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January 12, 2010 20:00

• Armenia's CC finds Armenian-Turkish Protocols constitutional

  According to the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia passed in the closed session the Armenian-Turkish Protocols were found conformant with the Constitution.

January 12, 2010 19:00

• Prosecutor's Office cancels refusal to open case against "Novaya Gazeta"

  The Prosecutor's Office of Moscow has cancelled the decision to refuse to initiate on demand of the President of Chechnya a criminal case against journalists of "Novaya Gazeta", who stated in their articles Ramzan Kadyrov's violations of human rights. Earlier, the Inquiry Department refused the initiate a case against "Novaya Gazeta".

January 12, 2010 18:00

• Imam of Buglen mosque assassinated in Dagestan

  Imam Nazim Magomedov, 38, was knifed dead today in the morning in Buglen village, Buinaksk District of Dagestan, when he went out of the mosque.

January 12, 2010 17:00

• Moscow City Court reappoints consideration of Kadyrov's and Orlov's complaints to January 21

  Today, after Andrei Krasnenkov, Ramzan Kadyrov's lawyer, presented at the Court session an opinion to the respondents' complaint, the consideration of the cassation complaints lodged by Kadyrov and Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial", against the decision of the Tver Court was postponed.

January 12, 2010 16:00

• Caucasian militants demand a million from businessman Boiko for information about priest's murderer

  Vasily Boiko, chair of the board of directors of the Company "Your Financial Trustee", accused of swindling land plots in Moscow vicinities, asks power agencies to protect him from militants of Northern Caucasus. Mr Boiko and his lawyers sent their application to the FSB after a publication in an extremists' website that he owes one million roubles to militants' leader Doku Umarov for information about the killer of Moscow priest Daniil Sysoev.

January 12, 2010 15:00

• Counterterrorism in Dagestan: 15 CTOs in 2009

  Last year, power agencies 15 times introduced the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in different localities of Dagestan, in addition to many operations of counteracting terrorism and extremism. This is supported by analysis of the archives of the "Caucasian Knot" and open sources.

January 12, 2010 12:00

• Adygea: Adygs prepare suit against dispersal of Adyge Dzhegu dance

  In Adygea, Adyg society is indignant with the dispersal by militiamen on the New Year night in Maikop, the republic's capital, of the collective national dance Adyge Dzhegu. The social movement named "Adyge Khasse" is going to lodge a claim on this suppressive action.

January 12, 2010 01:00

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

  Aggravation of situation in Dagestan; attempts to launch Russia-Georgia air flights and failure of a meeting on incident prevention in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of January 4-10, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 11, 2010 23:23

• Imereti residents demand to stop factories located in the territory of ornithological park

  Residents of the Imereti Lowland in Sochi complain of contamination of the environmental and noises, which exceed the standards, emitted and generated by the three factories belonging to the State Corporation "Olympstroy." According to local citizens, the factories of high hazard degree were placed on the lands initially allocated for an ornithological park.

January 11, 2010 22:10

• MoJ of Dagestan obliges branch of "Edinaya Rossiya" to give data about its political board to "Chernovik"

  The Dagestan Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has called the local branch of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party not to break the Russian law on mass media and the Constitution and to provide the journalists of the weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint) about the members of the political board of the regional branch. According to Magomed Magomedov, a journalist of the edition, this decision of the Dagestan MoJ is unprecedented.

January 11, 2010 20:58

• Kobaladze's defence treats the trial on Mukhrovani mutiny as a political show

  The City Court of Tbilisi has ruled to release General Kobaladze, accused of an attempt to overthrow the state power during the mutiny at the military base in Mukhrovani, right in the courtroom. The prosecutor had asked to imprison him for 12 years for a wilful military mutiny and for 1.6 years for illegal arm bearing.

January 11, 2010 19:22

• Dagestan resident complains of beating and militiamen's demand to change evidences

  Magomed Gadjiev, a resident of Makhachkala, who was beaten by militiamen and is now at the Republic's Traumatology Hospital with plural body bruises, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that the inspector wants him to change evidences.

January 11, 2010 18:32

• Krasnodar: Anastasia Denisova's apartment searched

  Today in Krasnodar, militiamen conducted a search in the apartment of Anastasia Denisova, a member of the Coordination Board of the Youth Human Rights Movement, leader of the organization "ETnIKA", active participant of the Movement "GROZA" and employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". It was stated that the search was conducted under a special operation of checking the conformity of actual residents to those registered in the apartment in the context of a terror threat.

January 11, 2010 18:00

• Azerbaijani CEC announces final totals of municipal elections

  On January 11, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan approved the final totals of the elections on December 23, 2009 to the country's local government bodies.

January 09, 2010 21:00

• Dagestan: car blown up with casualties

  Not far from Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, militiamen opened fire on a suspicious car, when its driver did not react to demand to stop. The car blew up and three suspected militants inside were dead.

January 09, 2010 20:00

• Shein: we plan to reach Strasbourg to cancel Astrakhan election outcomes

  Should the Russian justice fail to cancel the outcomes of the October 11 elections in Astrakhan, Oleg Shein, Deputy of Russian State Duma and a candidate for the post of Mayor of Astrakhan at the elections, is going to address his complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

January 09, 2010 19:00

• Passports checked in Grozny

  Residents of a number of small settlements located in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Chechen capital report about the check of their passports held there. There were no detainees, however, local residents got worried.

January 09, 2010 18:00

• First candidate to chair Georgia's CEC nominated

  On Friday, January 8, consultations were held by members of NGOs with the administration of President of Georgia on to discuss the issues related to electing the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the country.

January 09, 2010 17:00

• Failed building in Georgia kills three persons

  In Tbilisi, on January 8, the human wreck in the collapsed building of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia made three persons - the workers killed by the ruins. According to rescuers, there were four persons inside the building at the moment.

January 09, 2010 16:00

• Sochi residents are indignant with felling of perennial trees

  In Sochi, tenants of House No. 25 in the Ostrovskogo Street are revolted with felling perennial and bushes, finding it illegal.