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June 30, 2011 11:00

• Development of diving tourism started in Georgia

  Development of diving tourism and realization of a project of underwater biological multiformity has started in Georgia.

June 30, 2011 10:00

• A referendum on the status of the Russian language announced in South Osetia

  On September, 11, a referendum on the status of the Russian language will be held in South Osetia. The respective edict of President Edward Kokoiti came into effect and was published on June, 29, in state mass media.

June 30, 2011 09:00

• 20 persons injured as a result of the explosion in Vladikavkaz are still staying in Moscow hospitals

  There are currently 20 persons injured as a result of the explosion of a gas bottle in Moscow clinics, two of them in the resuscitation department.

June 29, 2011 23:00

• A woman injured in gas explosion in Vladikavkaz died

  Today, at 9:00 p.m., Albina Arkaeva, born in 1962, who received serious burning injuries in the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz on 25 June, died in Moscow hospital, reported Irbek Doev, the spokesperson of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Moscow.

June 29, 2011 22:00

• Rostov Region: rally against medical emergency service closure at Zverevo hospital

  On June 28 about 400 residents of the city of Zverevo of Rostov Region started a rally against the closure of the emergency medical service at the central city hospital.

June 29, 2011 21:00

• Chechnya: Petroleum College Director accused of bribery

  The law enforcement authorities of Chechnya have instituted a criminal case against the director of the Petroleum College of the Grozny State Technical University, who is suspected of taking bribes.

June 29, 2011 20:00

• Azerbaijan: Bloomberg photojournalist Diana Markosyan deported

  On June 28 in the evening the authorities of Azerbaijan expelled from the country a Bloomberg employee, who was detained at Baku Airport, said a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the republic.

June 29, 2011 19:00

• Rostov Region: court recognized publications of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist

  In the city of Salsk of Rostov Region Judge Marina Fedyakova recognized a number of materials of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist and rejected the request of the defendant's lawyers to question a linguist witness and to make a repeated psycho-linguistic-religious examination.

June 29, 2011 18:00

• Moscow's Court rejected material damage compensation to parents of children lost in Yeysk Spit

  Today, the Tver Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the relatives of the schoolchildren lost in Yeysk Spit, containing demand of compensation for material damages. As the lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the families of the deceased, said, the court's decision would be appealed.

June 29, 2011 17:00

• Dagestan: local resident reported his nephew's disappearance

  Today Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about disappearance of his nephew Davud Israpilov, which occurred on June 24. According to Magomed Yusupov, earlier, Davud has been repeatedly summoned for questioning in the OVD (Interior Division) of the Tsuntin District.

June 29, 2011 16:00

• Azerbaijan: opposition continues protests demanding democratic reforms

  The Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) intends to continue protests demanding democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. This was announced on June 28 by Isa Gambar, a member of the Coordinating Council of the CMDPC, a leader of the party "Musavat".

June 29, 2011 15:00

• Suspects in two foreign women's beating in Baku rejected political motives of their actions

  The law enforcement authorities of Azerbaijan detained the fourth suspect in beating on 15 June in Baku of Amanda Erickson, an American journalist, and Celia Davis, a British human rights activist. This is Nazim Khuseinov, a resident of Babak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). All four detainees said that they did not know who the girls were and that initially they wanted to get acquainted with them.

June 29, 2011 14:00

• Questioning of "Dosh": Chechen residents hardly trust in local human rights organizations

  Residents of Chechnya hardly trust in the official agencies, which activity is aimed at human rights protection, and out of 200 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country only the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" faces the relative confidence of the population. These are the results of a questioning survey conducted by the Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh".

June 29, 2011 13:00

• Georgian Parliament: opposition initiates investigation of pressure on journalists

  The Parliament of Georgia established an initiative group to create a temporary parliamentary commission to investigate the facts of pressure on journalists. The Georgian MP Dzhondi Bagaturiya announced that at the press briefing on June 29.

June 29, 2011 12:00

• The Ministry of Interior Affairs: an underage resident of Chechnya exploded policemen out of revenge

  On June, 28, a nineteen-year-old resident of Urus-Martan district of Chechnya Yusup Magomedov was sentenced to six years and one month of custody by the court with service of the sentence in a general regime colony for committing an act of terror. The reason for Yusup Magomedov’s joining the gunmen became the murder of his close relative who had also been a participant of armed underground, a representative of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya considers.

June 29, 2011 11:00

• A father of two girls detained in Chechnya for suspicion of their murder

  On June, 27, the personnel of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya detained a father of two girls, one of them underage, in Shelkovskoy district of the republic for suspicion of having committed a murder. The “Caucasian Knot” correspondent received this news from the republican law enforcement bodies.

June 29, 2011 10:00

• “The New Rights” in Georgia explain singing an agreement with the ruling party by the necessity of compromising

  Among the points of the agreement on electoral issues signed by the ruling party with several oppositional parties of Georgia there is an increase of the number of seats in Parliament from 150 to 190 along with the increase of the portion of deputies elected on the basis of party lists and paying off one million lari to each party which overcomes the 5% barrier at the parliamentary election. “The New Rights” consider these points the most significant ones.

June 28, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijani authorities forbid entrance of Bloomberg employee because of her Armenian origin

  On June 28, Diana Markosyan, a Bloomberg photojournalist, was detained by border guards at Baku Airport upon arrival, said the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and added that she would be deported to Istanbul.

June 28, 2011 22:00

• Trial on terror acts in Georgia: Russians sentenced to 30 years in prison

  Today, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced 15 defendants in the case on terror acts in the Georgian territory, including Evgeniy Borisov, a serviceman of the Russian armed forces stationed in Abkhazia, the press service of the court reports.

June 28, 2011 21:30

• Tsiklauri: Georgia to open memorial to Circassians' genocide

  Georgia will commemorate the genocide of the Circassian nation committed by the Russian Empire. As reported by Nugzar Tsiklauri, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Diasporas and the Caucasus, it is also planned to create a cultural centre of Circassians.