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December 01, 2009 23:20

• Public reception office on legal issues opened in Vladikavkaz

  On December 1, the capital of Northern Ossetia starts a public reception office, intended to render free-of-charge legal aid and organized by law students.

December 01, 2009 23:10

• "Khasse": culprits who beat Keshev in Nalchik wanted to disrupt preparation for Adygs' rally

  The public organization of the Adyg people "Khasse" has made a statement on the fact of beating the leader of the "Circassian Congress" Ruslan Keshev in Kabardino-Balkaria. The statement notes that the aim of this attack was to disrupt preparation for the rally of Adyg public planned for December 5 in Nalchik.

December 01, 2009 23:00

• Russian delegation stopped from entering Georgia

  Today, at the Tbilisi airport, a group of Russian experts was not allowed to cross the state border. Having spent half an hour in Georgia, they took a return flight and came back to Moscow via Yerevan.

December 01, 2009 22:30

• Participants of the forum "Caucasus: Tradition and Modernization" discuss issues of interethnic dialogue in mass media

  Workers of mass media, authorities and the public took part in the section "Inter-Confessional and Interethnic Dialogue in Media Space" of the forum "Caucasus: Tradition and Modernization", held on November 30, 2009, in Nalchik.

December 01, 2009 22:00

• Power agents shot Uzhakhov dead without warning, eyewitnesses say

  As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, on November 25 in Karabulak, two suspected militants were killed in a skirmish in their VAZ-2109 car. The casualties were Mustafa Tochiev and Khamzat Uzhakhov. Mustafa was in federal search. However, the eyewitnesses and Uzhakhov's relatives assert that Tochiev was just a passenger in Uzhakhov's taxi car.

December 01, 2009 21:00

• Georgia's MFA sends protest notes to Russia against violations of Georgians' rights

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has handed over to Russia its notes of protest related to the murder in Moscow on November 23 of Eduard Gurtskaya, a refugee from Abkhazia, and detention on November 29 of Ramaz Makasarashvili, a citizen of Georgia.

December 01, 2009 19:00

• ICPO: Sadulayeva's murder has nothing to do with her professional work

  Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the humanitarian organization "Let's Save the Generation", who was kidnapped and murdered together with her husband Alik Dzhabrailov in Grozny earlier this August, was an occasional victim of the culprits: she died because of the husband. This was stated on Tuesday by Victor Ledenyov, head of the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia.

December 01, 2009 18:00

• Court extends custody for suspects of blowing up "Neva-Express" train

  On Tuesday, the Novgorod Regional Court extended till March 3, 2010, the custody of Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev, suspected figurants in the first explosion of the "Neva-Express" train committed in August 2007. This was announced by the spokesman of the united press service of the Novgorod regional judiciary.

November 30, 2009 23:20

• Participants of the Forum "Caucasus. Traditions and Modernization" believe that authorities hamper business in the Caucasus

  One of the sections of the Forum "Caucasus. Traditions and Modernization", held today in Kabardino-Balkaria, was on the forms and problems of running business in the Caucasus. Many participants agreed that local authorities are hindering successful businesses in the Caucasus.

November 30, 2009 23:00

• No Azerbaijani citizens among "Neva-Express" casualties

  On November 29, the General Consulate of Azerbaijan in St Petersburg reported that there were no citizens of Azerbaijan among those who perished or suffered in the explosion of the "Neva-Express" fast train.

November 30, 2009 22:50

• Badalov is shocked with Khidriev's confession of preparing "Neva-Express" explosion

  Ruslan Badalov, Chairman of the Russian Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation", was shocked by the statement of Maksharip Khidriev, a resident of Ingushetia, who pled guilty of preparing the first terror act against the "Neva-Express" train. In the opinion of human rights activist, there are eyewitnesses who evidence Khidriev's alibi.

November 30, 2009 22:40

• Leader of "Circassian Congress" severely beaten in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Ruslan Keshev, leader of the public organization named "Circassian Congress", was violently beaten. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt from duly informed sources that at 5:30 p.m. several persons, led by a criminal authority, rushed into the office of the NGO and attacked him. Mr Keshev had his nose and arm broken and received other traumas.

November 30, 2009 22:30

• HRC "Memorial" resumes its work in Chechnya

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" plans to restart its activities in the territory of the Chechen Republic in near future. However, the format can be somewhat different.

November 30, 2009 22:00

• Schools restart in Grozny

  The quarantine, introduced in Grozny a week ago because of outbreak of acute respiratory diseases (ARDs), is cancelled. All the 40 schools of the city have resumed their work in full, as the spokesman from the department of education of the city of Grozny told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

November 30, 2009 21:00

• Search of militiamen's killers gives no results in Chechnya

  So far, the power agencies of Chechnya have failed to find the killers of the two militiamen shot dead on November 27. The Republic's MIA sees the main reason of the murder in their service activities.

November 30, 2009 20:00

• Moscow City Court refuses to release Evgenia Khasis, accused of murdering Stanislav Markelov

  Today, the Moscow City Court upheld the arrest of Evgenia Khasis, 25, accused on the murder case of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, killed this January. The court session was held closed.

November 30, 2009 19:00

• "Neva-Express" train case: supposed terrorists' base found, several persons searched

  In one of the villages of the Tver Region, located near the place of the accident of the "Neva-Express" train, employees of operative agencies found the house, where, according preliminary data, three or four terrorists who prepared the blow-up of the fast train could hide. This was stated on Monday by a source in the regional law enforcement bodies.

November 30, 2009 18:00

• Dagestan: "Novoe Delo" wants to hold minister criminally liable

  Today, advocate Magomed Gasanov, a proxy of the LLC "Novoe Delo", owner of the weekly of the same name, has filed a claim to the Federal Court of the Sovietskiy District of Makhachkala on defence of the honour, dignity and business reputation. The respondent under the claim is Garun Kurbanov, Minister for National Policy, Information and Foreign Relations of Dagestan.

November 30, 2009 00:00

• Head of Magaramkent District of Dagestan killed in Makhachkala

  Today, at about 6:00 a.m. in Makhachkala, in the Shamil Avenue, unidentified persons shelled the car with Abrek Gadzhiev, head of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan. Mr Gadzhiev later died from his wounds in hospital.

November 28, 2009 22:00

• Armenian leader threatens with "adequate answer" to Turkey's protraction in ratifying protocols

  The Armenian-Turkish protocols should be ratified within reasonable terms, while protraction of the process by Turkey will result in Armenia's adequate answer under the norms of the international law. This was stated on November 28 by President Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the leader of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, at its congress.