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April 25, 2011 22:30

• In Azerbaijan, two officials punished with public works for arbitrariness

  The Sheki District Court of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Kyamran Suleimanov, finished the trial of two former officials of the district administration, who were arrested after the suicide committed by local businessman Khikmet Salimov on February 3.

April 25, 2011 22:10

• In Tbilisi, Armenian Diaspora holds protest in front of Turkish Embassy

  On April 24, the Community of Armenians in Georgia held a protest rally under the slogan "We remember and fight for justice!" in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. The action was attended by about 600 persons, who demanded to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915.

April 25, 2011 22:00

• Krasnodar Territory: ecologists report pollution of Azov Sea

  As reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", after an accident at the sewage collector, waste water got into the Yeisk Estuary in the Krasnodar Territory.

April 25, 2011 21:00

• 23 workers poisoned with caustic gas vapor hospitalized in Rostov region

  Over 20 workers got poisoned with caustic gas vapor while pressing a metallic cask at a ground of "Lomprom" public corporation in the territory of Rostov electro- metallurgical plant (REMP) in the town of Shakhti, Press service of the district Department of preventing and elimination of emergency situations reported.

April 25, 2011 20:00

• Hundreds of former residents of Chechnya arrived in the republic to celebrate Easter

  Orthodox believers in Chechnya have celebrated Easter. Over 500 former residents of the republic currently living in other regions came to celebrate the holiday.

April 25, 2011 19:00

• A healer killed in Dagestan

  In the evening of April, 24, some unknown people in Kizlyar district of Dagestan shot down a man who had practiced alternative medicine and healing, a representative of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

April 25, 2011 18:00

• A "hotline" for investors opened in Southern Federal Okrug

  The Apparat of Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in Southern Federal Okrug has established a telephone "hotline" where entrepreneurs could ask questions or submit their offers on improving investment climate in the okrug.

April 23, 2011 23:00

• Torchlight march and rally held in Nagorno-Karabakh in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide

  Tonight in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) "Dashnaktsutun" of Artsakh and the "Aram Manukyan" Student Union organized a torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

April 23, 2011 22:00

• Picket in support of homeless animals held in Sochi

  Today, residents of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, went out to hold a picket as part of the All-Russian action in support of the law on protection of animals.

April 23, 2011 21:00

• Yerevan holds torchlight march in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide

  A torchlight march dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide was held in Yerevan today. This year saw coincidence of two important dates for Armenia - the Easter and the Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide.

April 23, 2011 20:30

• Fifth bomb within a day found in Dagestani railway

  As reported by the press service of the Department for Dagestan of the Russian FSB, today's fifth bomb was found in the railway section Kizilyurt-Temirgoe in this republic; the bomb was successfully defused.

April 23, 2011 19:00

• Magomed Khazbiev's family announces reward for information about his kidnappers

  The family of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has announced a reward of one million roubles for information about the persons who on March 23 captured him and his two brothers, Murad and Berd, in their own home and delivered to the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

April 23, 2011 18:30

• Moscow hosts rally against subsidizing Northern Caucasus

  The participants of the rally started today at 3:00 p.m. near Chistye Prudy metro station are protesting against allocation of budget funds for supporting North-Caucasian republics.

April 23, 2011 18:00

• Gizatulin: some of our pilgrims go to Mecca as tourists or tradesmen

  On the eve of the upcoming May accreditation of tourist operators for the Hajj, different viewpoints are expressed. The governmental commission on religious communities believes that travel agencies and mediation companies are the perpetrators of the problems encountered by pilgrims. The board of muftis puts part of the blame on pilgrims as such.

April 23, 2011 17:30

• Three women detained in Dagestan at attempt to sell a baby

  On April 22, law enforcers of Dagestan and Chechnya conducted an operation and detained three female residents of Khasavyurt who tried to sell a newborn baby.

April 23, 2011 17:13

• Picket against high-rise buildings is on in Sochi

  In front of the Central Marketplace in Moskovskaya Street of Sochi, a picket is being held from 2 to 4 p.m., organized by Evgeniy Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of the resort city against skyscrapers.

April 23, 2011 16:30

• Kvedaravichyus: film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya gives an actual picture

  The documentary "Barzakh" telling about facts of torture and kidnappings in Chechnya, which was presented at film festivals in Lithuania, Switzerland and Spain, aims to tell the world about the situation in today's Chechnya, the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 23, 2011 16:00

• Grocery store burnt down in Kabardino-Balkaria

  At night on April 22, in the village of Khasanya, a suburb of Nalchik, unidentified persons set fire to a grocery store, which burned down completely. Nobody was hurt.

April 23, 2011 15:00

• Housing construction suspended in South Ossetia

  As reported by the State Committee for Restoration Projects in South Ossetia, the funding of housing construction in Tskhinvali has been suspended; it is unknown when it may be resumed.

April 23, 2011 08:00

• Dagestan: protesters demand to investigate policemen's murders

  On April 22, Makhachkala hosted a rally of residents of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan and public activists. The action in defence of law enforcers was about 600 persons strong.