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December 26, 2009 22:14

• In Georgia, electricity supply to refugees from South Ossetia will resume after payment of debts

  Supply of electric power to refugees from South Ossetia, living in Skra village, Gori District (Eastern Georgia), will be resumed only after they pay their debts to the "Telasi" electricity distribution company. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the press service of the company.

December 26, 2009 22:05

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan sets afloat the criminal case on execution of Khasavyurt residents after three years of protraction

  Enver Mamedov, head of the division for supervising investigation of crimes of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, has instructed the public prosecutor of Khasavyurt to receive Mamatkhan Baisultanov, who had complained that the investigation of the execution of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, committed in 2006, is protracted.

December 26, 2009 21:51

• Mass disorders continue in Kakashura village in Dagestan

  Today, in the Dagestan village of Kakashura, Karabudakhken District, a crowd of about 500 persons strong has set the household of Boris Nasrutdinov, son of the owner of the local poultry farm, on fire. Yesterday, on December 25, a conflict with the use of firearms burst out because of Boris.

December 26, 2009 20:35

• In Sochi, Imereti residents face electricity cut-off

  On December 25 at 10:45 p.m. Moscow time, three thousand residents of the Imereti Bay and "Rossiya" State Farm, Adler District of Sochi, where Olympic objects are built, are again without electricity.

December 26, 2009 19:00

• Germany: book on torture in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya to be published

  Mansur Musaev, a former resident of Grozny, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the work is now underway in Germany on a documentary book, describing in details the practice of arrests and torture of detainees in Chechnya.

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December 25, 2009 23:00

• Guseinov: President's pardon is no solution to the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  Any act of pardon or amnesty should be welcomed from the viewpoint of humanism; however, the today's President's pardon has not solved the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. This was stated by Emin Guseinov, Director of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), in his comments on the order of the head of Azerbaijan.

December 25, 2009 22:00

• Kalishewska: not all Caucasians coming to Poland have the right to the status of refugees

  Many people who come to Poland from Caucasian republics have no grounds to claim for the status of refugees, as Ivona Kalishewska, an employee of the Polish edition "Kaukaz.net" believes.

December 25, 2009 21:00

• Evkurov: fight against corruption in Ingushetia is fruitless

  The war on corruption in Ingushetia is a failure because of "dishonesty and indecency" of certain judges, President Yunus-Bek Evkurov has stated. At the same time, Vladimir Ustinov, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the Southern Federal District (SFD), praises the efforts of the President of Ingushetia who "actively works with the population" and treats him as a positive example of how to act in order to make the "state power work for the society."

December 25, 2009 20:00

• In Adzharia, owners of TV-25 to discuss their debt with Ombudsman of Georgia

  On December 26, in Batumi, journalists of the oppositional channel TV-25 will present documents to the Ombudsman of Georgia Georgiy Tugushi, on the basis of which they will try to write off their debt, which threatens to stop the channel. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Merab Merkviladze, owner and director of the TV company.

December 25, 2009 19:00

• Relative of Tochiev, executed in Ingushetia, accuses power agents of pogrom in her house

  Today, in Srednie Achaluki village, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, power agents have conducted a non-sanctioned search. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Leila Tochieva, the owner of the searched house.

December 25, 2009 19:00

• Yaraliev: Dagestan authorities hamper enforcement of judgement on Derbent election

  One of the candidates to the post of Mayor of the city of Derbent, former public prosecutor of Dagestan and now the head of the Suleiman-Stalskiy District Imam Yaraliev has expressed his satisfaction with the decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan (RD), according to which the outcomes of the election in Derbent were nullified.

December 25, 2009 18:00

• IMR states impairment of freedom of speech in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Institute of Media Rights (IMR) has presented its 2009 report on the situation with the freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, which notes that the situation with the freedom of speech in the country "remains poor, and Azerbaijan is behind many countries by this indicator," as Leila Madatli, the IMR's spokesperson, said at the presentation of the report in the Baku Media Centre.

December 25, 2009 17:00

• Ombudsman of Armenia: courts are under prosecutors' pressure

  Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia has presented his extraordinary public report "Ensuring Fair Litigation in the Republic of Armenia", where the abnormal operation of the judiciary was treated as a "systemic problem."

December 25, 2009 16:00

• Armenian Nature Ministry returns 118.4 million drams to the budget

  As reported by Minister Aram Arutyunyan, the checks conducted by his Ministry of Nature Protection this year have revealed over 700 violations in the spheres of fauna and flora protection, protection and use of water bodies and illegal felling. As a result of the checks, the Ministry has returned 118.4 million drams back to the state budget.

December 24, 2009 23:15

• Russian Federation and Abkhazia agree on accommodation of diplomatic representative offices

  Today in Moscow, Foreign Ministers of Russia and Abkhazia Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shamba have signed the intergovernmental agreement which "creates the legal basis for functioning of diplomatic representative offices of the two countries."

December 24, 2009 22:14

• Experts see a "precedent of justice" in cancellation of Derbent elections

  The decision of the Supreme Court of Dagestan to cancel the outcomes of the elections in the city of Derbent is lawful and justified. The experts who stick to this opinion say that the courts have perceived President Medvedev's signal.

December 24, 2009 21:46

• Observers find municipal elections in Azerbaijan non-free and non-democratic

  The municipal elections on December 23 in Azerbaijan were accompanied by rough violations of the law and, consequently, cannot be regarded as free, democratic and fair. This is asserted in the primary statement of the Centre for Monitoring Elections and Training in Democracy (CMETD) adopted on the monitoring results of the election campaign.

December 24, 2009 20:19

• Movsisyan: Armenia is interested to export energy to Turkey

  In the near future, should the Armenian-Turkish border get opened, Armenia will be able to export electric power to Turkey. Armenia is interested in this export to the neighbour, where the energy deficit is high. This was stated by Armen Movsisyan, Minister for Power and Natural Resources of Armenia.

December 24, 2009 20:00

• Ingushetia: debaters name safety among top problems

  On December 18-19, the project "Peace to the Caucasus", which assumes meetings, discussions and roundtables in the republics of Northern Caucasus, visited Ingushetia.

December 24, 2009 18:28

• In Georgia, refugees from South Ossetia protest against electricity cut-offs

  The refugees from South Ossetia, who were temporarily accommodated in Skra village (8 km off the city of Gori), held a protest action by blocking a railway section not far from Gori. According to Georgian media, they demand restoration of electricity supply to their houses.