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January 20, 2010 21:00

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan reveals numerous violations admitted by supervisors

  The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has summed up the checks of execution of legislation on state control. Numerous violations of the law were revealed.

January 20, 2010 21:00

• Public figures of Dagestan discuss creation of the NCFD

  In Dagestan, state officials and public figures give their comments on the initiative of President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev to create the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and appoint Alexander Khloponin as his plenipotentiary there.

January 20, 2010 20:00

• With foundation of new federal district, Northern Caucasus acquires its special status in Russia

  The news about separation of the North-Caucasian Federal District out of the Southern Federal District was surely anticipated. The leaders of the regions, which now make parts of the new formation, support the idea and hope for the progress in social and economic spheres. Observers also find the decision logical and emphasize that the Kremlin has thus recognized the region's specificities.

January 20, 2010 20:00

• Kadyrov suggests Khloponin to live in Chechnya

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has expressed his readiness to render every assistance in solving the problems, which President of Russia put before Alexander Khloponin, who was appointed yesterday, on January 19, to the post of plenipotentiary in the newly-created North-Caucasian Federal District, and even promised to give some housing to him. Meanwhile, people in Chechnya are ambiguous to Mr Khloponin's appointment.

January 20, 2010 19:00

• Armenia: journalist Pashinyan's case to go to ECtHR

  Advocates of Nikol Pashinyan, imprisoned activist of the opposition, a well-known journalist and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), who was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, plan to appeal against the verdict to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported by Lusine Saakyan, one of the advocates.

January 20, 2010 18:00

• AAE: Grant Dink, who wrote about Armenians' genocide, died for democracy

  The murder of Grant Dink was not occasional: he died for defending democracy, and he had been sued repeatedly for breaching Article 301 of the Criminal Code of Turkey, which forbids mentioning the genocide of Armenians in 1915-1922. This is asserted by the lobbyist organization Assembly of Armenians of Europe (AAE) in its statement dated to the third anniversary of the murder of Grant Dink, a journalist of Armenian origin, committed in Istanbul.

January 19, 2010 23:50

• Turkey: criminal prosecution against organizers of the action "We beg Armenians' pardon" stopped

  The criminal case opened against the organizers of the Internet action "We beg Armenians' pardon" is finally stopped. Earlier the public prosecutor of Turkey A. Jaren refused to put forward charges against a group of Turkish intellectuals, who had initiated signing-in a letter of sympathy with the Armenian people because of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman empire of 1915.

January 19, 2010 23:20

• "Friends of Caucasian Adygs" are against "Circasiad" within Sochi Olympiad Programme

  The public organization of Jordan "Friends of Caucasian Adygs" has voiced against the so-called "Circasiad-2012", having explained it by the fact that the initiators of the project represent it as an event planned within the programme of the Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.

January 19, 2010 23:00

• Picket with demand of Dymovskiy's fair trial to be held in Novorossisk

  Prior to start of the trial against former militia major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, appointed on January 25, a picket will be held in the city with a demand of fair trial of Dymovskiy under the suit of Novorossisk militia bosses lodged against him.

January 19, 2010 22:20

• Observers from Georgia leave Ukraine

  The Georgian observers, whose mass arrival in Ukraine was one of major topics on the eve of the first round of presidential election held there on January 17, have returned to Georgia.

January 19, 2010 22:00

• Suspect of kidnappings businessmen detained in Ingushetia

  As reported by law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia, Magomed Gorchkhanov, a member of the criminal grouping, engaged in kidnapping businessmen with the aim of getting ransom, was detained.

January 19, 2010 21:00

• US congressmen dislike having Surkov as co-chair of "Civil Society"

  Some US congressmen have demanded from the administration of President Barack Obama not to take part in the work of the working group "Civil Society", set up last year under the top-level Russian-American Commission until the Kremlin replaces its Russian coordinator - first deputy of the administration of Russian President Vladislav Surkov.

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January 19, 2010 20:00

• Moscow authorities are ready to stop the march in memory of Markelov and Baburova

  The authorities of Moscow have again warned about inadmissibility of the march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova assassinated a year ago.

January 19, 2010 19:00

• "Khasse": all villages of Kabardino-Balkaria should have their mountain pastures

  The public organization "Khasse" sees the solution of the land problem in Kabardino-Balkaria in enforcement of the Federal Law No. 131 "On General Principles of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation". This was stated on January 16 by the leaders of the organizations "Khasse" Ibragim Yaganov and "Circassian Congress" Ruslan Keshev at a press conference in Nalchik.

January 19, 2010 18:00

• In Armenia, oppositional editor sentenced to 7 years in prison

  Nikol Pashinyan, an activist of opposition and editor-in-chief of the newspaper named "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time) was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. This decision of the general jurisdiction court of Yerevan communities Centre-Nork Marash was passed today.

January 18, 2010 23:50

• Residents of Ingushetia were not informed about gas main accident

  So far, the accident at the gas main in Ingushetia was not recognized to be a terror act; but if it will be, the result may be in growth of mistrust to the authorities, since the population is already criticizing the republic's leadership. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about by Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of the Ingush President; while in the opinion of Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush news agency "Maximum", the authorities have failed to properly inform the population about the accident.

January 18, 2010 23:30

• Chechnya: militia detains refugee returning from Austria

  The MIA of Chechnya has disseminated the information that on January 16, in the high-mountainous Vedeno District, as a result of a special operation, a man of 32 was detained, who on the eve returned from Austria, where until recently he lived as a refugee. The detainee is accused of taking part in separatists' armed formations in 2001. Local human rights activists assert that the actions of power agents are illegal.

January 18, 2010 23:10

• Evkurov: Ingushetia helps militants in return to peaceful life

  As reported by President Yunus-Bek Evkurov at a meeting in the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in 2009 in Ingushetia 16 militants surrendered and returned to peaceful life.

January 18, 2010 23:00

• President of Adygea names his republic quiet and investor-attractive

  President of Adygea Aslan Tkhakushinov believes that his republic has good potentials for attracting investors. According to his story, Adygea was recognized by experts to be the quietest region of Northern Caucasus and went up by 27 positions in the rating of investment attractiveness.

January 18, 2010 22:20

• Ambassador: Georgia has no claims to Ukraine for refusal to register observers

  As announced by Grigol Katamadze, Georgia's ambassador to Ukraine, at a press conference in Kiev, the conflict in the context of the refusal of the Ukrainian Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to register election observers from Georgia will not grow into a diplomatic scandal.