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April 02, 2013 18:15

• In Baku, police disperse IDPs' protest action

  Today, the police have stopped a protest action held in Baku by internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Hostel No. 5 of the Baku State University.

April 02, 2013 17:00

• Azerbaijan: action against the arrests of young opposition activists postponed

  The protest action against arrests of activists of youth organizations, scheduled for April 12 in Baku, has been postponed indefinitely, said its organizer, the editor-in-chief of "Azadlyg" Ganimat Zakhid.

April 02, 2013 15:00

• NCFU students-participants in scrimmage in Stavropol expelled

  12 students of the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU), who took part in a mass brawl in Stavropol, have been expelled.

April 02, 2013 14:00

• Head of Proshyan village found dead in Armenia

  Grach Muradyan, the head of the village of Proshyan, the Kotaik Region of Armenia, was found dead. According to the police, he was killed because of his professional activities.

April 02, 2013 13:00

• Ingush authorities associate information about officials' paying militants with elections

  Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma Deputy from Chechnya, has sent a request to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking to check the information about payment of large sums of money to the armed underground by the head of the Ingush government, as it was stated on air of Channel One by the surrendered militant Ibragim Torzhkhoev. In Ingushetia, the situation was treated as a provocation on the eve of the presidential election in the republic.

April 02, 2013 12:00

• Case about fight at SC "Evropeisky" to be considered with jury

  Olga Nikolenko, Judge of the Moscow City Court (MCC), has decided to hear the criminal case about the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" in Moscow with participation of a jury.

April 02, 2013 11:00

• Armenian MoD: Azerbaijan pulled machinery and special fighters to the border

  Azerbaijan has pulled up some military equipment and a special unit closer to certain sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, said Artsrun Ovannisyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

April 01, 2013 23:00

• Akhmed Dodov: more than thousand families in flooding zone in Malgobek

  A rise of the ground water in the eastern part of the Ingush city of Malgobek has caused flooding of the area inhabited by over a thousand families, said Akhmed Dodov, the head of the city administration.

April 01, 2013 22:00

• Return of "Borjomi" to Russia delayed because of new check

  The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) will re-check the quality of the Georgian mineral water "Borjomi", the producers of which are going to resume their exports to the Russian market, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency.

April 01, 2013 21:00

• "Nida" activist Zaur Gurbanly arrested in Azerbaijan

  Today, in Baku, the police have arrested Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the movement "Nida". By decision of the Nasimi District Court the activist was arrested for three months.

April 01, 2013 19:00

• Dagestan: investigator is suspected of contract murders

  Magomed Akhmedov, an investigator of the Kirov District of Makhachkala, was detained on suspicion of committing several contract murders, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

April 01, 2013 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, Nardaran residents demand to release theologian Bagirzade

  Today, residents of the village of Nardaran in Azerbaijan have held a protest in demand of release of theologian Talekh Bagirzade and other believers, arrested for taking part in actions in defence of citizens' religious rights.

April 01, 2013 16:00

• The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf in Azerbaijan granted in part

  The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf producing oil drilling platforms in Azerbaijan who on March, 18, went on a strike demanding higher wages, benefit packages and solution of a number of other problems were granted in part.

April 01, 2013 15:00

• 23 persons delivered to the police during a mass scuffle in Stavropol

  On March, 1, 23 persons were delivered to the police department during a mass scuffle with the use of traumatic arms in Stavropol. Administrative protocols were drawn up concerning 17 of them, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Stavropol region reports.

April 01, 2013 13:00

• Head of Chechnya suggested to restrict exit from the territory of the country for high-ranking officials

  Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov suggested to restrict exit from the territory of the country for the officials who have access to secret information.

April 01, 2013 12:00

• An assault at “Anzhi” fans from Dagestan committed in Krasnodar

  After the match “Krasnodar” - “Anzhi” on March, 31, about 70 people assaulted seven fans of the Dagestani club. There are injured persons, one was hospitalized, leaders of “Anzhi” fans association “Dikaya Divizia” (“Wild Division”) report.

April 01, 2013 11:00

• Residents of Untsukul ask Abdulatipov to take control over investigation of Magomedaliev’s murder during a special operation in Semender

  Residents of the settlement of Untsukul, Dagestan, submitted a multi-authored appeal to Ramazan Abdulatipov acting as President of Dagestan asking him to respond to a special operation in the settlement of Semender during which seven persons were killed, among them Magomedhabib Magomedaliev, Chairman of Untsukul district Assembly.

April 01, 2013 10:00

• Eight persons got injured in an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 25, till March, 31

  No less than eight persons got injured in an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March, 25, till March, 31, 2013. Four out of them perished and three were wounded. This is the total of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 01, 2013 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 25-31

  Three years after terror acts in Moscow metro; mass checks of NPOs in Russia, including in country's south; military exercises in the area of Russian Black Sea shore; another round of Geneva Debates, where the parties failed to agree on a joint statement on non-use of force; adoption amendments to Constitution of Georgia and the first application for running for the presidency; ASF hotbeds in North Ossetia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 25-31, 2013, prepared by the "CaucasianKnot".

April 01, 2013 07:00

• Documentary "Memoirs Without Borders" presented in Tbilisi

  A joint documentary made by authors from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey "Memoirs Without Borders" dedicated to problems of the residents of Southern Caucasus, who had suffered from the Armenian Genocide and Karabakh conflict, was presented in Tbilisi.