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October 20, 2010 23:10

• Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers" is over in Sochi

  The resort city of Sochi has closed the Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers", dedicated to life of people with disabilities. The jury marked a total of 13 films in different categories. Prizes were granted to filmmakers from Germany, USA, Sweden, Great Britain, France and Russia.

October 20, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 11-17

  Krasnodar Territory occurred in power of "high water" - there are casualties and victims; the calamity caused multimillion losses; electoral battles in southern Russia continue after voting; Georgia accepts residents of Northern Caucasus in visa-free mode, while Russia withdraws its troops from the Ossetian-Georgian border, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 11-17, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 20, 2010 23:00

• Rights defenders tell CE Secretary about human rights violations in Armenia

  Human rights activists from Armenia sent a letter to Torbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), whose visit to Armenia will take place in the coming days. In the letter members of several public organizations draw Mr Jagland's attention to systematic human rights violations in their country.

October 20, 2010 22:50

• Militiaman killed in Ingushetia

  Yesterday, on October 19, in the Ingush city of Malgobek, unidentified assailants killed a militia senior lieutenant, an operative agent of the local GOVD (City Interior Department), said a source from law enforcement agencies.

October 20, 2010 22:40

• Tbilisi Mayoralty evacuated because of explosion threat

  After an anonymous call with a warning about a planted bomb, several hundreds of employees were evacuated from the 21-storey building of Tbilisi Mayoralty in Zhiuli Shartava Street.

October 20, 2010 22:30

• Azerbaijan: colleagues join imprisoned journalist in his hunger strike

  Colleagues of imprisoned Einullah Fatullaev have joined his protest action with a demand to the authorities to enforce the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about his immediate release. Fatullaev went on his termless hunger strike on Tuesday, October 19.

October 20, 2010 22:20

• Investigators identify one of the attackers on Parliament of Chechnya

  Law enforcement authorities have identified one of the suicide bombers involved in the October 19 attack on the Parliament of Chechnya. According to Ruslan Alkhanov, local Interior Minister, it was Muslim Chichkanov, 22, a resident of Chechnya.

October 20, 2010 22:10

• Picket for citizens' legal equality held in Krasnodar

  On October 19, in Heroes Memory Square, public activists of the Krasnodar Region held another picket in defence of Article 19 of the Russian Constitution, which proclaims equality of all before the court and the law.

October 20, 2010 19:00

• Zakaev denies his involvement in organizing the attack upon the Parliament of Chechnya

  On October, 19, Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, declared that the attack upon the building of the republican Parliament had been organized by Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of the Chechen separatists, who is currently staying in London. Zakaev denies his involvement in the incident.

October 20, 2010 18:00

• Magomed Evloev's father requests Prosecutor's committee of inquiry for starting new criminal proceedings on his son's murder

  On October, 14, Magomed Evloev, father of the murdered Ingush oppositionist Yahya Evloev, submitted an appeal to the Prosecutor's committee of inquiry under Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation asking to start new criminal proceedings in connection with a "newly-discovered evidence". He also submitted a statement to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the office.

October 19, 2010 23:40

• Tkachev sacks officials who failed to help flood victims

  The authorities of the Krasnodar Territory have dismissed the deputy head of the Tuapse District responsible for civil defence and emergencies and the head of the Georgievskiy rural settlement of the Tuapse District "for poor help to population who suffered from flooding."

October 19, 2010 23:20

• Investigation finds reason of four deaths in Volgograd Region

  As reported by the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Volgograd Region of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia, the cause of death of four residents of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, who were found dead on October 14 in one of city apartment houses, was poisoning with carbon monoxide (CO).

October 19, 2010 23:10

• NAC reports prevention of terror acts in Astrakhan Region

  Employees of the National Anti-Terror Committee (NAC) have detained members of a criminal grouping, who planned a series of terror acts in the Astrakhan Region. The Committee reports that the detained possible organizer of the planned diversions was involved in attacks on militiamen in Astrakhan in July and August this year.

October 19, 2010 23:00

• Volgograd Regional Court upholds verdict to local ex-deputy convicted for paedophilia

  The judicial panel of the court held a closed session to consider the cassation appeals lodged by the defence and Yuri Babkin, former teacher and deputy of the city soviet, who was convicted on charges of paedophilia to 15 years in a high security colony.

October 19, 2010 22:40

• Russian doctors will help residents of Abkhazian Gali District

  On October 17-27, the district, which is bordering on Georgia, will host a humanitarian action "Mutual Aid. Partnership. Safety", when Russian doctors will render free medical care to local residents.

October 19, 2010 22:30

• "Wikimedia" is accused of extremism for placing appeal of "Voice of Beslan"

  The "Wikimedia", which oversees the Russian-language section of the online library "Wikipedia", can be charged with extremism for placing the appeal of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan": "To everyone sympathizing the victims of Beslan terror act!", which is on the federal list of extremist materials.

October 19, 2010 22:20

• After militants' attack on Chechen Parliament, Grozny intensifies security measures

  The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are still unable to specify exactly how many militants took part in today's morning attack on the Republic's Parliament in Grozny: figures from three to five are named. The number of militia patrols in streets of Chechen capital has increased significantly. Militaries and militiamen are on duty near schools. Some parents preferred to keep their children at home today.

October 19, 2010 22:20

• Umarov demands money back from Gakaev and reorganizes "Imarat Kavkaz"

  On October 9, Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian militants, disbanded two fronts in Chechnya and announced reshuffling in "Imarat Kavkaz". It has become known from the video clips placed on the Internet, in which Umarov refutes allegations of Chechen field commanders on the reasons, which forced them to refuse from their oath to him.

October 19, 2010 22:10

• Chechen MIA: attack on parliament was organized by Hussein Gakaev

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya has reported that the militants who attacked this morning the Parliament building in Grozny, were members of the illegal armed formation (IAF) commanded by Hussein Gakaev, who has organized this action in order to kill Chechen MPs and become famous. However, so far, none of the militants has taken responsibility for the attack.

October 19, 2010 22:00

• Russia's GPO puts Ahmed Zakaev on international wanted list again

  As reported by Marina Gridneva, spokesperson of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia, Ahmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI), was announced into international search again. The Yessentuki City Court, the Stavropol Territory, has arrested Zakaev in absentia.