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October 30, 2012 15:00

• About 100 persons come to commemorate victims of political repressions in Volgograd

  In Volgograd, about 100 persons laid flowers to the monument to victims of political repressions. Members of the Volgograd Association of Victims of Unlawful Political Repressions, relatives, students of the Volgograd State Technical University, and officials of the regional government came to pay tribute to the memory of the repressed persons.

October 30, 2012 14:00

• Remains of missing Zurab Agiev found in Ingushetia

  On October 26, on the outskirts of the village of Ali-Yurt, the remains of Zurab Agiev, a resident of the village of Plievo of the Nazran District, who disappeared on October 18 together with Orts Almurziev, were found.

October 30, 2012 13:00

• Dagestani resident, accidentally wounded by power agents, accused of threatening an official

  Ibragim Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who was accidentally wounded by power agents in November 2011, is accused of threatening a power representative. At present, he is being kept at a detention facility, and his lawyer reported on deterioration of the detainee's health, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

October 30, 2012 10:00

• On October 22-28, 7 persons killed in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  Last week, on October 22-28, 2012, at least 12 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 7 persons were killed and 5 wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

October 30, 2012 07:00

• 355 prisoners to be released from Georgian prisons by November 1, Sozar Subari asserts

  By November 1, about 355 prisoners will be released from penitentiary institutions of Georgia. This was reported on October 29 Sozar Subari, new Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance. At the same time, it became known that two parliamentary committees begin work on the draft law "On Amnesty."

October 30, 2012 04:00

• About 50 "Mekhk-Kkhel" hunger-strikers detained by police in Ingushetia, Idris Abadiev reports

  The police of Ingushetia detained about 50 participants of the hunger striker, held by the public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel." Four hunger-strikers are still kept at the Nazran OVD (Interior Division), and their lawyers are not allowed to visit them. One participant of the protest action was seriously injured during the detention. This was reported by Idris Abadiev, the head of the public organization.

October 29, 2012 23:00

• Adygea and South Tyrol agree to jointly develop tourism and agriculture

  Today, Aslan Tkhakushinov, the leader of Adygea, and Johann Berger, Vice-President of the Italian province of South Tyrol, Minister of Agriculture and Tourism, signed a letter of intent, which defined the priority for cooperation in tourism and agriculture.

October 29, 2012 22:00

• In Derbent, only centre cleared after flooding, local residents assert

  Residents of the city of Derbent and volunteers state that only the central streets of the city have been cleaned after the flooding and that the outskirts are still "buried in the mud". The Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports that the works to clean the city, affected by the flooding, have been completed.

October 29, 2012 21:00

• Magomed Kartashov: Eid al-Adha failed in Kizlyar Park because it was blocked by power agents

  Celebration of the holiday of Eid al-Adha, scheduled for today in the park named after Peter I in the city of Kizlyar, was not held, since the recreation area was cordoned off by armed law enforcement agents. This was reported by Magomed Kartashov, the organizer of the event.

October 29, 2012 19:00

• Azerbaijan: experts offer electoral reforms

  Today, fifteen activists of the civil society of Azerbaijan presented to the public the "Memorandum on main directions of improvement of electoral legislation and guarantee of democracy at October 2013 presidential election". The authors of the document offer all the political forces of the country to discuss their proposals for development of joint measures to reform the electoral legislation.

October 29, 2012 18:19

• Five policemen wounded in special operation in Khasavyurt

  During the shooting that occurred during the special operation in Khasavyurt, held on October 28, five policemen were wounded. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

October 29, 2012 18:00

• Relatives of children, who drowned in Yeisk, urge State Duma to revise compensations for minors' deaths

  Igor Trunov and Lyudmila Aivar, the lawyers of relatives of six Moscow schoolchildren, who drowned in the area of Yeisk Split of the Azov Sea in July 2010, have appealed to the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a proposal to amend the Article of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which determines the amount of compensation for the deaths of minors.

October 29, 2012 17:25

• In Ingushetia, supporters of movement "Mekhk-Kkhel" go on termless hunger strike

  On October 29, at 03:00 p.m., in Ingushetia, about 10 persons, supporters of the regional public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", began a hunger strike to demand the resignation of the republic's leaders.

October 29, 2012 13:17

• Moscow city court reduced custody terms to defendants on the case of disturbances in Manezhnaya square

  The panel of judges of Moscow city court reduced the sentence to Vitaly Vasin and Nicolay Dvoinyakov acknowledged guilty on the case of mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square in December of 2010, Press Service of the court informed.

October 29, 2012 11:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 22-28

  Celebration of one of the major Muslim holidays – Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Fitr); approval of the Cabinet of Ministers headed by Bidzina Ivanishvili by newly elected MPs; suicide bombing at a police post on the North-Ossetian-Ingush border; extraordinary congress Dagestani nations in Moscow; early termination of powers of Alexei Knyshov, Russian State Duma Deputy from Rostov Region, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 22-28, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 29, 2012 10:00

• All the committees of the Supreme Council of Adzharia were headed by representatives of the “Georgian Dream”

  Five committees will be functioning in the Supreme Council (SC) of Adzharia elected recently. Their chairpersons were elected yesterday, October, 28, at a session of SC by secret ballot. It is also already known that there will be four fractions in the Parliament of Adzharia.

October 29, 2012 09:00

• Kotiev: the wife of one the gunmen’s leaders came as self-reported criminal

  Anastasia Alexeyeva (Ganieva), wife of one of the leaders of “Sunzha” paramilitary group Timur Khayauri, called to the telephone hotline for remorseful members of armed underground created in Ingushetia. She gave herself up, Secretary of Security Council of the republic Ahmed Kotiev reported.

October 29, 2012 07:00

• The pilots of McLaren won the finals of City Challenge in Baku

  Pilots of McLaren MP4 GT3 race car Frederick Makovievski and Steph Dusseldorf won the final competition of GT3 City Challenge going on in Baku.

October 27, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismajlova receives award "For Courage in Journalism"

  In New York, Khadija Ismajlova, an observer of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty was awarded the prize of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) "For Courage in Journalism" for the year 2012.

October 27, 2012 22:00

• Some Chiatura miners stop their strike

  Some of the miners of the city of Chiatura have agreed to the offered 32-percent increase in wages and stopped their strike. Those who have decided to go on with their protest assert that the proposed salary increase will be made by reducing the premiums.