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January 17, 2012 19:00

• A citizen of the Russian Federation detained in Georgia for accusation of illegal crossing the border

  Servicemen of frontier police in Georgia detained citizen of the Russian Federation Armen Gasparyan. He is accused of illegal crossing the Armenian-Georgian border.

January 17, 2012 18:00

• State web-sites of Azerbaijan underwent a mass hacker attack

  On January, 16, a number of governmental web-sites in Azerbaijan underwent a mass hacker attack. In particular, web-portals of Head of the state Ilham Aliev, the Ministry of Interior Affairs, the Ministry of Communications and Information technologies, the ruling party "Eni Azerbaijan" and the Constitutional Court were attacked.

January 16, 2012 23:00

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

  Fifteen Georgian seamen back at home after Somalia captivity; Aslan Tkhakushinov re-enters presidency of Adygea; appointment of oppositionist as State Adviser to President of South Ossetia; re-qualification of indictment to Dagestan athlete, whose punch led to death of Moscow student; commissioning of cottage settlement in Ingushetia for resettlers from landslide area; investigation in the Rostov Region into the death of a child attacked by dogs, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of January 9-15, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 16, 2012 22:40

• Court marshals' premise was not damaged at shelling in Dagestan, said the service

  The Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) of Russia has refuted the information that the building of their unit in Buinaksk, Dagestan, was damage during shelling. According to the service, the shooting was opened at another building.

January 16, 2012 22:40

• Workers of construction companies hold rally in Grozny

  About a hundred former workers two Turkish construction companies - "Penta" and "Bora-Inshaat" - have held a rally in Grozny to demand payment of wage debts.

January 16, 2012 22:30

• German Ombudsperson demands from Azerbaijan to release political prisoners

  In the run-up to the "Eurovision" song contest to be held in Azerbaijan, Markus Loning, the Ombudsperson at the German Government, demanded to release all Azerbaijani political prisoners. He urged the participants of "Eurovision" to state that they would sing only in a free country.

January 16, 2012 22:30

• Official Tbilisi asks Azerbaijan and Turkey for help with arrest of Georgian women in Malaysia

  The Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) continues consultations with the Malaysian party concerning two Georgian citizens suspected of illegal drug trafficking. This was reported by Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister, who added that the Azerbaijani and Turkish parties were invited to help in tackling the issue.

January 16, 2012 22:20

• Each polling station in Chechnya to be equipped with two webcams

  The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Chechnya plans to provide polling stations with books of complaints and proposals. Working groups have been set up to install web cameras at polling stations.

January 16, 2012 22:10

• Azerbaijan names missing sailors from tanker "Edirne"

  The State Maritime Administration of Azerbaijan (SMAA) has announced the names of three crew members of the tanker "Edirne", which were regarded missing after the vessel had sunk.

January 16, 2012 22:00

• Adygea: deputy suspected of fraud amounting to 3.3 million roubles

  A deputy of the Soviet of People's Deputies of the City of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, is suspected of a fraud amounting to 3.3 million roubles within the shared construction in the city, reports the Investigatory Department for Adygea of the ICRF.

January 16, 2012 21:40

• "Volgograd-Ecopress" reports chlorine release near Volgograd

  On January 13, residents of the Svetloyarsk District, Volgograd Region, which is bordering on the Southern Industrial Zone of Volgograd, again felt a stable and suffocating smell of chlorine. The officials of local "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Protection) have no data yet about the nature and volume of release.

January 16, 2012 21:30

• Explosion of utility gas in Baksan causes fire and kills people

  As reported by a source from the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) the reason of the tragedy in the city of Baksan on January 14, when a fire killed a woman and two small children, was an explosion of household gas.

January 16, 2012 21:20

• After "Caucasian Knot" publication, heat comes to Baksan houses

  The apartment houses in the micro-district "Kooperator" in the city of Baksan (Kabardino-Balkaria) have been connected to the heating system after the "Caucasian Knot" made a respective publication.

January 16, 2012 21:10

• Rostov Region: higher school teacher sentenced conditionally for bribe-taking

  The Rostov Regional Court has found a female associate professor from the Shakhty Institute guilty of bribe-taking and fined her by 40,000 roubles.

January 16, 2012 21:00

• Refutation: bringing a judgment against the wounded Iljas Nalgiev was not planned on January, 13

  According to the data verified by the "Caucasian Knot", the information that a verdict against ex-head of Criminal police of Karabulak Iljas Nalgiev was going to be brought on January, 13, spread by Lifenews.ru after an attempt at Nalgiev is untrue.

January 16, 2012 20:00

• A police car fired upon in Dagestan

  A police car was fired upon in the evening of January, 15, near the settlement of Novokhushet, Dagestan. No one was injured.

January 16, 2012 19:00

• Georgia passed ahead of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the rating of economic freedom

  Georgia moved from the 29th position in 2011 in the rating of economic freedom index to the 34th place in 2012. This is the best index among the countries of Southern Caucasus mentioned in a report drawn up by American Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Wall Street Journal.

January 16, 2012 18:00

• A well-known Ingush footballer killed in South Ossetia

  Zelimkhan Dzangiev, a well-known goal scorer of "Angusht" Ingush football club, was killed in Vladikavkaz. According to unofficial information, it happened as a result of a scuffle near a night club.

January 14, 2012 23:55

• Woman from Dagestan states that her son-teenager was beaten by policemen

  In Dagestan, five employees of the Magaramkent ROVD (District Interior Division) thrashed Sharvili Ramazanov, 14, a resident of the village of But-Kazmalyar, said his mother Tsukver Ramazanova.

January 14, 2012 23:00

• ECtHR upholds complaint of two Jehovah's Witnesses from Armenia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found Armenia guilty of breaking the right to freedom of conscience and religion in relation to Ike Bukharatyan and Ashot Tsaturyan, convicted in 2003 for refusal from military service on religious convictions.