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June 09, 2008 18:51

• 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.

June 09, 2008 13:45

• 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.

June 09, 2008 12:41

• 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.

June 09, 2008 11:36

• 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.

June 09, 2008 10:33

• 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).

June 09, 2008 09:26

• 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.

June 07, 2008 19:55

• 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.

June 07, 2008 17:46

• 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.

June 07, 2008 15:43

• 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.

June 07, 2008 12:39

• 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.

June 07, 2008 11:30

• 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.

June 07, 2008 10:24

• Chechnya's parliament to become unicameral

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has signed a new law on election of deputies to the Parliament of Chechnya, according to which the legislature will become unicameral.

June 06, 2008 21:56

• United Opposition of Georgia would not give up boycotting the parliament

  Despite the doubts of its individual members, the United Opposition of Georgia sticks to its decision to boycott the work of the new parliament, which has appointed its first session on June 7.

June 06, 2008 19:52

• Trutnev: ecologists' complains on Sochi preparation for the Olympiad destroy the image of Russia

  Yuri Trutnev, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, believes that the claims put forward by ecologists in the context of preparation for 2014 Sochi Olympiad can undermine the image of Russia.

June 06, 2008 18:46

• Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet in St-Petersburg

  St-Petersburg was the venue of the first meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Serzh Sarkisyan and Ilham Aliev have agreed to continue negotiations on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of Madrid proposals.

June 06, 2008 15:38

• Moscow court stops "Ingushetia.Ru" opposition website

  Today, the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow has stopped the operation of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", thus having satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, which stuck to the opinion that the site was disseminating extremist information.

June 06, 2008 15:09

• Solana discussed in Abkhazia settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

  Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, has discussed the issues settling the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict with Abkhazian leaders.

June 06, 2008 13:23

• Prime minister of Armenia brings an action against ex-prime minister

  Tigran Sarkisyan, former Chairman of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia and nowadays the Prime Minister of the country, has lodged a claim on protection of his honour, dignity and professional reputation against Grant Bagratyan, leader of the oppositional non-parliamentary party "Azatyutyun" (Freedom), who was the prime minister of Armenia in 1993-1996.

June 06, 2008 11:07

• Two burials with remains of kidnapped persons found in Chechnya

  During several recent days, in the Gudermes and Vedeno Districts of Chechnya, several burials have been detected. The authorities of Chechnya assert that all the casualties fell victims of extrajudicial executions of the militaries of the "Vostok" (East) battalion commanded by Sulim Yamadaev.

June 05, 2008 18:31

• EU High Commissioner will not become intermediary between Georgian opposition and authorities

  Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, who has arrived today to Tbilisi, has stated that he would not mediate the conflict between the opposition and the authorities of Georgia.