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February 13, 2009 19:00

• In Ingushetia, Gatagazhev family complain that FSB agents planted a bomb into their house

  The members of Gatagazhev family, who live in Sagopshi village, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that employees of the Department of FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, who searched their house, had first planted an explosive and then declared it detected.

February 12, 2009 23:00

• USA is ready to give air to Azerbaijani broadcasters in exchange of foreign broadcasting in Azerbaijan

  The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is ready to provide space for Azerbaijani broadcasters in the Azerbaijani and English languages over the States in exchange of renewal of broadcasting of foreign radio stations over Azerbaijan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this statement was made on February 11 by Ann Dears, US Ambassador in Baku.

February 12, 2009 22:00

• In Armenia, trial on "Case of Seven" postponed till February 26

  The trial of Armenian oppositionists, known as the "Case of Seven", is postponed till February 26. The judge motivated his decision by the fact that after the start of the session the defendants refused to take their seats.

February 12, 2009 21:00

• Data on special operation in Ingushetia is contradictory

  The data about the course of the special operation conducted in Ingushetia, as presented by various sources, are highly different. The count of casualties and details are unknown. According to the latest information, four militiamen were lost.

February 12, 2009 20:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, casualties of special operation are being identified

  The process of identification is underway in Kabardino-Balkaria, where on February 11 in the vicinity of Nalchik seven persons were killed.

February 12, 2009 19:00

• Russian Public Chamber tries to clear out the fate of persons kidnapped in Dagestan

  In mid-March, the members of the Public Chamber and human rights activists plan to arrive to Dagestan and consider in situ the situation in the Republic with kidnappings. The delegation will be headed by Nikolai Svanidze, chairman of the commission for interethnic relations and freedom of conscience.

February 12, 2009 18:00

• Russian President grants Order of Courage posthumously to Dagestan journalist

  Dmitri Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, has signed a decree on awarding former head of the GTRK "Dagestan" Gadzhi Abashilov, assassinated in March 2008, with the Order of Courage.

February 11, 2009 23:00

• Human rights activists speak about torturing Chechens in Russian prisons

  At a press conference in Moscow on February 10, human rights activists reported that natives from Chechnya, who had been tortured with the aim to knock out evidences and then sentenced to long imprisonment terms, are still tortured in prisons out of hatred.

February 11, 2009 22:00

• Commander of Azerbaijani Air Forces assassinated in Baku

  Today, at about 8 a.m. in Baku, General-Lieutenant Rail Rzaev, Commander of the Air Forces and Air Defence Troops of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan was killed.

February 11, 2009 21:00

• Georgia's MIA states invasion of Russian militaries into Georgian village

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia asserts that Russian troops have entered the Georgian village of Kvemo-Nikozi in the border with South Ossetia.

February 11, 2009 16:00

• Putin sets up Russian embassies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed an order to establish in 2009 Russian embassies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The order defined the order of funding the new diplomatic missions, as the press service of Russian government reports.

February 11, 2009 15:00

• Cutting electricity supply to "Azersu" threatens to leave several cities of Azerbaijan without water

  The company named "Sumgaiytelectricshebeke" promises to stop, on February 16 at 3:00 p.m. Baku time, its electricity supply to the pump stations of the Joint-Stock Company "Azersu", which is delivering drinking and technical water to Baku, Sumgait and other regions of Azerbaijan.

February 11, 2009 11:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: seven casualties in special operation

  Today at 2:00 p.m. in Kabardino-Balkaria, not far from Gerpegezh village, in the vicinity of Nalchik, a fight burst out between law enforcers and, presumably, militants, as a result of which seven persons were killed. One militiaman was wounded.

February 11, 2009 10:00

• Burial of militaries found in mountains of Chechnya

  A source in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has reported that on February 10, in the woody district in Chechen mountains, in the border between the villages of Selmentauzen and Sharo-Argun, a burial with bodies of two militaries was detected.

February 11, 2009 10:00

• Suspected killer of Mayor of the capital of North Ossetia was UBOP worker

  The spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office for North Ossetia has reported that one of the suspects of murdering Mayor of Vladikavkaz Vitaly Karaev was, at the moment of murder, an employee of the Department for Fighting Organized Crime (the so-called "UBOP").

February 11, 2009 08:00

• Azerbaijan passes the law on fighting money-laundering and funding terrorism

  On February 10, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan passed, in its third final reading, the Law "On Counteracting Legalization of Funds and Property Obtained in Criminal Way and Funding Terrorism". Adoption of this law was among Azerbaijani obligations before the Council of Europe.

February 11, 2009 07:00

• Car with 4 million contraband dollars detained in Rostov Region

  In the Rostov Region, in the Russian-Ukrainian border, a car was detained in which two citizens of Ukraine tried to carry four million US dollars as contraband.

February 11, 2009 05:00

• Radchenko will not head DFTS of Dagestan

  The newly-appointed head of the Department of the Federal Tax Service (DFTS) of Russia for Dagestan Vladimir Radchenko will not hold this post. It was stated by a "Caucasian Knot" source, who preferred to remain anonymous.

February 10, 2009 23:13

• Gipsy woman tortured in TCF of Volgograd

  Ms Yurenko, a Gipsy by nationality, was tortured when kept in the temporary custody facility (TCF) of the city of Volgograd. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by her advocate Tatiana Pavlova, who has described the sufferings of her client.

February 10, 2009 20:00

• Families of Russian militaries lost in South Ossetia receive 100,000 US dollars each

  General-Lieutenant Anatoly Bashlakov, head of the chief administration for education work of Russian Armed Forces has informed journalists today that the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation had allotted material aid in equivalent to 100,000 US dollars to every family of Russian military casualties in South Ossetia.