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January 10, 2008 12:06

• Boden: OSCE confirms rough falsifications at Georgian election

  German diplomat Dieter Boden, head of the OSCE observation mission, has confirmed the facts of roughest violations and falsifications at the election in Georgia, having declared that the Electoral Commission of Georgia is dominated by "chaos".

January 10, 2008 12:04

• Ingushetia: 54.5% of voters assert their non-participation in elections on December 2

  As of 9:00 p.m. on January 9, 2008, a total of 87,340 applications were gathered under the action "I did not vote!" filed by the residents of Ingushetia aged 18 and up who stated that they had not gone to vote on December 2, 2007, at the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

January 10, 2008 12:00

• President of Chechnya Kadyrov threatens to stop the TV Companies that do not explaining the Islam fundamentals

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has threatened to close the local TV Companies, which will not cover Islamic issues.

January 10, 2008 11:35

• "Voice of Beslan" insists on independent examination of the statement that was considered extremist

  The "Voice of Beslan" will send a petition to the district court of the city of Nazran with a demand to return the statement of claim of the Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia, which had arrived to the address of this public organization on January 9, because of the violation of the territorial jurisdiction legislation, and later will ask to hold examination of the material, in which an appeal to extremism had been discovered.

January 09, 2008 01:04

• Baptist who has served 2 years demobilized from army in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Baptist Gagik Davidovich Mirzoyan, who refused to take the oath, has been demobilized from the Karabakh army after serving his term.

January 09, 2008 00:47

• Relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria fail to sue Savrulin and Shepel

  In reply to their appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office with a demand to bring Alexei Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for the South Federal District, to criminal liability, relatives of the perished militants received a response from the Chief Investigatory Department for the SFD.

January 09, 2008 00:43

• Georgian opposition starts long-term protest actions

  Today, Levan Gachechiladze, candidate for President of Georgia from opposition, and his supporters start a hunger strike in front of the Public TV building in Tbilisi with a demand to hold the second round of the election.

January 09, 2008 00:39

• CEC of Georgia: Saakashvili has won presidential by gathering 52.2% of votes

  Levan Tarkhnishvili, Chair of the Georgian CEC, has stated today that Mikhail Saakashvili has won the presidential election in Georgia.

January 09, 2008 00:33

• Chechnya: Chernokozovo inmates complain of tortures

  Ruslan Kutaev, head of the International Committee for Northern Caucasus problems, has stated that the prisoners of Chernokozovo Colony No. 2 in Chechnya complain of beatings and tortures.

January 06, 2008 00:08

• Central Electoral Commission of Georgia: Saakashvili - 55.23%, Gachechiladze - 23.86%

  According to the data of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Georgia, received from 285 out of 3512 polling stations, as of 2:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. Moscow time), the rating of Mikhail Saakashvili went down a little as a whole for the country and made 55.23% of the votes of all the electors.

January 05, 2008 12:51

• Exit poll data differing at election in Georgia

  According to the data of the exit poll conducted by four Georgian TV Companies, at the snap presidential election in Georgia held today, Mikhail Saakashvili is in the lead with an essential breakaway.

January 05, 2008 12:49

• A Dagestan native assassinated in Moscow

  The law enforcement bodies of the Russian capital have informed today that a native from Dagestan was killed in Moscow.

January 05, 2008 11:57

• "Voice of Beslan" to challenge Solzhenitsyn, head of investigation

  The "Voice of Beslan" committee of the Beslan terror victims' relatives is going to demand removal of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, head of the investigatory group in charge of the inquiry of the terror act.

January 05, 2008 11:11

• Observers state multiple violations at presidential election in Georgia

  As of 6:00 p.m. today (5:00 p.m. Moscow time), the NGO named "The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia" had recorded 190 violations in the course of the presidential election in Georgia.

January 05, 2008 11:01

• NGOs fix more than 40 violations at election in Georgia

  As of 3:00 p.m., the office of the observers of the Coalition of NGOs, which unites up to 200 NGOs, have fixed over 40 violations made during the presidential election in Georgia.

January 04, 2008 12:40

• State of health of imprisoned journalist is worse in Azerbaijan

  The state of health of satirist Sakit Zakhidov who is kept behind bars in Azerbaijan is worse again. He suffers from strong pains in his heart and legs.

January 04, 2008 12:34

• International observers to present their estimates of the pre-electoral campaign and elections in Georgia on January 6

  At a press conference held at the "ZP" Hotel in Tbilisi, international observers have told about their preliminary impressions from the course of the electoral campaign in Georgia and presented information about their activities.

January 04, 2008 12:30

• Antadze: 2007 was a hard year for Georgian journalism

  Iya Antadze, a journalist for the Radio Liberty who was recognized to be the best journalist of Georgia in 2007, thinks that the last year was hard for Georgian journalism.

January 04, 2008 12:21

• Georgia: supporters of Gachechiladze and Gamkrelidze complain of attacks

  Today in Georgia several incidents took place against supporters of oppositional candidates for President of Georgia.

January 03, 2008 13:02

• Residents of Chechnya are most frequent refuge applicants in Belgium

  Thirteen percent of total applicants for political asylum in Belgium are residents of Chechnya.