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July 28, 2010 23:20

• Kabardino-Balkaria: militia checks data on Shadov's kidnapping

  The fact of kidnapping of Anzor Shadov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Urvan District, is under preliminary check, as envisioned by the law, said advocate Zhamal Mokaev, who represents the interests of the Shadov family.

July 28, 2010 23:10

• Armenian rights defenders worry about situation in corrective establishments

  About a dozen of human rights organizations of Armenia have disseminated a joint statement with a concern about the state of things in Criminal Corrective Establishments (CCEs) of the country, in particular, that they are overcrowded.

July 28, 2010 23:00

• Makhachkala: unknown persons set restaurant on fire and kill a visitor

  In the evening on July 27, three armed persons set a restaurant on fire in Makhachkala and shot dead a visitor who tried to interfere. This was reported by the press service of the MIA of Dagestan.

July 28, 2010 22:00

• Rights defenders accuse Georgian President of racism

  The Georgian Human Rights Centre has moved accusations against President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, who, in opinion of human rights activists, makes racist statements.

July 28, 2010 21:00

• Ashurov: Azerbaijani court was wrong in rejecting Gadjizade's CER

  The court's refusal to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to blogger Adnan Gadjizade, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has no lawful grounds, as Isakhan Ashurov, Adnan's advocate, told today the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 28, 2010 20:00

• Militiaman wounded at explosion dies in Dagestan

  Lieutenant Colonel Kamil Dzhabrailov, deputy head of the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, died from received wounds in hospital.

July 28, 2010 19:00

• Refugees from Abkhazia plan to give up Georgian citizenship

  In Tbilisi, the refugees from Abkhazia who were evicted from the publishing house "Samshoblo" held a protest action at the building of the Ministry for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation, demanding housing. Should the authorities fail to solve their housing problems, they plan to refuse from their Georgian citizenship.

July 28, 2010 18:00

• Tambiev: there is no claim to close "Ingushetia.Ru" in court

  As reported by Khamid Tambiev, Chairman of the Magas Court, they have no statement of claim demanding to close the Internet edition "Ingushetia.Ru" (ingushetiyaru.org).

July 27, 2010 23:30

• In Ingushetia, Alaudin Nalgiev, detained on July 14, is still in custody

  Relatives and advocate of Alaudin Nalgiev, who was detained on July 14, continue insisting that the young man is illegally kept in custody and was exposed to torture. Employees of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Society "Memorial" sent an inquiry to prosecutor's office.

July 27, 2010 23:20

• Moscow: figurant in inspector Kaziakhmedov's murder case sentenced to 12 years of colony

  The Moscow City Court has sentenced Rasul Akhmaev, accused of complicity in the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office, to 12 years of high security colony. He was found guilty of buying the firearm that was used for the murder and of participating in organization of the murder.

July 27, 2010 23:10

• In South Ossetia, released hostage tells about his kidnapping

  Mikhail Kulumbegov, a resident of Gvirgvina village, Znaur District of South Ossetia, who was kidnapped today by unidentified persons and released two hours later, asserts that "his kidnappers wanted to exchange him for a citizen of Georgia, allegedly kept by the South-Ossetian party."

July 27, 2010 23:00

• Russian Supreme Court cancels ban on BEBP

  The Supreme Court of the Russia Federation has satisfied the cassation complaint lodged by the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP) with a request to cancel the decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria prescribing to ban the Board. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the BEBP that the Russian Supreme Court decided to stop the case.

July 27, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 19-25

  Explosion at Baksan HPP; severe beating of oppositionist in South Ossetia; loud statements of Balkar hunger-strikers, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 19-25, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 27, 2010 22:00

• Data about attack on militiamen in Astrakhan is contradictory

  Different sources give different versions of the night incident in Astrakhan, where a militiaman was killed, and a girl-his colleague was wounded.

July 27, 2010 21:00

• Lebedev's expedition to the Caucasus: Azerbaijan - "in juncture of civilizations", Georgia - "not the States yet, but tries a lot"

  The participants of the ethnographic expedition, which started from Moscow to the Caucasus on July 15 and organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev, have already visited the south of Russia and are now getting acquainted with Southern Caucasus. After the North-Caucasian republics, the crews have visited Azerbaijan and Georgia.

July 27, 2010 20:00

• A resident of Nartkala kidnapped in Kabardino-Balkaria

  At night on July 21 Anzor Shadov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Kabardino-Balkaria, was kidnapped. As reported by a reader of the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the witnesses of the incident, armed persons in masks forced him into a Gazel van and took away into some unknown location.

July 27, 2010 19:00

• Ingushetia: two persons wounded in shelling

  Today, in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons wounded an employee of the local OVD (Interior Division), who stood in the street, and a passer-by.

July 27, 2010 18:00

• Khazbiev: prosecutors try to stop "Ingushetia.Org"

  The Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia has addressed the Magas City Court asking to oblige the provider to stop the website "Ingushetia.Org", Magomed Khazbiev, the owner of the resource, reports.

July 26, 2010 23:20

• Tbilisi hosts exhibition of Russian photographer on victims of armed conflicts

  The "Karvasla" exhibition centre in Tbilisi hosts an exhibition of photo works by the Russian journalist and photographer of Victoria Ivleva "Apotheosis of War". The exposition includes 42 photos made in 1992-2005 and dedicated to victims of armed conflicts in different corners of the planet.

July 26, 2010 23:10

• Militia: fight in camp "Don" had domestic motives

  The investigatory bodies of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory believe that the fight in the children's health-improving camp "Don" between local and Chechen teenagers had domestic grounds. Nine persons addressed for medical aid.