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December 22, 2011 21:00

• Convicts in Rostov region became prize-winners of an international cinema festival

  Two documentaries devoted to the life of convicts in Rostov region became prize-winners of the First St. Petersburg international festival "Nadezhda" ("Hope"). The authors are convicts serving penalty in the colonies of the region.

December 22, 2011 19:00

• Eight workers in Timashevsk are on a hunger strike in protest against non-payment of wages

  A hunger strike of eight builders of a trimmers' team who were reconditioning neurology unit of Timashevsk district hospital is going on in the town of Timashevsk, Krasnodar region. The workers demand from "Yug-S" company to settle accounts with the team for the work they have done.

December 22, 2011 18:00

• The Senate of Mexico has adopted no resolution on the events in Khojaly, Armenian mass media report

  The Senate of Mexico has not adopted any resolutions in connection with the events in the town of Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh. This was explained by representatives of the Senate of Mexico with the addition that two closing paragraphs of the document expressing the opinion of one of the committees were read out at a plenary session of the Senate.

December 22, 2011 17:00

• A veteran of the war in Afghanistan in Rostov-on-Don went on an open-ended hunger strike near the building of Plenipotentiary mission in SFO

  Georgy Sadovich, veteran of the war in Afghanistan, came out on a single-person picket declaring a hunger strike near the building of the President's Plenipotentiary mission in Southern Federal Okrug (SFO). The picketer demands to provide him with dwelling which, according to him, is due to him by law.

December 21, 2011 22:40

• Azerbaijani MFA: Mexican Senate treats events in Khodjaly as genocide

  The upper house of the Parliament of Mexico recognized the tragic events that took place on February 25-26, 1992, in Khodjaly town of Nagorno-Karabakh as genocide. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

December 21, 2011 22:20

• Most violations at elections to State Duma detected in Moscow and Stavropol Territory, report of MIA and ICRF asserts

  In the course of the election campaign on elections of deputies to the Russian State Duma, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has identified more than two thousand violations, including 96 ones in the Stavropol Territory. Investigators conduct nine inspections in different regions of the country, including in the south of Russia, to investigate the complaints about falsification of voting results. According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), the voting results at 21 electoral precincts were cancelled due to violations.

December 21, 2011 22:10

• Moscow City Court upholds further custody of defendant accused of killing Anna Politkovskaya

  The Moscow City Court refused to release Rustam Makhmudov, accused of murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", from the custody.

December 21, 2011 22:00

• Prosecutor's Office demands to eliminate violations in Belorechenskaya colony

  In the Belorechenskaya juvenile correctional facility, no proper educational and psychological work with convicts is carried out, and that was the main cause of the incident, during which 22 teenagers cut their arms. This was revealed by the inspection of the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory.

December 21, 2011 21:50

• Alan Kochiev, ex-candidate for South Ossetian presidency, released from custody

  Today, in Tskhinvali, Alan Kochiev, ex-candidate for South Ossetian presidency, was released on the recognizance not to leave. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia.

December 21, 2011 21:40

• Authorities of South Ossetia and Georgia agree to exchange detainees

  The preliminary agreement between Georgia and South Ossetia on the transfer of persons under investigation was reached at the today's meeting within the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention. This was announced by Merab Chigoev, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of President of South Ossetia on post-conflict reconciliation.

December 21, 2011 21:30

• Putin's visit to Chechnya held under enhanced security measures

  On December 20, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held - in the city of Gudermes (Chechnya) - a meeting attended by federal ministers and heads of the North-Caucasian region, dedicated to the region's development. Local residents report that enhanced security measures were introduced in the city on the occasion.

December 21, 2011 21:20

• Mother of young metro fighter with Caucasians wants to leave Russia

  The Moscow resident Inga Kharitonova, the mother of the student Gleb Kharitonov, who in mid-October participated in a fight in the Moscow metro with immigrants from the Caucasus, has decided to leave Russia. She states that she will go to Latvia, after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin answered her letter during the "hot line".

December 21, 2011 21:10

• In Georgia, activists of Labour Party hold disobedience action

  Today, near the Palace of the President of Georgia in Tbilisi, the Labour Party held a disobedience action named "Let's spoil Mikhail Saakashvili's birthday".

December 21, 2011 21:00

• Vladimir Putin: financing of Northern Caucasus prevents war

  Limitation of financing of the North-Caucasian regions contributes to serious complications of the situation in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and in the entire country, up to a war. This was declared by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, when he commented on the recent increase in nationalistic slogans of "Stop feeding the Caucasus."

December 21, 2011 20:00

• Two officials in Chechnya sentenced to custody conditionally for non-payment of wages

  Working and ex-Director of one of the state enterprises of Chechnya were sentenced to one and two years of custody for non-payment of wages to their employees.

December 21, 2011 19:00

• Residents of the settlement of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia complain of regular electricity outage

  Yesterday evening, December, 20, Residents of the settlement of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia were cut off power supply once again. Local residents state that such outages now happen in the settlement practically every day. As a result, people cannot use electrical appliances, including heaters, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

December 21, 2011 18:00

• An entrepreneur shot down in Vladikavkaz

  Last night a thirty-seven-year-old Vadim Djioev, owner of "Регах" restaurant, was shot down in Vladikavkaz. His friend who was nearby got wounded, a source in law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia reported.

December 21, 2011 17:00

• Djioeva'a supporters in South Ossetia held a picket in front of the Russian Embassy

  On December, 20, supporters of Alla Djioeva, ex-candidate for the Presidency of South Ossetia, held a picket in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in South Ossetia planned earlier. The participants declared that they had come to express their protest against non-fulfilment of the agreements between the authorities of the republic and the opposition and support Vladimir Putin at the presidential election in Russia. No more than 50 people were present at the picket.

December 20, 2011 23:00

• Families of victims of Karabakh conflict to get new housing in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Till the end of 2011, 91 families of the militaries who perished in the Karabakh conflict will receive apartments in Stepanakert, said Narine Astsatryan, Minister of Social Care of Nagorno-Karabakh.

December 20, 2011 22:14

• Trunov: victims of Dubrovka terror act to file new lawsuits for compensation

  The victims of the terror act committed in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre in Moscow will file new lawsuits claiming compensation against Moscow authorities after the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said Igor Trunov, the lawyer for the victims.