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August 17, 2011 20:00

• Six gunmen killed in a special operation in Dagestan

  An active stage of the special operation which started on August, 15, in Khasavyurt and Kizilyurt districts of Dagestan and recommenced this morning has come to an end, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

August 17, 2011 19:00

• Union of Veterans in Abkhazia demands investigation on the accusations of collaboration with Georgia against Anquab

  Union of Veterans of the Patriotic war of the Abkhazian people in 1992-1993 “Amtsakhara” condemned the show of an interview with ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia in Sukhum who reported his collaboration with Vice-president of the republic Alexander Anquab.

August 17, 2011 18:00

• Electricity switched off again in Georgian section of the Embassy of Switzerland in the Russian Federation

  Electricity in the Section of the Interests of Georgia with the Embassy of Switzerland in the Russian Federation was switched off once again because the debts for rent and utility payments were not liquidated. This was reported by Oleg Anikiev, Director General of close corporation “RusInvestProject”, owner of “Business-center Ostozhenka” limited company, where the section is located.

August 17, 2011 17:00

• Georgian Minister of Culture: stage director Sturua was dismissed because of his xenophobic statements

  The well-known Georgian stage director Robert Sturua was dismissed from his post of the artistic director at the Shota Rustaveli State Drama Theatre because of his xenophobic statements, Nikoloz Rurua, Minister of Culture and Protection of Monuments of Georgia, told reporters today.

August 17, 2011 16:00

• Kidnapping of Zhovbatyrov in investigated in Ingushetia

  At the present time, the circumstances of kidnapping of Vakha Zhovbatyrov, a resident of Ingushetia, are being clarified, said Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Ingush Security Council.

August 17, 2011 15:00

• Bodyguards of Armenian MP and President's brother wounded in skirmish

  In Armenia, the state of health of the bodyguards wounded in the shootout in the restaurant "Arsnakar" is treated by medics as moderate gravity. Their lives are out of danger, say the doctors of the surgery ward of the medical centre "Armenia".

August 17, 2011 14:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: suspects of attacking Baksan HPP refuse to plead guilty

  At the trial held by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of explosion at the Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), the prosecutor has read out the indictment.

August 17, 2011 13:00

• Head of Abkhazian CEC denies any possibility of fraud with voter lists

  On August 16, all polling stations of Abkhazia exposed voter lists; practically everything is ready on the ground for the presidential election, said Batal Tabagua, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC).

August 17, 2011 12:00

• First winners of Pan-Armenian Games are athletes from Nagorno-Karabakh and Uruguay

  The names of first winners of the 5th Pan-Armenian Games, which were kicked off in Yerevan on August 13 under the motto "Artsakh-Armenia-Diaspora", have become known.

August 16, 2011 20:00

• Armenian Ombudsman accuses Yerevan Mayoralty of illegal smashing street kiosks

  Karen Andreasyan, Ombudsman in Armenia, has stated that the actions of the Yerevan Mayoralty and police aimed to dismantle kiosks are illegitimate and violate human rights.

August 16, 2011 19:00

• Georgia: stage director Sturua known for his oppositional views dismissed

  Robert Sturua, stage director at the Shota Rustaveli State Drama Theatre, has been dismissed from his position. He believes that this was done because of his oppositional views on the authorities.

August 16, 2011 18:00

• Ex-minister of Defence of Georgia asserts that Ankvab cooperated with Georgian party during war in Abkhazia

  Tengiz Kitovani, ex-head of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Georgia, said in his interview to the newspaper "Moskovskaya Pravda" that Alexander Ankvab, Vice-President of Abkhazia, allegedly cooperated with Georgian authorities during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in 1992-1993. Mr Ankvab has categorically refuted Kitovani's accusations calling them "bedtime stories".

August 16, 2011 17:00

• Georgia: evicted refugees to go to court for compensations

  Some refugee families, evicted from the hotel "Abkhazia" in Tbilisi, are filing lawsuits with demand of monetary compensations. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Marina Meshvildishvili, the leader of the coalition of NGOs "Tskhinvali of the Future", who had also lived in the "Abkhazia".

August 16, 2011 16:00

• The authorities and opposition in Armenia do not comment on the results of discussing detention of ANC activists

  Today the fifth meeting between the ruling coalition and Armenian National Congress was held. The leaders of the delegations refused to answer the journalists’ questions explaining that the discussion of the incident of August, 9, between the police and ANC activists would be continued at the next meeting, August, 19.

August 16, 2011 15:00

• A teacher of a madrasah and his pupils kidnapped in Chechnya

  Armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms in Chechnya kidnapped and carried away in an unknown direction a teacher of a men’s madrasah of Gudermes and three of his pupils, “Memorial” Human Rights Center reports.

August 16, 2011 14:00

• An underage girl in Dagestan who had reported gang rape altered her evidence

  A fourteen-years-old resident of Khasavyurt who formerly reported that she had undergone gang rape suddenly altered her evidence. Now she states that all the events took place by her consent, a source in the Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry (ID CI) of the Russian Federation in Dagestan reports.

August 16, 2011 13:00

• Residents of Dagestani settlement of Shushanovka concluded an armistice

  An armistice was concluded among residents of the settlement of Shushanovka where several people got injured on August, 12, as a result of a mass scuffle, resident of the settlement Ravzanat Uvaisova reports.

August 16, 2011 12:00

• Public prosecutor of Kentron community in Armenia committed suicide

  Today Public prosecutor of Kentron administrative district of Yerevan Aram Grigoryan who had formerly been Military prosecutor of Armenia committed suicide. Prosecutor General’s confirmed this information.

August 15, 2011 21:00

• Arrested natives of Northern Caucasus are accused of preparing blasting of “Sapsan” train

  Four supposed terrorists whose detention was reported on July, 18, were planning to organize an explosion of a passenger “Sapsan” train following from Moscow to Sr. Petersburg which enjoys great popularity with the politicians and businessmen.

August 15, 2011 20:00

• Journalist Lander in Sochi recommences publishing “Mestnaya” newspaper

  In August publishing of the newspaper “Mestnaya” (“Local”) with a video application will be recommenced in the health resort of Sochi. It was held up about a year and a half ago after an attempt at its Editor-in-Chief Arkady Lander.