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April 24, 2009 23:00

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of shelling Velit village

  Ibragim Gaseev, Deputy Defence Minister of South Ossetia, has stated today that last night Georgia used large-calibre weapons to shell, from Dirbi village, the village of Velit, Znaur District of South Ossetia. There were no casualties or victims.

April 24, 2009 22:00

• In Georgia, opposition disrupts Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper

  Last night the opposition in Tbilisi carried out its first action of "chasing President", having disrupted Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper in the cafe near Mardzhanishvili Theatre. Saakashvili had to leave the place together with his bodyguards.

April 24, 2009 21:30

• Zeitun Sultanov, underground leader, killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The car passenger, liquidated on April 22 in Kabardino-Balkaria by power agents, was identified as Zeitun Sultanov, leader of the local armed underground movement.

April 24, 2009 21:00

• Defendant in Politkovskaya's case to be interrogated in a new case

  Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow's RUBOP (Department to Fight Organized Crime) agent and acquitted figurant in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, can be interrogated under another criminal case, this time under suspicion of forging money.

April 24, 2009 20:30

• Ten bases and six hiding places with arms detected in CTO zones in Chechnya

  In the mountain areas of Chechnya, which were announced under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, during the first three weeks in April, ten militants' bases and six hiding places were found. This is asserted by the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya.

April 24, 2009 20:00

• Investigation of explosion of "Neva-Express" train is over

  The investigation under the criminal case on blowing the "Neva-Express" train is over, and one of the defendants - Maksharip Khidriev was given the right to get acquainted with the materials of the case.

April 24, 2009 19:00

• Armenians of the world mark Memory Day of genocide victims

  On April 24, the Memory Day of the victims of Armenians' genocide in Ottoman Empire of 1915-1922, all cities, towns and villages of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the foreign countries, which have Armenian Diasporas, hold traditional mourning actions in memory of 1.5 million genocide victims.

April 24, 2009 18:00

• Stavropol Territory commemorates victims of Chernobyl NPP tragedy

  On April 24 in Stavropol, the mini-park, named in honour of the 55th anniversary of the great victory of Soviet people over fascism, was the venue of a rally dated to the Memory Day of Victims of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes. This Memory Day is marked in Russia on April 26.

April 23, 2009 23:30

• Woman accused in beating four men convicted in Azerbaijan

  On April 22, the Surakhan District Court of Azerbaijan put a full stop in the case of Sayara Geidarova, accused of beating four men. The woman was sentenced to one year of conditional imprisonment.

April 23, 2009 22:00

• CTO in the south of Chechnya continues

  In the mountainous Itum-Kalin and Vedeno Districts of Chechnya the broad-scale counterterrorist operation (CTO), launched three days ago by federal power agencies, continues.

April 23, 2009 21:50

• Tax bodies suspend their claims to parents of Beslan children

  Mikhail Mokretsov, Head of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), announced on April 22 a suspension of the procedure of collecting taxes from the parents of children-victims of Beslan terror act and trained at the "Podmoskovny" Lyceum situated in Korallovo near Moscow.

April 23, 2009 21:10

• Beseliya: Georgia's MIA fails to ensure safety of protest actions

  Last night an oppositionist was beaten in Tbilisi. Eka Beseliya, leader of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", has stated that the country's MIA fails to prevent violence and ensure safety of the participants of protest actions; accordingly, the Ministry "will receive adequate answer."

April 23, 2009 21:00

• In Dagestan, court fines "Novoe Delo" journalists for their reviews

  The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has obliged journalists of the newspaper "Novoe Delo" to pay out 12,000 roubles to Zaur Gaziev, journalist of the newspaper "Free Republic", who was dissatisfied with reviews on his articles and fairy tale.

April 23, 2009 20:40

• Sappers in Chechnya clear one and a half hectares of farmland

  The experts of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia from the Special-Purpose Centre named "Leader" have started their work in Chechnya and already cleared 1.5 ha of agricultural land of mines and all kinds of bombs; the land belongs to the state farm "Zarya" (Dawn) located near Grozny.

April 23, 2009 20:00

• Relatives of Ingushetian resident killed by power agents are sure that he is a victim of extrajudicial execution

  Relatives of Adam Aushev, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, Nazran District, killed on March 21 by employees of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, reject the DFSB's version about his armed resistance and insist on an extrajudicial execution of the young man.

April 23, 2009 19:00

• European Court condemns Russia on five Chechen cases

  Today, the European Court on Human Rights has announced its decisions on five cases related to violations of Chechen residents' rights. According to these decisions, the aggregate compensation awarded to the applicants on all five cases for their material and mental damage will make 549,700 euros.

April 23, 2009 18:00

• Lady-journalist beaten in Sochi did not receive threats before interviewing Nemtsov

  Sochi journalist Anastasia Akopyan beaten with threats after she had interviewed Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she had not received any threats before the incident.

April 22, 2009 23:40

• In Krasnodar Territory, ship-owner company promised to pay debts to seamen hungerstriking in Eysk

  The company, which fails to pay salaries to the crew of the Russian ship "Artemida", now in the Krasnodar Territory at the ship-repair works in the city of Eysk, promised to settle, before April 26, the conflict with the seamen who have announced a hunger strike.

April 22, 2009 23:30

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria complains of blackmailing by militiaman

  Marina Bottaeva, 20, a resident of Nalchik, addressed human rights organizations with an application that he was blackmailed by a law enforcer named Arsen Iritov, born in 1985, a relative of Naurbi Zhamborov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

April 22, 2009 23:00

• Authorities of North Ossetia plan to improve school food after September

  Since September 1, 2009, North Ossetia will seriously toughen requirements to medical centres and dining rooms in educational establishments in order to improve children's nutrition and health control. Now, only about 20 percent of schoolchildren of the republic get proper meals.