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December 05, 2007 08:59

• Union of Right-Wing Forces: Electoral Commission of North Ossetia falsifies election totals

  The Union of Right-Wing Forces Party in North Ossetia has stated that all the ballot papers were taken away to the districts of the Republic, and the votes were tabulated there, not at the Central Electoral Commission.

December 05, 2007 08:55

• Correspondent of Radio Liberty released in Azerbaijan

  The authorities of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan have released Ilgar Nasibov, a reporter of Radio Liberty.

December 05, 2007 08:51

• Militiamen sentenced to three years in colony for torturing teenagers in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has sentenced employees of District Interior Unit M. Mashezov and M. Baichekuev, accused of tortures, to three years of imprisonment with serving the punishment at the general custody colony.

December 05, 2007 08:47

• North Ossetia: relatives of the woman knocked down by ATC accuse Prosecutor's Office of inaction

  Relatives of Aishat Pogorova who was knocked down to death by an armoured troop-carrier of federal troops in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia have stated that the Prosecutor's Office is reluctantly investigating the death of the woman.

December 05, 2007 08:43

• Oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" suspended

  The operation of the Internet site "Ingushetia.Ru" has been temporarily suspended. The owner of site Magomed Evloev has fulfilled his father's will and closed the website.

December 04, 2007 20:40

• Court of North Ossetia postpones decision on re-registration of "Voice of Beslan"

  Today, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has again postponed making decision on re-registration of the committee named "Voice of Beslan" - this time because of the absence of the new chairperson of the committee.

December 04, 2007 20:37

• Ingushetian public demand that Ingushetia.Ru continue

  Representatives of the public of Ingushetia are going to visit Yakhya Evloev, father of Magomed Evloev, and ask him not to stop the web portal Ingushetia.Ru.

December 04, 2007 20:27

• Experts: election results will not be challenged in Chechnya

  "Despite all doubtfulness of the voting outcomes (according to data disseminated by the Chechen Central Electoral Commission, the voter turnout was almost 100 percent, and 99 percent of the electorate have supported the "Yedinaya Rossiya"), the leaders of the branches of other Russian political parties in Chechnya will not dare to confront the "Yedinaya Rossiya"."

December 04, 2007 20:22

• CPRF members in Dagestan are sure that elections were falsified

  Over a hundred members of the Communist Parties of the Russian Federation have rallied in the Rodopy Boulevard of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, to protest against falsifications at the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

December 04, 2007 20:12

• Barsegyan: Armenian authorities persecute the "Gala" TV Company for broadcasting Ter-Petrosyan

  The tax audits held in the "Gala" TV Company and other steps of the authorities of Armenia against the Company have been provoked by electoral processes, in particular, by broadcasting of the Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first President of Armenia.

December 03, 2007 11:36

• Azerbaijani human rights activists expect pardon to convicted journalists

  In Azerbaijan, human rights activists do not exclude that a new pardon decree will be passed Azerbaijan and cover, in particular, the convicted journalists.

December 03, 2007 11:31

• Militiamen accused of torture refuse to plead guilty in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, at the Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria the accused militiamen M. Mashezov and M. Baichekuev have presented their last plea. The militiamen charged with beating two teenagers and using torture to them, have refused to plead guilty and asked the court to acquit them.

December 03, 2007 11:28

• CPRF and SPS state mass falsifications at elections in Dagestan

  Representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) assert that the electoral campaign and elections in Dagestan were accompanied by mass violations and falsifications in favour of the party in power committed by state servants.

December 03, 2007 11:15

• Correspondent of Radio Liberty arrested in Azerbaijan

  Ilgar Nasibov, a regional correspondent of Radio Liberty, was arrested today in the city of Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan).

December 03, 2007 11:11

• Local observers assert high voter turnout in Chechnya to be a gerrymander

  The voter turnout of 99.21 percent on December 2, announced by the Chechen Electoral Commission, is hardly real. However, the outcome of this sort could be anticipated.

December 03, 2007 11:03

• Opposition accuses Georgian authorities of political terror

  Leader of the "People's Party" Koba Davitashvili thinks that ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has declared war to his political opponents.

December 01, 2007 12:40

• No foreign observers to watch elections in Chechnya and Ingushetia

  On December 2, 2007, Russia will hold elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Along with elections to the State Duma, Chechnya will also hold a referendum on making changes in the Constitution of the Chechen Republic. It is planned to increase the terms in office of the President of Chechnya and Parliamentarians from four to five years and to make the Chechen Parliament one-chambered.

December 01, 2007 12:35

• Prosecutor's Office of the Crimea estimates an $898-million worth damage from spilled mazut in the Kerch Strait

  According to preliminary data, the damage from the spillage of mazut (black oil) as a result of the shipwreck of Russian tanker "Volganeft-139" in the Kerch Strait can reach $898 million. Currently, the content of petroleum products in the Kerch Strait is extremely high - the exposure limit has been exceeded by 50 times.

December 01, 2007 12:30

• Facts of children's rights violations revealed in Rostov Region

  In the city of Belaya Kalitva, Rostov Region, the prosecutor's office have detected the facts of violation of children's rights, namely, non-provision of free-of-charge medicines to children under 3 years old.

November 30, 2007 11:34

• Dagestan: advocate of arrested deputy candidate Nukhov appeals against his arrest

  On November 29, Suleiman Azuev, advocate of Nukh Nukhov, candidate for the head of the Municipal Formation (MF) "Dakhadaev District", appealed against the statement of the Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala on his client's arrest at the Supreme Court of Dagestan.