Subari: Georgia has serious successes in fighting trafficking January 19, 2008 12:04 A meeting on trafficking problems was held in the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia.
European observers express remarks on Georgian election January 19, 2008 12:01 The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.
Mukhu Aliev: Makhachkala is in the state of emergency January 19, 2008 11:57 Today, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has held an emergency meeting on the critical situation with electricity and heat supplies to residents of Makhachkala.
European Parliament demands peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem January 19, 2008 11:51 The resolution of the European Parliament on South Caucasus' unsettled conflicts, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue inclusive, states that the conflicts should be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiations.
Every fourth Russia's resident thinks special agencies involved in murdering Politkovskaya and Litvinenko January 19, 2008 11:46 Every fourth resident of the Russian Federation is convinced that Russian special agencies were involved in the resonant murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.
Azerbaijani advocates complain to the European Court against the authorities January 18, 2008 11:35 Advocates Intigam Aliev and Annagi Gadzhibeili lodged a suit to the European Court for Human Rights against the Azerbaijani government.
On Saakashvili's inauguration day, the Georgia opposition to hold a rally at the hippodrome January 18, 2008 11:20 The United Opposition of Georgia plans to hold a rally on the day of inauguration of Mikhail Saakashvili, January 20, and calls the public to come to the hippodrome.
Krasnodar holds seminar "Public Control: Power and Society" January 18, 2008 10:47 In Krasnodar, Moscow and local human rights activists have discussed, in the course of the seminar "Public Control: Power and Society", organized by the Moscow "Demos" Centre, the civil supervision over the activities of law enforcement bodies.
Antimonopoly bodies of Dagestan bring electricity suppliers to responsibility January 18, 2008 10:33 The supervisory bodies, monopolists and the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "City Electric Power Grid" should be responsible for absence of electric power in dwelling districts of Makhachkala.
"Izvestia": Kaloev becomes deputy minister in North Ossetia January 18, 2008 10:28 Vitaly Kaloev, who was released in November 2007 from a Swiss prison, will be employed from Monday, January 21, at the civil service.
European Court: Russia to pay 110,000 euros for execution of Muscovites in Ingushetia January 17, 2008 14:20 The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.
European Court passes two decisions against Azerbaijan January 17, 2008 14:16 The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.
Kabardino-Balkaria: Nalchik SIZO inmates complain of oppressions against Moslems January 17, 2008 14:13 The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.
Court to consider early release of Stomakhin January 17, 2008 13:42 The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.
In Dagestan capital electricity supply breaks complicate the work of hospitals January 17, 2008 13:26 Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.
Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice ignores messages about tortures and extortions in colony January 17, 2008 13:11 Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.
Tbilisi Court refuses to cancel the election outcomes January 16, 2008 12:28 The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.
"Beslan Mothers": prosecution of "Voice of Beslan" can cause interethnic collisions January 16, 2008 12:05 The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".
In Chechnya power agents would not give out the body of murdered militant to his relatives January 16, 2008 11:58 Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.
"Memorial": closure of "Peacekeeping Centre" in Chechnya is politically motivated January 16, 2008 11:50 In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".