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June 05, 2008 13:27

• Azerbaijan: "Azadlyg" opposition block boycotts presidential election

  Three oppositional parties - the People's Front, Party of Citizens and Development and Liberal Party of Azerbaijan, united into the block named "Azadlyg", have officially declared their boycott of the presidential election appointed for October 15, 2008.

June 05, 2008 10:24

• In Ingushetia, nationwide opposition rally postponed

  In Ingushetia, representatives of the opposition have made a decision to postpone for indefinite time the rallies in five dwelling settlements of Ingushetia, which were appointed for tomorrow, June 6.

June 05, 2008 08:17

• Georgia sums up parliamentary elections

  The Central Electoral Commission of Georgia has promulgated the final totals of the parliamentary elections held May 21. Five parties will form the parliament of the country.

June 05, 2008 07:12

• Kozak: cost of Sochi Olympic objects will be defined by end of year

  Dmitri Kozak, Minister for Regional Development of the Russian Federation, has stated that the final construction cost of all the objects erected for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympiad will be defined by the end of 2008 after finalizing the project and budget documentation.

June 04, 2008 22:26

• Capital of Chechnya getting ready for international film festival

  On June 13-19, the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, will host the First International Film Festival under the name of "Noah's Ark". Preparation for the event is now especially fast.

June 04, 2008 19:21

• "Gazprom" offers Azerbaijan European gas prices

  The offer made by the "Gazprom" on gas purchase from Azerbaijan is a long-term deal based on the commercial European price. This news was made public on June 4 by Vasily Istratov, Russia's Ambassador to Baku, in a press conference.

June 04, 2008 18:57

• Editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta" would not find Politkovskaya's murder cleared

  The murder case of the "Novaya Gazeta" observer Anna Politkovskaya cannot be regarded as cleared. This was stated by Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the paper, who made his comments on the statement of inspector Vladimir Markin that by June 20 they plan to announce the end of the preliminary investigation of this crime.

June 04, 2008 17:49

• Subari: after elections, situation with human rights in Georgia is poor

  After the parliamentary elections, Georgia faces a miserable situation in the sphere of human rights, which surely demands estimation, the National Defender of Georgia (Ombudsman) Sozar Subari has stated in today's press conference.

June 04, 2008 14:38

• Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia calls on people not to go to June 6 rallies

  The Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia treats the rallies planned for June 6 by the opposition of the Republic in several dwelling settlements as illegitimate and calls the residents "not to be on the bit of the offenders."

June 04, 2008 13:33

• Beslan terror act victims demand to bring case against Putin

  On June 4, the members of the all-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" lodged an application to the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation with a demand to interrogate the former president, and nowadays the prime minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin as a witness in case about the terror act in Beslan school in September 2004, and to initiate a criminal case against him.

June 04, 2008 12:30

• Presentation of the book on use of prisoners' labour in USSR held in Rostov-on-Don

  The city of Rostov-on-Don was the venue the present the book named "Prisoners at Communism Construction Sites. GULAG and Power Engineering Sites. Collection of Documents and Photos".

June 03, 2008 22:39

• Residents of Chechnya are indignant with removal of deportation victims' memorial to the garbage dump

  In Chechnya, the conflict continues, caused by the intention of the authorities to remove the Memorial erected in 1992 in the Chechen capital in memory of the victims of 1944 deportation to a city suburb. People are revolted with the fact that the place allocated for the new memorial is now a garbage dump.

June 03, 2008 20:33

• Israel wants to buy gas from Azerbaijan

  Israel plans to sign a long-term contract with Azerbaijan on delivery of natural gas. This was announced today by Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister for National infrastructure, in a press conference in Baku.

June 03, 2008 20:27

• Moscow: mass fight with participation of Armenian natives

  Today at night, a mass fight with participation of Armenian natives burst out in the Stavropolskaya Street of Moscow. The law enforcement bodies do not exclude the ethnic pretext of the conflict, although there is no official confirmation.

June 03, 2008 19:21

• Supreme Court of Russia upholds the verdict to North Ossetian kidnappers

  Today, the Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the guilty verdict to three participants of the criminal grouping who kidnapped people in North Ossetia, in spite of the fact that the victims in case insisted on cancelling the verdict.

June 03, 2008 17:16

• Militants who shelled Mi-8 helicopter are searched in Chechnya

  The militants are searched in the Vedeno District of Chechnya who shelled on June 2 a Mi-8 helicopter, which was carrying militaries of a special subdivision of the Interior Troops.

June 03, 2008 12:12

• Shamil Buraev arrested on Politkovskaya's case set free

  The investigation has decided to release another figurant of the criminal case on Anna Politkovskaya's murder - Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya.

June 03, 2008 10:08

• Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdict to Fatullaev

  Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan presided by Judge Muzaffar Agazade has considered a cassation complaint lodged by Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief and founder of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" (Daily Azerbaijan).

June 02, 2008 20:13

• USA and NATO are concerned with deployment of Russia's railway battalion in Abkhazia

  The USA and NATO are worried about the deployment of the railway troops of the Russian Ministry of Defence in Abkhazia, and think that such actions will not lead to improvement of Russian-Georgian relations.

June 02, 2008 17:56

• Ramzan Kadyrov: removal of memorial to victims of repressions is reasonable

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has approved the decision of the city administration of Grozny on removal of the complex in memory of victims of the 1944 deportation from the central part of city to a suburb and stated that the monument to the victims of repressions should be grandiose.