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January 07, 2011 18:00

• Armenians cannot afford winter resorts because of high prices

  Excessively high accommodation rates of hotels, rest and guest houses of Armenia make the country unattractive for winter holidays. The "Caucasian Knot" learnt about it from the interpreter-guide Ovanes Karapetyan.

January 07, 2011 17:00

• Counterterrorism in Northern Caucasus-2010: Kabardino-Balkaria

  In 2010, Kabardino-Balkaria saw a marked splash of activities of the armed underground.

January 07, 2011 16:00

• Orthodox believers of North-Caucasian Federal Okrug celebrate Christmas

  Preparation for the holiday was darkened by firing upon an Orthodox church in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya from a grenade launcher. None of the congregation or churchmen was injured.

January 07, 2011 15:00

• In 2010 Abkhazia received 1,8 billion rubles financial aid from Russia

  In 2010, 1,8 billion rubles out of gratuitous financial aid from Russia for social and economic development were drawn in Abkhazia. Vested remainder for 2011 is equal to 1,2 billion rubles.

January 07, 2011 14:00

• A statement of residents of Tavush district about beating them up in a military unit is under investigation in Armenia

  Military police of the town of Tavush, Armenia, is investigating an incident in one of the military units of Ijevan during which, according to two residents of Tavush district, the commander of the unit beat them up.

January 07, 2011 12:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of the period from December 27 to January 2

  On the New Year days the state of "interethnic unrest" persisted in Russia; residents of Rostov-on-Don met 2011 with a communal disaster; Kuban residents congratulated President with a collective video appeal; human rights activists are unhappy with the New-Year amnesty announced in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the review of the week of December 27, 2010, to January 2, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 06, 2011 23:10

• In Chechnya, militia officer and local resident are accused of large-scale fraud

  An unemployed resident of the Naur District of Chechnya and a militia officer, who served as an on duty officer of the temporary detention facility (known as "IVS") of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) are suspected of a large-scale fraud with the so-called "combat" payments, which amounted to 900,000 roubles. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the republic's law enforcement agencies that a criminal case was initiated against them.

January 06, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijan: Russian officer shot dead at Gabala Radar Station

  As reported by the Police Division of the Gabala District, a Russian office - Major Sergey Grachov, 47, an employee of the Gabala Radar Station, was killed.

January 06, 2011 23:00

• Resonant cases and trials of 2010

  The past 2010 was marked by many resonant trials, where natives of Southern Russia and the Caucasus were figurants; a full stop was put in many of them. Some of these trials were held abroad and acquired great public resonance because notable political figures were involved. Most often it concerned one of the regions of Russia - the Chechen Republic, which is still under close scrutiny of human rights defenders. Also, last year was marked by passing final decision on cases of Moscow-based groupings, which had been killing people of non-Slavic nationalities, by trials started in Northern Caucasus on murders of prominent people, as well as by further consideration in Kabardino-Balkaria case of the case dealing with attack on Nalchik in 2005.

January 06, 2011 22:00

• "Siberia" Airlines to fly to Georgia till end of March

  The Russia's "Siberia" Airlines were granted a permit from the "Rosaviatsiya" (Federal Air Transportation Agency) to go on with Moscow-Tbilisi direct charter flights till the end of March 2011. This was announced on January 5 by Paata Kamarauli, the Airlines' representative in Georgia.

January 06, 2011 21:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh denied involvement of its servicemen in injuring Azerbaijani soldier

  As reported by Senor Asratyan, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, the information of their Azerbaijani counterpart that the Karabakh armed forces had broken the ceasefire and wounded an Azerbaijani soldier is not true.

January 06, 2011 20:00

• Azerbaijani journalist Fatullaev receives no compensation yet defined by ECtHR

  So far, the Azerbaijani authorities have not paid the compensation of 25,000 euros awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to imprisoned journalist Einullah Fatullaev. Despite cancellation of the journalist's two previous 2007 convictions, the demand of the ECtHR to release him from custody is still ignored; the journalist remains in jail on new charges, which he finds fabricated.

January 06, 2011 19:00

• Chechen members of the top brass are aware of participation of Suiunova detained in Volgograd in armed underground

  Enforcement agencies of Chechnya have no information of Zeinat Suiunova, native of the republic, detained on January, 5, in Volgograd for suspicion of involvement in preparing an act of terror in Moscow.

January 06, 2011 18:00

• Director of a technical secondary school in Krasnodar region suspected of damnification to the institution to a sum of 13 million rubles

  Vitaly Gordeev, Director of Federal state educational institution of secondary professional education "Agricultural technical secondary school of Anapa", is suspected of abuse of authority and damnification to the school to a sum of over 13 million rubles.

January 05, 2011 23:10

• Deputy head of "Rustavgaz" detained in Georgia

  The Investigatory Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has detained four persons, including Rostom Tsertsvadze, deputy director general of the "Rustavgaz" Company, on suspicion of concealment of a large amount of taxes.

January 05, 2011 23:00

• Medvedev: Sochi shall become world-class resort

  Four out of 14 sporting objects built for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will be moved to other cities, two will be re-profiled and eight will retain their functionality and, along with new transportation and engineering facilities, are intended to transform Sochi into a world-class resort.

January 05, 2011 22:30

• Families of seamen captured by Somalia pirates demand meeting with Saakashvili

  Relatives of Georgian seamen who stay in captivity of Somalia pirates demand a meeting with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

January 05, 2011 22:20

• Power Unit No. 2 of Rostov NPP added to the grid

  After elimination of the reasons that triggered the electric protection circuit on January 4, today the Power Unit No. 2 of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant was switched on and added to the energy grid.

January 05, 2011 22:10

• Remains of archaeologist who disappeared in the mountains found in Abkhazia

  In a forest in the upper section of the Kelasur River, a local resident found the remains of archaeologist Gennady Ognev, 61, who disappeared last March.

January 05, 2011 22:00

• Winter resorts of Kabardino-Balkaria are full of tourists

  This year, during the New Year holidays, the region near the Elbrus Mount - the main winter resort of Kabardino-Balkaria - has already been visited by more than seven thousand tourists.