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December 25, 2010 22:00

• Picket against authorities' actions held in Sochi

  Today, residents of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, went out to hold another picket in protest against authorities' actions.

December 25, 2010 21:00

• Another rally of nationalists prevented in Moscow

  Today in Moscow, law enforcement officers and interior soldiers have prevented another nationalists' attempt to hold an unsanctioned rally in Manege Square.

December 25, 2010 20:00

• In Georgia, refugees ask Subari to set committee to protect their rights

  The internally displaced persons living in Georgia sent a letter to Sozar Subari, the former Georgian Ombudsman and now the leader of the "Georgian Party", with a request to create a coordination office and a committee for protection of refugees' rights.

December 25, 2010 19:16

• Ecologists sue Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection

  The Administrative Court of Armenia has accepted to consideration the suit lodged by a public association named "Ensuring Ecological Safety and Promotion of Democracy" against the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia.

December 25, 2010 19:00

• Exhibition of Salvador Dali's unknown works opened in Stavropol

  The works by Salvador Dali from a private Italian collection are for the first time exhibited for the public at the Stavropol Territorial Museum of Fine Arts.

December 25, 2010 18:00

• FSB blocks weapon delivery channel from South Ossetia to Stavropol Territory

  Agents of the FSB department for the Stavropol Territory blocked the channel of delivery of weapons from South Ossetia to the Stavropol Territory.

December 25, 2010 17:33

• First in Armenia Dolphinarium opened in Yerevan

  On December 24, Yerevan held an opening ceremony of the first Armenian Dolphinarium. Ecologists protest against its operation, believing that it is dangerous.

December 25, 2010 17:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, 29 families live in emergency house

  In the settlement of Adiyukh, located in the suburb of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a five-story 60-apartment house, where 29 families still live, is in emergency condition.

December 25, 2010 16:00

• Georgia opens new resort - Mestiya

  On December 24, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili opened a new resort in the village of Mestiya located in Svaneti. A new nearby airport for small aircrafts will service the new resort.

December 25, 2010 15:00

• Agreement on extension of stay of Russian military base in Armenia sent to Constitutional Court

  Currently, the agreement on extension of deployment of the Russian military base in Armenia, which was signed on August 20 during the visit of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to Yerevan, is pending at the Constitutional Court of Armenia.

December 24, 2010 23:10

• Resident of South Ossetia detained in Georgia is back at large

  Yesterday, on December 23, Radislav Kachmazov, a resident of South Ossetia, who was detained a day earlier in Georgia, was released.

December 24, 2010 23:00

• In North Ossetia, half of children under six do not attend kindergarten

  In total 5500 children of North Ossetia have no chances to attend preschool establishments. Only 56.7 percent of children aged 1.5-6 years are covered by preschool education.

December 24, 2010 22:30

• Suspect of attacking 16-year-old Bagrat Asatryan detained in Krasnodar

  A football fan was detained in Krasnodar, who had nearly killed Bagrat Asatryan, 16. This was announced at the meeting of the head of Krasnodar Vladimir Evlanov with leaders and activists of national and cultural associations of the city, which took place on December 21.

December 24, 2010 22:20

• Plenipotentiary's office to check legality of ban on hijabs at Pyatigorsk University

  The office of the Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) will check the legality of the decision to ban hijabs at Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University.

December 24, 2010 22:10

• Vilnius court rules to hear Kusaite's case behind closed doors

  On Thursday, December 23, the District Court of Vilnius ruled that the case of Egle Kusaite would be considered in the closed regime. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Vitautas Mezhrikaitis, a human rights defender from the Lithuanian Public Association "Save All Chechen Children".

December 24, 2010 22:00

• Two persons injured by explosion in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

  An inspector of the Chief Department of the Russian Investigatory Committee for the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) and his brother were injured in an explosion of a self-made bomb, which was triggered by unidentified persons in Nalchik.

December 24, 2010 21:00

• Krasnodar Territory: Sergey Tsapok is charged of extortion

  One more criminal case has been opened against Sergey Tsapok, the main figurant in the case of the massacre of 12 persons in the village of Kuschevskaya: this time he is suspected of extortion.

December 24, 2010 20:00

• Rostov Deputies criticize militia's actions during nationalist actions

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Rostov Region failed to be properly coordinated during the action in memory of the perished student Maxim Sychov and did not interfere into the incident in Zimovniki, where a young Chechen was beaten. This was stated by the participants in the sitting of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region, held on December 23.

December 24, 2010 19:00

• Doctor detained in Chechnya on suspicion of bribe-taking

  A woman-therapist of the second district hospital of the village of Gvardeiskoe, Nadterechny District of Chechnya, was detained red-handed at taking a bribe. According to the local department of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) the doctor extorted money from an elderly woman for issuing a direction to medical commission for establishing disability, a source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has reported.

December 24, 2010 18:00

• FC forbids heads of Russian subjects to be called presidents

  The Russian Federation Council (FC) has approved the ban for heads of Russian subjects to name them presidents. According to the bill, heads of regions may choose the names of their posts with account of historical and cultural traditions. In the republics of the Caucasus, presidents now exist in Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.