By empty (11/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Georgia law enforcement bodies arrested another official on corruption charges. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, chair of sakrebulo (local parliament) in Pirveli village of Zestafon District (Georgia) Alexander Chulukhadze was detained; financial police accused him of financial fraud. According to the investigation, he abused power and within two years had been producing and applying falsified invoices; as a result of his activity the damage to the country was estimated as 10,000 lari.

By empty (11/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The detention of the compensation payment committee\'s secretary Sultan Isakov is politically motivated and aimed at undermining the reputation of the Chechen authorities, the republic\'s Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told a meeting with senior officers of law enforcement services on Friday. \"My impression is that this detention came as a kind of political action aimed at discrediting the republic\'s authorities. The situation with Isakov\'s detention is a political order.

By empty (11/16/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Businessmen in Kyrgyzstan have welcomed a new law making it legal for them to use weapons to defend their property. However, there are a number of grey areas in the law which NBCentralAsia commentators say need to be defined more clearly – including what actually constitutes property, and what the police and courts should do when a violent incident takes place. On November 14, the Kyrgyz parliament passed a bill amending current criminal and civil legislation to allow individuals to defend their property to the extent that is reasonable, and to use firearms as long as they have a gun license.