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May 21, 2013 10:31

• Officials of Mayor’s office of Batumi detained for accusation of misappropriation of stare funds

  On May, 20, chief of a department and two experts of Mayor’s office of Batumi, Georgia, were detained by Committee of Inquiry of the Ministry of Finance for accusation of misappropriation of state funds on an especially large scale and negligence.

May 20, 2013 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 13-19

  Start of hearing in Rostov-on-Don of the case of Ali Taziev, a leader of North-Caucasian militants; trial of officials in connection with flood in Krymsk; death in Afghanistan of three Georgian servicemen and actions in defence and against sexual minorities in Tbilisi; self-explosion of a suspected militant in Ingushetia; pupils in Chechnya get poisoned with some unknown substance, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of May 13-19, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot.

May 20, 2013 22:40

• Arbitration Court of Chechnya rejects tax inspectorate's claim to collect tax arrears from the "Union of NGOs"

  The Tax Inspectorate cannot claim to recover the arrears from the "Union of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)"; the decision was handed down today by the Arbitration Court of the Chechen Republic.

May 20, 2013 22:30

• Security Council of Ingushetia: 13 power agents wounded in suicide explosion in Ordzhonikidzevskya

  According to updated information, in Ingushetia as a result of self-explosion committed by Said-Hussein Atnazov in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, 13 law enforcers were injured. They were delivered to the Sunzha Central Republic's Hospital, the office of the Security Council has informed.

May 20, 2013 22:20

• In Stavropol, figurant in case of death of young men in pressure chamber sentenced to two years of freedom restriction

  The court has found Vladimir Poltarabatsko, a doctor of the Children Clinical Hospital of the Stavropol Territory, guilty of the death of a patient in a hyperbaric chamber, and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment, the ICRF reports today.

May 20, 2013 22:10

• Aircraft of Russia's MfE comes to Makhachkala to pick up terror act victims

  An IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has flown from Moscow to Dagestan to evacuate the victims of two blasts triggered in Makhachkala.

May 20, 2013 22:00

• Protesters against ban on hijabs convicted in Baku

  Today, the Nariman District Court of Baku has announced the verdict to a group of believers, who were arrested in connection with the protest action on October 5, 2012, in front of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan. The court sentenced the believers to prison terms ranging from one and a half to two years.

May 20, 2013 22:00

• MIA: suspect of spraying gas in school of Grozny established

  The police have established the identity of the infringer, involved in poisoning the pupils of School No. 17 of Grozny. It appeared to be a pupil of the same school, said the press service of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

May 20, 2013 21:00

• Azerbaijani writer Khalida Khalid and her assistant released in Iran

  The citizen of Azerbaijan, a writer Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Guseinov have been Release from detention in Iran, said Mohsen Pakayin, the Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan.

May 20, 2013 20:00

• In Volgograd, 15 people demand from media to cover positive trends in Russia

  On May 18, in Lenin Square of Volgograd, 15 people held a protest "against false media."

May 20, 2013 19:00

• Buynaksk residents report on spread of leaflets with threats to militants' relatives

  From mid-April in the Dagestani city of Buynaksk, unidentified persons have been distributing leaflets with threats addressed to militants' relatives, the locals report. The City Police say they know nothing about the leaflets.

May 20, 2013 18:00

• Refugees in Zugdidi stop hunger strike

  The refugees from Abkhazia, who held their hunger strike outside the office of the Department for Refugees in Zugdidi, have stopped their protest, having received the authorities' promise to provide housing.

May 20, 2013 17:00

• Gasanov arrested for two months

  A resident of Buynaksk Gadjimurad Gasanov, whose kidnapping was earlier reported by eyewitnesses, was arrested for two months at the request of the investigating authorities of Dagestan on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons. His relatives state the presence of traces of beatings on his body.

May 20, 2013 16:00

• Volgograd: trainee suspected of beating soldier to be expelled from MIA's Academy

  Kamil Alikperov, 18, a trainee of the Volgograd Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), suspected of beating a 23-year-old regular soldier, will be expelled from the Academy, said a source from the training institution.

May 18, 2013 23:00

• Sergey Minasyan: Eurovision is a political project in post-Soviet space

  Armenia lacks political weight to ever win the Eurovision Song Contest, local political analysts believe. In any case, Armenia will never win the first place, because the country is not ready to host this contest, local economists add.

May 18, 2013 22:00

• CTO regime introduced in Elbrus District of Kabardino-Balkaria

  A part of the Elbrus District of Kabardino-Balkaria is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, a source from the republic's operative headquarters has reported.

May 18, 2013 21:00

• Hundreds of supporters and opponents of gay parades flood Tbilisi streets

  The actions of supporters and opponents of the gay parades, held today in front of the Georgian government, have gathered a few hundred people.

May 18, 2013 20:00

• Armenia: relatives of lost soldier force Minister of Defence to meet them

  Today, Seiran Oganyan, Minister of Defence, is meeting the parents of the deceased regular soldier Lux Stepanyan, who had tried to bring their son's body to Yerevan and take part in the protest action.

May 18, 2013 19:00

• In Ingushetia, investigators question the owner of the house where Atnazov blew himself up

  As reported by Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council, today the opening of a criminal case against Akhmad Khashiev, in whose house Said-Hussein Atnazov blew himself up, will be decided.

May 18, 2013 18:00

• Deschitsa: relatives of missing citizens of South Ossetia to meet Georgia's General Public Prosecutor

  An agreement has been reached with Georgian authorities that in late May relatives of the missing citizens of South Ossetia will meet the General Public Prosecutor of Georgia. This was reported at a meeting in Tskhinvali by Andriy Deschitsa, the OSCE co-chairman of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia.