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April 30, 2012 23:30

• Captain of "Volga-Balt-203" freighter detained in Georgia

  The freighter "Volga-Balt-203" and its captain a Russian Viktor Korneev have been detained in the Georgian port of Poti for polluting the environment.

April 30, 2012 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 23-29

  Alexander Tkachov inaugurated as Governor of the Krasnodar Territory; election of the Mayor of Volgograd; sentences to persons accused of committing Vladikavkaz terror act and killing of eight people in Stavropol; fine imposed on editor-in-chief of Dagestani weekly "Nastoyascheye Vremya" for the article about the head of the republic; failed incident-prevention meeting in Abkhazian-Georgian conflict zone; struggle for power in administration of Elista; end of Astrakhan political hunger strike, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 23-29, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 30, 2012 23:00

• Oppositional candidates ask Police of Armenia to delete 288 deceased people from voters' list

  The election offices of candidates for Deputies from the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) from two majority constituencies have addressed the police asking to update the voters' list, in particular, to delete from them the names of 288 people no longer alive.

April 30, 2012 22:20

• Ingush Ombudsman plans to address problems of invalids

  A cooperation agreement has been signed between the Ombudsman in Ingushetia and the regional charitable foundation "Myal" (Charity), which deals with problems of invalids. The issues of cooperation were discussed at the reception of citizens, held jointly by Djambulat Ozdoev, the Ombudsman, and Magomed Khamkhoev, Deputy Head of the Department for Ingushetia of the ICRF.

April 30, 2012 22:00

• Journalist Gereev beaten in Dagestan links the incident with his work

  Ruslan Gereev, Deputy Director General and the editor of the politics section of the newspaper "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), who was attacked by unidentified persons on April 24, says that the investigatory committee has not yet initiated a case on his beating. The journalist is sure that the attack on him was directly related to his professional work.

April 30, 2012 21:00

• Baku: police stops commemoration in front of ASOA

  Today in Baku, the police did not allow activists of youth branches of political parties and youth organizations of Azerbaijan to hold a commemoration of the victims of the massacre committed in the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) three years ago.

April 30, 2012 20:00

• Relatives of teacher killed in Dagestan dissatisfied with the course of investigation

  The investigators who run the inquiry into the murder of Gulnara Gamzatova, a Dagestani teacher, have indicted a wrong person, her relatives assert. The Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) says that relatives' claims are groundless; the alleged killer was put on the search list; and Gamzatova's ex-husband was detained and accused of incitement to murder.

April 30, 2012 19:00

• Representatives of "traditional" and "nontraditional" Islam arranged about parity in informing the residents of their activities

  On April, 29, representatives of the so-called "traditional" and "nontraditional" Islam gathered in the central mosque of Makhachkala for common dinner prayer. After the end of the prayer with the participation of over 500 people a meeting was held during which an agreement of enlightenment of residents of the republic on different branches of Islam was achieved.

April 30, 2012 18:00

• 16 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus during the period from April, 23, to April, 29

  At least 16 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus during the period from April, 23, to April, 29. 14 out them perished and two got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 28, 2012 23:00

• South Ossetia hosts ICRC photo show on warfare implications

  The exhibition "People and Fate" by photographer Marco Kokic, organized by the Tskhinvali-based office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), presents images of individuals – refugees and orphans – victims of the military conflicts.

April 28, 2012 22:00

• Multilingual social network Dudu presented in Moscow

  On April 26, Moscow hosted a presentation of the multilingual social network Dudu.com, where the author of the idea was Alibek Ilyasov, a native of Dagestan.

April 28, 2012 21:00

• Human rights defenders ask Russian president to help to release Ales Bialiatski

  At the recent meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the members of the Human Rights Board handed him a letter asking to use all his influence to promote liberation in Belarus of Ales Bialiatski, Vice-President of the FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" (Spring).

April 28, 2012 20:00

• Stavropol SIZO illegally keeps three residents of Dagestan, relatives assert

  Three persons, detained in Dagestan – Ibragim Saipulaev and his guests Gasanov and Murzabekov – were sent for no reason to SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of the city of Stavropol, where they receive threats, asserts Ibragim's brother Shamil Saipulaev.

April 28, 2012 18:00

• Documentary by Bulgarian TV journalist Tsvetana Paskaleva "Wounds of Karabakh" presented in Yerevan

  In Yerevan, the Cafesjian Centre for the Arts has hosted a screening of the documentary "Wounds of Karabakh" by the Bulgarian TV journalist Tsvetana Paskaleva; the film tells about disasters of the Karabakh War.

April 28, 2012 17:00

• Figurant of Kuschevskaya massacre case Sergey Tsepovyaz pleads guilty

  Sergey Tsepovyaz, accused of concealing the killing of 12 people in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, has fully admitted his guilt. His case will be considered under a special procedure, said Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

April 28, 2012 16:00

• In Sochi, residents of Gagarin Street demand immediate actions to save their house

  The meeting of tenants of No. 66 in Gagarin Street of Sochi has stated that their house is collapsing because of the construction of the road parallel to Kurortny Avenue. The tenants threaten to block the highway, should the authorities fail to take immediate measures.

April 28, 2012 14:00

• In Volgograd, tenants of hostel in emergency condition hold picket demanding to provide them with housing

  On April 27, residents of the hostel located at No. 9a Zholudev Street in the Traktorozavodsky District of Volgograd, held a picket trying to draw attention of the authorities to the disastrous state of their house. The action was about 10 persons strong.

April 28, 2012 13:00

• Georgia: Ivanishvili's movement prepares mass action in late May

  The political coalition named "Georgian Dream" and headed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili plans to start the election campaign by a large action in Tbilisi on May 26-27.

April 28, 2012 12:00

• ICRF plans to exhume members of Chudakov family killed in the Rostov Region

  The bodies of the family members of Dmitry Chudakov, the commander of Nizhny Novgorod special troops, killed in 2009 in the Rostov Region, will be exhumed for further examination.

April 28, 2012 11:00

• In Adygea, defence of Bersirov family appeals to ECtHR

  The defenders of the Bersirovs, whose family members died in autumn of 2008 in a road accident near Maikop, have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a demand to nullify the decision to stop the criminal case and collect from the Russian Federation a moral compensation in the amount of two thousand euros. This was reported by Rafael Bersirov, a relative of the perished family members.