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November 16, 2012 15:00

• "Dagestani Airlines" owes 30 million roubles to its employees

  The salary debt of the "Dagestani Airlines" to its employees is 30 million, said Abdula Angutaev, the acting director general of the company.

November 16, 2012 14:00

• Budanov's murder to be tried by jury

  Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled that the case concerning the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov will be considered with participation of a jury. The selection of jurymen is scheduled for November 30; it will be made by the MCC.

November 16, 2012 13:00

• Boxers from Dagestan and Azerbaijan disqualified for brawl at students' world championship in Baku

  These days, the Sports Palace in Baku is housing the World Boxing Championship among students. The fight in the ring between a Russian Shigabuddin Aliev from Dagestan and an Azerbaijani boxer Teymur Mamedov ended in a scandal; they both were disqualified for a brawl.

November 16, 2012 11:00

• Villagers of Georgian Samtatskaro demand to open Georgian-Azerbaijani bridge

  Residents of the village of Samtatskaro, Dedoplistskaroy District of Georgia, located on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border, held an action demanding to open the bridge that connects the two countries.

November 16, 2012 08:14

• Georgia's Ministry of Culture has no plans to change the status of Museum of Soviet Occupation

  The Ministry of Culture and Protection of Monuments of Georgia has stated that will not revise the status or the name of the Museum of Soviet Occupation.

November 15, 2012 23:00

• In Armenia, about 300 students march in defence of their rights

  Today, Yerevan hosted a march of students, organized by the Students' Union of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) Dashnaktsutyun "Nikol Agbalyan". About 300 protesters demand from the government to revise tuition fees and provide social benefits.

November 15, 2012 22:00

• Case of Pavlyuchenkov accused of killing Anna Politkovskaya sent to court

  The case initiated against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former employee of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, who is accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been transferred to the court, the Russia's GPO (General Prosecutor's Office) reports.

November 15, 2012 21:00

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria holds picket in Moscow in support of Syrian Circassians

  Today, another solo picket was held in front of the building of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a demand to the authorities of the Russian Federation to organize an emergency evacuation of Syrian Circassians to their historic homeland.

November 15, 2012 19:00

• Tsapok's lawyer insists on new psychiatric examination of his client

  The defence of Sergey Tsapok, the alleged leader of the gang that committed the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, intends to seek for a repeated psychological-psychiatric examination of the defendant, said Igor Skripka, Tsapok's advocate.

November 15, 2012 18:00

• Prosecutor demands to re-qualify Mirzaev's accusation and release him

  Today, during the parties' debate, the prosecutor has asked to re-qualify the charge in the case of the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose punch a Moscow student Ivan Agafonov had died, to a softer one – "causing death by negligence", sentence the defendant to two years of freedom restraint and release him from custody.

November 15, 2012 17:00

• Armenia: defence of oppositionists accused of hooliganism prepare complaint to Cassation

  The advocates of the young activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) will appeal to the Court of Cassation to challenge the verdict of the Appeals Court, said Vage Grigoryan, the advocate of Tigran Arakelyan, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for hooliganism. ANC supporters believe that the accused oppositionists can become political prisoners.

November 15, 2012 16:00

• MFA: 103 Syrian repatriates returned to Abkhazia

  As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia, the republic has received 103 immigrants from Syria. The head of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab has ordered to pay a monthly allowance of 10,000 roubles (Russian rouble is the Abkhazian money) to each unemployed adult family member of repatriates and 3000 rouble per minor.

November 15, 2012 15:00

• Turkey offers to create transport corridor across North Ossetia

  The Turkish authorities propose to open a transport corridor in North Ossetia to promote trade relations with regions of Russia and countries of Central Asia, as well as to start a bus service between the countries. This was stated on November 13 by Bulent Ugur Ecevit, the head of the delegation of the Ministry of Economy and Association of Exporters of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, at opening of the Russian-Turkish Business Forum in Vladikavkaz.

November 15, 2012 14:00

• In Georgia, heavily sick prisoner goes on hunger strike

  On November 13, Dato Golidzhashvili, a heavily sick inmate of Prison No. 15 in Georgia, went on hunger strike in protest against refusal of his CER (conditional early relief).

November 15, 2012 13:00

• Former "Telasi" employees go on hunger strike in Georgia

  On November 14, in Tbilisi, three fired employees of the electricity company "Telasi" – Giorgi Lomidze, Zura Meladze and Lasha Kvachadze – went on hunger strike. They hold their protest near the office of the company, where they set up a tent and where dismissed employees gather.

November 15, 2012 12:00

• Armenian citizen convicted of espionage in favour of Azerbaijan stops hunger strike

  Ashot Chtrkyan, a prisoner at the "Nubarashen", has stopped his hunger strike, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

November 14, 2012 23:00

• Sochi: rights defenders try to establish whereabouts of detained citizens of Uzbekistan

  Human rights activists in Sochi are busy to figure out the location of five detained citizens of Uzbekistan, who are criminally prosecuted after the mass brawl on November 5.

November 14, 2012 22:00

• Solo picketer in Moscow urges Russia's MFA to help Syrian Circassians

  Today, a solo picket was held at the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with an appeal to Russian authorities to organize urgent evacuation of Circassian compatriots from Syria struck by military conflict to their historical homeland, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

November 14, 2012 21:00

• ICRC completes projects to improve water supply in South Ossetia

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to complete the water-supply projects in villages of South Ossetian by the end of this year.

November 14, 2012 20:00

• Gannushkina: acquittal of Nazir Guliev is illegal

  As stated today by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", at a press conference in Moscow, the acquitting verdict passed to Nazir Guliev, a former employee of the Ingush MIA, is illegitimate. According to her version, Guliev should have not been acquitted and released from liability.