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September 26, 2011 19:00

• Foreign surgeons who arrived in Chechnya will operate on 30 children at no charge

  Famous cosmetic surgeons from the USA, Germany and Australia who arrived in Chechnya last week will operate on 30 Chechen children who need oral surgery aid. All the high-priced operations will be performed at no charge.

September 26, 2011 18:00

• A person accused of disturbances in Manezhnaya square of Moscow appealed against his arrest to the European Court

  Igor Berezniuk, defendant on the case of mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square of Moscow last December, appealed against his arrest to the European Court of Human Rights. This was reported by Dmitry Agranovsky acting as the defendant's attorney today.

September 24, 2011 23:59

• FIDH opens trilingual website in support of human rights defender Ales Bialiatski

  On September 25, Ales Bialiatski, Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" (Spring) – a FIDH member-organization in Belarus, is 49 years old.

September 24, 2011 22:00

• Georgia holds rally of gratitude to ECtHR

  On September 23, in Tbilisi, the oppositional party of the former Georgia's Ambassador to the United Nations Irakli Alasaniya "Our Georgia – Free Democrats" held an action of gratitude to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the decision on the case of Sandro Girgvliani. The participants of the rally called on the Council of Europe (CoE) to force the Georgian government to fulfil the decision.

September 24, 2011 21:00

• Ecologists detect second illegal quarry in Sochi National Park

  The "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" reports, with reference to local residents, that in the valley of the Psou River, in the territory of the Sochi National Park, there is another illegal quarry.

September 24, 2011 20:10

• Ingushetia: residents of Ekazhevo hold gathering in context with Ali Dobriev's detention

  Today, the rural settlement of Ekazhevo, Nazran District of Ingushetia, hosts an extraordinary gathering of villagers in protest against detention on September 18 of Ali Dobriev, Senior Assistant of the Sunzha District Prosecutor, on suspicion of organizing an illegal armed formation (IAF) and preparing a terror act.

September 24, 2011 19:13

• Labourites urge UN to react to "Anglo-Americanization" of Georgia

  The Labour Party of Georgia asks the UN committee on discrimination "to investigate the issue of discrimination of the Georgian language and adopt a resolution against the Anglo-American colonization of Georgia."

September 24, 2011 18:00

• Rostov-on-Don hosts protest against high gasoline prices

  The protest action against high gasoline prices was organized by about 20 persons, who plan to send their adopted resolution to Russian President.

September 24, 2011 17:00

• Refugees in Ingushetia state poor living conditions

  The forced resettlers from Chechnya and North Ossetia, who live in Ingushetia in temporary accommodation centres (TACs), assert that their long years spent in trailers have undermined their health.

September 24, 2011 16:11

• In Ingushetia, international youth forum "Targim-2011" is over

  On September 23, the closing ceremony of the international youth forum "Targim-2011" and presentation of diplomas and memory gifts to its participants took place in Ingushetia.

September 24, 2011 11:00

• Tbilisi hosts another solidarity action with "Hercules" metallurgists

  On September 23, in front of the UN Office in Tbilisi, the United Trade Unions of Georgia held a rally of solidarity with the detained workers of the "Hercules" Steel Works, located in Kutaisi.

September 24, 2011 10:00

• Ingushetia resumes investigation into Maksharip Aushev's murder

  A group of investigators from the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), engaged in investigating the murder of human rights defender Maksharip Aushev, has visited Ingushetia. On September 23, they conducted investigatory actions in the city of Nazran, where Mr Aushev had lived and worked.

September 23, 2011 23:30

• Rostov Prosecutor's Office fines people guilty of poisoning children in Veshenskaya

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region has imposed fines from 1 to 10 thousand roubles on the persons guilty of poisoning schoolchildren in the village of Veshenskaya.

September 23, 2011 23:10

• Sochi: "Olympstroy" employee suspected of large-scale fraud

  Investigators suspect the employee of the State Corporation (SC) "Olympstroy", who took part in concluding of an unlawful agreement on compensation for the property, alienated with the aim of preparation of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, of a large-scale fraud.

September 23, 2011 23:00

• Astrakhan sailors are starving in the port of Rostov-on-Don

  The crew of the ship "Antlia" is suffering at the port of Rostov-on-Don because of problems of the ship-owner.

September 23, 2011 22:20

• Pacific state of Tuvalu recognizes independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

  During its visits to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the delegation of Tuvalu signed joint declaration on establishing diplomatic relations with these two countries.

September 23, 2011 22:10

• In Rostov-on-Don, defendants in "Urvan Jamaat" case present their last plea

  Today, at the session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court, the defendants figuring in the case of the so-called "Urman Jamaat" asked the judges to pass a fair decision.

September 23, 2011 22:10

• Representatives of Maksharip Aushev's relatives may address OSCE and UN on his murder

  The lawyer Mussa Pliev has announced today that the official representatives of the relatives of the assassinated Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev will ask the prosecutor's office to supervise the further investigation into his murder, so that it was brought to an end. Should the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) fail to move forward with the investigation of the murder, they intend to appeal to international organizations.

September 23, 2011 22:00

• PACE official treats refugees' living conditions in Ingushetia as unsatisfactory

  Today, a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has visited Ingushetia and treated the living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as unsatisfactory.

September 23, 2011 21:00

• About a thousand attend rally in Dagestan

  Today in Makhachkala, the Rhodope Boulevard housed a sanctioned rally. About a thousand residents of Dagestan came to voice their protest against the actions of the head of the Akhvakh District Ismail Magomedsharipov.