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October 17, 2011 19:00

• Clean-up in Khutrakh village in Dagestan was punitive action, human rights activists assert

  The residents of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan have expressed their complaints to human rights activists against illegal actions of law enforcement and power agents who conducted a special operation in the village. This was announced by Svetlana Isaeva, Chair of the organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

October 17, 2011 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, number of oppositional hunger-strikers goes up

  Today, in Baku two opposition members joined the hunger strike kept by parents of persons convicted of participation in the protest action on April 2.

October 15, 2011 23:00

• Makhachkala: militants surrender under guarantees of adaptation commission

  The members of the armed underground Nariman Mirzamagomedov and Telman Gadjimustafaev, who were blocked in the capital of Dagestan, have surrendered under the guarantees of the commission under the president of the republic set up to help people who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities to adapt to peaceful life.

October 15, 2011 22:00

• Ivanishvili to appeal against deprivation of his Georgian citizenship and renounce his Russian citizenship

  As reported by Eka Beseliya, the advocate of the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, the special order of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili of citizenship deprivation will be challenged in the court, and Ivanishvili's French and Russian passports will be dismissed.

October 15, 2011 21:00

• Swank to transfer her fee received for concert in Grozny to charities

  The American actress and the two-times "Oscar" laureate Hilary Swank will transfer her part of the royalty, due to her for taking part in the gala concert in Grozny, to charitable organizations, her press secretary said on October 14.

October 15, 2011 20:00

• Group of KBR residents calls society not to remain indifferent to situation in the region

  A group of residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has appealed to the authorities and the public with an open letter entitled "Young Caucasians perish - both Muslims and policemen".

October 15, 2011 19:00

• In Nagorno-Karabakh, conscript arrested for death of serviceman

  On October 14, a conscript was detained in Nagorno-Karabakh within a criminal investigation into the death of first-class private Yurik Nersisyan, a regular soldier of the Defence Army of Karabakh.

October 15, 2011 18:00

• Azerbaijan gets interested in tourist cluster in Northern Caucasus

  The Azerbaijani government will send a delegation with businessmen to Dagestan to study the development projects of the North-Caucasian tourist cluster, in particular, the Caspian coast resorts and their investment opportunities.

October 15, 2011 17:00

• In Turkey, police releases Uvais Akhmadov

  The Istanbul police has released the former Chechen field commander Uvais Akhmadov on the fifth day after his arrest, having found no sufficient proofs of his involvement in the attempt on Shamsuddin Batukaev, the former head of the Sharia Court a self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

October 15, 2011 16:00

• Seventeen persons registered as presidential candidates in South Ossetia

  On October 14, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia registered Alan Pliev, Deputy Foreign Minister of South Ossetia, Eduard Gabaraev, the artillery commander of the local Ministry of Defence (MoD), Igor Alborov, Deputy Head of the MoD, and the local MP Inal Bazzaev as presidential candidates, making the total number of them equal to 17 persons.

October 15, 2011 15:00

• Grocery store blown up in Makhachkala

  Last night, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near the grocery store in the village of Shamkhal, Kirov District of the capital of Dagestan. No one was injured.

October 15, 2011 14:00

• E-daybooks to be introduced in schools of Georgia

  Starting November 1, schools of Georgia will introduce electronic daybooks, where parents will be able to control the academic progress of their children in the online mode, Dmitry Shashkin, the Georgian Minister of Education, announced on October 13.

October 15, 2011 13:00

• In Armenia, youth initiative "Let's not be silent" calls for resignation of Chief of Staff of Armed Forces

  In Armenia, the youth initiative named "Let's not be silent" accuses the Chief of Staff Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov of his inability to prevent crimes in the army and demands his resignation.

October 15, 2011 12:00

• Makhachkala hosts action demanding to release Rustam Yakhyaev

  On October 1, relatives of Rustam Yakhyaev, who was kidnapped by unknown masked men, gathered in the central square of Makhachkala with a demand to the police to release Rustam or present proofs of his guilt, if any.

October 15, 2011 11:00

• Albert Djussoev's supporter shot dead in Vladikavkaz

  Soslan Khugaev, one of the leaders of the public-political movement "Forward Ossetia!" and an active supporter of the presidential candidate of South Ossetia Albert Djussoev, was shot dead in the capital of North Ossetia.

October 14, 2011 23:50

• Pirates release crew of vessel hijacked off coast of Nigeria

  This morning, the crew of the "Cape Bird" tanker, which was captured on October 8 by pirates off the coast of Nigeria, was released. This was announced by Georgy Karbelashvili, Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The crew included 12 citizens of Georgia and 4 citizens of Russia.

October 14, 2011 23:10

• Opposition accuses "Edinaya Rossiya" of using administrative resource in Astrakhan

  The "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party held regular action in Astrakhan within the pre-election campaign. Participants admitted that they were forced to come to the event. Opposition representatives claimed that the ruling party again used the so-called "administrative resource", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

October 14, 2011 23:00

• Policeman, suspected of killing resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, escapes from investigation

  Investigators of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) put Ruslan Rakhaev, Deputy Chief of Police in Cherkessk, in the wanted list. The police officer is suspected of beating a detainee who died from the injuries.

October 14, 2011 22:40

• Defendant, accused of murdering anti-fascist Dzhaparidze, left in custody until December

  The Kuzminki District Court of Moscow extended to December the detention period of the defendant Yuri Tikhomirov, accused of murdering the anti-fascist Ilya Dzhaparidze.

October 14, 2011 22:30

• Relatives of Yakhyaev, kidnapped in Dagestan, organize picket in central Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, relatives of Rustam Yakhyaev, who was taken away to some unknown destination by armed people, are going for the picket in the central square of the capital of Dagestan. According to the relatives of the kidnapped, Yakhyaev is kept in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and he is accused of murder of Murtazaliev, Deputy Chief of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.