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July 16, 2012 17:00

• Prosecutor's Office accuses Novorossiysk authorities of inaction after flooding

  The Prosecutor's Office of Novorossiysk appealed to court because of inaction of the authorities in eliminating the consequences of the flooding in the Krasnodar Territory. This was reported today by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

July 16, 2012 15:00

• Court arrests Chief of Kabardino-Balkarian Pension Fund

  The Nalchik City Court arrested Khasanbi Sheozhev, Chief of the Pension Fund of the Kabardino-Balkaria, on suspicion of embezzlement of 68 million roubles. This was reported by a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies.

July 16, 2012 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 9-15

  Liquidation of consequences of catastrophic flood in Krasnodar Territory; all-Caucasian camp "Mashuk" in Pyatigorsk; Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in Yerevan; reducing of the number of presidential candidates in Nagorno-Karabakh; exhibition of Islamic relics in Grozny; murder of an employee of the General Prosecutor's Office and the outcomes of the service check at the Ministry of Justice on application about a capture of party office in South Ossetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of July 9-15, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 16, 2012 07:00

• 5 persons arrested for 15 days after incident in Karaleti

  On July 14, the court pronounced the decision to sentence 5 persons, detained by police in connection with the incident in the village of Karaleti of the Gori District of Georgia, to 15-days arrest.

July 16, 2012 04:00

• An action of the "Georgian Dream" passed off in Gori

  In the evening of July, 15, a meeting of many thousands supporters of oppositional coalition the "Georgian Dream" headed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvily was held in the town of Gori.

July 16, 2012 01:00

• An action in memory of victims of the tragedy in Krymsk passed off in Krasnodar

  On July, 15, an action in memory of the victims of flood passed off in Krasnodar. Activists of non-governmental organizations, bloggers and volunteers took part in the action, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

July 16, 2012 01:00

• "Russian March" held in Volgograd

  About 30 nationalists took part in the "Russian March", held in Volgograd on July 15.

July 14, 2012 23:45

• Residents of Makhachkala reported shooting in the city

  Today, at about 8:00 p.m. Moscow time, people who happened to be near the bus station at the exit out of Makhachkala heard a submachine gun round of fire.

July 14, 2012 23:00

• Khatazhukov: militants' adaptation commission in KBR has received no applications

  For the whole time of existence in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the commission for adaptation of militants to civilian life, not a single militant's application, said Valery Khatazhukov, the head of the regional human rights centre, at a press conference in Nalchik on July 13.

July 14, 2012 21:00

• Kutaisi journalists protest against restrictions on visiting Mayoralty

  Today in Kutaisi journalists of local mass media have held a protest action opposite the city administrative building; they protested against the imposition of restrictions on visiting the Mayoralty.

July 14, 2012 19:00

• Magomed Ibragimov kidnapped in Dagestan returns home

  As reported by Murtazali Tagirov, the head of the human rights organization "Fighter for Justice", Magomed Ibragimov, a resident of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on July 13 by unidentified men in masks, has returned home.

July 14, 2012 18:00

• IPM sitting fails to agree on Georgian MIA post transfer in Zardiantkari

  The authorities of Georgia and South Ossetia have failed to reach a consensus on the issue of the presence of the post of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which was moved on June 29 from the outskirt of the village of Zardiantkari into its centre, said Khokh Gagloity, the deputy envoy of the president of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement.

July 14, 2012 17:00

• Armenia: prosecutor demands six years in prison for ANC activist

  In Armenia, at today's court session, the public prosecutor Akop Martirosyan demanded to sentence Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) to six years of imprisonment.

July 14, 2012 16:12

• Islam Magomedov and Arsen Magomedov killed in special operation in Dagestan

  Two out of the seven militants liquidated who were killed in special operation in Dagestan have been identified as the leaders of local bandit groupings Islam and Arsen Magomedov, said the Information Centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

July 14, 2012 16:00

• Head of KBR Pension Fund detained on suspicion of embezzlement

  The police today have detained in Nalchik the head of the Pension Fund of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) Khasanbi Sheozhev, suspected of fraudulent embezzlement of almost 70 million roubles.

July 14, 2012 15:00

• ICRF: children of Razdobudsko and Khorosheva kidnapped in Dagestan

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) is investigating the circumstances of disappearance in Dagestan of two young children of Vitali Razdobudsko and Maria Khorosheva. According to investigators, the kids were kidnapped by the members of the armed underground.

July 14, 2012 14:00

• King of Jordan is ready to help Syrian Circassians in repatriation, public figures of Adygea assert

  Adygea was visited by Munir Sobrok, a Jordanian MP, local public activists report. According to their story, the aim of the visit was to study the situation in the republic in the context of the readiness of the King of Jordan Abdullah II to help Syrian Circassians who wish to move from Syria and Jordan to Adygea.

July 14, 2012 13:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia holds action "Give Me Life!"

  On July 13, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted an action "Give Me Life!" aimed at strengthening the family and preservation of family values and traditions. The action tried to draw attention to the issue of abortion.

July 14, 2012 11:00

• Oppositionists from three South-Caucasian countries hold conference in Tbilisi

  Representatives of three oppositional political parties and civil society activists of Southern Caucasus are taking part in July 13-15 Tbilisi-based conference "Promoting freedom, peace and prosperity in the Caucasus".

July 14, 2012 09:00

• Balloons that blew up at rally in Armenia were pumped with methane, examination says

  The experts have found that the balloons, which exploded on May 4 in Yerevan during an election campaign rally, were filled with explosive methane, said Arsen Avakyan, the head of the division for especially important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the Police of Armenia.