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November 01, 2008 19:09

• Mass wood felling registered in Sochi National Park

  363 trees have been cut down in the Sochi National Park, on the Grushevoy Ridge, in the vicinity Senokosnaya Meadow. The Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus reports, that the area, where trees were cut, makes several hectares.

November 01, 2008 18:03

• Court upholds verdict to those guilty of house collapse in Baku

  The Baku Appeal Court finished considering the case a consideration of case about collapse in summer of 2007 of an unfinished multi-storey building in Baku. The appeal petition lodged by the workers of the LLC "Mutafakkir" building company was left unsatisfied.

November 01, 2008 16:58

• Athlete from North Ossetia wins Wu-Shu World Championship

  Mark Burnatsev, a resident of the capital of North Ossetia, was awarded with this year's title of World Champion in traditional Wu-Shu. He was recognized as the winner at the competitions held in the Chinese city of Chiyan.

November 01, 2008 15:51

• Dagestan authorities offer partnership to Turkish businessman

  President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has discussed with the president of the Turkish holding named "Yayla Turk" Yasmin Zakeria setting up of agricultural processing enterprises in the territory of Dagestan.

November 01, 2008 15:41

• Chechnya has sharply reduced its free-of-charge Hajj quota

  This year, 3000 pilgrims from Chechnya will make their Hajj to Mecca. The number of free-of-charge places in the quota was cut by more than three times.

November 01, 2008 14:37

• Government of Ingushetia dismissed

  Today, the new president of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has dismissed the government of the republic, having signed the corresponding resignation decree.

November 01, 2008 12:32

• Authorities to stop foreign radio stations in Azerbaijan

  Before the end of 2008, the National Television and Radio Board of Azerbaijan plans to make decision to stop broadcasting of radio stations Liberty, Voice of America in national frequencies.

November 01, 2008 11:27

• Volgograd Region: Gastarbeiters to be driven through TACs

  Illegal stay of migrants in the territory of Volgograd Region is fraught not only with violations of the migratory legislation. Cases are frequent, when they are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or sick with other socially dangerous diseases. The Regional Administration suggests placing such patients to temporary accommodation centres (TACs) for clearing all their circumstances.

November 01, 2008 10:20

• Crisis not to affect "Azov-City" gambling zone, authorities assure

  None of the companies, who signed investment agreements and land leasing contracts in the "Azov-City" gambling zone, has cancelled them because of financial crisis.

October 31, 2008 19:28

• In Ingushetia, convict's mother asks human rights defenders for help

  Mother of Magomed Tsechoev, condemned for an attack on power agencies of Ingushetia, insists that her son is innocent, asserts that he was tortured and asks human rights activists to meet him in the colony. Tsechoev's case is pending at the European Court for Human Rights for two years already.

October 31, 2008 19:00

• Institute for Peace and Democracy state torture in jails of Azerbaijan

  In 2008, at least three persons died in Azerbaijani police stations during the first hours after detention. This is stated in the document issued by the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) of Azerbaijan, headed by human rights defender Leila Yunus.

October 31, 2008 18:44

• Armenian courts to consider cases of 104 participants of March 1 events

  Eighty-nine criminal cases in relation to 104 participants of the events on March 1 in Yerevan have been already sent to courts; this is the result of the six-month-long investigation. Now, seven persons are in pre-trial custody. This was reported by Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, during his meeting with Silva Zege, special representative of Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

October 31, 2008 18:26

• Bridge between Georgia and South Ossetia blown up

  The bridge across the Tirifoni River located in the Georgian-South-Ossetian border and connecting the Ossetian village of Zemo Artsevi with the Georgian village of Kveshi was blown up today. There were no casualties.

October 31, 2008 18:22

• Murat Zyazikov's resignation was inevitable, experts say

  Resignation of Murat Zyazikov from the post of President of Ingushetia was inevitable, since it was too obvious that he had lost control over situation in his Republic and exhausted the patience of federal authorities, as Russian analysts regard.

October 31, 2008 12:27

• Azerbaijan: advocate of imprisoned ex-minister claims that his client is deprived of proper medical aid

  On Tuesday, October 28, advocate Isakhan Ashurov met, at Penitentiary Establishment No. 2, his client Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan. As he said, Aliev's condition is poor, and he has no duly qualified medical care.

October 31, 2008 12:22

• Dagestan MIA refutes death of human rights activist in Makhachkala

  The information that human rights activist Mustapa Abdurakhmanov was found shot dead in Makhachkala is incorrect, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan. According to the Ministry, Abdurakhmanov was liquidated on October 28 during a combat engagement in the Sergokalin District; he was a supporter of Wahhabism.

October 30, 2008 14:24

• Khazbiev: people of Ingushetia thank President Medvedev for dismissing Zyazikov

  Magomed Khazbiev, head of the Ingush Nationwide Rally Organizing Committee, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that people of Ingushetia are triumphant and thank Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for dismissing Murat Zyazikov.

October 30, 2008 14:21

• Dagestan: Farid Babaev's murder case will be trialled in closed mode

  Today, at the second court session on the case of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Republic's branch of "Yabloko" Party, committed in Dagestan, the judge has ruled that the following sessions will be held in the closed mode, since, in the opinion of the prosecution, the coverage of the trial in media exerts pressure on jurymen and witnesses.

October 30, 2008 14:12

• HRC "Memorial": both Georgia and Russia got ready to South-Ossetian war well in advance

  The warfare in South Ossetia was prepared both by Georgia and Russia. This conclusion was made by human rights activists of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the "Demos" Centre who visited Georgia on October 12-23 to study humanitarian consequences of the August military conflict.

October 30, 2008 12:18

• Complaint about beating of deputy chair of alternative parliament of Ingushetia sent to North Ossetia

  The application lodged by Ahmed Kotiev, deputy chair of the alternative parliament called "National Assembly of Ingushetia", to the GOVD (City Militia Unit) of Nazran, was delivered to law enforcement bodies of the city of Mozdok, North Ossetia, for further consideration and investigation. Ahmed Kotiev told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.