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December 14, 2010 22:10

• Check revealed no violations in "Dagestani Airlines"

  In Dagestan, the "Rosaviatsiya" (Russian Federal Aviation Agency) and "Rostransnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Transport Supervision) have completed a joint check of the work of the company "Dagestani Airlines", whose aircraft Tu-154 made an emergency landing at Domodedovo Airport on December 4. No essential drawbacks were found in the work of the airline.

December 14, 2010 22:00

• Cassation complaint in Estemirova's case returned to first instance court

  After consideration by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya of the cassation complaint lodged by Svetlana Estemirova, sister of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the case was remitted to the first instance court for removal of the existing procedural deficiencies.

December 14, 2010 21:00

• European Commission allots two million euros to the sufferers from military campaigns in Chechnya

  European Commission has decided to allot financial aid to a sum of two million euros to 45 thousand people who have suffered from Chechen confrontation.

December 14, 2010 20:00

• Imam killed in Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan

  An imam of the mosque of the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent district, was shot down and died from the wounding in hospital

December 14, 2010 19:00

• Ecologists detained in Krasnodar during a procession in defense of Utrish released

  Militiamen have released all the four activists of "Ecologic Watch in Northern Caucasus" detained in Krasnodar, the case has been referred to court.

December 14, 2010 18:00

• Public prosecutor's office denies detention of the organizers of "The Day of Anger" by militia in Rostov-on-Don

  The reply of Public prosecutor's office of Kirov district on Rostov-on-Don the organizers of "The Day of Anger" received on December, 13, runs that militia did not detain the oppositionists before the meeting on September, 12, while representatives of Rostov oppositional movement "Left Front" state that they were not only illegally kept in the militia department but were also threatened and intimidated.

December 13, 2010 23:55

• Woman killed by explosion at military factory in Azerbaijan

  Today in Baku, at the factory named "Radiogurashdyrma" and belonging to the Ministry of Defence Industry of Azerbaijan, an explosion took place. One female worker was killed; another one was taken to hospital.

December 13, 2010 23:50

• Second victim of car shelling dies in Krasnodar

  The second man, wounded when a car was shelled in central Krasnodar, has died in a hospital, without regaining consciousness.

December 13, 2010 23:45

• Skirmish burst out in the capital of Dagestan

  One person was wounded during a shootout of unidentified persons with the militia in central Makhachkala; two persons were detained, a source from city's law enforcement bodies said.

December 13, 2010 23:40

• Deputy of Kuschevskiy District suspected of fraud

  Sergey Dzyuba, Deputy of the Kuschevskiy District Assembly, Krasnodar Territory, and Alexander Popov and Tatiana Alekseenko, residents of Krasnodar, are suspected of embezzling 107 million roubles from the OJSC "Rosselkhozbank".

December 13, 2010 23:20

• Another participant in the brawl where "Spartak" fan was killed arrested in Moscow

  Today, on December 13, the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Arthur Arsibiev, 2, a native of Dagestan, an alleged participant of the mass brawl, where Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak", was killed.

December 13, 2010 23:10

• Cherkesov's relatives treat murder of "Spartak" fan as tragic accident

  Relatives and friends of Aslan Cherkesov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of murdering Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak" in Moscow, consider what had happened to be a tragic accident, which was caused by a fatal coincidence.

December 13, 2010 23:00

• Investigation reveals suspects of death of student from Kabardino-Balkaria in Vladikavkaz

  The Investigatory Committee (IC) for North Ossetia has established four more suspects, who took part in the brawl between students of the North-Caucasian State Steel Institute, as a result of which Kuanch Guliev, a student, died in hospital from received injuries.

December 13, 2010 22:50

• ICPO: 120 kidnappings investigated in Chechnya

  As reported today by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Russian Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), the special division on kidnappings of the ICPO's Department for the Chechen Republic is running over 120 criminal cases.

December 13, 2010 22:40

• Resident of Ingushetia sentenced to 23 years for kidnappings

  The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Ruslan Oligov, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of kidnapping two persons, to 10 years of imprisonment. By accumulation of charges, he will serve his term of 23 years.

December 13, 2010 22:20

• Militiamen suspected of beating teenager charged in Dagestan

  The employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Khebda village, Shamil District of Dagestan, - Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov, Shamil Magomedov and Aliaskhab Nuruchinov, - who on July 20, 2010, beat Makhmoud Akhmedov, 14, have been charged under Part 2, Article 286 (abuse of official powers), of the Russian Criminal Code.

December 13, 2010 22:10

• Zaur Alibekov, missing resident of Dagestan, found murdered

  On December 12, Zaur Alibekov, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who disappeared on December 8, was found dead. As reported by his wife Gulnara Alibekova, her husband's body had numerous traces of torture and gunshot wounds.

December 13, 2010 21:00

• Ukraine started the process of extradition of the suspects of the murder in Kuschevskaya to Russia

  All those suspected of having committed mass murder in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya have been detained. Two more suspects, Viacheslav Ryabtsev under the alias of "Buba" and Vladimir Alekseev under the alias of "Bespredel" ("Outrage") were detained in Berdyansk (Ukraine).

December 13, 2010 20:00

• Three persons injured during a mass scuffle in Dagestan

  A mass scuffle took place on December, 12, in the town of Izberbash, Dagestan. Two militiamen and a participant of the scuffle got injured as a result, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

December 13, 2010 19:00

• 12 thousand dollars collected in Georgia for rescue of the sailors captured in Somali

  About 12,1 thousand dollars were collected in Georgia for rescue of the sailors captured by Somali pirates more than three months ago. One million dollars is needed as a ransom.