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April 11, 2009 12:00

• Embassy of Canada helps schools in Prigorodny District of North Ossetia

  The embassy of Canada in Russia has allocated, with assistance of Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", 400,000 roubles to help two comprehensive schools located in the villages of Kurtat and Dongaron, Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. The money was spent to buy some school stock.

April 11, 2009 11:00

• Fans give "nationalist colouring" to football matches of Caucasian teams

  The day 3 matches of the Russian football premier league with participation of the clubs representing Northern Caucasus - matches of Grozny "Terek" versus Moscow "Dynamo" and Nalchik "Spartak" versus Moscow "Spartak" - could not do without scandalous incidents with nationalistic context.

April 11, 2009 10:00

• Patriarch of Georgia apologizes to Moslems for anti-Islamic statements placed in his website

  The Georgian Patriarchy has apologized, on behalf of Elias II, head of Georgian Orthodox Church, to Moslems for the anti-Islamic statements, which appeared yesterday in the official website.

April 11, 2009 07:00

• Sargsyan expects open Armenian-Turkish border by October

  President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan expects that the Armenian-Turkish border will be unblocked by the football match between the teams of the two countries to take place in Turkey on October 7.

April 10, 2009 23:00

• Not all residents of Sunzha District in Ingushetia knew about CTO regime

  Some residents of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, where on March 30 six villages were announced under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, did not know about it. According to local residents, the CTO regime passed without any restrictions on civilians' rights.

April 10, 2009 22:00

• In Dagestan, sapper dies at demining gas main

  Today in the morning, two explosive devices were detected in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, on the main gas line "Mozdok-Kazimagomed". During demining one of them, a sapper was lost.

April 10, 2009 21:00

• Rostov Region: protesting miners-pensioners file new claims to the European Court

  In the Rostov Region, miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo, who are striving for their privileges on heating, are filing new claims to the European Court on Human Rights. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo. The pensioners continue their pickets and hunger strike.

April 10, 2009 21:00

• In Azerbaijan, detained Talysh activist was visited by PACE co-rapporteur

  On April 9, Estonian MP Andres Herkel, co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and Veronica Kotek, special representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Azerbaijan, had a meeting with Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre, who is serving his term in high security Colony No. 15.

April 10, 2009 20:00

• In Ingushetia, two women detained in special operation released

  Residents of Ingushetia Madina Ozdoeva and Patimat Mutalieva, detained in the course of the special operation conducted by power agents on March 26 in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of the republic, are at large. The investigation regards them as witnesses.

April 10, 2009 19:00

• Opposition blocks main streets of Georgia's capital

  The opposition, which is holding a rally in Tbilisi, has split into parts and blocked strategic streets of the capital of Georgia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Paata Zakareishvili, a political scientist and human rights activist, who is present at the rally.

April 10, 2009 18:00

• In Tbilisi, unidentified persons in masks beat opposition activist

  The night in front of the Parliament of Georgia, where a small group of opposition supporters and activists were on duty, passed in peace. However, elsewhere in Tbilisi incidents were registered connected with participants of the protest action - a young oppositionist was beaten.

April 09, 2009 23:10

• Minibus drivers hold strike in Yerevan

  Today, in the southwest part of Yerevan, a strike of minibus drivers was held. Several dozens of drivers protested against increase of liquefied gas prices, used by their minibuses. According to their story, this price rise was not accompanied by transportation tariff growth.

April 09, 2009 22:30

• Yandex: SFD is the last in Russia by Internet development

  Among all the districts of Russia the South Federal District (SFD) is in the last place by development of the use of Internet. However, bloggers and Internet edition are more active in the SFD than on the average in Russia. These are the data from the information bulletin published by the "Yandex" Company on the Internet development in regions of Russia in 2008.

April 09, 2009 22:00

• In Dagestan, a local resident killed and two militiamen wounded

  On April 8, in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, unidentified persons wounded two employees of the road police service, and then, trying to escape the chase, killed a local resident.

April 09, 2009 22:00

• Tax collectors demand education tax from parents of children who suffered in Beslan

  The tax service demands that parents of the children-victims of the Beslan terror act in 2004 should pay taxes on their free-of-charge training at the "Podmoskovny" College in Koralovo founded by Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and financed by YUKOS, as Ella Kesaeva, chair of the "Voice of Beslan", reports.

April 09, 2009 21:00

• Data on the number of Tbilisi protesters diverge

  Georgian journalist Irakliy Berulava, who is present in the venue, has treated the data about the number of participants in the protest rally in Tbilisi, reported by some mass media, to be frankly false.

April 09, 2009 20:40

• Satirical poet Mirza Sakit released from custody in Azerbaijan

  Early in the morning on April 9, in Azerbaijan, poet-satirist Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov), a journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, who was sentenced in October 2006 to three years in prison for drug dealing, got at large.

April 09, 2009 20:00

• European Court again condemns Russia on suits of Chechen residents

  The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has again condemned Russia on four claims filed by Chechens and has obliged Russia to pay 282,000 euros out to residents of Chechnya for disappearance of their relatives in 2001-2003.

April 09, 2009 19:00

• Opposition rally underway in Adzharia

  The Party of Zurab Nogaideli, former prime minister of Georgia, named as "Movement for United Georgia", is holding protest actions in Adzharia.

April 09, 2009 18:00

• Local resident kidnapped in Dagestan

  On April 5, unidentified power agents kidnapped Yusup Zagirov, born in 1977. His brother Omar Zagirov made a statement yesterday, on April 8.