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May 10, 2011 22:10

• Kabardino-Balkaria: all supposed militants, liquidated in special operation, identified

  According to preliminary data, Nadezhda Petruchenya and Anatoly Ozrokov have been identified among the suspected militants, killed today in a special operation in Nalchik.

May 10, 2011 22:10

• Azerbaijan: five believers arrested for holding protests

  Protesters against the ban on hijabs in schools, held May 6 in Baku, have been sentenced to administrative arrests.

May 10, 2011 22:00

• Regions of SFD and NCFD, and countries of Southern Caucasus, celebrate Victory Day

  In the regions of Southern Russia and Transcaucasian countries the Victory Day was celebrated in various formats.

May 10, 2011 18:00

• 28 people were killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during a week

  During the week from April, 25, till May, 1, no less than 28 people were killed and minimum 18 wounded in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.

May 09, 2011 23:40

• OMON company deputy commander killed in Dagestan

  On May 8, in the village of Shamkhal, Kirov District of Makhachkala, an unidentified person made several pistol shots at Asvad Abdullaev, deputy commander of OMON (riot police) company No. 1 for the Republic of Dagestan (RD), who was at that moment in the yard of his house. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the RD.

May 09, 2011 23:30

• Huge batch of counterfeit alcohol confiscated in north of Chechnya

  In the plain Shelkovskoy District of the Chechen Republic the police detained a truck carrying more than a thousand bottles of alcohol. A source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya asserts that this is the largest of the recently detected batches of alcoholic beverages.

May 09, 2011 23:20

• Gagoshidze: Georgia may recognize "Circassian Genocide" before May 21

  The Georgian parliament may recognize the so-called "Genocide of the Circassian Nation" before May 21, since the Circassian issue has rather powerful lobby in Georgia, said Yulon Gagoshidze, Minister on the Matters of Georgian Diaspora.

May 09, 2011 23:10

• Author of the book about native of Chechnya convicted for terrorism dedicated it to Anna Politkovskaya

  The presentation of the book by Zoya Svetova "Innocent Is Found Guilty" about the scientist Igor Sutyagin, accused of espionage, and the Chechen girl Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism, was attended by about a hundred persons; half of them were journalists of Russian and foreign mass media. As it turned out later, some visitors could not get into the hall and waited outside hoping to get an autograph from the author of the book. According to Zoya Svetova, she dedicated her book to Anna Politkovskaya.

May 09, 2011 22:30

• Festive ceremonies are going on in Nagorno-Karabakh since May, 7

  A triple holiday is celebrated in Nagorno-Karabakh on May, 9: the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the 19th anniversary of creation of the Defense Army of Karabakh and the day of liberation of the town of Shushi.

May 09, 2011 22:20

• Operative search officers started search of missing people in South Osetia

  A search group of Peace-support mission named after General Lebed started search of those missing since the period of the Georgian-Osetian conflict of 1989-2008.

May 09, 2011 22:10

• A fortune-teller's family fired upon in Dagestan, two persons wounded

  Unidentified people committed an attempt at a woman fortune-teller and her husband in Sergokala district of Dagestan, both of them were hospitalized with grave gunshot wounding.

May 09, 2011 22:00

• Investigation in Dagestan does not rule out that the journalist of an Islamic newspaper was killed by mistake

  According to a preliminary version, Yahya Magomedov, journalist of an Islamic newspaper "As-Salam", might be killed by mistake: he might have been confused with his relative, a police officer, Alkhas Amirhanov, Senior Assistant Chief of Investigative Department of the Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan, reported.

May 09, 2011 21:00

• Militants who perished last week in Chechnya committed suicide rather than were liquidated in assault, eyewitnesses assert

  The two members of the armed underground, whose liquidation was reported on April 25 by the republic's authorities and power agents, blew themselves up after they ran out of ammunition, but not killed in the course of the special operation, said the head of one of the republic's public organizations (NGOs).

May 09, 2011 20:00

• Dagestan: rights defender who opposed environment pollution fined by "Rospotrebnadzor"

  The Inter-District Division of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) for Dagestan fined Murtazali Tagirov, head of public organization "Fighter for Justice" by 4500 roubles.

May 09, 2011 19:00

• Finnish court finds Shamil Basaev's brother innocent in the case of illegal immigration

  Today, a trial took place in Finland on the case on illegal immigration of Chechen natives. The defendants Abdulkhamid Mechiev and Mikael Storsjo were acquitted.

May 09, 2011 18:00

• Head of Nazran GUVD demands to open criminal case against oppositionist Khazbiev

  On May 6, the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev was summoned to the Investigatory Committee of Ingushetia by investigator Gaitov for questioning. Magomed Tambiev, head of the Nazran GUVD (Chief Interior Department), has asked the Prosecutor's Office initiate a criminal case against the oppositionist.

May 07, 2011 23:00

• In Dagestan, dozens of houses are flooded by heavy rains

  About 50 houses were flooded in the village of Atlanaul, Buinaksk District of Dagestan, after heavy rains. This was reported by the republic's department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

May 07, 2011 22:30

• Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia: oppositionist Khazbiev was not kidnapped

  The Ingush Prosecutor's Office has conducted a check of the application lodged by Lydia Khazbieva, mother of the oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, who complained of illegal actions of law enforcers, who on March 23 kidnapped Khazbiev and his brothers.

May 07, 2011 22:00

• On May 17, South Ossetia starts issuing new passports

  Following the order given by President Eduard Kokoity to the government, on May 17 South Ossetia should start issuing new passports to its citizens.

May 07, 2011 21:00

• In Georgia, police arrests protesters

  The today's protest action held in the city of Rustavi by the oppositional organization "National Assembly" has ended in detention of its participants.