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Mar 09 2010, 22:20
Claim of Novorossisk UVD head to Dymovskiy and Karastelyov to be considered on March 23
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Today, the Primorskiy District Court of Novorossisk has obliged the city UVD (Interior Department) bosses to present the proofs of the fact that it was personally Major Alexei Dymovskiy who had placed a video appeal in the Internet with criticism of the situation in law enforcement bodies. Today, also the date was appointed for consideration of the suit of the head of the UVD to human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov.
Krasnodar region, South Federal District
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Mar 09 2010, 23:00
Rally in support of Fatima Margieva held in Vladikavkaz
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On March 8, in North Ossetia, the committee for release of the teacher of the South-Ossetian State University Fatima Margieva held a sanctioned rally. The protesters gathered in the Theatre Square of Vladikavkaz with a demand to stop criminal prosecution of Margieva.
South Osetia, North-Caucasian Federal District, North Osetia - Alania
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BERG...man. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version :
NATO exercises of in Vasiani and Putin's revelations on Georgian democracy.
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BERG...man. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version :
The Patriarchy interferes and calls; it was all clear with it long ago! Misha, having released the detainees; this test has failed, and it's my great, GREAT! pity:-(
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Gorgud, Azerbaijan, Baku. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version :
Will they really succeed? Azerbaijan can do without imprisoning journalists
Mar 09 2010, 23:30
ODIHR: trials on March 1, 2008, events revealed imperfections of Armenian judiciary
| The succession of litigations in the aftermath of the post-election violence that burst out in March 2008 in Yerevan has revealed deficiencies of the judicial system of Armenia. This is stated in the report of the Office of Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe). |
Mar 09 2010, 22:50
Lebedev: UN Special Representative's report on his visit to South Ossetia is lopsided and biased
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The Russian delegation labelled as politicized the report of Walter Kelin, Special Representative of Secretary General of the United Nations on Internally Displaced Persons' Rights, which summed up his visit to South Ossetia. The report was presented on March 8 at the 13th Session of the United Nations on Human Rights (HRS) held in Switzerland. In the opinion of Mikhail Lebedev, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Branch and other international organizations in Geneva, the report is lopsided, biased and contains factual mistakes.
South Osetia, Russia, Georgia
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Mar 09 2010, 23:20
In April, ECtHR to consider Sandro Girgvliani's murder in Georgia
| On April 27, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will consider the case about the murder in Georgia in 2005 of a bank employee Sandro Girgvliani. |
Mar 09 2010, 23:10
Protest action against resolution on Armenians' genocide held at the US embassy in Baku
| On Monday, March 8, in Baku, a protest action was held in front of the US embassy in the context of the approval on March 4 by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the House of Representatives of the US Congress of draft resolution on Armenians' genocide. |
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