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March 24, 2010 23:20

• Kabardino-Balkaria: local Adygs treat Tbilisi conference as political PR-act

  Today, the Coordination Board of Adyg NGOs of Kabardino-Balkaria has disseminated a statement treating the scientific conference held in Tbilisi on Circassians' genocide as a "scandal" arranged by Georgian leaders with the aim "to draw attention of international public."

March 24, 2010 23:00

• US hand over three Guantanamo prisoners to Georgia

  As reported by the US Department of Justice, the States have delivered three former inmates of the prison located in the Guantanamo military base. The prisoners whose names are not disclosed were sent to Georgia yesterday, on March 23. Some of Georgian politicians and experts were positive towards this delivery.

March 24, 2010 22:50

• FSB: liquidated residents of Ingushetia planned to commit terror acts

  The militants liquidated in a special operation in Ingushetia were members of the "Surkhakhi bandit grouping", which planned to commit a series of terror acts in the territory of the republic. This was reported by the PR group of the Department of the FSB for Ingushetia.

March 24, 2010 22:30

• High water damaged 500 houses in Volgograd Region

  The high water is stronger in the Volgograd Region; already 12 settlements are in the flooding zone. As reported by the regional branch of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), 469 houses were damaged, and hundreds of residents were evacuated.

March 24, 2010 22:10

• The defendants in the Nalchik attack case plead to be released

  At the court session on March 23 dealing with the militants' attack of on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the judge announced the ruling about extension of defendants' custody by three more months. The court argued that all of them are accused of grave and especially grave crimes as members of an organized group. Also, in the course of the session, defendants blamed the court of being biased, and one of them, Anzor Mashukov, petitioned for challenging the judges.

March 24, 2010 21:40

• Teacher who drove schoolboy to suicide convicted in Stavropol Territory

  On March 23, the court of the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, announced a verdict on the criminal case of a rural teacher Valentina Neumyvakina, accused of driving a senior pupil to suicide. She was sentenced to 1 year of deprivation of freedom.

March 24, 2010 21:20

• Board of Judges of Ingushetia complains of president Evkurov

  On March 23, the Board of Judges of Ingushetia disseminated its statement passed back on February 12 asserting that President of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov interfered with the work of judges demanding to pass verdicts to his liking. The document was sent to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev.

March 24, 2010 21:00

• Lithuania recalls Gataevs' arrest warrant

  Today, the Ministry of Justice of Lithuania has recalled its European Arrest Warrant issued in relation to natives of Chechnya - spouses Malik and Khadizhat Gataev, - convicted for violence over children, who had been given them for rearing. The married couple is now in Finland.

March 24, 2010 20:00

• Russia has no policy for Northern Caucasus, participants of debates "Conflicts in the Caucasus" assert

  Russia has no policy for Northern Caucasus - only an attempt to use bayonets that leads to numerous victims only. This was stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, chair of the committee "Civil Assistance", a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and a member of the Board on Human Rights at the President of the Russian Federation, last week in Moscow in the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre during expanded debates "Conflicts in the Caucasus" from the general cycle "War and Peace".

March 24, 2010 19:00

• Stepashin: in Ingushetia they tried to intimidate and in Dagestan - to bribe - auditors of RF's Audit Chamber

  The Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation has sent a letter to the heads of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) and Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation reporting about the pressure exerted on the auditors of the Audit Chamber in the course of the check of use of budgetary funds and legality of disposal of land resources in Ingushetia. According to Mr Stepashin, in Dagestan figurants of a crime tried to bribe local employees of the Audit Chamber with 10 million roubles.

March 24, 2010 18:00

• Stavropol Territory: doctors convicted for extorting bribes for certifying disability

  Today, on March 24 the Stavropol Territorial Court has sentenced four employees of the local branch of the Medical-Social Examinations Bureau, accused of bribe-taking for certification of citizens' physical inability, where the latter had legitimate right to get such certifications.

March 23, 2010 23:40

• In Astrakhan Region, two persons accused of bribe-taking

  In the Astrakhan Region, the investigation is under way in the case concerning the extortion of bribes by the officers of the first company of Special Battalion No. 1 of the traffic and patrol service (TPS) of the Board of Interior for the Astrakhan Region.

March 23, 2010 23:20

• Sergeant major letting soldiers on leave for money convicted in Rostov Region

  In the Rostov Region, Rafik Jaffarov, 35-year old sergeant major serving in an infantry company received a monthly fee from soldiers for the permission to be absent from service. The bribe amount was from five to thirty thousand roubles per month.

March 23, 2010 23:00

• In Nagorno-Karabakh, experts are concerned about Erdogan's statement on possible deportation of Armenian illegal migrants from Turkey

  In Nagorno-Karabakh, the representatives of the public have negatively responded to the statements made the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan concerning the deportation of the Armenian migrants staying illegally in Turkey, however, according to Gaguik Avanesyan, the Karabakh movement activist, these statements will not hamper the process aimed at normalizing the Armenian-Georgian relations. Political scientist Manvel Sarkisyan supports this opinion. Manvel Sarkisyan supports this opinion.

March 23, 2010 22:50

• Georgian Parliament to consider Freedom Charter

  The Georgian Parliament has passed a resolution to start this week the discussion of draft legislation concerning the Freedom Charter initiated by the deputy Gia Tortladze.

March 23, 2010 22:30

• Case of human rights activist Denisova is brought before the court in Krasnodar

  On March 22, the Krasnodar Leninskiy District Court held a preliminary hearing of the case of human rights activist Anastasia Denisova, leader of the ETnIka civic organization.

March 23, 2010 22:10

• The defendants in the Nalchik attack case plead to be released

  At a court session held on March 22 to hear the case dealing with the attack by gunmen on law enforcement facilities on October 13, 2005, the participants of the court proceedings discussed the restraint to be imposed on the defendants as their retention in custody expires on March 27. The prosecution insists on applying the previously imposed restraint in the form of detention in custody whereas the defence lawyers demand that it should be changed referring to the defendants' health condition.

March 23, 2010 22:00

• Kumekhov: Circassian issue should be solved inside Russia

  The Adyg public organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria see the conference held in Tbilisi as an intervention into Russia's home affairs and an attempt to use the tragedy of the Adyg nation as a tool of political pressure on the Russian Federation. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Zhelyabi Kumekhov, Chairman of the Coordination Board of the Adyg Public Organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria.

March 23, 2010 21:40

• Not all residents of Tskhinvali move into new houses

  Despite the fact that restoration of housing facilities destroyed as a result of the war in August 2008 goes not so quickly as expected; and South Ossetia is already named a "black hole", where Russia's money infinitely disappears, today the situation is changing for the better. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent met those who already mark their housewarming and those who were less lucky.

March 23, 2010 21:30

• Journalists were not admitted to conference in Tbilisi on Adygs' genocide in Russian Empire

  For two days, on March 20-21, the Tbilisi-based hotel "Korti Yard Marriott" hosted a closed discussion of historical works presented by Caucasian scientists from Europe, Caucasus and Georgia. In the course of the scientific-practical conference "Concealed Nations, Crimes-in-Progress: Circassians and Peoples of Northern Caucasus between Past and Future", its delegates passed an appeal to the parliament of Georgia asking to recognize the genocide of the Adyg nation. In the course of the conference a resolution was also adopted concerning recognition of the actions of the Russian army in the 18th-19th centuries in the territory of today's Chechnya and Ingushetia to be a fact of genocide.