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April 15, 2011 23:10

• Chechnya celebrates April 16 as Day of Peace and CTO cancellation

  On Saturday, April 16, the Chechen Republic will mark the second anniversary of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which had lasted in the republic for almost 10 years. This day is celebrated in Chechnya as the end of war; therefore, it is declared the Day of Peace. However, the official authorities and NGOs disagree in evaluation of this event.

April 15, 2011 23:10

• Tskhinvali lacks specialist to service equipment for rearing premature infants

  At the maternity hospital of the capital of South Ossetia, the absence of a child resuscitator-neonatology physician creates problems in rearing premature babies. This was stated by Vadim Tedeev chief physician of the hospital. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent managed to find out that the young woman-postgraduate student, sent by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of South Ossetia to Russia for training in this specialty, got married and never returned to Tskhinvali.

April 15, 2011 23:00

• Inara Gabaraeva to complain to the Prosecutor's Office against those who threatened her

  The rights defender from South Ossetia is going to apply to the Prosecutor's Office against those who threatened her. Inara Gabaraeva has confirmed the information spread within the last day on the Internet that on April 14 she received threats from three unidentified men who introduced themselves as employees of the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia.

April 15, 2011 22:50

• Zegduleti villager released in Georgia

  The confrontation of Zegduleti villagers and local authorities continues. After interference of Irakli Alasaniya, activist of the "Free Democrats" Party, Roman Aladze, a resident of the village, detained in the morning, was released.

April 15, 2011 22:40

• Armenian authorities make chess a mandatory school subject

  By decision of the Government of Armenia, chess will be taught at primary schools. Officials believe that this will contribute to mental development of younger schoolchildren.

April 15, 2011 22:20

• Finland tries Shamil Basaev's brother and editor of "Kavkaz-Centre"

  Today, a trial has started in Finland on the case of illegal immigration of Chechen natives. One of the defendants in this case is Abdulkhamid Mechiev, 26, who identified himself as the brother of Shamil Basaev, field commander of Chechen militants. The court will announce its verdict on May 9.

April 15, 2011 21:00

• The news of threats to human rights activist Inara Gabaraeva came from South Osetia

  Three men in South Osetia who introduced themselves as employees of the Ministry of Defense have threatened to Inara Gabaraeva, local human rights activist and Head of the Committee of Victims of fire. This news came from South Osetia on April, 14, to SMS-service of "Caucasian Knot".

April 15, 2011 20:00

• Investigators established that the act of terror on February, 14, was committed by Razdobudko and his wife

  The investigation established that the act of terror on February, 14, in the village of Gubden, Dagestan, was committed by resident of Pyatigorsk Vitaly Razdobudko and his wife. This was reported by Sergey Chenchik, Director of the Headquarters of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in North Caucasian Federal Okrug (NCFO).

April 15, 2011 19:00

• A Finnish priest demanded to make public the names of the owners of "The Kavkaz Center"

  A Finnish priest Yukha Molari against whom criminal proceedings were started for fomentation of interethnic strife by his severe attack upon "The Kavkaz Center" web-site supporting North-Caucasian gunmen considers it necessary to lay open to the public the names of the participants of this internet community.

April 15, 2011 18:00

• The Ministry of Agriculture of Chechnya: the speed of mine clearing the area must be accelerated manifold

  Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture consider that that the process of mine clearing of the territory of Chechnya must be accelerated manifold. With the present-day speed of performing these works clearing agricultural and forest lands of Chechnya will take no less than one hundred years.

April 14, 2011 23:30

• Dagestan launches new multilingual social network without pre-moderation

  In Dagestan, a project is launched of a new multilingual social network GODUDU.COM, which uses a translation technology that will allow users who speak different languages to communicate with each other in their native languages. According to the designers, the network should become a public discussion platform - a number of Dagestani officials have already opened their posts there. The GODUDU.COM has no pre-moderation.

April 14, 2011 23:20

• Blogosphere actively reacts to Khloponin's interview

  After publication of the interview of Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), which he gave to the "Caucasian Knot" and "Gazeta.ru", a number of politicians and businessmen launched an online polemics with him. The blogosphere also could not remain indifferent to Mr Khloponin's statements.

April 14, 2011 23:10

• Figurant in Manege Square riots sentenced to conditional imprisonment

  In Moscow, the court has sentenced a Muscovite Vladislav Khakhanov to a conditional term for participation in the pogroms in Manege Square on December 11, 2010. For beating in the metro a man of non-Slavic appearance he was sentenced to conditional imprisonment for a term of six months with one-year probation.

April 14, 2011 23:00

• Woman from Makhachkala suburb reports about bribes in hospitals

  Patu Abdullaeva, a resident of Dagestan, complains about bribe extortions at local medical institutions. She has reported about it to the "Caucasian Knot" by means of the new SMS-service. The hospital denied the allegations; and Zoya Magomedova, head of the medical department of the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health, said that nobody had complained about any facts of this sort.

April 14, 2011 22:30

• In Dagestan, head of Kaitag ROVD demands to open criminal case against district head and public prosecutor

  Head of the police of the Kaitag District Lieutenant-Colonel Abdurashid Bibulatov accuses local authorities of gross embezzlements and concealment of serious criminal offences. The acting head of the district denies the charges, while the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has no information on the topic.

April 14, 2011 22:20

• Stavropol Territory: local woman convicted for false reports about terror acts

  The Petrovskiy District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced a woman-resident of Svetlograd to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for false reports about impending explosions.

April 14, 2011 22:10

• Ex-Head of Semikarakorsk, Rostov region, convicted for abuse of authority

  Vasily Mikheev, ex-Head of Semikarakorsk urban settlement of Rostov region, has been convicted for abuse of authority which caused damages to a sum of over one million rubles.

April 14, 2011 22:10

• Armenian prisons are overcrowded

  Currently, Armenian penitentiary institutions (PIs) are severely overcrowded, which leads to deterioration of custody conditions and increase of death rate there, human rights defenders and politicians of Armenia assert.

April 14, 2011 22:00

• A Russian non-governmental organization awarded a prize of PACE for investigating crimes in Chechnya

  Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the "Human Rights" prize to a Russian non-governmental organization "Committee Against Torture" of Nizhny Novgorod for investigations of crimes in Chechnya. The respective decision was officially announced on April, 12, within the framework of the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg.

April 14, 2011 22:00

• Check of Raznochinovskiy boarding school, Astrakhan Region, reveals no violations

  An audit conducted by investigating bodies of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation) for the Astrakhan Region at the Raznochinovskiy orphanage-boarding school in the context of reports about multiple deaths of pupils found no evidences of crime.