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October 13, 2010 23:00

• Chelysheva: police has fabricated links between Egle Kusaite, Magmadovs and Gataevs

  The cases of Aishat and Apti Magmadovs, arrested near Moscow, Egle Kusaite, suspected of terrorism in Lithuania, and the Gataev family of Chechen refugees, currently pending of their refugee status in Finland, were deliberately linked together to give more international resonance. This was stated by Oksana Chelysheva, deputy director of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship.

October 13, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 4-10

  Elections to local self-government bodies in the SFD (Southern Federal District) turned into numerous violations, and in Dagestan - into a mass brawl and murder; international organizations focus attention on problems of Southern Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 4-10, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 13, 2010 22:50

• Volgograd Region: court refuses to restore official who retired after fires

  The Rudnya District Court of the Volgograd Region has rejected the claim on reinstatement lodged by Viktor Morozov, former head of the district administration, who had voluntarily resigned after local fires on September 2-3. The claimant is going to challenge this decision.

October 13, 2010 22:50

• Three cases initiated after check of elections to Rostov-on-Don Duma

  The Investigatory Committee for the Rostov Region has initiated three criminal cases on facts of falsifying election documents at elections to the Rostov-on-Don City Duma on October 9, said the Committee's spokesman.

October 13, 2010 22:40

• In Krasnodar Territory, rector of state university accused of using fake diploma

  The criminal case against Albina Gatieva, Rector of the Armavir State Pedagogical University, accused of a fraud through use of a faked diploma of Doctor of Sciences, was sent to the court.

October 13, 2010 22:20

• Rustam Dzeitov, kidnapped in Ingushetia, found in Vladikavkaz SIZO

  The whereabout is now known of Rustam Maksharipovich Dzeitov, born in 1982, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo, whose kidnapping on September 7 by unidentified power agents from his home was reported by his relatives. As of October 12, Rustam Dzeitov was kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Vladikavkaz, says the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" received by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 13, 2010 22:10

• Dagestan: lawyer Mirzaeva demands to prosecute militiamen who detained her

  Lawyer Zinfira Mirzaeva has lodged a repeated application on attracting militiamen to responsibility for the illegal, in her opinion, detention and seizure of her phone, runs the message of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" that arrived to the "Caucasian Knot".

October 13, 2010 22:00

• Nalchik holds mourning ceremonies on 5th anniversary of attack

  The Square of Accord in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria was the venue of the rally on the fifth anniversary of the tragic events in Nalchik in 2005, when militants attacked power agencies of the republic. By the end of the rally, a group of women appeared in the square, whose sons took part in the attack and were killed or arrested, and whose sons were killed in special operations or disappeared.

October 13, 2010 21:00

• Ex-deputy of the Ministry of Education in Georgia is accused of corruption

  The personnel of the Investigation department of Head Public prosecutor's office of Georgia detained Alexander Chikvaidze, Ex-deputy Minister of Education and Science, on accusation of abuse of power and bribery.

October 13, 2010 20:00

• Two top-level militiamen in Stavropol region are suspected of bribery

  Criminal proceedings against Chief of Specialized investigative department for economic crimes and Head of Investigation unit of Department of Interior affairs in Stavropol suspected of an attempt and complicity in taking a bribe of one million rubles have been started in Stavropol region.

October 13, 2010 19:00

• ROSTRUD held up the work of three mines in Rostov region

  Federal Labor and Employment Service (Rostrud) held up the work of three mines in Rostov region. The reason for doing so had become blatant violations of labor security creating an actual danger for the miners' lives committed by the employers, Andrey Selivanov, Deputy Head of Rostrud, reported.

October 13, 2010 18:00

• A new expertise acknowledged the defendants in the process on a series of exploding houses in Sochi sane

  A repeated psychological and psychiatric expertise of the defendants in the process on a series of exploding houses in Sochi in 2008-2009 established that they were sane. The expert opinion was announced on October, 12, at the session of the court in Krasnodar.

October 12, 2010 23:50

• Investigation into death of MIA employee reopened in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The heads of the Investigatory Division for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) have cancelled the decision of the inspector of the Elborus ROVD (District Interior Division) of September 10, 2010, not to institute a criminal case on the death of Ekaterina Matveyeva, an employee of the criminal search, as unjustified.

October 12, 2010 23:30

• Khashagulgov not yet charged of organizing terror act in Vladikavkaz, lawyers say

  The boss of the FSB was too impatient to accuse Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of Ingushetia, of organizing the terror act at the central marketplace of Vladikavkaz; he is still in the status of a suspect, Khashagulgov's advocates assert.

October 12, 2010 23:10

• Congress of Chechen People in Grozny hopes to consolidate world Chechens

  The main mission of the two-day World Congress of Chechen People opened today in Grozny was formulated by its organizers as unification of all the Chechens living in different countries of the world. Observers, however, believe that the forum is held in Grozny as an opposition to the World Chechen Congress, which was held on September 16 in Poland with the participation of representatives of the non-recognized Ichkeria.

October 12, 2010 23:00

• In the Astrakhan Region, village head sentenced for fire casualties

  The cassation instance of the Astrakhan Regional Court has upheld the guilty verdict on the criminal case against Vyacheslav Gadjiev, head of the Aksarai village soviet. The court found that he was guilty of villagers' deaths in the fire that happened in the settlement. At the same time, there is an opinion in the villagers that real culprits of the tragedy are high-ranking officials.

October 12, 2010 22:50

• Violations revealed in psycho-neurological orphanage in Adygea

  The prosecutor's check conducted at the "Adamij Psycho-Neurological Orphanage" revealed numerous violations of the law. Consideration of the presentation on elimination of the violations will be held in the near future, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Sergey Mitusov, senior assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Adygea.

October 12, 2010 22:40

• Thomas Markert: not all Venice Commission's recommendations taken into account in amended Constitution of Georgia

  The Georgian Parliament has disregarded many of the recommendations of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission). This was stated by Thomas Markert, head of this independent advisory body to the Council of Europe on the constitutional law.

October 12, 2010 22:20

• Mass fight with shooting in Khadzhalmakhi has to do with elections, villager is sure

  Abumuslim Nurmagomedov, head of the village of Khadzhalmakhi in Dagestan, perished on October 10 from his wounds received in a skirmish that burst out from an unexpected shot in the air, said Magomed Magomedov, one of the villagers. According to his version, nobody knows who opened fire, but there is a version that they were militiamen. He also believes that the cause of the incident was in the elections.

October 12, 2010 22:10

• De-mining vehicle blows up in Chechnya, nobody suffered

  On October 11, a special vehicle named "Hydrema" and designed for de-mining tripped over a mine and blew up in the Grozny District of Chechnya during clearing arable land from explosive devices. Experts say that this was the first incident of this sort that occurred with this machinery. Two sappers inside the vehicle were not injured.