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August 08, 2011 09:00

• In autumn, Georgia to launch project "Georgian Language for Future Success"

  Starting September 1, the project "Georgian Language for Future Success" will be operating. The Ministry of Education has already completed the selection of candidates for participation in the contest for teaching positions. Selected candidates will be directed to teach Georgian language in non-Georgian schools in the districts of Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Djavakheti and Kakheti.

August 08, 2011 07:00

• An action “Blogger against rubbish” passed off in Astrakhan region

  About 400 internet blog users took part in an action “Blogger against rubbish” in Astrakhan region. Governor Alexander Zhilkin also participated in tidying up the beach.

August 06, 2011 23:00

• "Anji" presented Zhirkov, former "Chelsea" player, at match in Makhachkala

  Today, at the National Football Championship the Makhachkala football club (FC) "Anji" defeated the team "Tom" from the city of Tomsk. Before the match, the official presentation of the new player of the Dagestani team – Yuri Zhirkov, a midfielder of the Russian team and the London team "Chelsea" – was conducted.

August 06, 2011 22:00

• Kutaisi buried Georgian woman shot dead in terror act in Norway

  Today, the city of Kutaisi has hosted a funeral ceremony of Tamta Liparteliani, a Georgian student, who perished in Norway during the terror act at the youth camp on the island of Uteoya, was held.

August 06, 2011 21:00

• Next rally demanding to open "Gimry-Chirkata" Tunnel planned for August 15

  On August 15 the residents of the nine mountainous districts of Dagestan will come to the rally demanding to open the "Gimry-Chirkata" Tunnel for automobile traffic, which was closed on August 3.

August 06, 2011 20:00

• Georgia introduces compulsory lessons of English at universities

  In accordance with the order of Dmitry Shashkin, Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, in the new 2011-2012 academic year teaching English will become mandatory in the universities of Georgia. This was reported by the Ministry's statement released on August 5.

August 06, 2011 19:00

• MIA: Taashev killed in Kabardino-Balkaria was with Baksan Jamaat

  Eduard Taashev, involved in the grouping of Zalim Tutov, who was in wanted list, was killed in Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported today by the United Information Centre (UIC) of the law enforcement agencies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

August 06, 2011 18:00

• Fate of Georgian sailors captured by pirates is unknown for 3 months already, their relatives assert

  10 sailors from Georgia, who were captured as hostages by Somali pirates almost 11 months ago, did not go on the air for a radio contact since April.

August 06, 2011 17:00

• In Moscow, two Caucasian natives started shooting near mosque, one person was injured

  On August 5, a conflict between two Caucasian natives led to a shooting from the traumatic weapons near the mosque on the Poklonnaya Hill in the west of Moscow. One Caucasian native was injured.

August 06, 2011 15:00

• Construction of railway Baku-Tbilisi-Kars to be over in 2012, Ramaz Nikolaishvili asserts

  Construction of the railway Baku-Tbilisi-Kars, linking the territories of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, will be completed in 2012. This was announced by Ramaz Nikolaishvili, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development of Georgia.

August 06, 2011 14:00

• All blood feudists in Chechnya to be reconciled till end of Ramadan, Muftiat asserts

  In Chechnya, during the year the commission for reconciliation of blood feudists (blood feud avengers) managed to reconcile 812 families who were in the state of blood feud; and the last three of such families will be reconciled before the end of Ramadan, the Republic's Muftiat states.

August 05, 2011 23:00

• In Astrakhan, school principal accuses officials of persecution on political grounds

  In the city of Astrakhan, Nadezhda Gogoleva, Principal of the School No. 74, a member of the regional branch of the party "Fair Russia", accuses the leadership of the City Committee on Education and Science in an attempt to dismiss her on far-fetched grounds.

August 05, 2011 22:00

• ECtHR orders Armenia to pay 20,000 euros to Vahan Bayatyan

  Armenia will obey to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in respect of Vahan Bayatyan, a member of the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses", and pay to him the adjudicated amount of 20,000 euros in dram equivalent. This decision was approved on August 4 at the Armenian government's meeting.

August 05, 2011 21:00

• Kalmyk Buddhist leader asks for MFA's permission for visit of the 14th Dalai Lama to Russia

  Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Sajin Lama (Supreme Lama), President of the Centralized religious organization "Association of Buddhists of Kalmykia" sent an open letter to Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, requesting to permit a pastoral visit to Russia of the Buddhists' spiritual leader.

August 05, 2011 20:00

• Flights between Yerevan and Tbilisi resumed

  On August 5, after a break of 7 months, the flights on the route Tbilisi-Yerevan, terminated in January because of the loss, were resumed.

August 05, 2011 19:09

• The court declined the application of the defendant accused of Sviridov’s murder of dismissal of the jury

  A trial on the case of Sviridov’s murder began in the Moscow city court today. The case is being tried by a jury which includes twelve main and eight reserve jurymen.

August 05, 2011 19:00

• In Ingushetia, working group on morality to be established

  In Ingushetia, the republic's leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov ordered to establish a working group on moral issues, which would include representatives of the law enforcement agencies, tax inspection, Federal Service "Rospotrebnadzor", public organizations and the clergy.

August 05, 2011 18:00

• Residents of Tskhinvali played themselves in action film about war in South Ossetia

  In North Ossetia, episodes of the new Russian action film about the military conflict between Russia and Georgia, which took place in 2008 in South Ossetia, were shot. Residents of the city of Tskhinvali took part in the shootings.

August 05, 2011 17:00

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, police officers are suspected of local resident's brutal beating

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, the Ust-Dzheguta Interdistrict Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia on the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KCR) initiated a criminal case on charges of excess of power by the officers of the local OVD (Interior Division).

August 05, 2011 16:00

• Lawyers on case of "Urvan Jamaat" demand compulsory bringing of defence's witnesses to court

  Today, in the city of Rostov-on-Don at the hearing on the case of "Urvan Jamaat" in the North Caucasus District Military Court the defendants' lawyers demanded to bring to the court two defence's witnesses who did not come. To search for witnesses, the hearings were postponed till August 10.