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August 13, 2008 12:58

• Bagapsh is happy with Abkhazia's victory in Kodori Gorge

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has announced the establishment of Abkhazia's jurisdiction in the upper section of the Kodori Gorge to be a great victory. In his television address to the people of Abkhazia, Mr Bagapsh has noted that "we've been waiting for this for the latest 15 years of our independence."

August 13, 2008 12:53

• Pavel Kosolapov accused of blowing up "Neva-Express" train

  Under the criminal case on explosion on August 13, 2007, of the "Neva-Express" train, Pavel Kosolapov, suspected by the investigation of organizing and performing the terror act, has been announced into search.

August 12, 2008 23:45

• Russia and Georgia announce mourning on casualties in South-Ossetia

  Georgia has announced three-day mourning after the recent events that led to loss of militaries and peaceful residents. The decision was made public by Elias the Second, Catholicos-Patriarch of Whole Georgia, at his sermon in the Sacred Trinity Cathedral.

August 12, 2008 22:39

• "Ingushetia.Ru" intends to ignore the court ruling on closing the website

  The Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of the Kuntsevo District Court on illegality of the activities of the website "Ingushetia.Ru". Rosa Malsagova, editor-in-chief of the website, who is now in Paris, where she applied for political shelter to French authorities, has stated that the "Ingushetia.Ru" website will go on despite the court ruling.

August 12, 2008 20:32

• Russia surprised with Belarus' silence on war in South Ossetia

  Russia is bewildered with the silent stand of Belarusian authorities on Georgian-Ossetian conflict, said Alexander Surikov, Russian Ambassador to Belarus.

August 12, 2008 19:28

• Split of Ukrainian society on conflict in South Ossetia

  The first group of volunteers from Ukraine has arrived to South Ossetia for rendering assistance to the republic, which has suffered from warfare. Representatives of the Crimea, Lugansk, Odessa, Sevastopol and Kiev will help to clear the ruins and restore dwelling houses in Tskhinvali. Another group - consisting of Ukrainian nationalists - is going to war in region on Georgia's side.

August 12, 2008 18:24

• Karabakh refuses to discuss consequences of conflict with Azerbaijan

  Nagorny Karabakh has reiterated that the consequences of its conflict with Azerbaijan can be discussed only after Baku agrees to recognize the independence of the NKR (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic).

August 12, 2008 17:19

• Saakashvili declares Georgia's exit out of CIS

  Georgia leaves the CIS, denounces the agreement on peacekeeping operation in Abkhazia and announces Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be occupied territories.

August 12, 2008 14:13

• Refugees from Tskhinvali: Georgia's foreign mercenaries shot at us

  The refugees from South Ossetia, with whom the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent managed to talk today, assert that they were shelled by foreigners recruited by Georgia as mercenaries.

August 12, 2008 13:38

• Humanitarian aid sent from Kabardino-Balkaria for South-Ossetian refugees

  Today, 5 trucks with humanitarian aid went from Kabardino-Balkaria to North Ossetia 5, said Anuar Chechenov, head of the Republic's headquarters for rendering medical and social help to the victims of the armed conflict in South Ossetia and vice-premier of Kabardino-Balkaria.

August 12, 2008 11:17

• 120 families of forced migrants disconnected from electricity and gas in Chechnya

  Inhabitants of one of the hostels for those in need of improving their housing conditions, which were earlier named "temporary accommodation centres (TACs) of forced migrants", located in Gudermes (Chechnya), complain that on August 5 the building, where over 400 persons lived, mostly women and children, was cut off from gas and electricity supplies.

August 11, 2008 23:33

• Elista Mayor arrested again in Kalmykia

  In Kalmykia, Mayor of the capital, Elista, Radiy Burulov is again placed behind bars, as ruled by the Elista City Court.

August 11, 2008 22:57

• South Ossetian refugees arrive to Kabardino-Balkaria

  On August 11, 170 refugees from South Ossetia were brought to Nalchik from the temporary tent camp deployed in North Ossetia by four buses; they were accommodated in boarding houses. Now, over 300 refugees, children and adults, are sheltered by Kabardino-Balkaria.

August 11, 2008 19:35

• Volunteers from Ukraine leave for South Ossetia

  Members of the Ukrainian Voluntary Corps of the Eurasian Humanitarian Mission have left for South Ossetia, as Leonid Slavin, coordinator of the Voluntary Corps, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on August 11.

August 11, 2008 18:00

• Over 20 persons killed by air attack on Georgian city of Gori

  On August 9, at bombardment of the city of Gori, Georgia, by Russian aircrafts over 400 persons were wounded, more than 20 were lost, as reported by the administration of the Georgian city.

August 11, 2008 17:50

• Critically wounded patients from South Ossetia arrive to hospitals in North Ossetia

  Most of those wounded in South Ossetia arrive to the Central Clinical Hospital (CCH) of North Ossetia. Some of the CCH doctors have left to render help in the conflict zone and to the border, as Kazbek Gusov, CCH's Chief Physician, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 11, 2008 14:29

• Gagloeva: Georgian militaries have burnt women and children in South Ossetian church

  On August 8, Georgian militaries drove thirty women and children into an Orthodox church, and then blew it up. Irina Gagloeva, a spokesperson of the government of South Ossetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

August 11, 2008 12:19

• Russian-Georgian postal, marine and air communication stopped

  It has become known today that, like in 2006, the postal and marine communication between Russia and Georgia has been suspended. The air communication was stopped on August 9.

August 11, 2008 11:56

• "Yug" special fighters from Chechnya are ready to volunteer to South Ossetia

  200 servicemen of the special purpose battalion of the Interior Troops of Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs named "Yug" (South) and deployed in Chechnya have expressed their readiness to volunteer to the war in South Ossetia, as one of battalion officers asserts.

August 11, 2008 10:49

• Volgograd gathers humanitarian help for South Ossetian refugees

  On August 10, all the districts of Volgograd opened points for gathering humanitarian help intended for peaceful residents of South Ossetia. Already in the next few days, Volgograd plans to send medicines for the victims in the South-Ossetian conflict zone.