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September 25, 2010 17:00

• Dagestan schoolmistress fell victim of hired killers, relatives assert

  Patimat Magomedova, director of the school in Shamkhal village in Dagestan, assassinated in the evening on September 23, had repeatedly received threats, her relatives report.

September 25, 2010 15:00

• Families of Vladikavkaz terror act casualties start receiving money

  The sum of 5.1 million roubles was allotted from the reserve fund of the head of North Ossetia for rendering lump sum material aid to families of casualties and victims. The money has been already paid to 10 families of the casualties - 3 million roubles in total.

September 25, 2010 13:00

• Militia: Oleg Mizov made self-blowing at DFSB division in Nartkala

  The law enforcement bodies have reported that they managed to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber, who shelled on September 24 the building of the local division of the Department of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) and then blew himself up at the building of the security service in the city of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria: it was Oleg Mizov, who was earlier in search.

September 25, 2010 11:00

• Russian sentenced to 10 years of colony for spying for Georgia

  The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Eduard Gobozov, a Russian citizen and head of the division of army service and safety of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia, to 10 years of imprisonment after he was found guilty of espionage in favour of Georgia.

September 25, 2010 10:00

• 26 persons suffered from suicide bomber in Makhachkala

  On September 24, as a result of a self-explosion of a terrorist-suicide bomber in Makhachkala 26 persons were injured, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan report.

September 25, 2010 09:00

• Solo picket of judge Novikov's mother in Krasnodar interrupted by militia

  On September 24 at 10:00 a.m., Tamara Novikova, mother of the Sochi judge Dmitri Novikov, went out to hold her regular picket at the building of the Territorial Court at No. 3 Morskaya Street in Krasnodar; however, her action was stopped by power agents.

September 25, 2010 06:00

• Parliament of Georgia adopts amendments to the Constitution in first reading

  With a 123-4 vote, the parliament of Georgia has approved in the first reading the draft of the Constitutional Law "On Amending and Adding the Constitution of Georgia" at its extraordinary session.

September 24, 2010 23:40

• Armed clash with casualties in Vedeno District of Chechnya

  Three servicemen of the Internal Troops of the MIA of the Russian Federation were lost in the mountains of Chechnya in the course of a special operation, as reported today by a source in law enforcement bodies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

September 24, 2010 23:30

• Aslan Kodzoev: I did not act against President of Ingushetia

  The statement with criticism of the voyage of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov to South Ossetia was not directed against Evkurov, but against those forces which draw in Ingushetia into the state of enmity, said Aslan Kodzoev, adviser of the head of the republic for interaction with public organizations. He has confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent his authorship of the sensational statement in the blog.

September 24, 2010 23:10

• Hotel shelled from grenade launcher in Ingushetia: no victims

  On Thursday, September 23, at about 9:25 p.m., unidentified persons used a grenade launcher and automatic firearms to attack the "Sharan" Hotel in Karabulak and then disappeared.

September 24, 2010 23:00

• MIA of Dagestan does not exclude that schoolmaster was killed by religious extremists

  Patimat Magomedova, school director in Shamkhal village, who was assassinated on September 23, could fall victim to religious fanatics, since she had tried to forbid wearing hijabs by pupils of her educational institution, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

September 24, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 13-19

  Investigation of Vladikavkaz terror act has background of broad-scale public actions; Chechen Congress in Poland was accompanied by Ahmed Zakaev's detention; the Caucasus sums up first outcomes of Sochi investment forum, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 13-19, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 24, 2010 22:50

• Women from Kabardino-Balkaria ask Kanokov not to admit convoying their convicted husbands to other regions

  Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria Alyona Shaova, Elena Gazzaeva and Angela Sunsheva have addressed their letter to President of the republic Arsen Kanokov, Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and head of the Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov, asking to prevent convoying their husbands from the corrective establishment in Kamenka village outside Kabardino-Balkaria.

September 24, 2010 22:41

• Krasnodar Territory fixes Siberian plague cases

  Cattle mortality from Siberian plague was revealed in Uspenskaya village, Beloglinskiy District, Krasnodar Territory. The farm workers are under doctor's supervision there, the Southern Regional Centre (SRC) of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation reports.

September 24, 2010 22:20

• Explosion triggered at the MIA university in Nalchik

  Today in the morning unidentified persons triggered a self-made bomb near the building of the Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Nalchik. Under preliminary data, there are no victims.

September 24, 2010 22:10

• People's Party of South Ossetia demands to extend passport exchange term till two years

  The People's Party of South Ossetia is concerned about the statement of President Eduard Kokoity about the deadline set up for citizens of South Ossetia in changing their passports: it is planned to terminate the procedure next year, while the Party demands to prolong the term. The statement of the Party notes that the passport exchange campaign was conceived with the aim to deprive the citizens viewed as dangerous for the authorities of their citizenship and, accordingly, of their suffrage.

September 24, 2010 22:00

• Lukin asks GPO to check data about attacks on women without headscarves in Chechnya

  Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has addressed his letter to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) asking to investigate the facts of attacks on women, who appear in the streets without headscarves. The GPO says that they have not received Mr Lukin's letter yet, while Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, rejects any attacks on women in his republic whatsoever.

September 24, 2010 21:00

• Polish Public prosecutor's office appealed against Ahmed Zakaev's release

  The Warsaw district Public prosecutor's office has appealed against the verdict of the court which had refused temporary arrest of Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, Monica Levandovskaya, press secretary of the office, reported on September, 23.

September 24, 2010 20:00

• Director of a village school murdered in Dagestan

  The Ministry of Interior Affairs reported that in the evening of September, 23, the director of the secondary school No 45 in the settlement of Shamkhal, Kirovsky district of Makhachkala, was killed.

September 24, 2010 19:00

• The man who had attempted at Isa Yamadaev declared his innocence in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

  On September, 23, Khawaji Yusupov, native of Chechnya, sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment for his attempt at Isa Yamadaev, brother of Ruslan Yamadaev, ex-deputy of State Duma, and Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of "Vostok" battalion, declared his innocence in court.