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July 13, 2011 20:00

• All presidential candidates should go in one coalition, Abkhazian Elders assert

  Today Konstantin Ozgan, the head of the Board of Elders, disseminated the statement in which the Board of Elders of Abkhazia proposes all presidential candidates to unite into a single electoral coalition.

July 13, 2011 19:00

• Georgia: war veterans demand not to send new troops to Afghanistan

  Today in Georgia the organisation "Veterans for Veterans" and the initiative group "For Democracy and Normal Life" demanded to stop sending new Georgian military contingent to Afghanistan.

July 13, 2011 18:00

• In Armenia CIS film makers ask to restore old cultural relations

  Participants in the programme "Cinema of CIS: 20 years of independence," of the VIII International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" during the round table on the problems of the CIS films, which was held on July 13, representatives of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other countries reported the need to intensify and deepen old relations.

July 13, 2011 16:00

• Astrakhan Region: policemen punished for using child in road police's simulation

  In the Astrakhan Region the head of the police department for Krasnoyarsk District and the head of the District GIBDD (road police) were announced disciplinary actions for using a child in the action "Attentive driver", reported the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the region.

July 13, 2011 15:00

• Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists to study problems of national minorities in Georgia

  Journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will discuss the problems of ethnic minorities – the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis – in Georgia's districts of Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Djavakheti. The event will be held from July 13 to July 15 as a part of the project "Neighbours", reported the press service of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).

July 13, 2011 14:00

• Sachkheri base in Georgia to train NATO soldiers

  The Sachkheri military base located in Western Georgia and intended for training mountain shooters (yagers) has received the status of PFP (Partnership for Peace), which gives it the right to train NATO soldiers.

July 13, 2011 12:00

• The seventh victim of gas explosion in Vladikavkaz died in Moscow

  This morning a twenty-three-years-old Alina Tsakoeva injured as a result of an explosion of a gas bottle on June, 25, in Vladikavkaz died this morning in the municipal clinic No 36 of Federal Medico-biologic Agency of Russia. This news came from Irbek Doev, Head of Press service of Permanent Mission of North Osetia in Moscow.

July 13, 2011 10:00

• Unidentified people in Volgograd district attacked a prayer house of Jehovah's Witnesses

  At night of July, 8, two young men stoned a prayer house of Jehovah's Witnesses in the town of Kotovo, Volgograd region. The double-glass pane was broken. There were no victims.

July 13, 2011 03:00

• About one hundred people took part in an action of protest of journalists and human righs activists in Tbilisi

  About one hundred people took part in the action of journalists and human righs activists which was held in the evening of July, 12, near the Parliament of Georgia and lasted about an hour. This event continued a series of actions of protest carried out by representatives of mass media, non-governmental organizations and human rights activists in Tbilisi after detention of the photographers.

July 12, 2011 23:00

• Georgia: 50 refugees to receive free education at magistracy

  The government of Georgia will finance education in magistracy in the 2011-2012 academic year for 50 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have received highest marks at exams.

July 12, 2011 22:00

• 70 thousand sign antismoking charter in Sochi

  In Sochi more than 70 thousand resident and visitors of the city signed the charter "Sochi without smoking", which was adopted at the resort by the authorities' decision in January 2010, said Nina Suslonova, the head of the health department of the city administration, today during a video bridge Sochi - Moscow "Fight against smoking: freedom from tobacco smoke".

July 12, 2011 21:00

• "Golden Apricot" is the only successful cultural project in Armenia, Levon Abramyan asserts

  According to Levon Abramyan, the corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, the film festival "Golden Apricot", which is held annually in Armenia, received international recognition and became one of the most prestigious film festivals.

July 12, 2011 20:00

• Facebook discusses expediency of opening foreign language schools in Armenia

  The Facebook social network carries out questioning: "Do you agree with existence of foreign language schools in Armenia?" Members split up into two camps.

July 12, 2011 19:00

• Ingushetia: suicide bomber commits terror act

  A suicide bombing, committed today at 4:00 p.m. at the road police point in the village of Galashki of Sunzha District of Ingushetia by unidentified person, brought no victims, except for the suicide bomber, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the place.

July 12, 2011 18:00

• Rostov-on-Don: lawyer Ermakova on hunger strike gives recognizance not to leave

  The investigators of Rostov Region have taken from lawyer Yulia Ermakova, who went on a hunger strike, a recognizance not to leave. According to her story, at the same time she passed the test on the "lie detector", which showed that she was telling the truth, rejecting the accusation of obscene expression in the courthouse.

July 12, 2011 17:14

• Parishioners of mosque in Upper Kazanischa detained in Dagestan

  This morning the law enforcement agents of Buinaksk District brought 12 parishioners of a local mosque to the OVD (Interior Division) station, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magomed Magomedov, a resident of the village of Upper Kazanischa of Buinaksk District. According to him, it happened after the debate on religious issues in the mosque.

July 12, 2011 17:00

• Shakhty: founder of local Jehovah's Witnesses community fined on accusation of distributing extremist literature

  In the city of Shakhty of Rostov Region a founder of a local religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses was fined.

July 12, 2011 16:04

• Dagestan: resident of Tsuntin District complains of threats from villagers and policemen

  Magomed Gamidov, a resident of the village Zekhida of Tsuntin District of Dagestan, appealed to the human rights activists with the complaint on the villagers and the policemen. According to him, the former villagers forced him to leave the village, and at his new place of residence he is being persecuted by police.

July 12, 2011 16:00

• Children from Circassian Diaspora in Turkey are happy with their visit to Adygea

  During three weeks in Adygea 26 children and young people from the Circassian Diaspora in Turkey visited the town of Maikop, Shapsug villages, the mountainous part of the republic, Krasnodar, and the all-Russian camp "Orlyonok" (Eaglet) and Circassian villages of Lazarev district on the Black Sea coast.

July 12, 2011 15:00

• HRW to report on human rights situation in Gali District of Abkhazia

  On July 15 the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) will present the report outlining the human rights problems and specific recommendations to the authorities of Abkhazia and the international community to improve the situation in Gali District.