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August 03, 2010 21:00

• MIA detained no troopers after fight with Dagestan natives in Moscow

  Moscow law enforcers are establishing instigators of the fight between natives of Dagestan and veterans-air troopers, which burst out yesterday, on August 2, in the Russian capital. Information on the incident is scanty; therefore, authors of Internet diaries express their opinions on the possible course of events; many of them condemn the troopers' tradition of celebrating the annual Troopers' Day by mass alcohol drinking.

August 03, 2010 20:00

• Fuad Gakhramanly: detainees for participation in Saturday's action in Baku are insulted

  As stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Fuad Gakhramanly, deputy chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), the participants of the Saturday's action of the opposition, who had been sentenced to administrative arrest in Baku, are exposed to insults and pressure.

August 03, 2010 19:00

• Balkars stop hunger strike in Essentuki and continue in Moscow

  Tonight, the group of Balkars, which were holding their hunger strike at the building of the representative office of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) in the city of Essentuki for 25 days, stopped their action and returned to Nalchik.

August 03, 2010 18:00

• Azerbaijan: "Azadlyg" to restart on August 4

  The next regular issue of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" will be published in Azerbaijan on August 4. It became possible after negotiations of the paper's editorial board with the top management of the "Azerbaijan" Publishing House.

August 02, 2010 23:30

• Georgian NGOs stand against "hate speech"

  In Georgia, a working group will be set up to fight against the "hate speech". This was decided today during a joint working meeting of the public movement "Multinational Georgia" with the local NGOs.

August 02, 2010 23:20

• Pensioners from Rostov Region adjudge 600,000 euros from Russia at ECtHR

  According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the authorities of Russia shall have to pay over 600,000 euros to 87 military pensioners from Novocherkassk, Rostov Region.

August 02, 2010 23:10

• Militiamen suspected of bribe-taking in Stavropol Territory

  Head of the investigatory department at the OVD for Kislovodsk and his subordinate are suspected of taking a bribe. Under the version of the investigation, the officials received a large bribe from four GIBDD (STSI) employees for hiding their crimes.

August 02, 2010 23:00

• "Strategy-31" rallies held in South of Russia

  Actions in support of the All-Russian campaign "Strategy-31" took place in eight cities of the South of Russia, where participants demand from the authorities to respect Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which guarantees the citizens' right to peaceful assemblies. In each city the rallies were 10-50 persons strong.

August 02, 2010 22:00

• Suspect of kidnapping detained in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Militiamen have detained a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of an armed kidnapping of a resident of Maiskiy settlement from a route bus.

August 02, 2010 21:00

• Balkar hunger-strikers offered to stop their action

  The group of Balkars who are holding a hunger strike in Essentuki near the representative office of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) was visited by Alexei Verbitskiy, federal inspector in Kabardino-Balkaria, who offered them to go home.

August 02, 2010 21:00

• Opposition rapper Noise MC arrested in Volgograd

  The Volgograd Court has arrested Ivan Alekseev, a well-known rapper, singer and composer, also known as "Noise MC, for 10 days on the charge of hooliganism.

August 02, 2010 20:00

• Armenia: recruits should be better examined, experts say

  The tragic death of six servicemen became a result of omissions of one of the links of the system, which had recruited a person, representing potential danger to the society. This opinion was stated today at a press conference by psychologist Karine Nalchadzhyan, who noted that the incident proved the need of a more careful medical examination of recruits.

August 02, 2010 19:00

• In Sochi, mayoralty employees donate one-day salary to fire victims

  Bureaucrats of the city will donate their one-day salaries into the assistance fund to victims of forest fires in Russia.

August 02, 2010 18:00

• Change of militants' leaders may activate their actions in Northern Caucasus, experts believe

  Dokku Umarov, leader of the armed underground in Northern Caucasus, has declared his resignation as "Amir of Imarat Kavkaz", created by him in autumn of 2007, and transfer of the powers to his successor. Experts believe that the change of power among militants may result in sharp increase of separatists' activity in the region.

July 31, 2010 20:00

• OMON motorcade shelled in Dagestan with victims

  Today, unknown persons blew up and shelled a column of OMON (special militia) vehicles in Dagestan. Under preliminary data, 12 militiamen were wounded. The incident happened near the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.

July 31, 2010 20:00

• School of Koran experts to open in Chechnya in August

  A school of hafizes (readers of the Koran by heart) will open on August 23 in Ramzan Kadyrov's family village - Khosi-Yurt (Tsentoroi). The school will be named after Zelimkhan, senior brother of President Kadyrov, who died in 2004.

July 31, 2010 19:00

• Picket against monetization of privileges held in Elista

  Today, in Elista, near the building of the Kalmyk State University, opposite the House of Government of Kalmykia, a picket was held against the republic's law on monetization of privileges coming into effect from August 1.

July 31, 2010 18:00

• ICPO: seven wounded in mass fight in Dagestan

  As reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) the Russian Federation, seven persons were wounded in the mass fight on July 30 in Dagestan.

July 31, 2010 17:00

• Police disperses oppositional protest action in central Baku

  In Baku, the police have dispersed a joint protest action of the oppositional parties "Musavat" and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), held with the demands of the freedom of assembly, ensuring the democratic character of the parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 and account of the national interests of Azerbaijan at negotiations on Karabakh settlement.

July 31, 2010 16:00

• North Ossetia to hold first national-cultural contest of Ossetian beer

  The first nationwide contest of Ossetian beer "Iron Bagany-2010" is aimed towards revival of the traditions of house brewing and attraction of the population's interest to the national historic heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of North Ossetia has announced.