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November 04, 2006 22:53

• Rashid Gadzhily: situation with mass media in Azerbaijan is close to dangerous threshold

  Recently, mass media of Azerbaijan have confronted the pressure of the authorities, unprecedented by force and scale. Jurisprudent Rashid Gadzhily, Director of the Media Rights Institute, thinks that the situation with printed and electronic mass media "is approaching a dangerous threshold."

November 04, 2006 22:49

• Several meetings held in Dagestan

  On the occasion of the holiday, a solemn rally was held in the Dagestan House of Government.

November 04, 2006 00:11

• Consulate of Georgia: 2681 Georgians deported from Russia

  According to the Embassy of Georgia in Moscow, a total of 2681 citizens of Georgia have been deported from Russia under court judgements, and 1194 Georgians more "were forced to leave the country without any legal judgements."

November 03, 2006 23:44

• Prosecution: investigation of murders in Kondopoga to be over by mid-November

  The Kondopoga prosecutor's office promises to finish, by the middle of November, the investigation of the murder of local citizens that had entailed massive ethnic-motivated disorders.

November 03, 2006 23:41

• HRC "Memorial": those in power are responsible for rampancy of nationalism in Russia

  Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" informed repeatedly that on November 4 in a number of cities of Russia, nationalistically-inclined parties and organizations would hold the so-called "Russian Marches."

November 03, 2006 23:38

• Alksnis: no "Russian March" in metro

  Moscow authorities gave a permit to the Party "Narodnaya Volya" (People's Will) and Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII) to hold a meeting on November 4 in the place in Moscow known as Devichye Pole.

November 03, 2006 23:24

• Detectives are on track of Politkovskaya's killer

  The investigators who are engaged in fact-finding of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, have got on the trail of a supposed killer.

November 02, 2006 23:15

• Most Chechnya natives returned to Kondopoga

  Most of the Chechnya natives, who had lest the Karelian city of Kondopoga after massive disorders that burst out there early in September, have made decisions on their future residence, the Spiritual Moslem Administration (SMA) of Karelia stated today.

November 02, 2006 23:10

• National-socialists called their supporters to confront antifascists

  In one of their web-sites national-socialists called up their adherents to come to the Bolotnaya Square on November 4 and provoke a fight with the participants of the antifascist meeting held there.

November 02, 2006 20:59

• Opposition picket dispersed by police in the capital of Azerbaijan

  Today, about a hundred activists of the Party of the People's Front of Azerbaijan held a protest action, which was not sanctioned by the authorities; the place of the action was in direct proximity from the president's office.

November 02, 2006 20:56

• "Russian March" cancelled in many regions

  Following the practice of Moscow and St. Petersburg, many regional capitals of the country cancelled the "Russian March." For instance, in the Krasnodar Territory, over 5000 persons requested not to admit a march of that sort.

November 02, 2006 20:54

• Hearing of the case of the fight instigator in "Chaika" restaurant starts in Kondopoga

  The District Court of the Karelian city of Kondopoga started a closed session of preliminary hearing of the criminal case in relation to the instigator of the fight in the local restaurant "Chaika."

November 01, 2006 23:05

• 376 servicemen went missing in Chechnya after 1994

  Starting from 1994, a total of 376 servicemen of the federal forces who took part in the Chechnya counter-terrorist operation have been enlisted as missing persons. Colonel of Justice Vladimir Kalita, Deputy Military Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping.

November 01, 2006 23:01

• In Kalmykia, they fear national-motivated disorders

  In the context of inter-ethnic clashes in the village of Vorobyovka of the Priyutnenskiy District of Kalmykia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic has been transferred into the intense mode of service duty.

November 01, 2006 22:31

• South Ossetia asks the UN and OSCE to recognize Georgia's responsibility for genocide of South Ossetians

  Today, the Parliament of South Ossetia has presented its appeal to Mr. Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, and Mr. Karel De Gucht, Acting Chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, asking to recognize the genocide of South Ossetians in 1920 and 1989-1992, and to recognize Georgia's legal and moral responsibility for genocide of South Ossetians.

November 01, 2006 22:27

• Petersburg Mayor's Office allows to hold "Russian March"

  The Mayor's Office of St. Petersburg gave a permit to organizers of the scandalous "Russian March" to hold their action on November 4.

November 01, 2006 22:24

• Beslan Commission again delays the end of its work

  The final date of the Parliamentary Commission on Beslan terror act is postponed, and they plan to hold the nearest sitting after the November holidays, Ms. Lyubov Sliska, First Vice-Speaker of State Duma told the Deputies today.

October 31, 2006 23:51

• Repressions are part of fight for power in the Caucasus, human rights activists state

  On October 30, on the Memory Day of victims of political repressions, the Moscow Independent Press Centre held a roundtable of human rights organizations on the topic "Political Persecutions in Present-Day Russia."

October 31, 2006 23:48

• Adoption of Armenians' genocide bill has aggravated French-Turkish relations

  After the National Assembly of France has passed a law that criminalizes negation of Armenians' genocide, anti-French moods in Turkey have drawn to a head.

October 31, 2006 23:48

• In Ingushetia, organizer of picket in Politkovskaya's memory mulcted 10 MMWs

  A magistrate judge has fined Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the non-commercial public organization "Mashr," who organized on October 16 a picket in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the city of Nazran (Ingushetia).