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December 10, 2011 11:00

• Alla Djioeva to be nominated for presidential election in South Ossetia in March

  Alla Djioeva, ex-candidate for the presidency in South Ossetia, intends to nominate herself for the election on March 25; she is ready to cooperate with Vadim Brovtsev, and she intends to seek the release of political prisoners. This was reported by Alla Djioeva to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

December 09, 2011 22:50

• Attempt on Sofa Esmurzieva, Deputy Minister of Public Health, undertaken in Ingushetia

  An armed attack was committed in Nazran, Ingushetia, on Sofa Esmurzieva, Deputy Minister of Public Health; with a gunshot wound in her leg she was taken to hospital in Vladikavkaz.

December 09, 2011 22:50

• Dagestan: 12 percent of pupils and students support militants, public opinion poll shows

  The radical methods used by militants are supported by 12 percent of pupils and students of Dagestan, regarding them as the key to solving the existing local problems. These are the results of the social opinion poll conducted in November by the monitoring group for the youth environment of the Republic of Dagestan. Experts believe that many people in Dagestan view the "Forest Jamaats" as the only alternative to the ruling corrupt power and treat the specialized religious education as a barrier to radicalization.

December 09, 2011 22:50

• Rights defender Tamara Karastelyova will be buried today in Novorossiysk

  Tamara Karastelyova, Director of the Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee (NHRC) and human rights defender died on December 3 in Georgia, where she lived for the last two years and took her treatment of acute leukaemia.

December 09, 2011 22:50

• Dagestan hosts festival of children with disabilities

  On December 7, Makhachkala held the sixth cultural and sports festival of children with disabilities under the motto "From victories in sports to victories in life".

December 09, 2011 22:40

• Court extends custody of suspect of murdering Yuri Budanov

  The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till February 26, 2012, the arrest of Magomed Suleimanov, accused of killing former colonel Yuri Budanov.

December 09, 2011 22:40

• Jehovah's Witnesses fix over 1000 facts of oppressing them in Russia during two years

  Within the two years that have elapsed after the Russia's Supreme Court upheld the sentence of the Rostov Regional Court on recognition of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and a number of their publications to be extremist, the religious organization has documented and published on the Internet reports about more than 1000 incidents involving violations of the rights of believers of this confession in Russia.

December 09, 2011 22:40

• Next court session on massacre in Kuschevskaya scheduled for December 12

  The next court session on the case of Andrei Bykov, one of the figurants in the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya will take place on December 12. The official representative of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has confirmed that Bykov's case is considered in special order.

December 09, 2011 22:40

• Ingushetia: at trial of Guliev and Nalgiev witnesses' protocols are announced

  On December 8, at the court session, where the case of the former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, accused of torturing detainees and committing other crimes, is considered, interrogation protocols of witnesses and victims were announced.

December 09, 2011 22:40

• Investigation on threats to employees of "Khural" newspaper launched in Azerbaijan

  The Baku police have started an inquiry on the application of journalists of the "Khural" newspaper about the threats coming to them from unknown persons. Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper remains in custody on charges of bribe-taking.

December 09, 2011 22:30

• Melnikov: GPO spreads Chechen experience of fighting militants' helpers over other regions of Northern Caucasus

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation is actively disseminating the experience of fighting militants' supporters in Chechnya, as the most efficient, among the power agents in all other regions of Northern Caucasus, Artyom Melnikov, the head of the GPO Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today.

December 09, 2011 22:20

• Ankvab spoke out in defense of the rivers of Abkhazia against constructors of Olympic objects

  Without a damage to the environment of Abkhazia delivery of building materials for construction of Olympic objects is possible only from the area of the Kodor river (Ochamchira district), President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab declared promising to disallow industrial delivery of inert materials from other rivers.

December 09, 2011 22:10

• Deputy Head doctor of Budennovsk hospital fined for beating up a journalist

  On December, 8, Magistrate's court of Budennovsk, Stavropol region, acknowledged Deputy Head doctor for security in the local hospital guilty of beating up a journalist who was shooting an episode of rape of a child in the hospital.

December 09, 2011 20:00

• The circumstances of death of an observer from KPRF at the election of State Duma are under investigation in Krasnodar region

  On December, 6, Sergey Babenko, observer from KPRF at the past parliamentary election, was found dead in a private house in the settlement of Shkolnoe, Belorechensky district of Krasnodar region. Deputies of State Duma demanded a thorough investigation of the circumstances of his death.

December 09, 2011 18:00

• Homeless people in Rostov are taught computer literacy

  A complex social center rendering aid to homeless persons in Rostov-on-Don (CSC) has organized courses of computer literacy for maladjusted citizens living in the center.

December 09, 2011 00:00

• Rules for users' behaviour on the "Caucasian Knot" interactive services

December 08, 2011 23:50

• In Sochi, policeman sentenced for beating detainee

  In Sochi, a police officer was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment for beating a detainee.

December 08, 2011 23:40

• Personnel of Azerbaijani newspaper "Khural" claim being threatened

  Journalists of the Azerbaijani oppositional newspaper "Khural" reported on threats coming to their address from unidentified persons.

December 08, 2011 23:20

• Azerbaijani human rights defender Intigam Aliev claims that he was beaten at Istanbul airport

  Intigam Aliev, the well-known Azerbaijani human rights defender and lawyer, the head of the Society of Legal Education, claims that on December 7 he had been detained at the Istanbul airport and subjected to pressure and violence by Turkish policemen. According to Intigam Aliev, he was released and deported to Baku only after intermediation of international human rights organizations.

December 08, 2011 23:10

• Website of Association "Golos" re-opened

  The website of the Association "Golos" (Vote), which observed the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and which was attacked by hackers on the day of the parliamentary elections, was fully re-opened.