Georgia: supporters of Gachechiladze and Gamkrelidze complain of attacks January 04, 2008 12:21 Today in Georgia several incidents took place against supporters of oppositional candidates for President of Georgia.
Residents of Chechnya are most frequent refuge applicants in Belgium January 03, 2008 13:02 Thirteen percent of total applicants for political asylum in Belgium are residents of Chechnya.
Novorossisk denies 7 casualties in the Azov Sea January 03, 2008 12:57 According to the Marine Rescue Centre of Novorossisk, they found bodies of four, not of seven, out of the eleven seamen from the Bulgarian dry-cargo ship "Vanessa" that has sunk today in the Kerch Strait.
KGB (USSR State Security Committee) archives declassified in Kabardino-Balkaria January 03, 2008 12:49 A collection of documents and materials entitled "State Security Bodies and Society. 1920-1992" is published in Kabardino-Balkaria.
Scandal in children's home in Volgograd Region: Children Ombudsperson's comments January 02, 2008 15:42 Nina Boldyreva, Children Ombudsperson for the Volgograd Region, thinks that violations of the rights of orphans in children's homes will continue until the very principle of organizing such establishments is changed.
Diter Boden: using OSCE guidelines, Georgia can hold free elections January 02, 2008 15:35 The responsiveness of the Georgian party to recommendations of the Observation Mission of the Office of Democratic Institutes and Human Rights of the OSCE for elections in Georgia will ultimately allow holding fair elections in this country, Mission Head Diter Boden states.
Over 1000 foreign observers intend to monitor elections in Georgia January 02, 2008 15:26 The monitoring of the forthcoming elections in Georgia will be conducted by more than 1000 foreigners - representatives of the OSCE, EU (European Union), Council of Europe, CIS, as well as from countries of Europe, America and Asia.
Georgian NGOs state violations in pre-election campaign December 29, 2007 13:29 Representatives of the non-government sector of Georgia have submitted reports on violations in the course of pre-election campaign at the press-conference held at the joint media center.
Human rights activists in Azerbaijan threaten to withdraw from Working Group on Political Prisoners December 29, 2007 13:25 An incomplete list of pardoned journalists has brought about a statement of certain human rights activists on their withdrawal from the Working Group on Political Prisoners.
Pardoned journalists released in Azerbaijan December 29, 2007 13:13 In connection with the act of pardon published on December 28 by Ilkham Aliev, more than 100 prisoners have been released from prisons today. There are mass media representatives among them: Samir Sadagatoglu, Rafik Tagi, Yashar Agazade, Rovshan Kiabirli and Faramaz Allakhverdiev.
Opposition meeting over in Georgian capital December 29, 2007 12:54 A many-thousand people action of protest of the united people's movement headed by the united opposition in the capital of Georgia is over. The meeting organizers have stated that the aim of the action is to demand that the authorities should refrain from election falsification.
Draft law "On Education" adopted in first reading in Azerbaijan December 29, 2007 12:32 Yesterday, on December 28, the Azeri parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law "On Education". However, despite this fact, Milli Medzhlis has failed to withdraw from the draft law the provision prohibiting the wearing of headscarves at educational establishments.
Mass disorders start in Dagestan capital due to power failure December 29, 2007 11:08 A meeting of protest is going on in Makhachkala against power failure.
Criminal case of Nukh Nukhov sent to court in Dagestan December 28, 2007 15:33 The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has approved the indictment on the criminal case in relation to Nukh Nukhov, former candidate to the position of the head of the administration of the Dakhadaev District.
Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria tries to prove judicially illegality of block-posts December 28, 2007 15:26 Ilyas Timishev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has applied to the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow with a demand to recognize the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of setting up block-posts in Northern Caucasus to be illegal.
150 residents of Chechnya in inhuman conditions wait for political shelter in France December 28, 2007 15:19 For the fourth day already, at the Paris airport, 150 applicants for refuge from Chechnya stay in the conditions not fit for residence of such a large group of people for so long.
Over three thousand land plots can be confiscated for objects of Sochi Olympiad December 28, 2007 15:04 More than three thousand land plots can be alienated in the Krasnodar Territory for building the objects of the future Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.
Director of children's home accused of sexual abuse in Volgograd Region December 28, 2007 14:46 A criminal case has been initiated in the Volgograd Region against director of the State Educational Establishment "Rudnyanskiy Children's Home" on the facts of his sexual harassment of minor pupils of the establishment.
28 illegal migrants from Chechnya detained in the Polish-Czech border December 27, 2007 17:52 28 Chechens have been detained in Poland in the Warsaw-Vienna "Polonia" international express train; they tried to illegally cross the Czech border.
Rabbi's house attacked in Derbent, Dagestan December 27, 2007 17:49 Today at night unknown persons have thrown stones over the house of Ovadiya Isakov, Rabbi of the city of Derbent. In the context of recent frequent attacks on representatives of the Jewish community of Dagestan, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has published a special statement.