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September 10, 2012 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 3-9

  Elections to local self-government in Armenia, discussion of Chechen-Ingush border raised by head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov; release of Azerbaijani poets arrested in Iran; shelling of military column with killing of six servicemen; motor rally "White Stream", within which opposition held meetings and actions in Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Krasnodar and Stavropol, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 3-9, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 10, 2012 23:00

• Not all NGOs of NKR support statements of Council of NGOs on Safarov's case

  Representatives of some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) object to the attempts of the oppose efforts of the Council of NGOs to represent the entire third sector of the republic in the case of pardoning the Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov. In particular, activists are against introduction of moratorium on Armenian-Azerbaijani meetings within regional projects.

September 10, 2012 22:40

• Nine-year-old orphan boy hangs himself in Karachay-Cherkessia

  Investigating authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia have opened a criminal case on incitement to suicide of Andrei Altukhov, 9, a pupil of the republic's children's home for orphans and children left without parental care.

September 10, 2012 22:30

• In Stavropol, Orthodox youth holds picket against abortions

  Today, at the territorial consultative and diagnostic centre in Stavropol, a picket was held by the Orthodox youth movement "Soboryane" demanding legislative ban on abortions and encouraging large families.

September 10, 2012 22:10

• Stavropol: bloggers clean Taman Forest

  A public subbotnik within the all-Russian campaign "Blogger Against Garbage" was held on September 8 in Stavropol. About 70 persons went out to clean the Taman Forest.

September 10, 2012 22:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya goes on hunger strike in Georgia

  Tsotne, the son of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, has again gone on hunger strike in prison demanding better custody conditions in prisons.

September 10, 2012 20:00

• A resident of Dagestan protests against violation of his rights in a penal colony of Lipetsk region, his attorney reports

  Convict from Dagestan Arthur Khanaliev who is serving his penalty in a colony of Lipetsk region declared his intention to go on a hunger strike on September, 9, as a sign of protest against groundless, in his opinion, being regularly placed in a lockup during several months, his attorney Abdurahman Abdurahmanov reports. The lawyer demands to call all those guilty to account.

September 10, 2012 19:00

• Combined team of Armenia became three-time Olympic champion in chess

  On September, 9, men's combined team of Armenia won in the 40th Chess Olympics that finished in Istanbul. So, Armenia became three-time Olympic champion and won the first prize in the competition.

September 10, 2012 18:00

• The court in Azerbaijan prolonged the term of arrest of two journalists of regional TV channel "KhaialTV"

  On September, 8, Nasimi district court of Baku passed a judgment to prolong the term of arrest of Vugar Gonagov, Executive Director of regional TV channel "KhaialTV" broadcasting in Guba district of Azerbaijan, and Zaur Guliev, Editor-in-Chief of this channel, till December, 1, the journalists' attorney Elchin Sadygov reported.

September 08, 2012 23:16

• Building of circus blown up in Yerevan

  On September 8, a group of explosion experts and sappers blew up the circus building, located in central Yerevan.

September 08, 2012 23:00

• Charity concert held in Moscow in memory of perished journalists

  Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that about fifteen hundred came today to the charity concert to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire to commemorate the journalists who perished in performance of their professional duties.

September 08, 2012 22:18

• Four bodies found after wreck of Mi-35

  A source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan has reported that four bodies were found at the place where a military helicopter Mi-35 crashed in a collision with a mountain; one of the casualties was not a crew member.

September 08, 2012 22:00

• One person killed by collapse of hospital catering unit in Slavyansk-on-Kuban

  As reported by the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), as a result of collapse of the roof of a detached building of the nutrition unit of the district hospital of the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar Territory, one person was lost and six more injured.

September 08, 2012 20:00

• Action "Blogger Against Garbage" in Volgograd involved more than 100 activists

  Today in Volgograd the all-Russian action "Blogger Against Garbage" has brought together from 100 to 150 people, who cleaned the beach near the Museum-Reserve "Stalingrad Battle", said Ruslan Alekseev, one of the participants of the action and an activist of the movement "For Fair Elections".

September 08, 2012 18:00

• Georgian MIA reports detention of militant from Northern Caucasus in Lopota Gorge

  As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) a member of the armed grouping, which was exposed to a special operation in late August near the Dagestani section of the Georgian-Russian border, was detained in Georgia.

September 08, 2012 17:00

• Two persons injured by explosion of house in Baku

  Today, an explosion occurred in a dwelling house located in the Binagadi District of Baku, where two tenants suffered burns and were taken to hospital, said a spokesman for the Azerbaijan's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

September 08, 2012 15:00

• Azerbaijani soldier wounded in Karabakh conflict zone in July dies

  Rabbi Elsever oglu Jafarov, a soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, who was wounded in July in the Karabakh conflict zone, has died in the hospital. Armenia denies any involvement in the incident, where the soldier was wounded.

September 08, 2012 14:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh inaugurates its president

  On September 7 the city of Stepanakert hosted a special session of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, where a ceremony of inauguration of President Bako Saakyan took place.

September 08, 2012 06:00

• Participants of trilateral meeting in Ergneti agree to search people who disappeared in 1991-1992

  On September 6, the Georgian village of Ergneti hosted a meeting of the Coordination Mechanism to address issues of missing persons. The participants from Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia agreed to include the persons who had disappeared in 1991-1992 into the search mechanism.

September 07, 2012 23:50

• Opponents of Kudepsta TPP in Sochi claim destruction of hectares of forest

  In Sochi, residents of the village of Kudepsta registered forest cutting at the place of the construction of a Thermal Power Plant (TPP). According to the local residents, the destruction of forest was conducted illegally; meanwhile, the police failed to take any measures against violators.