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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.

November 16, 2010 22:20

• Gamsakhurdia will sue to ECtHR on procrastination of trial on his cases by the court of Tbilisi

  The party of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's defense declared they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in connection with unlawful prolongation of the terms of trial on his cases by the Municipal court of Tbilisi.

November 16, 2010 22:10

• Two militiamen from Chechnya blown up by a mine in a forest in Dagestan

  On November, 15, two officers of law enforcement bodies of Chechen Republic got wounded as a result of an explosion of a mine in Kazbek district of Dagestan, a source in the Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

November 16, 2010 22:00

• Deceived housing shareholders in Rostov Region declare their intention to fight for their flats

  According to regional authorities, today in the Rostov Region more than 80 percent of high-rise buildings under construction are funded by shareholders. In some cases, they fall into the category of deceived shareholders and start fighting for rights to own apartments. According to activists, there's little success in this fight; while the government, while dealing with the problem, not always involves victims in the process.

November 16, 2010 21:00

• Explosion of ammunition kills two persons in Volgograd Region

  An explosion was triggered today in the morning in the Volgograd Region in the field of an agricultural enterprise in the vicinity of the village of Karpovka, which resulted in two deaths; two more persons with injuries were taken to hospital.

November 16, 2010 20:00

• Alternative show of film about journalist Baburova to take place in Moscow on November 19

  Today, in the House of Journalists, friends of the "Committee of January 19" will hold an action intended to invite the visitors of the festival "Profession: Journalist" to the show of the alternative documentary dedicated to Anastasia Baburova, a journalist who was shot dead on January 19, 2009, together with lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

November 16, 2010 19:00

• Ex-Minister of alternative government of South Ossetia sentenced to 13 years of high security colony

  The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has completed consideration of the case, initiated against Teimuraz Dzherapov, former minister of economy of the government of South Ossetian in exile (temporary administration of the republic formed in Tbilisi).

November 16, 2010 18:00

• Umar Israilov's murder case tried in Vienna

  Today, Vienna saw the first court session considering the murder case of Umar Israilov, a native of Chechnya and ex-security guard of Ramzan Kadyrov. Enhanced security measures have been introduced by the police in the district where the litigation takes place.

November 15, 2010 23:10

• Kamalov: in Dagestan, Cossacks are cultural phenomenon

  In Dagestan, Cossacks have ever been, above all, a binding link between all nationalities; it was stated by Zirkula Ilyasov, First Deputy Minister for National Policy, Religion Matters and Foreign Relations of Dagestan. Enver Kisriev, a researcher of the Caucasian, believes that there is no serious conflict between Dagestanis and Cossacks in the republic; while Hadjimurat Kamalov, founder of the newspaper "Chernovik", confirms this idea and indicates that local Cossacks have become more a cultural phenomenon than a military force.

November 15, 2010 23:00

• Militiaman assassinated at service in Grozny

  Last night, in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, unidentified persons shot dead a GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) senior militia lieutenant. On this fact, a criminal case was opened under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

November 15, 2010 22:50

• Armenians are concerned of gender inequality in governing bodies, poll results say

  Eighty-one percent of Armenians are convinced that the country has a problem of inequality of men and women in their representation in power bodies. Of them, 38 percent of respondents believe the problem is very acute, and only 15 percent believe that the quantitative inequality is not a problem. The study was conducted within the framework of the Programme "Women's capacity building in peace construction in Southern Caucasus".