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April 20, 2009 22:10

• Evkurov: 47 feuding families reconcile in Ingushetia

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has stated that 47 families, which were in the state of feud, reached reconciliation. According to the President, it brings hope for peace to be settled in the region.

April 20, 2009 22:00

• CTO regime announced in a village of Ingushetia

  At about 8:00 a.m. today, in Ingushetia, in the village of Verkhni Alkun and adjoining territory, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced. Power agents are searching militants.

April 20, 2009 21:00

• General Kizyun recognized Ruslan Yamadaev's killer by his eyes

  Former commandant of Chechnya Sergey Kizyun, who was attacked in a car in central Moscow together with ex-deputy of State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev, has recognized the latter's killer by his eyes. Mr Kizyun has stated that they had been attacked by Aslanbek Dadaev, a native of Chechnya. Dadaev's advocates would not agree with Sergey Kizyun.

April 20, 2009 20:00

• Oreshkin: Russia to preserve control over the objects restored in South Ossetia

  A number of objects, built in South Ossetia for Russia's money, will remain in RF's ownership. According to political scientist Dmitri Oreshkin, this Russia's decision is caused by the desire to keep control over spending of the 10 billion roubles, which RF plans to allot on restoration of South Ossetia.

April 20, 2009 19:00

• Mutsolgov: Esmurziev's murder has nothing to do with shelling of Geroev's house in Ingushetia

  The events that took place almost simultaneously in Ingushetia on April 19 - attempts on Alikhan Geroev, head of the criminal investigation department of Sunzha OVD, and religious figure Musa Esmurziev - are not linked with each other. This is the opinion of human rights activist Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr" and a member of the Expert's Board of Russian Ombudsman's office.

April 20, 2009 18:00

• Public prosecutor asks 10 years of colony for Bukreev who sentenced Budanov

  The prosecutor asked the court to sentence Vladimir Bukreev, former deputy chair of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court, who passed a verdict of guilty in 2003 to Yuri Budanov for killing a Chechen girl, to ten years of imprisonment.

April 18, 2009 22:00

• Evkurov: CTO cancellation in Chechnya will positively affect Ingushetia

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is sure that Ingushetia, which is bordering on the Chechen Republic, will not be negatively affected by cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya.

April 18, 2009 21:00

• Employees of hospital in Chechnya complain of non-payment of part of salaries

  In Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, during the last two months, part of salary money of the medical personnel of the district hospital was deduced. The medical people are indignant but fear to complain.

April 18, 2009 20:00

• Abkhazia to hold exercises in response to Georgia's ones

  In response to NATO's military exercises in Georgia, planned in the territory of Georgia from May 6 to June 1, 2009, Abkhazia will hold its own ones, as Republic's President Sergey Bagapsh has stated.

April 18, 2009 19:00

• CE observers to monitor election of Yerevan Mayor

  On May 4-5, a mission of observers of the Congress of the Council of Europe (CE) will come to Yerevan for observing local and territorial elections. The mission members will meet state officials and representatives of political forces who plan to take part in the elections of the Board of Elders of the Yerevan City Mayoralty.

April 18, 2009 18:00

• By Easter, President of Georgia has pardoned 390 prisoners

  In honour of the Easter, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has pardoned 390 prisoners, including 23 women and 6 minors.

April 18, 2009 16:00

• Armenia to take part in NATO's military exercises in Georgia

  Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, press secretary of Minister of Defence of Armenia, has announced today that Armenia will take part in the NATO's military exercises "Cooperative Longbow 2009" planned in the territory of Georgia from May 6 to June 1, 2009.

April 18, 2009 14:00

• Two defendants in Nalchik attack case complain to Russia's Constitutional Court

  Rasul Kudaev and Azret Shavaev, defendants in the case dealing with events in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, and their advocates Magomed Abubakarov and Tatiana Psomiadi have addressed their complaint to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on violation of the defendants' constitutional rights.

April 18, 2009 12:00

• Evkurov: Prosecutor's Office does not interfere with investigation of Evloev's murder

  The Prosecutor's Office does not put any obstacles in the course of inquiry into the murder case of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru". This was stated by President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

April 18, 2009 11:00

• In Azerbaijan, dismissed student states repressions for criticism

  Student Parviz Azimov was dismissed from the Lenkoran State University situated in the south of Azerbaijan. The student is confident that the reason of his dismissal was his article "Corruption Scandal in Lenkoran University".

April 18, 2009 06:00

• In Chechnya, convicts' families urge to bring inmates closer to their homes

  In Chechnya, families of the inmates convicted for grave crimes under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation have addressed the so-called UFSIN (Russian corrective administration) with a request to transfer their relatives for serving their punishments closer to their homes - to have opportunities to visit them.

April 18, 2009 04:00

• President of Abkhazia will run for his second term

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh plans to run for his second term at the presidential election to be held in Abkhazia this December.

April 17, 2009 23:00

• Arabian students detained on explosions in Sochi

  Under investigation of the case about a series of explosions in Sochi, several Arabs-students of the Sochi Branch of the Russian People's Friendship University were detained as suspects of making the explosive.

April 17, 2009 23:00

• Leila Yunus: in Azerbaijan judges persecute independent advocates

  In Azerbaijan, independent advocates are prosecuted, and it is done by judges instead of defending citizens' rights. This was stated on April 16 by Leila Yunus, Director of Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), at the roundtable "State of courts in Azerbaijan and lawlessness in the judiciary".

April 17, 2009 22:10

• In North Ossetia, criminal who committed murder in school building is searched

  Law-enforcement bodies of North Ossetia are trying to capture an armed criminal who murdered a woman. The crime was committed on April 16 in the evening in secondary school No. 26 located in the Kosta Avenue of Vladikavkaz.