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August 30, 2011 09:30

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 22-28

  Abkhazia elects Alexander Ankvab to be its new president; however, the international community is not in a hurry to recognize the legality of the election; Azerbaijani court convicts six more oppositionist for taking part in April rally; dam failure in Grozny becomes a tragedy for 2500 citizens; in Krasnodar Territory another "raid" of ecological activists to "Tkachov's summer house" ends in arrests again, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 22-28, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 29, 2011 23:00

• Relatives of Ingush missing persons fear for their lives

  Power agents have to do with kidnapping in Ingushetia of Umalat Bersanov and Akroman Ugurchiev, residents of Sleptsovsk, their relatives assert. They fear for the fate and health of the missing men. Law enforcers say that a check is underway on the fact of the disappearance of Bersanov and Ugurchiev.

August 29, 2011 22:00

• In Kalmykia, teenager dies after fleeing from police

  On August 25, Artyom Malinovskiy, 16, was brought by policemen to the narcology dispensary, tried to run away from there and perished.

August 29, 2011 21:00

• Georgian oppositionists complain of pressure on fixed-route taxi drivers

  The oppositional "Georgian Party" calls on the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Chief Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to react to statements of drivers of Tbilisi minivans, who claim that they are forced to raise the tariffs.

August 29, 2011 20:00

• This year, POC of Kabardino-Balkaria received over 100 complaints

  In 2011, the Public Observation Commission (POC) for monitoring jails and detention facilities of Kabardino-Balkaria received over a hundred complaints, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magazali Endreev, the Chair of the POC.

August 29, 2011 19:00

• Kalmykia: court marshals hold campaign "Your child needs you"

  In the period from August 25 to September 1, the Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) for the Republic of Kalmykia (RK) is holding the campaign "Your child needs you", under which the court marshals of the Elista branch are sending reminder letters to most malicious alimony defaulters.

August 29, 2011 18:00

• In Chechnya, "Grozvodokanal" workers complain about salary debts

  Employees of the Grozny-based organization "Grozvodokanal" (water supply and sewage) cannot receive their several months' salary. Workers of another entity – the Unitary Enterprise "Spetsstroy" – have again complained of their employers.

August 29, 2011 16:30

• Moscow: Rasul Mirzaev's advocate appeals against his client's arrest

  The defence of Rasul Mirzaev, a native of Dagestan and the world champion in mixed martial arts, accused of beating to death the 19-year-old student Ivan Agafonov in Moscow, asks to release him from custody, said the fighter's advocate Igor Dergachov.

August 29, 2011 16:00

• Three children-victims of explosion are still in Makhachkala hospital

  The tree children injured in the explosions on August 21 near a supermarket in Makhachkala, are still in hospital. According to doctors, their lives are out of danger, but they will time for treatment and rehabilitation.

August 29, 2011 15:00

• Ernesto Rico: Spanish investors are interested in Ingushetia

  The issues of mutual cooperation and possible investments in Ingushetia were discussed at the meeting in Magas, Ingushetia, by the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov and Mr Ernesto Jose Verdu Rico (Spain), the owner of the company "BLUE LAND STONE SLU".

August 29, 2011 14:30

• Residents of Nakhichevan state death of their relative from torture at Azerbaijani MNS

  Residents of the village of Arazina, Julfa District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan, have declared death of their relative Turadzh Zeinalov at the regional Ministry of National Security (MNS).

August 29, 2011 13:00

• A supposed suicide bomber who was in search in North-Caucasian Federal Okrug got lost in Chechnya on August, 9, his relatives report

  Hasan Arsakhanov, native of Chechnya who was searched for by law enforcement bodies of North Osetia, was considered missing since August, 9, his relatives reported.

August 29, 2011 12:00

• 318 signatures under a letter to President of the USA Barack Obama collected in Kalmykia

  A pressure group “Hospital for the children!” collected 318 signatures as of August, 28, under a communal letter to President of the USA Barack Obama with an appeal to take the only children’s hospital in the republic under his jurisdiction.

August 29, 2011 10:00

• A new meeting against Olympic resettlement passed off in Sochi

  Over one hundred residents of Sochi took part in a meeting against violations during impoundment of property connected with Olympic resettlement.

August 29, 2011 09:00

• Residents of Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya suffered from flood

  The flood which happened in Chechnya on August, 27, because of a strong rise of water level in the rivers caused by pelting rains inflicted serious damage upon the town of Grozny and the settlement of Shaami-Yurt, Achkhoi-Martan district, where 20 private housing estates were waterlogged.

August 29, 2011 07:00

• Over 2000 participants of International Investment Forum will arrive in Sochi

  Over 2000 participants of the tenth jubilee International Investment Forum “Sochi-2011” which will start on September, 15, have confirmed their readiness to come.

August 27, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijani rights defender Vidadi Iskenderov convicted

  Today, the Geichai District Court of Azerbaijan has sentenced human rights defender Vidadi Iskenderov, the head of the NGO "Promoting Defence of Democracy", to 3 years of imprisonment.

August 27, 2011 22:00

• Abkhazian CEC declares Alexander Ankvab's victory at presidential election

  Alexander Ankvab became the third president of Abkhazia. He won the presidential election in the republic by gathering 54.86% of votes, as reported by Batal Tabagua, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia.

August 27, 2011 21:00

• Islamists mark "Goodes Day" with protests in Baku

  On Friday, August 26, activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA) and a group of its believers-supporters staged a protest action outside the mosque "Bibi-Eibat" in the south-eastern outskirt of Baku on the occasion of the "Goodes Day" (Jerusalem), which is marked this year on August 26.

August 27, 2011 19:00

• Yunus: Baku Mayoralty offers retroactively to sign sale contract on demolished NGO offices

  Some of these days, two weeks after demolition on August 11 of the one-floor building, which housed offices of the Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD) and two other NGOs, a letter arrived to the E-mail address of the owner of the building, human rights activist Leila Yunus, from the Baku Mayoralty with a proposal to sell the building.