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December 24, 2009 18:00

• Tbilisi: Russian human rights activists try to release their Georgian colleague

  Russian human rights defenders Ernst Chorny and Sergey Kovalyov came to Tbilisi to meet President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. According to Mr Kovalyov, earlier they sent a letter to Mikhail Saakashvili asking him to release human rights activist Academician Vladimir Vakhaniya.

December 23, 2009 23:20

• Gayane Khachatryan: Armenian political prisoner Mikaelyan can be early relieved

  The current legislation assumes a mechanism of early relief of prisoners in case of a heavy disease, which prevents any further stay in prison. Lawyer Gayane Khachatryan told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in her comment on the chances to get amnestied because of state of health for the Armenian political prisoner Sasun Mikaelyan.

December 23, 2009 22:58

• Resident of Dagestan asks Russian Public Prosecutor to punish the militiaman who beat him

  Today, Khaibula Khaibulaev, a resident of Karata village, Akhvakh District, has sent a letter to Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russia, asking him to attract Labazan Derbishev, head of criminal search of the Botlikh District, who severely beat Khaibulaev on August 16, 2009.

December 23, 2009 22:03

• Vladimir Ustinov: in 2009, count of terror acts in SFD is much higher

  In 2009, the number of crimes, which can be regarded as terror acts, committed in the south of Russia, went up by almost one third as compared with 2008; thus, during 11 months of this year, 786 such crimes were committed. This was stated on December 22 by Vladimir Ustinov, Plenipotentiary of Russian President for the South federal District (SFD).

December 23, 2009 21:43

• Official Tskhinvali protests against detention of South-Ossetian woman in Georgia

  In Tbilisi, Khatuna Charaeva, a resident of the Leningor District of South Ossetia, was detained with 30,000 counterfeit US dollars on her. Boris Chochiev, Plenipotentiary of President of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement, said that "the Georgian authorities have started applying a new method of creating intolerable life conditions for the population of the area."

December 23, 2009 21:00

• Azerbaijan: opposition states falsification of elections

  In the evening on December 23, Azerbaijan finalized its municipal elections. They were attended by 1,462,070 voters, or 31.86 percent of the voters' list. As reported by Ramin Guseinov, head of the centre named "Elections", the outcomes are still unknown.

December 23, 2009 20:00

• Another local disappears in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Kabardino-Balkarian human rights centre was approached by Lydia Zhangurazova, a resident of Verkhniaya Zhemtala village, Cherek District, Kabardino-Balkaria, who said that her son Islam Zhangurazov, 23, went for his evening pray to the mosque on Sunday, December 20, but never reached the mosque.

December 23, 2009 10:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 14-20

  Official outcomes of presidential election in Abkhazia; recognition of this republic and South Ossetia by the Republic of Nauru; violations of the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan; skirmishes in the contact line with Karabakh; terror acts in the south of Russia and return of the HRC "Memorial" to Chechnya, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of December 14-20 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 22, 2009 23:50

• 14 bureaucrats made responsible on corruption cases in Rostov Region from start of year

  In 2009, in the Rostov Region, 14 state and municipal officials have been attracted to criminal liability. On December 17, Nikolai Britvin, head of the FSB Department for the Rostov Region, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, this was the result of implementing a complex of measures aimed to reveal, prevent and stop corruption processes in the bodies of state power and local self-management.

December 22, 2009 23:30

• Contract soldier who fled to Georgia states humiliation during service

  Vitaly Khripun, a sergeant of a Russian frontier unit, deployed in South Ossetia, explained his escape by the humiliations, to which he was subjected at his place of service.

December 22, 2009 23:20

• Adyg Diaspora of Turkey is concerned about situation in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The members of the Adyg Diaspora of Turkey, representing the public organization "Kakavsevi" (Caucasian Home), have condemned the recent attacks on leaders of the Adyg social movements in Kabardino-Balkaria.

December 22, 2009 23:10

• Nagorno-Karabakh to hold charitable action "Armenian Registry of Marrow Donors"

  The action, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the charitable fund "Armenian Registry of Marrow Donors" will take place on January 8, 2010, in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was stated on December 16 by Armen Khachatryan, Minister of Public Health.

December 22, 2009 23:00

• Russia would not deport suspects of murdering Sulim Yamadaev to UAE

  The Russian party is ready to consider the materials of the Dubai police on the case about the murder attempt on the ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev by means of own power agencies.

December 22, 2009 22:00

• Azerbaijani court to consider bloggers' complaint on January 8

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court, chaired by Gail Mamedov, held a preparatory session on the complaint of young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, sentenced on November 11 to 2.5 and 2 years of imprisonments for hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries.

December 22, 2009 21:00

• Consideration of Kadyrov's claim to "Novaya Gazeta" postponed till February 2

  The today's consideration of the claim on defence of honour and dignity of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against "Novaya Gazeta" was cancelled.

December 22, 2009 20:00

• Azerbaijan: health of journalist Guseinov again worsened

  The health condition of inmate Mushvig Guseinov, convicted journalist of the newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way), who suffers from tuberculosis, has again aggravated.

December 22, 2009 19:00

• Resident of Ingushetia convicted in Stavropol on forged claim, relatives say

  Relatives of Idris Albogachiev, a resident of Ingushetia, convicted on December 12 for violating disciplinary regulations in a corrective establishments in the Stavropol Territory, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Idris fell victim to inspectors' and judicial arbitrariness.

December 22, 2009 18:00

• Georgian opposition demands restoration of Memorial of Glory

  On Monday, December 21, leaders and activists of oppositional parties and movements held a protest action in Kutaisi against demolition last Saturday, on December 19, of the Memorial of Glory. When the monument was blown up, Eka Dzhincharadze and her eight-year-old daughter Nino were killed by concrete splinters.

December 21, 2009 23:30

• Khatazhukov: extrajudicial executions on the rise in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The kidnapping of Georgiy Nakani, a resident of Neitrino village in Kabardino-Balkaria, and disappearance of three residents of the republic in November on their way to the city of Ufa, are the facts in the category of extrajudicial executions, widely practiced in Ingushetia and Dagestan. This is the opinion of Valery Khatazhukov, head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre.

December 21, 2009 23:00

• Mariam Dzhanieva: Batyr Dzhaniev, announced as terrorist, left Nazran on the eve of terror act

  As a result of the wounds obtained at explosion of the car in Nazran on December 16, the third relative - Amirkhan Dzhaniev - has died. Maksharip Aushev's widow Fatima Dzhanieva, who was wounded by the explosion, is able to evidence. Their relative Batyr Dzhaniev, whom the investigation calls the terrorist-suicide bomber, who, allegedly, took revenged for his perished relatives, on the eve of the incident left for Archangelsk, where he studies.