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January 30, 2008 13:29

• Court cancels the verdict to the student from Adygea who put an execution video clip on Internet

  The verdict of the Maikop City Court in relation to student Victor Milkov, who placed on the Internet a video clip showing a murder scene of natives from Caucasus and Central Asia, was cancelled by the Criminal Panel of the Supreme Court of Adygea for "lenient penalty."

January 30, 2008 13:27

• Five persons accused of Cherkizovo marketplace explosion plead guilty

  Five out of eight defendants in the case related to explosion in Moscow's Cherkizovo marketplace on August 21, 2006, where 11 persons were lost, have partially pled guilty.

January 30, 2008 13:22

• Georgian ex-Minister Irakliy Okruashvili released

  Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia, has been released from custody under his advocates' guarantee.

January 29, 2008 12:42

• Chechen woman whose children were lost in the mountains will get an apartment in Poland

  The authorities of the Polish city of Olsztyn have agreed to provide social habitation to the Dzhabrailov family from Chechnya, which has lost their three daughters in the mountains, when attempting to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Polish border.

January 29, 2008 12:39

• George Bush: election in Georgia is an event in the history of freedom

  In his final annual message to the Congress, US President George Bush has noted the success of the election in Georgia and treated it among "the tremendous events in the history of freedom."

January 29, 2008 12:32

• Candidates-losers at Georgian presidential election put forward an ultimatum to the authorities

  The oppositional candidates for the President of Georgia, who have lost the election on January 5, have put forward their 17 claims to the authorities in the form of an ultimatum, and appointed the deadline on February 15, threatening with mass protest actions.

January 29, 2008 12:28

• PACE can appoint a new Rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  The authorities of Azerbaijan will have to release all political prisoners and journalists. Should the demand of the PACE be ignored, the Council of Europe will announce the name of a new Special Rapporteur on the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

January 29, 2008 12:23

• Militia fines participants of rally in Nazran, Ingushetia

  On January 26, some 50 persons were brought to the city's OVD on suspicion of participation in the mass disorders, which burst out in the centre of Nazran; of them, 19 were brought to administrative responsibility in the form of fines.

January 29, 2008 12:19

• Irakliy Okruashvili's case will be considered by French Court on January 30

  On January 30, the French Court will start considering the case of Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia, who is kept in a Paris prison.

January 29, 2008 12:12

• Azerbaijan: journalist Zakhidov continues his hunger strike

  In Azerbaijan, Sakit Zakhidov, journalist-satirist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who was convicted and now in prison, continues his protest hunger strike started on January 26.

January 28, 2008 11:00

• Imam murder trial starts in the Supreme court of Dagestan

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan has started a trial on the case about the murder of Dagir Kachaev, imam in one of Makhachkala mosques, who was shot dead on February 22, 2007.

January 28, 2008 10:57

• Ombudsman: Volgograd militia illegally stops criminal cases

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, has expressed, while assessing the operation of the Regional GUVD in 2007, his concern with the fact that the number of justified claims of Volgograd residents to the activities of law enforcement bodies does not go down.

January 28, 2008 10:54

• Discord remains high-pitched on Sochi Olympic construction

  The roundtable "Environmental Problems in Construction of Olympic Sites in Sochi - Ways of Settlement" held on January 23 in the most expensive Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) "Peak Hotel" had a number of acute issues.

January 28, 2008 10:51

• Board of Elders of Balkar People appeals against decision of Kabardino-Balkaria's SC to the RF Supreme Court

  The Board of Elders of the Balkar People has filed a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which challenges the lawfulness of the decision to liquidate the BEBP passed by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on January 14.

January 28, 2008 10:47

• Human Rights Watch: indignant with detention of journalists and human rights activists in Ingushetia

  The Human Rights Watch believes the detention of journalists and human rights activists during the rally in Nazran (Ingushetia) on January 26 to be an encroachment on independent coverage of events.

January 26, 2008 13:13

• New rally in Ingushetia to be held on February 23

  A decision was made in Nazran (Ingushetia) at an extraordinary sitting of the Organizing Committee of the nationwide rally, where Maksharip Aushev, Magomed Evloev and other opposition leaders were present, to hold another rally on February 23.

January 26, 2008 13:09

• Over 20 persons detained on suspicion of taking part in mass disorders in Ingushetia

  According to the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic Ingushetia, currently, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic keep detained over 20 persons suspected of involvement in mass disorders in Nazran.

January 26, 2008 13:07

• Prosecutor's Office of Georgia not to arrest the license of the "Imedi" TV Company

  According to Nikoloz Gvaramiya, former Deputy Public Prosecutor of Georgia, the broadcasting license of the "Imedi" TV Company will not be arrested; the arrest will be imposed only on the property of Badri Patarkatsishvili.

January 26, 2008 13:05

• US Congress to consider a resolution condemning Hrant Dink's murder

  In the near future, the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress will consider Resolution No. 102, which condemns the murder of Hrant Dink, evaluates his heritage and calls on Turkey to step towards defence of the freedom of speech by liquidating Article 301.

January 26, 2008 13:01

• 35 terror acts accomplished in SFD last year

  In 2007, 630 crimes of terrorist nature were committed in the South Federal District (SFD) - 83 percent of the total number committed all over Russia.