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October 18, 2006 22:20

• Authorities of Ingushetia try to close NGO "Mashr"

  A notification on holding on October 16 a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia), which was violently dispersed by militia, was submitted to the city's administration by the "Mashr" Republic's Association of Relatives of Missing Persons on October 12.

October 17, 2006 23:05

• Trial on Kaitov's case is over in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

  Today, the Supreme Court of the Karachayevo-Cherkessian Republic held another regular session on the criminal case of Ali Kaitov et al., accused of murdering seven citizens of the Republic.

October 17, 2006 21:28

• Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA): the attackers on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria have ties with foreign special agencies

  Arkady Edelev, Deputy Minister of the Russian MIA, declared that Anzor Astemirov, one of the organizers of militants' attack on Nalchik last October, was associated with special services of foreign countries.

October 17, 2006 21:26

• Georgia demands decent treatment of deportees

  Tengiz Togonidze, 58, one of Georgian citizens deported from St. Petersburg, died of an asthma attack in the morning of October 17 straight in the Domodedovo Airport.

October 17, 2006 21:23

• "Memorial": 1948 persons kidnapped and missing in Chechnya after 2002

  Chechnya is reducing the count of kidnapped people, but the problem is still pressing, Russian human rights activists are asserting.

October 17, 2006 18:44

• In Ingushetia, ladies-participants in dispersed picket in Politkovskaya's memory were fined

  Three women, ordinary participants of the action in Nazran (Ingushetia), held in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, and collaborators of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," namely, Fatima Yandieva, Zoya Muradova and Zarema Mukusheva, were awarded yesterday for "breaching the established order of holding a picket" with a 500-rouble fine each.

October 16, 2006 22:53

• When dispersing the picket in memory of Politkovskaya, Ingushetian militiamen have cruelly beaten a lady-collaborator of the HRC "Memorial"

  In the course of dispersing the picket held in memory of deceased Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia), the members of power agencies detained three participants of the action. Another lady-picketer was taken to hospital.

October 16, 2006 22:15

• Two detained and one beaten in Ingushetia at dispersing a picket in memory of Politkovskaya

  Today, at about 3:30 p.m., members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia moved to the venue of a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia).

October 16, 2006 22:10

• No NATO's plans to send peacekeepers to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  NATO is not planning to move its peacekeepers into the conflict zones of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Raymond Enot, chairman of the NATO's Military Committee asserted.

October 16, 2006 22:06

• Anna Politkovskaya's daughter is under constant guard

  The daughter of Anna Politkovskaya, the murdered "Novaya Cazeta's" journalist, is under constant guard.

October 16, 2006 22:03

• Registration of NCOs will continue after the re-registration deadline

  Registration of foreign-based non-commercial organizations (NCOs) will continue after expiry of the final term for re-registration, Natalia Vishnyakova, Director of the Department for Control, Organization and Audit of the Ministry of Justice, told the press conference.

October 15, 2006 01:35

• The need to recognize genocide of Armenians gets ever wider support in the world

  The decision of the French National Congress has been welcomed by Vardan Oskanian, minister of foreign affairs of Armenia.

October 14, 2006 20:47

• Russia and Armenia signed two protocols on interaction in fighting international terrorism

  The management of Russian FSS and Armenian National Security Service have signed two new protocols on combating terrorism in Yessentuki (Stavropol krai) today.

October 14, 2006 20:38

• Activity of foreign radio stations may be suspended in Azerbaijan

  The National Council on TV and Radio (NCTVR) of Azerbaijan has adopted a decision to the effect that radio stations "Freedom", BBC and "Voice of America" and TV station "Voice of America" are re-broadcast by certain broadcasters in Azerbaijan without appropriate contracts, which is illegal.

October 14, 2006 20:12

• Works of Orkhan Pamuk little known in Armenia

  "Unfortunately, almost no one knows the works of Orkhan Pamuk here." This has been stated by Nelson Shakhnazarian, expert of the "Noravank" scientific and cultural foundation, commenting, upon the request of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, on the attitude of the Armenian public to the issue of granting Orkhan Pamuk, well-known Turkish writer, the 2006 Nobel prize in literature.

October 14, 2006 20:08

• French parliament decision will not affect implementation of railway project, as considered in Azerbaijan

  The decision of the French parliament on the genocide of Armenia will not affect the implementation of the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway construction, noted Arif Askerov, chief of the State Railway Directorate of Azerbaijan.

October 14, 2006 00:14

• Abortive meeting of MSC in North Ossetia

  No concrete constructive results have been reached in the course of the second round of the 51st meeting of the Mixed Supervisory Commission on settling the Georgia-Ossetia conflict.

October 14, 2006 00:11

• US embassy in Moscow refused visa to head of Abkhazia MFA

  The US embassy in Moscow has refused an entry visa to Sergei Shamba, MFA head of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia. According to Shamba, he was going to New-York in order to attend the discussion in the UN Security Council of the SC resolution on Georgia.

October 13, 2006 21:56

• Russian-Chechen friendship society closed

  On Friday, the Nizhni Novgorod town court liquidated the human rights organization "Russian-Chechen friendship society".

October 13, 2006 21:44

• Anniversary of mutiny in Nalchik: versions of the events greatly differ

  On October 13, 2005, at 9 a.m. sharp, 13 targets were simultaneously attacked in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria: KBR MIA, RF FSS Directorate for KBR, Nalchik departments 1,2,3 of internal affairs, Center "Т", Nalchick border guards, federal tax service directorate for KBR, KBR MIA riot militia squad, KBR MIA patrol militia, a traffic militia post, and two shops selling ammunition.