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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.

August 05, 2011 15:00

• Dean of SFU's Department of History accused of bribery claims that he was framed

  Dean of the Department of History of the Southern Federal University (SFU) is suspected of taking bribes from the applicants in the amount of 200,000 roubles, which was allegedly transferred to the account, specified by the suspected person, following the results of the applicants' two entrance exams.

August 05, 2011 12:10

• Residents of Kizilyurt district ask their relatives who have “gone to the forest” to come back and Head of Dagestan to ensure observance of the law

  Today President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov had a meeting with close relatives of members of paramilitary groups (PMG) who asked Head of the republic to become guarantor of observance of the law if those who have “gone to the forest” surrender to law enforcement bodies and appeal to the Committee for adaptation of gunmen.

August 05, 2011 10:00

• Residents of Zverevo, Rostov region, started an everyday picket demanding revision of the tariffs on HCS

  On Thursday, August, 4, residents of the town of Zverevo, Rostov region, started an action within the framework of which they intend to hold everyday pickets demanding revision of the tariffs on housing and communal services (HCS).

August 05, 2011 09:00

• The builders who constructed a sports complex in Grozny report non-payment of their salaries

  The workers who took part in the construction of the sports complex named after late Head of Chechnya Ahmat Kadyrov, the biggest one in Northern Caucasus, report that they have not received the promised salary although ceremonial opening of the complex took place in Grozny yet in May.

August 04, 2011 23:00

• Russia sees no preconditions for South Ossetia to join Russia, Dmitry Medvedev asserts

  There are no legal or factual preconditions for the merger of South and North Ossetia and for South Ossetia's entry into Russian state's structure. This was announced today by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his interview to the Georgian and Russian journalists in Sochi.

August 04, 2011 22:00

• In Sochi, military unit buys a boat for almost 22 million budget roubles

  The military unit No. 55056, deployed in Sochi, purchases for account of the budget "for state needs" a boat of the "luxury" category for the amount of 21,936,628 roubles – with two cabins, grill, DVD, and illuminated beds. Information on the auction is published on the official website for posting information on public procurement.

August 04, 2011 21:00

• Dagestan: new protest rally demanding to open "Gimry-Chirkata" Tunnel prepared

  On August 5, in the vicinity of the village of Gimry of Untsukul District next to the building of the LLC "Rushydro", the residents of the nine mountainous districts of Dagestan plan to hold a rally demanding to open the "Gimry-Chirkata" Tunnel for vehicular traffic.

August 04, 2011 20:00

• In Tbilisi, five members of May 26 events convicted

  In the Georgian capital, five people involved in the riots in Tbilisi on May 26, were sentenced, the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia reports.

August 04, 2011 19:00

• Representatives of the authorities and the opposition in Armenia arranged to meet more frequently

  Today, during the third round of negotiation between the delegations from the ruling coalition and oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), the parties came to an agreement to have more frequent meetings. Instead of meeting once a week they will meet twice.