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July 08, 2011 16:00

• Magomedsalam Magomedov and Rizvan Kurbanov discuss Dagestan's problems with bloggers

  On July 6 at the initiative of Rizvan Kurbanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, a meeting with bloggers was held in Makhachkala. To the complete surprise of Livejournal's users, Magomedsalam Magomedov, the President of the republic, and Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), also came to take part in the meeting.

July 08, 2011 15:00

• Adygea: mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011" has started

  More than 120 racers from all over Russia and near abroad arrived at the base camp of the mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011", which is located on the southern outskirts of the village Khamyshki of the Maikop District of Adygea. The athletes will have to overcome the 240 kilometres in the mountains within two days.

July 08, 2011 12:00

• Georgian opposition demands transparency in the “case of photographers”

  Oppositional parties of Georgia called for the authorities of the country to make transparent the investigation on the case of press photographers detained for accusation of espionage.

July 08, 2011 11:00

• Natives of Chechnya in Zelenokumsk held an action in support of the Gafurovs

  An action in support of the Gafurovs passed off near Soviet district court of Stavropol region. Three Gafurov brothers are defendants of the case of the conflict in Zelenokumsk which took place in November, 2010.

July 08, 2011 10:00

• Retirees in Kabardino-Balkaria will be learning to use PC and Internet

  The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of Kabardino-Balkaria is organizing classes of computer literacy and work on the Net specially for elderly people for them to feel it more convenient to submit all kinds of complaints and statements.

July 07, 2011 23:00

• Сonvicts of Sulim Yamadaev's murder released

  Maksudjon Ismatov, a citizen of Tajikistan, and the Iranian Makhdi Lorniya, who had been convicted in the case on the murder of the Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, were released from the prison of Dubai and deported beyond the UAE, reported Saidmukhammod Salikhov, the Vice-Consul of Tajikistan in Dubai.

July 07, 2011 22:00

• Yerevan welcomes exhibition of Salvador Dali's paintings

  On July 7 at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture the National Gallery of Armenia opened an exhibition called "Dali and the Surrealists".

July 07, 2011 21:00

• Military killed civilians in Kizlyar District, Gadjimurat Kamalov asserts

  In Kizlyar District of Dagestan the military shelled the vehicles of local residents, since they considered them militants. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Gadjimurad Kamalov, the founder of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

July 07, 2011 20:00

• Azerbaijan: second judicial investigation on Jabbar Savalan's case

  Judge Lyatifa Mamedova of the Sumgait Court of Appeal decided to hold new judicial investigation on the case of Jabbar Savalan, the activist of the "Popular Front Party" of Azerbaijan.

July 07, 2011 19:00

• Kalmykia: complaints on torture in militia and prison not investigated, Vladimir Galitrov asserts

  The investigating authorities of Kalmykia rejected to institute a criminal case against employees of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Elista, who, according to Vladimir Galitrov, the expert of the Kalmyk Branch of the public movement "For Human Rights", had beaten 49 prisoners with electric shocker.

July 07, 2011 18:00

• Georgia: advocates of convicts for espionage for Russia challenge sentence

  Within two weeks the lawyers of defendants, accused in Georgia in espionage for Russia, have the right to file a lawsuit to the Court of Appeal. According to the lawyer Gela Nikolaishvili, all lawyers will use this right and appeal against the verdict sentenced on July 6 in the Batumi City Court.

July 07, 2011 17:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: protest against murder of local resident by power agents

  Picket in protest against the killings without trial was carried out late in the night on July 6 in the city of Baksan of Kabardino-Balkaria by the relatives and neighbours of Zeushev, killed by the Beslan police, one of four perished during the past day and announced by the law enforcement agents as militants, reported an informed source, a resident of the city of Baksan.

July 07, 2011 15:00

• Court releases accused of attack on Nalchik from custody for medical treatment

  Today at the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005 the Court decided to change the pre-trial restrictions for the defendant Sergey Kaziev on recognizance not to leave, allowing him to get the necessary medical treatment in the city infectious hospital.

July 07, 2011 14:00

• Businessmen from Sochi to use Italian experience in developing hotels before Olympics

  Representatives of SME from Sochi visited factories and companies producing equipment for hotel and restaurant business. Following the visit the sides agreed to continue the business contacts.

July 07, 2011 12:00

• Shamil Javatov who had disappeared in Dagestan found

  Resident of Makhachkala Shamil Javatov whose relatives during an action of protest of July, 6, reported his disappearance is currently in the Department of Interior Affairs of Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan as a suspect of participation in paramilitary groups, National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

July 07, 2011 11:00

• The persons accused of espionage for Russia convicted in Georgia

  The court in Batumi brought a verdict of guilty of espionage to nine defendants: four Russian and five Georgian citizens and sentenced them to custody terms from 11 to 14 years.

July 07, 2011 10:00

• European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg conferred a big compensation to residents of Ingushetia

  European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) obliged the Russian Government to pay over 130 euro compensation to the residents of Ingushetia beaten up by members of the top brass.

July 06, 2011 23:13

• Alexei Malashenko: Russian population will not return to Northern Caucasus

  The initiative of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev aimed at bringing non-Caucasian nationals back to the Caucasus would benefit the region; however, Russians will not go to the Caucasus, said Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.

July 06, 2011 23:00

• Natives of Chechnya, figuring in the case on riots in Zelenokumsk, refuse to appear before court

  Three Chechen brothers named Gafurov, whose engagement in a conflict with Cossacks in the city of Zelenokumsk in November 2010 is considered by the Soviet District Court of the Stavropol Territory, refused to appear at the court session.

July 06, 2011 22:00

• Georgia cancels teaching in Russian

  Georgian schools stop teaching in the Russian language, said Dmitry Shashkin, Minister of Education and Sciences of Georgia.