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January 20, 2012 22:40

• Leader of Sochi communists: "Edinaya Rossiya" wrote up half of its votes

  Sochi communists made held a documentary analysis of the recent elections to the Russian State Duma. According to their version, the Sochi Territorial Election Commission (TEC) doubled the real number of votes won by the ruling "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party. The TEC spokesman refutes the allegations.

January 20, 2012 22:30

• Khloponin: NCFD regions are leaders in money laundering

  To date, Northern Caucasus is in the lead among Russian regions in money laundering, Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today at the Collegium of the MIA of the NCFD.

January 20, 2012 22:20

• Leader of "Memorial" is satisfied with the course and outcome of the trial "Kadyrov vs. Orlov"

  The parties in the litigation "Kadyrov vs. Orlov" differ in assessing the outcome of the trial. The defendant and his representatives are satisfied with the decision of the court, while the claimant has not yet decided whether to appeal against the verdict or not.

January 20, 2012 22:10

• Lawyer: Khashagulgov was tortured to knock out confessions

  Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of Karabulak, accused of organizing a terror acts at the Central Marketplace in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, was tortured by unidentified persons, who demanded that he gave evidences as wanted by the investigation, said Issa's advocate Batyrbek Akhilgov.

January 20, 2012 22:00

• A resident of Stavropol region convicted for misappropriation of 40 million rubles from the budget

  Cherkessk city court acknowledged resident of Stavropol region Oleg Motylev guilty of misappropriation of 40 million rubles from federal budget funds.

January 20, 2012 21:00

• United Trade Unions of Georgia: it was not the authorities of the country who paid the ransom for release of the sailors

  Money was paid for release of 15 Georgian and three Turkish sailors from the Somali pirates' prison but it was not done by the government of Georgia, Chairman of United Trade Unions of the country Irakly Petriashvili said.

January 20, 2012 20:00

• Experts in Karachay-Cherkessia started compulsory avalanche descent

  This morning an avalanche protection group in Karachay-Cherkessia started compulsory descent of snow slides in a ski resort of Dombai, commander of the group Ramazan Abazaliev reported.

January 20, 2012 19:00

• The military refuted the information of mass disease among Russian soldiers in South Ossetia

  Committee of Soldiers' Mothers reported mass disease among the servicemen of a Russian military base in South Ossetia which the command of Sothern military Okgug called fiction.

January 20, 2012 18:00

• An action of the residents who lost their flats passed off in Yerevan

  On January, 19, an action of former residents of Aram, Buizand, Ekmalyan and Saryan streets passed off in Yerevan. The people who lost their flats intend to continue protest actions until the problem is solved.

January 19, 2012 23:40

• About 15,000 Sochi residents have power outage

  Today in the morning, about 15,000 residents of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, lost electricity supply, because of air electricity mains broken by tree branches, heavy with snow on them. This was reported by Oksana Levitskaya, the head of the press service of Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Kubanenergo".

January 19, 2012 23:30

• Patient suffered in Ingushetia when power agents tried to move Nalgiev to prisoners' ward

  Amerkhan Ozdoev, who is taking his treatment at the trauma department of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Ingushetia, said that on January 17 power agents broke his leg while trying to move Ilez Nalgiev, the former head of the criminal police of Karabulak, to the hospital ward for prisoners.

January 19, 2012 23:20

• In Astrakhan, guardian of seven children-invalids complains of attempt to take her pupils away

  Vera Drobinskaya, a resident of the city of Astrakhan, who is taking care of disabled children from the Raznochinovskiy orphanage, reports about an illegal attempt to deprive her of all her pupils. According to Alla Vasilieva, Deputy Minister of Social Development and Labour of the Astrakhan Region, officials decided to temporary exempt Drobinskaya of her guardian's duty. while an application on her cruel treatment of the kids is being checked.

January 19, 2012 22:20

• Krasnodar Territory: chief physician of the Hygiene and Epidemiology Centre suspected of bribe-taking

  As reported by the Investigatory Committee for the Krasnodar Territory, the chief physician of the Hygiene and Epidemiology Centre of the Krasnodar Territory is suspected of extorting a bribe from his subordinate, whom he had forced, according to investigators, to pay him monthly for unobstructed work.

January 19, 2012 22:10

• Trial of organizer of "Picket-19" held in Krasnodar Police Department

  A magistrate judge was brought right from home to the police station to try Irina Kolesnikova, the organizer of the action named "Picket-19" in Krasnodar.

January 19, 2012 22:00

• MoPH of KBR finds no violations in the hospital where newborns died

  The Republic's Children's Hospital (RCH) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) was inspected by the local Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in the context of the eight deaths of newborns that occurred in the hospital in the first decade of January. According to specialists of the Ministry, the doctors had acted properly.

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January 19, 2012 21:50

• Participants of press conference in memory of Markelov and Baburova declare inadmissibility of penetration of nationalists into public organizations

  This inadmissibility was emphasized in the course of the press conference "Democracy and Nazism are Incompatible", dedicated to the third anniversary of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. The event was held in Moscow, at the Independent Media Centre.

January 19, 2012 21:40

• The firearm from which Politkovskaya was shot dead has woman's DNA traces

  The experts who conducted a repeated examination of the pistol, with which Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", was killed, have found a woman's DNA traces, said Murad Musaev, the advocate of Rustam Makhmudov, who is considered by investigators to be the gunman.

January 19, 2012 21:30

• Relative of Ingush leader seeks money to pay debts and escape prison

  Ruslan Evkurov, a distant relative of the leader of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who is accused of committing a fraud against residents of the village Dolakovo, is seeking money to pay off his debts to villagers. He also demands that a family from Plievo give 3 million roubles back to him. Should he fail to pay his debts, he may face not probation but a real imprisonment.

January 19, 2012 21:10

• An action of students' protest against the Labour Code in force in Georgia passed off in Tbilisi

  An action of protest against the Labour Code of Georgia was held in the center of Tbilisi on the initiative of students' organization "Laboratory 1918".

January 19, 2012 21:00

• A soldier perished in Azerbaijan, two more got wounded

  On January, 18, an incident with fatal outcome occurred in one of the military units of Azerbaijani army.