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July 06, 2011 17:00

• Georgian Parliament awards legal status to religious organizations

  The Georgian Parliament has unanimously adopted amendments to the Civil Code, which assume awarding the status of legal entities to religious organizations. The decision was supported by 70 MPs; and only oppositional Christian Democrats refused to vote in protest, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the Parliament.

July 06, 2011 15:07

• Resident of Makhachkala reports disappearance of her husband

  Ruslan Kurbanov, born in 1976, a native of the village of Verkhni Djengutai, Buinaksk District disappeared in Makhachkala. In the evening on June 20, he left for work and never returned home, said his wife Khadizhat Radjabova.

July 06, 2011 14:00

• In Azerbaijan, Court of Appeal upholds conviction of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev

  Today, the Court of Appeal of the city of Gandzha, chaired by Judge Chingiz Mamedov, has completed consideration of the complaint lodged by activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev.

July 06, 2011 12:00

• Human rights activists told Medvedev that the investigation of Estemirova’s murder was on a false scent

  During a meeting of members of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev they handed him a report with their own estimation of the investigation in process on Natalia Estemirova’s murder.

July 06, 2011 11:00

• Businessman Murtabekov kidnapped in Dagestan released under the condition of stopping his beer business

  Murtabek Murtabekov, head of limited company “Beer-Market”, representative of the company “Efes Beer”, kidnapped on June, 25, in Dagestan was released by the abductors under the condition of stopping his business”, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

July 06, 2011 10:00

• Residents of Chechnya report arsons of the houses of the gunmen’s relatives

  Cases of burning down the houses belonging to relatives of those who join armed underground have recommenced in Chechnya. Residents of Shali district of Chechnya state that among these people there are fellow villagers of Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Power ministries do not confirm this information.

July 05, 2011 23:00

• Krasnodar Territory: rally in support of human rights

  On July 5 in the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory a picket was held in protection of the rights and freedoms of individuals dedicated to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's meeting with the members of his Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

July 05, 2011 22:00

• Leader of Ingushetia orders to give out militants' bodies to families

  Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, ordered to cancel the ban on giving out bodies of killed members of illegal armed formations to their relatives, to prevent people joining underground.

July 05, 2011 21:00

• Magomed Suleimanov: status of film festival "Stalker" in Dagestan is not high enough

  The 4th International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker", which was held in Makhachkala on June 23-27 and which had a charitable status, gathered full cinemas. Having watched the films, the audience discussed the issues raised in the films.

July 05, 2011 20:00

• Dagestan: shop "10 roubles" for victims of emergencies opened

  At present only the administration of Tsumadin District has responded to the call of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Dagestan to open a chain of stores "10 roubles" for people affected by emergencies. In the village of Agvali the local authorities gave the appropriate premises for that purpose.

July 05, 2011 19:13

• Karachay-Cherkessia: fifth victim of road traffic accident dies at resuscitation ward

  An old woman, suffered in collision of car Toyota Corolla to the bus stop in the centre of the city of Cherkessk, died at the hospital, reported the representative of the hospital.

July 05, 2011 18:00

• Children of Circassian Diaspora in Turkey visit capital of Adygea

  On July 1-3 a delegation of 26 children from the Circassian Diaspora in Turkey, who arrived in Adygea on June 21, visited the city of Maikop.

July 05, 2011 17:00

• Rostov Region adopts measures to combat "laser hooligans"

  The Rostov Region developed the action procedure for the law enforcement bodies in the case of information about blinding the pilots of aircrafts with laser beams during approach to landing.

July 05, 2011 16:00

• Dagestan: resident of Makhachkala disappeared

  Location of Shamil Djavatov, a 20-year-old resident of the capital of Dagestan, is unknown to his family. This was asserted by Madina Djavatova, a mother of the disappeared young man.

July 05, 2011 15:00

• Dagestan: shelled store was selling alcohol, eyewitnesses assert

  A 39-year-old Kumsiyat Nutsalova was shot 11 times from behind the corner at a time in the night, when she was going to close her night shop in the village of Toturbiykala of Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local residents.

July 05, 2011 13:00

• Volgograd: 23,000 residents sign letter to President Medvedev about deficit of kindergartens

  Russian President received a letter about the negative social consequences of a lack of places in kindergartens in Volgograd, written by the initiative group of social movement "Volgograd mothers". 23,161 residents of Volgograd and the Volgograd Region signed this letters.

July 05, 2011 12:00

• Georgian ecologists came out in opposition to building Namakhvan hydropower station

  In connection with erection of Namakhvan cascade of hydropower stations in Racha-Lechkhumi, “The Green Movement of Georgia – Friends of the Earth” issued a special statement calling to stop construction of these energetics objects.

July 05, 2011 11:00

• Young people from the regions of Northern Caucasus gathered at the forum “Mashuk-2011”

  On Monday, July, 4, North-Caucasian educational forum “Mashuk-2011” took its official start. Representatives of young people from all the regions of Northern Caucasus, guests from Abkhazia, South Osetia and Ukraine came to take part in it.

July 05, 2011 09:00

• “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” refutes reports of UNESCO’s prohibition building North-Caucasian health resorts

  State corporation “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” officially refuted the reports that UNESCO banned building of North-Caucasian tourist cluster.

July 04, 2011 22:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 27-July 3

  Tragedy instead of feast – victims of gas explosion at wedding party in Vladikavkaz die; first nominations for presidential election in Abkhazia; adoption of the law on distant pastures in Kabardino-Balkaria, which caused disputes among local indigenous nations; sentence to persons guilty of children's death in the Sea of Azov; transformation of oppositional "octet" into "sextet" after negotiations on electoral legislation in Georgia, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 27-July 3, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".