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• Date: 07/06/2010

  Circassian representatives demand Russia an autonomous republic

  A congress held last weekend called for the split of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, where Circassians are a minority · Tension has been mounting in the last months due to clashes between Karachais and Circassians.

• Date: 03/06/2010

  EU and civil organizations warn against violations of human rights in Russia

  

  Reporters and activists are the main victims of violence in the Federation, particularly in the Caucasus republics · Dozens of organizations, Amnesty International among them, asked Brussels to put pressure on Moscow during the bilateral summit of May 31.

• Date: 03/06/2010

  Independentism sprouts as a third way in Sardinia’s political arena

  

  Independence Republic of Sardinia (IRS) wins a town council and gets seats in three provincial councils · The emergence of Gavino Sale’s party coincides with the rise of a new pro-sovereignty party, the Rossomori, which obtains 2 seats in Campidanu de Mesu · The historical Sardinian Action Party maintains its political backing and gets twice the support in Nùgoro · The pro-Sardinian vote doubles in L'Alguer

• Date: 01/06/2010

  Raid against Gaza aid ships holds back peace in the Middle East

  Netanyahu cancels the meeting with Obama · The army of Israel kills 2 Palestinians in a Gaza incursion · The international community raises its voice against the attacks but sanctions are not envisaged · Turkey strongly condemns raids

• Date: 26/05/2010

  Galician civic organizations to appeal against decree on multilingualism

  

  A Mesa pola Normalización Lingüística and the CIG-Ensino trade union will take the measure to court · The decree, which is an initiative of Núñez Feijóo’s Galician autonomous government, was issued last week on the Galician Official Gazette (DOG) · The decree establishes the language of each subject in primary and secondary education, and allows parents to decide the main language of education within the classroom.

• Date: 19/05/2010

  Poll shows gap of only 4% between pro-independence supporters and unionists in Catalonia

  

  A poll entrusted to Noxa Institute by La Vanguardia newspaper shows an advance of pro-independence sentiment in the Principality of Catalonia, reaching an historic record of 37% compared to 41% of unionists · In 2008 a poll made by the same institute confirmed a breach of 14% between the two political stances.

• Date: 18/05/2010

  Dispute mounts between Hungary and Slovakia over Hungarian double citizenship plan

  

  The Hungarian government intends to give passport to Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian and Slovak citizens of Hungarian descent · Bratislava and Budapest have clashed in a number of occasions over the treatment of national minorities.

• Date: 14/05/2010

  Indigenous peoples and social organizations from Argentina head to Buenos Aires

  

  Three different columns are touring across the Argentinian territory from May 12 to 20 on the occasion of the bicentenary of the independence of Argentina · They call for a multinational state, a register of ancestral territories, official status for indigenous languages and protection for natural resources such as glaciers.

• Date: 13/05/2010

  Iran executes 4 Kurdish activists and another Iranian man

  

  They were accused of belonging to the PKK and the PJAK and therefore, 'enmity against God', an offence punished with the death penalty · Human rights organizations say the five were denied fair trail and were tortured and forced to 'confess' under duress · The state refused to return the dead bodies to the families.

• Date: 13/05/2010

  Mapuches outraged by Catalan university's honoris causa to Michelle Bachelet

  NEWS IN BRIEF. Mapuches remind that under Bachelet’s presidency there were severe acts of repression against Mapuches and several indigenous activists struggling for communal land were killed.