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April 01, 2011 20:00

• Dokku Umarov's wife identified among casualties of special operation in Ingushetia

  According to the latest examination data, Dokku Umarov's wife, a doctor and a few close associates of the leader of "Imarat Kavkaz" were identified among those killed in bombardment of the militants' camp in Ingushetia.

April 01, 2011 19:00

• DDOS-attack upon "Voice of Ingushetia" web-site

  On March, 31, an Ingush web-site "Voice of Ingushetia" underwent a DDOS-attack. It was rather powerful and the server is unable to cope with the great number of requests, administration of the web-site reports.

April 01, 2011 18:00

• Participants of "Strategy-31" action in Volgograd were at issue concerning the Mayor's resignation

  The participants of the meeting which passed off on March, 31, in Volgograd represented different parties and movements. Their main slogans were: "Putin must be discharged!" and "Ban "United Russia!". As for the activists' opinions concerning resignation of Roman Grebennikov, Mayor of the city, there were both unacceptance of Governor Anatoly Brovko's decision of discharging Head of Municipality and approval of this action.

March 31, 2011 23:50

• Azerbaijan marks Genocide Day

  Today, on March 31, Azerbaijani marks its Genocide Day in memory of the victims of the events 93 years ago, when armed forces of the Armenian nationalist party "Dashnaktsutyun", supported by the Bolshevik leadership of the Baku Soviet, headed by Stepan Shaumyan, committed mass murders and massacre of the peaceful Azerbaijani population.

March 31, 2011 23:30

• Chechen policeman shot dead in Makhachkala

  As reported today by Alkhas Amirkhanov, Senior Assistant of the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan, this morning in Makhachkala a Chechen policeman was shot dead by an unidentified person.

March 31, 2011 23:20

• In Vladikavkaz, victims of Beslan terror act demand social protection

  Today, the capital of North Ossetia has hosted a picket in defence of constitutional rights of the residents of Beslan, who demand an objective investigation of the terror act on September 1, 2004, and effective justice and social protection.

March 31, 2011 23:10

• Businessman announced into search on suspicion of funding Dagestani militants was killed in January

  Ruslan Atavov, Director of the "Simpeks" Company, who was searched as a terrorists' helper, was shot dead during a special operation in Makhachkala on January 13.

March 31, 2011 23:00

• Russia: Chronicle of terror

March 31, 2011 23:00

• Thomas Chivas: Lithuanian VSD was first to contact FSB on Magmadovs' and Kusaite's case

  The Lithuanian mass media have released documents from the case of Egle Kusaite, who had been allegedly recruited by Apti and Aishat Magmadov, natives of Chechnya living in Russia, for committing a terror acts in Russia. According to the documents, the Lithuanian State Security Service (VSD) was the first to appeal to the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) with a request for cooperation on this case. Arvidas Anushauskas, chairman of the Seym Committee for National Security and Defence (NSDC) argues that he knows nothing about cooperation of the Lithuanian and Russian intelligence services.

March 31, 2011 22:20

• Residents of Dagestan report suspicious medical commission in schools

  On March 22, at the only secondary school in the village of Novosasetli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, doctors of some medical commission conducted examination of children and, after putting disappointing diagnoses, suggested that parents buy corsets for their children for 500 roubles each; and many parents did it. However, as it turned out, neither the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan nor the Ministry of Education know nothing about this commission.

March 31, 2011 22:10

• ECtHR awards 1.5 million euros to villagers in Chechnya bombed in 1999

  On March 29, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on the case "Esmukhambetov et al versus Russia" (Application No. 23445/03) that Russia is responsible for human deaths during the military operation in Chechnya in 1999.

March 31, 2011 22:00

• Georgia holds campaign against abortion

  A forty-day-long action "Against abortion!" organized by the Georgian public organization "For Life" is held in Tbilisi, in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

March 31, 2011 21:00

• Georgia: CER to be applied to 35 prisoners

  The Georgian Commission on Conditional Early Relief (CER) has considered 40 CER applications from prisoners and decided to satisfy 35 of them.

March 31, 2011 20:00

• Dokku Umarov's personal physician identified among killed gunmen

  During a special operation law enforcement bodies in Ingushetia identified the body of Yusup Buzurtanov, personal physician of the leader of Chechen gunmen Dokku Umarov among the killed. There was also a woman among them.

March 31, 2011 19:00

• Seven people killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during a week

  In the duration of the week from March, 21, till March, 27, no less than seven people were killed, four wounded and one person kidnapped in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus. These are figures from "Caucasian Knot's" calculation based on its own materials and other open sources.

March 31, 2011 18:00

• Ex-Minister of Public Health in Ingushetia is suspected of embezzlement of 200 million rubles

  Investigative bodies of Ingushetia are investigating a high-profile corruption case, its figurant is Inna Malsagova, ex-Minister of Public Health of the republic who is suspected of grave abuse of authority in process of procurement of medical equipment.

March 30, 2011 23:50

• Chechnya sums up literary contest on Kadyrov

  The republic has held a literary contest among students of philological departments dedicated to the local head Ramzan Kadyrov. In the coming days it will be summed up, and the winners will be rewarded.

March 30, 2011 23:40

• Journalist Teplischev hospitalized in Astrakhan

  Today at 1 p.m. the Magistrate Court of Precinct No. 4 of the Sovietskiy District of Astrakhan was to hold another session on the case of journalist Oleg Teplischev, accused of beating Deputy from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Rifkat Shabanov. However, the session was postponed because the defendant was hospitalized.

March 30, 2011 23:30

• NAC: militants liquidated today in Ingushetia had been preparing terror act

  One of the men shot dead this morning in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has been identified, according to power agents, as Ibragim Syroev, an active member of the underground. Also, power agents have reported that the casualties had bomb-triggering devices on them.

March 30, 2011 23:20

• Ruslan Kurbanov: no clear picture of investigation into Moscow metro terror acts

  The persons involved in explosions in Moscow metro in 2010 have been liquidated; and the investigation of the case is in deadlock, Andrei Soldatov, editor-in-chief of the website "Agentura.Ru", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Ruslan Kurbanov, a political scientist, agrees that over the past year no coherent picture of what happened at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations has been presented.