TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s main opposition coalition vowed to bring about 100,000 people on to the streets of the capital on Wednesday to protest against the parliamentary election which it says is being rigged by the authorities.
Read More »Radio Liberty says Kazakhstan blocking its website
ALMATY (Reuters) – Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has accused Kazakhstan of blocking access to its website which it said was deliberate interference in its news reporting.
Read More »TIMELINE: Events leading to Georgia’s election
(Reuters) – Here is a chronology of events leading to a parliamentary election in Georgia on Wednesday: November 2, 2007 – Up to 70,000 people demanding early elections protest against President Mikheil Saakashvili in the biggest show of unrest since a peaceful revolution swept him to power four years earlier.
Read More »FACTBOX: Georgian parliamentary election: rules and parties
(Reuters) – Georgia is holding a parliamentary election on Wednesday. Here are some details about the voting and the major parties: ELECTORATE – About 3.5 million eligible voters.
Read More »Russia-Georgia tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia independence
Even as a new president taking over the Kremlin reigns, long-standing tensions between Russia and Georgia over breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in Georgia have flared dangerously recent days with each country accusing the other of provocative actions that risk war.
Read More »‘Mosque’ raid drill irks Muslims in U.S.
American Muslim civil rights groups have denounced an exercise by US security officials in which a place designated as a ‘mosque’ was stormed in Irving.
Read More »Russia prepares for lengthy battle over Ukraine
Russia’s pro-Kremlin mass media lauded the recent NATO decision in Bucharest to delay issuing Membership Action Plans (MAPs) to Ukraine and Georgia, hailing it as a victory for departing President Vladimir Putin.
Read More »Mujahideen inflict sabotage strikes on kuffar and murtadin
A source inside the command of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate has reported that on 6 Jumada Al-‘Awwal 1429 (11 May 2008), sabotage squad of Mujahideen of one of the units under command Amir Muslim ambushed kuffar forces in the district of village Eshelhatoi of the Vedeno district of …
Read More »Murtadin checkpoint attacked in Ichkeria
Russian occupation sources reported that on the night of 10 Jumada Al-‘Awwal 1429 (15 May 2008) a checkpoint of the murtadin was attacked near the settlement of Eha-Borze (Assinovskaya), Sunzhenskiy district of Wilayah Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate.
Read More »Three kafir and murtad eliminated in Ingushetia’s Pliyevo village
According to sources from Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, in afternoon of Jumada Al-‘Awwal 9, 1429 (14 May 2008), a mobile squad of Mujahideen attacked enemy checkpoint
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