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November 17, 2010 23:00

• Dagestani authorities define guarantees for militants' return to peaceful life

  The leadership of Dagestan has addressed to the militants who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities in the territory of the republic with particular proposals on their return to peaceful life. A special memorandum lists the conditions under which former rebels may be exempt from criminal responsibility for earlier committed crimes.

November 17, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 8-14

  Fire burns down forests and pastures of Georgia and southern regions of Russia; lists of observers over observance of human rights in prisons and colonies of the SFD and NCFD have been updated; local criminal gang is accused of massacre in Kuschevskaya village, Krasnodar Territory, - look these and other events in the review of the week of November 8-14, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

November 17, 2010 22:50

• So far, Gataevs' children will stay in Lithuania

  Six children-pupils, aged 8-14, of the foster home of Malik and Khadizhat Gataev, who currently live in a social village (the so-called "SOS-village") in Vilnius, Lithuania, will remain in the institution for an indefinite period.

November 17, 2010 22:40

• After the previous census population of Dagestan went up by almost 400,000

  According to the preliminary data of the 2010 census, about three million people live in Dagestan. About a quarter of the total population was registered in the capital - Makhachkala, where about 700,000 people live.

November 17, 2010 22:30

• Internet posts documents on money laundering in laying ESPO pipeline with involvement of SFD companies

  Alexei Navalny, a well-known blogger and a shareholder of the Open Joint-Stock Company "Transneft", has posted on the Internet scanned copies of documents confirming numerous violations committed by the Company, its subsidiaries and contractors in building the "Pipeline System Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (PS ESPO)". According to the documents, companies from the Southern Federal District (SFD) of Russia took part in corruption schemes.

November 17, 2010 22:20

• Dagestani MIA to start new phase of "Arms" Operation

  On December 12, a new Operation "Arms" with the aim to persuade the population to voluntarily surrender weapons and ammunition will start in the republic. This is the third such operation, but this time no monetary compensation will be paid out for the surrendered armaments.

November 17, 2010 22:10

• "Transparency International": Georgia is behind Russia in terms of budget transparency

  According to the studies made by the international NGO named "Transparency International", the index of Georgia's budget transparency made 55 points, while in 2006 this same index was still lower - only 34 points. Georgia, along with Russia, which gained 60 points, got into the second category of countries, which "provide some information".

November 17, 2010 22:00

• In Armenia, trial on revision of Pashinyan's sentence postponed till November 19

  Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak", convicted in connection with the post-election events of 2008, is judicially challenging his sentence, arguing that it should be revised. The first hearing of the case was held on November 16 at the penitentiary establishment "Kosh", which was chaired by Judge Suren Mnoyan.

November 17, 2010 21:00

• Main suspect of murdering 12 persons in Kuschevskaya arrested

  Sergey Tsapok, suspected of organizing the murder of 12 people in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, was put behind bars by decision of the Essentuki City Court.

November 17, 2010 20:00

• Sagalaev: Russian Prime Minister gives security assurances to journalist Aslamazyan

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised safety to journalist Manana Aslamazyan, Director of the "Internews-Armenia", who had left Russia. This was stated today by Eduard Sagalaev, President of the National Association of Broadcasters, at the awarding Ms Aslamazyan with the "TAFI-2010" Award.

November 17, 2010 19:00

• Yakobashvili: NATO's resolution will bring new realities into Geneva talks

  Georgia has favourably perceived the resolution of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA), adopted on November 16 in Warsaw, which supports the Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Some experts and politicians expect that the document will be followed by real actions aimed to change the situation in the region, others are doubtful.

November 17, 2010 18:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: suspect of setting store on fire detained

  As reported today by the press service of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the resident who committed arson of a store in the city of Chegem was detained.

November 16, 2010 23:40

• Arkady Babchenko's book on war in Chechnya presented in Finland

  On November 15 in Helsinki, Finland, Kokoteatteri Theatre hosted a press conference on the occasion of publication of the book "The Colour of War" in the Finnish language. The book was written by Arkady Babchenko, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" and a veteran of the warfare in Chechnya.

November 16, 2010 23:30

• "Beslan Mothers" state authorities' intention to conceal proofs of Beslan terror act

  In North Ossetia, members of the organization named "Beslan Mothers" assert that the repairs made in the Beslan School No. 1 will completely hide the traces of the terror act committed there in September 2004.

November 16, 2010 23:20

• Militia prevents mass brawl in Stavropol

  The GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Stavropol Territory reports about suppression of a mass brawl in Stavropol that was near to burst out between groups of recruited builders from Turkmenistan and Armenia.

November 16, 2010 23:10

• Inspectors still choose among versions of historian Pykhalov's beating

  The militia of St Petersburg is searching the unidentified assailants who attacked on November 11 the local historian and publicist Igor Pykhalov, who wrote about deportation of Caucasian nations.

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November 16, 2010 23:00

• Two women injured by explosion in a Krasnodar cafe

  A gas explosion happened in the cafe named "Obzhorka", located at intersection of Mira and Kommunarov Streets in Krasnodar. Two women were hospitalized with burns; the building was damaged.

November 16, 2010 22:50

• Prosecutor's Office of Georgia solves mass thefts at ecology ministry

  Today, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has announced disclosure of a "big corruption scheme" in the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and detention of a number of ministerial officials.

November 16, 2010 22:40

• Nanuashvili: criminal structures could not kidnap Jopua in the territory of Georgia

  The case of kidnapping Garry Jopua has still remained undetected, Shota Utiashvili, head of Informational and Analytic Department of Georgian Ministry of Interior Affairs, said.

November 16, 2010 22:30

• Residents of Chechnya are celebrating Kurban Bairam

  Today the population of Chechnya like the whole Moslem world started celebrating the holiday of sacrificial offering Kurban Bairam (Id-al-Adkh). From the early morning the Moslem believers gathered in the mosques for festive prayer after which the ceremony of sacrificial offering traditionally starts.