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July 01, 2011 22:00

• Yerevan residents protest against higher metro fare

  Today in the Armenian capital the initiative group "We are against increase of metro fare" held a protest rally in front of the Mayoralty. The group was formed within the social network Facebook just after the city authorities decided to increase the fare. More than 5000 persons became members of this group; about 30 of them took part in today's rally.

July 01, 2011 21:00

• Ingushetia: Magas Mayor resignation is planned, source in Evkurov's administration says

  In the near future Aslanbek Sagov, Mayor of the city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, will resign from his position. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source in the administration of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, that the resignation has to do with the outcomes of the revision of construction of cottages in Magas. Aslanbek Sagov himself said that he had decided to resign on his own will after Evkurov's criticism of the activity of the Mayoralty of Magas.

July 01, 2011 20:00

• Court sentences figurants in case of children's death in Yeysk Spit to terms in colony

  The Yeysk City Court of the Krasnodar Territory has announced the sentence to two employees of the Moscow school accused of the death of six schoolchildren in the camp of "Azov".

July 01, 2011 19:00

• Chechnya sets up commission to restrict sale of energy drinks

  Ban on sale of energy drinks to minors can be introduced in the Chechen Republic in the nearest future. According to experts, regular consumption of energy drinks can cause serious health problems.

July 01, 2011 18:00

• Third victim of gas explosion in Vladikavkaz dies

  As announced by the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of North Ossetia, another woman-victim of the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz has died,. Therefore, the number of casualties of the accident has reached three persons.

July 01, 2011 16:00

• Leaders of "Georgian Party" accuse Georgian law enforcement bodies of torture

  Attempts to put pressure on activists from the oppositional "Georgian Party" to obtain certain testimonies began after detention and continue now, said Erosi Kitsmarishvili, the political secretary of the "Georgian Party" in an interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 01, 2011 14:00

• The community of Giumri against placing the frescos by Minas in the airport of “Zvartonts”

  36 non-governmental organizations of Shirak region of Armenia sent a message to Edwardo Ernekyan, Armenian philanthropist from the Argentine, owner of "Armenia International Airports" company, calling not to place the frescos my Minas Avetisyan in Yerevan airport “Zvartonts” and limit himself to their copies.

July 01, 2011 12:00

• The Government of Georgia will announce a competition on creation of a memorial to the victims of genocide of the Circassians

  Today the Parliament of Georgia will discuss the question of creation of a memorial to the victims of genocide of the Circassian people. Sculptors from all over the world will be able to take part in the contest of projects of the memorial.

July 01, 2011 11:00

• Rostov court blocked access to twenty web-sites propagandizing suicide

  Soviet district court of Rostov-on-Don satisfied a claim of Public prosecutor’s office by limiting access to 20 web-sites which offered over 150 ways of committing a suicide.

June 30, 2011 23:00

• Batumi Port to receive big cruise ships

  Levan Varshalomidze, Chairman of the Government of Adzharia, and John Tersek, Vice President of the American Company Royal Caribbean International, have signed a memorandum of cooperation in development of the Batumi Port. Soon it will be able to receive big cruise ships.

June 30, 2011 22:00

• Armenian opposition gives two months to authorities to decide on early elections

  Should the Armenian authorities fail to decide on early elections within the upcoming two months, the opposition will find the dialogue exhausted and move the resignation demand of President Serzh Sargsyan. This was announced today at a rally by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the leader of the Armenian National Congress (ANC).

June 30, 2011 21:00

• Twelve persons lost on June 13-19 in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from June 13 to June 19, at least 12 persons were killed and at least 13 more were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other public sources.

June 30, 2011 20:00

• Terror act prevented in Kabardino-Balkaria could destroy ropeway, local authorities say

  Should the terror act prevented in the village of Terskol happen, it could have destroyed the entire ropeway construction in the Azau Meadow and caused destructions to nearby buildings. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by the administration of the village of Elbrus.

June 30, 2011 19:00

• Dagestan: local resident Davud Israpilov was kidnapped by men in civilian clothes, eyewitness says

  One of the passengers of a fixed-route taxi in Makhachkala told Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh, Tsuntin District, that on June 24 he became an involuntary eyewitness of kidnapping of the latter's nephew, Davud Israpilov by unidentified men in civilian clothes.

June 30, 2011 18:00

• In Makhachkala, court requests documents on distance from Russian Cemetery to residential blocks in construction

  Today, the Kirov Federal Court of Makhachkala has held the first session on the claim of the local prosecutor's office about illegal construction of residential blocks near the so-called "Russian Cemetery".

June 30, 2011 17:00

• Book by native of Ingushetia on Solovki concentration camp published in Paris

  The State Museum of GULAG History, located in Petrovka Street in Moscow, has hosted the presentation of the French version of the book, written by Sozryko Malsagova (1895-1976), a native of Ingushetia and an officer of the Russian Tsarist Army, and entitled "The Hell Island". The book was released in April this year in Paris by the publisher Francois Bourin Editeur. The book tells about the Soviet concentration camp, known as SLON (Special-Purpose Solovki Camp).

June 30, 2011 16:00

• Alleged militants liquidated today in Dagestan identified

  The names of the members of the armed underground, who were killed today in a special operation in Kizilyurt, have become known. They are Arthur Dalgatov, born in 1985, and his common-law wife Aminat Darbisheva, born in 1990, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

June 30, 2011 15:30

• Tbilisi Court sentences Okruashvili in absentia to two months in jail

  The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced, under the motion of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, in absentia Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence and co-chair of the "Georgian Party", to two months of custody as a preventive measure of liberty deprivation.

June 30, 2011 15:00

• Rumours about Umarov's stay in Djeirakh District of Ingushetia are directed against resort project, experts say

  The information that the leader of North-Caucasian armed underground Dokku Umarov is hiding somewhere in the Djeirakh District of Ingushetia may be directed at disrupting the resort projects to be implemented in the area, said Ruslan Khautiev, a local political analyst.

June 30, 2011 14:00

• MIA: one of sisters assassinated in Chechnya was pregnant

  Chechnya continues investigating the killing of two sisters, the youngest of whom was 15 years old. The bodies of the girls were sent to examination, the local law enforcers assert. Their father who confessed of murdering one of the daughters by negligence is under threat of up to 20 years in prison.