Suppress Demonstrations and Riots

  The Armenian government should launch a prompt and independent investigation into the use of lethal force by security forces to quell demonstrations and rioting overnight on March 1, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today.

March 01, 2008 13:28

• Georgian journalists detained in Abkhazia deny their beating

  Today, Svetlin Sergeyenkov, an employee of the Sukhumi UN Office for Human Rights, has addressed the Service of the State Security of Abkhazia with a request to have a meeting with detained journalists from Georgia Malkhaz Basilaya and David Tsotsoriya.

March 01, 2008 13:21

• Source in MIA of Ingushetia: FSB officers shot peaceful citizens dead

  On February 28, employees of the FSB could have shot dead two men and a woman who had been kidnapped earlier, having simulated a skirmish and planting the weapons.

March 01, 2008 13:16

• Oppositional rally and clashes with police continue in the capital of Armenia

  As of 11:30 p.m. local time, the rally in the centre of Yerevan continues, despite the state of emergency introduced by President of Armenia, according to official information, because of disorders in the capital.

March 01, 2008 13:13

• OSCE condemns violent dispersal of rally in Armenia

  The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Ilkka Kanerva has condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

March 01, 2008 13:05

• Famous journalist beaten in the capital of Dagestan

  On February 29, in Makhachkala, well-known Dagestan journalist and publicist Zaur Gaziev was beaten by unknown persons.

February 29, 2008 12:25

• Meboniya: visit to Georgia of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had formal character

  Advocate Onise Meboniya asserts that the visit to Georgia of Louise Arbor, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, had an absolutely formal character and brought no essential results.

February 29, 2008 12:20

• In Ingushetia, court session on ChCNS' complaint postponed till April 1

  On February 28, the court continued the proceeding on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.

February 29, 2008 12:10

• Relatives of a detainee during mass disorders in Ingushetia appeal to HRC "Memorial"

  The relatives of Batyr Moshkhoev, who was arrested on charges of taking part in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, assert that the young man had nothing to do with the above events and is kept behind the bars without a slightest reason.

February 29, 2008 12:02

• Picket against arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies held in the capital of Dagestan

  Today in Makhachkala, journalists of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper held a picket against voluntary actions of the UBOP employees who have launched a series of targeted audits of non-state mass media.

February 29, 2008 11:56

• People of Kabardino-Balkaria ask Putin to be more active in cutting short anti-Caucasian propaganda

  In the context of recent attacks on natives of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow, public organizations and political parties of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic sent a letter to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

February 28, 2008 19:55

• Iranian authorities forbade Azerbaijanis to commemorate victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the mosque "Nur"

  On February 26, the Iranian authorities stopped the service in memory of the victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the Teheran mosque "Nur".