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March 28, 2009 13:14

• Mass lay-offs of servants launched in Ingushetia

  On March 26, state organizations and establishments of Ingushetia, administration heads of cities, districts and settlements received a written instruction to dismiss chief accountants and deputy heads of respective organizations, and also of division heads.

March 28, 2009 07:00

• Today, Kabardino-Balkaria marks Revival Day of Balkar Nation

  Today, Kabardino-Balkaria will host celebratory events in honour of the Revival Day of Balkar Nation. All the Culture Houses in Balkar villages will hold celebratory concerts and other festivities.

March 28, 2009 04:00

• FSB: terror act of suicide bomber prevented in Ingushetia

  The militants liquidated in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya had planned a terror act to be committed by a woman-suicide bomber, as reported on March 27 by Dmitri Sedletskiy, official spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia.

March 28, 2009 02:00

• The New York Times journalist detained in South Ossetia

  On March 27, Christopher John Chivers, a correspondent of the American newspaper The New York Times, was detained in South Ossetia at an attempt to cross the border of this republic with Georgia, as reported by the press service of South Ossetia's KGB (State Security Committee).

March 27, 2009 23:00

• Medvedev instructs FSB Director to consider CTO termination in Chechnya

  At his meeting on Friday with Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB and head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NATC), President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev asked him to consider the issue of lifting the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, which has lasted for more than nine years.

March 27, 2009 22:30

• Human rights activists from Kabardino-Balkaria not on the list of prison observers

  The Public Chamber of Russia has approved the list of public observers to be in charge of public control over places of detention according to the Law of the Russian Federation of June 10, 2008, "On Public Control over Ensuring Human Rights in Places of Detention and on Assistance to Inmates".

March 27, 2009 22:00

• In North Ossetia, Brigade Commander suspected of exploiting soldiers

  Military inspectors suspect the commander of the brigade deployed in Vladikavkaz of using labour of ten soldiers at his private household.

March 27, 2009 21:00

• Two persons killed and two detained in special operation in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, the special operation conducted by power agents since March 26 in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village is over. According to the command of the Internal Troops, two persons who had rendered armed resistance were killed, and two others detained. Three militiamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia were wounded.

March 27, 2009 19:00

• Chechnya residents show a mass burial where Budanov's regiment was deployed

  In Chechnya, fellow-villagers of Elza Kungaeva, for whose kidnapping and murder former Colonel Yuri Budanov was convicted, showed journalists a mass burial in Tanga-Chu village. The collective grave keeps remains of 23 persons.

March 27, 2009 18:00

• Grozny residents failed to meet President near mosque

  Today, on March 27, several dozens of townspeople rallied in Grozny near the central mosque named "Heart of Chechnya" hoping to meet President of Chechnya and give him their petitions. However, Ramzan Kadyrov failed to appear.

March 26, 2009 23:40

• General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia: 3500 suffered from war with Georgia

  The State Office of Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has recognized about 3500 persons to be victims of the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008. This was stated by Taimuraz Khugaev, General Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia, at the international seminar, held in Essentuki on March 24-26, on the problems of fighting crime, law enforcement activities and development of criminal and criminal-procedural legislation.

March 26, 2009 23:30

• Public hearings in Kabardino-Balkaria note lack of criticism in media

  The official media of Kabardino-Balkaria are torn away from life; they have no analytics and little criticism. These statements were made at the hearings held by the Public Advisory Board under President of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

March 26, 2009 23:10

• South Ossetia reports shelling from Georgia's side

  The MIA of South Ossetia has reported that yesterday, on March 25, late at night, the South-Ossetian village of Mugut was shelled from the Georgian side. Nobody suffered.

March 26, 2009 23:00

• Nemtsov: Olympic construction in Sochi needs declassifying

  Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, believes that the secrecy regime imposed by the federal centre on the topic of Olympiad-2014 construction should be lifted. Candidate Alexander Lebedev, in his turn, is sure that Sochi residents' problems should be addressed before the Olympic ones.

March 26, 2009 22:00

• Eyewitnesses of special operation in Dagestan refute the official version

  The eyewitnesses assert the skirmish in the capital of Dagestan on March 20, as a result of which four persons were lost and three wounded, was launched by law enforcers. Earlier it was reported that the fire on the patrol car was opened by passengers of a "Zhiguli" car, who were named militants in official statements.

March 26, 2009 22:00

• Budanov to be interrogated on kidnapping of Chechens

  Yuri Budanov will be interrogated within the inquiry of the case related to kidnapping of residents of Chechnya in 2000. This was stated by Alexander Sorochkin, head of Military Department of the ICPO. However, all over again, Budanov should be found.

March 26, 2009 21:00

• In Ingushetia, special operation goes on and brings casualties

  The skirmish between the agents of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia and, presumably, militants who made their ambush in one of private houses in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District, continues, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source in law enforcement bodies. Local residents say that more than 10 power agents were wounded and killed.

March 26, 2009 20:00

• Forced migrants fear to move from Ingushetia to Chechnya

  Forced migrants from Chechnya who live in temporary accommodation centres (TACs) in Ingushetia are forced to come back home. They say they have nowhere to go.

March 26, 2009 19:00

• In Ingushetia, power agents take a lying-in from maternity home

  In Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia, the escort has taken away Madina Malsagova, 20, from hospital ward to SIZO (pre-trial detention facility) six hours after delivery. She had also spent her last pregnancy months in the facility.

March 26, 2009 18:00

• "Memorial": houses of militants' relatives are set on fire in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, arsons of houses of militants' relatives continue. Since summer of 2008, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has fixed 26 such cases. Human rights activists assert that arsons of houses are used as an instrument of pressure on relatives of those whose children are in the forest.