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January 30, 2012 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 23 to 29

  Summit of presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in Sochi on Karabakh settlement; presentation in Moscow of the Human Rights Watch report on human rights violations; end of inquiry into terror act in "Domodedovo" Airport; decision of the Russian Supreme Court on Sviridov's murder in Moscow; adaptation commission for militants set up in Kabardino-Balkaria, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of January 23-29, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 30, 2012 23:00

• Investigation into murder of anti-fascist Dzhaparidze completed in Moscow

  In Moscow, the materials of the investigation into the case of the murder of anti-fascist Ilya Dzhaparidze were presented to parties for studying.

January 30, 2012 22:50

• Yerevan hosts protest action against removal of kiosks into park

  The capital of Armenia hosted a protest action against the transfer of the demolished kiosks from Abovyan Street to the territory of the park, located in the area of Mashtots Avenue.

January 30, 2012 22:40

• In Nagorno-Karabakh, Lance Corporal suspected of murdering soldier on combat post

  Lance Corporal Khachatur Sarkisyan, a serviceman of a regular term, is suspected of murdering Pailak Shakhnazaryan, a regular term soldier, in an army unit of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

January 30, 2012 22:20

• In Georgia, women-prisoners interrupt their protest hunger strike

  Today, in Georgia, a group of prisoners of the Tbilisi women's colony stopped their hunger strike to protest against transfer of children under three years old to children's homes.

January 30, 2012 22:10

• Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia kills suspect of road accident, where his sister died

  A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, without waiting for trial on case of a road accident that killed his sister, stabbed with a knife a suspected perpetrator of the road accident. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Republic's Investigatory Committee.

January 30, 2012 22:00

• Defence of Arakcheev, convicted for murdering three Chechen residents, demands his case reconsideration

  Defence of Sergey Arakcheev, ex-officer of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a colony for murdering three Chechen residents in January 2003, asks the General Prosecutor's Office to reopen the case, since new reasons for its reconsideration have appeared.

January 30, 2012 21:00

• An environmental picket passed off in Stavropol

  On January, 29, activists of non-governmental organizations, scientists and ecologists held a picket in Stavropol "Healthy life-style is our people's happy future". At the action the participants called for maintenance of the springs in the forests of the city and elimination of pollution of water storages in order not to harm the residents' health.

January 30, 2012 20:00

• Almost 20 educational institutions in Rostov region totally closed because of cold

  19 schools and kindergartens in Rostov region were totally closed, seven more institutions stopped functioning in part. The reason was that the temperature in these buildings dropped under admissible level.

January 30, 2012 19:00

• Parents of the lost members of power ministries in Kabardino-Balkaria called for the authorities to take over the control of the situation in the republic

  Parents of lost servicemen of law enforcement bodies called for the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria to take over the control of the situation in the republic, provide people with jobs and eliminate corruption. On January, 28, they held their first organizational meeting in the town of Baksan. About twenty persons took part in it.

January 30, 2012 18:00

• Installing web-cameras in Dagestan will not help solve the problem of ballot rigging, some local observers consider

  Part of local observers in Dagestan where installation of web-cameras started at the polling stations for the election of President of Russia are sure that the cameras will not help solve the problem of ballot rigging during voting. In their turn, the authorities state that the systems of video surveillance will make the election more transparent.

January 28, 2012 23:00

• Participants of unauthorized protest action detained in Georgia

  Near the building of the Parliament of Georgia, the police detained seven participants of an unsanctioned oppositional action in memory of the killed employee of the "United Bank of Georgia" Sandro Girgvliani. The protesters tried to block traffic in Rustaveli Avenue.

January 28, 2012 22:00

• Two children injured by explosion in Makhachkala

  Two children suffered as a result of two explosions in Makhachkala, the spokesperson of the Dagestani MIA has reported.

January 28, 2012 21:00

• Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of breaking ceasefire

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated that today and on January 27 the Armenian Armed Forces repeatedly violated the ceasefire regime. At the same time, the Armenian MoD has claimed that on January 22-28 they registered about 150 cases of ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani party.

January 28, 2012 19:00

• Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, goes on hunger strike in jail

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about the 17-day-long hunger strike of Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his term in the Kamchatka Territory, from his grandmother Minovsi Almurzieva. According to her story, Alaudin Almurziev is hunger-striking against violation of his rights in the colony.

January 28, 2012 18:00

• Forum of Azerbaijani Intellectuals initiates a mass rally in Baku

  The Forum of Azerbaijani Intellectuals (FAI) is initiating a mass protest rally against adoption by the French Senate of the law on responsibility for denial of the Armenian Genocide; in the coming days the FAI plans to send an application to the city mayoralty.

January 28, 2012 17:00

• Dozens of settlements in Azerbaijan remain without electricity as a result of snowfall

  From January 27 on, due to heavy snowfalls in the northwest of the country, 18 villages and one township in the Balakan District are suffering from power outage.

January 28, 2012 16:00

• "United Abkhazia" nominates 11 candidates for MPs

  The city of Sukhumi has hosted the congress of the pro-government party "United Abkhazia", where 11 candidates were nominated to run for the parliamentary elections.

January 28, 2012 15:00

• In Volgograd Region, Uzbek workers get their salary debts

  According to the Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office, on January 27, the 188 workers from Uzbekistan, who spend their winter in tents, received in full their salary debts.

January 28, 2012 14:00

• North Ossetia: large families will get land for construction free of charge

  On January 27, the North-Ossetian MPs adopted – in the second and final readings – the Law "On Free Provision of Land Plots into Ownership of Large Families".