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August 16, 2011 13:00

• Residents of Dagestani settlement of Shushanovka concluded an armistice

  An armistice was concluded among residents of the settlement of Shushanovka where several people got injured on August, 12, as a result of a mass scuffle, resident of the settlement Ravzanat Uvaisova reports.

August 16, 2011 12:00

• Public prosecutor of Kentron community in Armenia committed suicide

  Today Public prosecutor of Kentron administrative district of Yerevan Aram Grigoryan who had formerly been Military prosecutor of Armenia committed suicide. Prosecutor General’s confirmed this information.

August 15, 2011 21:00

• Arrested natives of Northern Caucasus are accused of preparing blasting of “Sapsan” train

  Four supposed terrorists whose detention was reported on July, 18, were planning to organize an explosion of a passenger “Sapsan” train following from Moscow to Sr. Petersburg which enjoys great popularity with the politicians and businessmen.

August 15, 2011 20:00

• Journalist Lander in Sochi recommences publishing “Mestnaya” newspaper

  In August publishing of the newspaper “Mestnaya” (“Local”) with a video application will be recommenced in the health resort of Sochi. It was held up about a year and a half ago after an attempt at its Editor-in-Chief Arkady Lander.

August 15, 2011 19:00

• Law Chamber of Armenia creates a rapid response team to unlawful actions of the police

  Upon the decision of Law Chamber of Armenia, a rapid response team will be formed in the nearest future. It will deal with unlawful actions of law enforcement bodies against the lawyers and protect their rights.

August 15, 2011 18:00

• A meeting of protest against “Olympic resettlement” passed off in Sochi

  On August, 14, about one hundred people in Sochi gathered for a new meeting of protest against violation of “Olympic law”, i.e. Federal Law No 310. The meeting was held opposite the railway station.

August 15, 2011 17:00

• Refugees in Georgia demand jobs

  The refugees who were resettled to the new district named Maltakva in the city of Poti demand to provide jobs for them; otherwise they plan to start protest actions.

August 15, 2011 16:00

• Militaries shelled at Chechen-Ingush border

  As reported by the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, seven servicemen were wounded, when a column of Internal Troops were shelled on the Chechen-Ingush border.

August 15, 2011 15:00

• Armenian oppositionists demand to release ANC activists within one day

  Today, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) gave 24 hours for the authorities to release the activists detained on August 9 and accused of hooliganism.

August 15, 2011 14:00

• House destroyed at CTO in Nalchik not rebuilt, residents assert

  Residents of the house in Zakharov Street in Nalchik, which was ruined in August 2010 in a counterterrorist operation (CTO), state that two apartments have not been rebuilt yet.

August 15, 2011 13:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh opens a new hotel

  Today, the city of Shushi, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), hosted a solemn opening ceremony of the new hotel "Avan-Shushi-Plaza", which was accommodated in the only high-rise building of the city.

August 15, 2011 12:00

• Russian Public Chamber offers help in settling conflict of two Dagestani villages

  The Working Group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for development of public dialogue and civil society institutes in the Caucasus has expressed its readiness to mediate the conflict between the villages of Gimry and Untsukul in the Republic of Dagestan.

August 15, 2011 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 8-14

  Third anniversary of August 2008 events in South Ossetia; wildfires in southern Russia; mass brawls in Dagestan with casualties and dozens of detainees; trials of oppositionists in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 8-14, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 13, 2011 20:00

• Since late 2010, village of Vedzatkhevi in Georgia has no road access to outside world due to landslides

  The village of Vedzatkhevi of Dusheti District (Georgia), inhabited by 29 families, is isolated from the outside world for nine months already due to the landslides which damaged the only road. The local residents can reach the regional centre only on foot.

August 13, 2011 19:00

• Armenian citizen captured in Azerbaijan send complaint to ECtHR

  Arthur Badalyan, an Armenian citizen, who was captured in Azerbaijan, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The complaint concerns the very fact of his capture, inhuman treatment and torture.

August 13, 2011 18:00

• In Ingushetia, custody conditions in IVS and SIZO get better, commission of human rights activists and Public Chamber assert

  In general, keeping conditions in IVS (temporary isolation facilities) and SIZO (pre-trial prisons) of Ingushetia are satisfactory; however, there are some problems in air-conditioning and lighting of the wards, where prisoners are kept. This was found out by the commission of human rights activists and members of the Public Chamber.

August 13, 2011 17:00

• In Armenia, four out of seven detained oppositional activists arrested, three – released

  The court session, finished in Yerevan on August 12 in the late evening, ruled to release on recognizance not to leave three oppositional activists arrested on August 9. The court announced the pre-trial restriction in regard to the other four activists – they would remain under custody.

August 13, 2011 16:00

• Abkhazian presidential candidates determine their positions on urgent issues

  On August 12, at the joint press conference in the city of Sukhumi, the Abkhazian presidential candidates determined their positions on the issue for republic's management system.

August 13, 2011 15:00

• In Dagestan, resident of Karata village accuses policemen of beating

  Khaibula Khaibulaev, a resident of the village of Karata of the Akhvakh District, appealed to Alexei Savrulin, Chief of the Investigatory Department of Dagestan, and Andrei Nazarov, Prosecutor of Dagestan, demanding to bring to criminal liability Labazan Derbishev, the head of the criminal investigation department of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Botlikh District, who beat him.

August 13, 2011 14:00

• Volgograd Regional Court upholds journalists' right to work in City Duma without accreditation

  On August 12 the Volgograd Regional Court dismissed the cassation, which was filed by Anatoly Antontsev, Chairman of the City Duma of Mikhailovka, concerning the decision on the lawsuit against him, lodged by the journalists of the local newspaper "Novoe Vremya" (New Time).