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March 06, 2008 16:16

• Former troopers who beat Turkish builders in Krasnodar receive conditional terms

  On March 4, a verdict was passed in Krasnodar to former troopers who beat Turkish construction workers.

March 06, 2008 16:11

• US and Russian Armenians call the authorities of Armenia and opposition to restraint

  On March 5, in the district of Los Angeles known as "Small Armenia", several thousands protesters rallied to voice against the violence applied to peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan on March 1.

March 06, 2008 16:08

• Released Georgian journalists confirm that they were in Abkhazia without documents

  Today at 11:30 a.m. Moscow time, the Service of State Security of Abkhazia released two Georgian journalists of the TV Company "Mze" Malkhaz Basilaya and David Tsotsoriya and handed them over to employees of the UN Office for Human Rights.

March 06, 2008 16:04

• HRC "Memorial" is concerned with detention in Moscow of the head of the Anti-War Club

  The Human Rights Centre "Memorial" is concerned with detention of human rights activist Mikhail Kriger, coordinator of the Anti-War Club, who was a regular participant of pickets against the policy of the Kremlin in Northern Caucasus and the war in Chechnya, in particular.

March 06, 2008 16:01

• 132 oppositionists detained in Armenia

  As of the present moment, 132 activists of the opposition have been arrested in Armenia; they were charges under a number of Articles of the Criminal Code.

March 06, 2008 15:57

• Because of corruption in Stavropol Territory, Tersk Cossacks threaten to give up Russian citizenship

  The Cossacks of the Tersk Army are indignant with the corruption in the Stavropol Territory and the course of investigation of the murder of Ataman Andrei Khanin, 34.

March 06, 2008 15:52

• Supreme Court upholds acquittal of Ingush militiamen on Beslan events

  Today, the Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the acquittal verdict to commanders of the Malgobek ROVD of Ingushetia accused of professional negligence during the events in Beslan in September 2004.

March 05, 2008 10:55

• Krasnodar Territory: militiaman convicted for excess of powers

  In the Krasnodar territory, a militiaman was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for beating Nishik Sloyan, a resident of Pshekhskaya village, during interrogating the latter.

March 05, 2008 10:51

• In North Ossetia, hearing adjourned on holding repeated examinations of Beslan victims' bodies

  On March 4, the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia postponed the hearing on the complaint of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" against the actions of the investigatory group of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation till March 11.

March 05, 2008 10:47

• Claudia Podrez: Stavropol residents live worse today than under Stalin

  Fifty percent of the victims of political repressions who live now in the Stavropol Territory are positively treating Joseph Stalin, since today they live worse than under Stalin's rule, Claudia Podrez, chair of the Stavropol Regional public organization of invalids-victims of political repressions, said.

March 05, 2008 10:45

• Son of the administration head of the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan is suspected of ordering Farid Babaev's murder

  On March 4, two suspects of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party, were brought the Tyumen Region of Russia to Dagestan.

March 05, 2008 10:37

• Ter-Petrosyan: witnesses of election falsifications in Armenia are arrested

  Many of the important witnesses of the mass falsifications undertaken during the election on February 19 are now under arrest, and it hampers to studying the case in the court.

March 05, 2008 10:33

• Suspect of attacking the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria says they tried to strangle him in SIZO

  At today's session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of the attack on Nalchik, one of the defendants, Zaur Tokhov, has stated that the workers of the SIZO had tried to strangle him, and named these workers.

March 05, 2008 10:24

• On March 9, Georgian opposition starts a new wave of protests

  The members of the oppositional United National Board held an extraordinary briefing in the Office of the People's Party and announced that a new wave of protests would be launched at the Parliament of Georgia at 2:00 p.m. on March 9.

March 04, 2008 12:05

• President of Abkhazia receives journalists who demand to release Basilaya

  On March 3, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh received a group of Abkhazian journalists who had addressed him with a demand to release the Georgian journalists detained by the employees of the Republic's State Security Service on February 26.

March 04, 2008 11:53

• Council of Europe demands from Armenian authorities to investigate the disorders in Yerevan

  The Council of Europe is highly concerned with mass disorders in Armenia and calls on the authorities to investigate the deaths of people at night on March 2. This is the topic of the statement made by Terry Davis, Secretary General of Council of Europe.

March 04, 2008 11:50

• Kocharyan and Sarkisyan discuss situation in Armenia with Peter Semneby

  On March 3, President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan received Peter Semneby, Special Representative of the European Union for South Caucasus. During the meeting, they discussed the post-election processes in Armenia, in particular, the situation in Yerevan and possible ways out of it.

March 04, 2008 11:44

• People in Volgograd Region are indignant with release of the murderer of Gipsies in Ulyanovsk Region

  At night on February 26, in the village of Ignatovka, Mainovskiy District, Ulyanovsk Region, two villagers committed a murder of a Gipsy aged 24 and his daughter of 18 months. On February 26, the killers were detained, and they pled guilty. However, three days later one of them was released.

March 04, 2008 11:39

• South Ossetia appeals to international community for recognition

  The Parliament of South Ossetia has addressed the UN Secretary General, the President, Council of the Federation and State Duma of Russia, as well as the heads of the CIS states and parliaments and EU countries with a request to recognize the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia.

March 04, 2008 11:34

• Suspect of attempt on Farid Babaev, head of "Yabloko" Branch in Dagestan, detained

  Today, Nizam Radzhabov, senior assistant for public relations of the head of the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, has officially confirmed the fact of detention of the persons suspected of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan Branch of the "Yabloko" Party.