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July 05, 2011 17:00

• Rostov Region adopts measures to combat "laser hooligans"

  The Rostov Region developed the action procedure for the law enforcement bodies in the case of information about blinding the pilots of aircrafts with laser beams during approach to landing.

July 05, 2011 16:00

• Dagestan: resident of Makhachkala disappeared

  Location of Shamil Djavatov, a 20-year-old resident of the capital of Dagestan, is unknown to his family. This was asserted by Madina Djavatova, a mother of the disappeared young man.

July 05, 2011 15:00

• Dagestan: shelled store was selling alcohol, eyewitnesses assert

  A 39-year-old Kumsiyat Nutsalova was shot 11 times from behind the corner at a time in the night, when she was going to close her night shop in the village of Toturbiykala of Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local residents.

July 05, 2011 13:00

• Volgograd: 23,000 residents sign letter to President Medvedev about deficit of kindergartens

  Russian President received a letter about the negative social consequences of a lack of places in kindergartens in Volgograd, written by the initiative group of social movement "Volgograd mothers". 23,161 residents of Volgograd and the Volgograd Region signed this letters.

July 05, 2011 12:00

• Georgian ecologists came out in opposition to building Namakhvan hydropower station

  In connection with erection of Namakhvan cascade of hydropower stations in Racha-Lechkhumi, “The Green Movement of Georgia – Friends of the Earth” issued a special statement calling to stop construction of these energetics objects.

July 05, 2011 11:00

• Young people from the regions of Northern Caucasus gathered at the forum “Mashuk-2011”

  On Monday, July, 4, North-Caucasian educational forum “Mashuk-2011” took its official start. Representatives of young people from all the regions of Northern Caucasus, guests from Abkhazia, South Osetia and Ukraine came to take part in it.

July 05, 2011 09:00

• “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” refutes reports of UNESCO’s prohibition building North-Caucasian health resorts

  State corporation “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” officially refuted the reports that UNESCO banned building of North-Caucasian tourist cluster.

July 04, 2011 21:30

• Sochi: Russia and NATO failed to agree on missile defence

  In Sochi on the visiting session of the Council Russia-NATO the Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke for the creation of two missile defence systems, while Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, defended the principle of a sectoral approach to cooperation.

July 04, 2011 20:00

• Grozny: teenager suspected of blinding aircraft pilot with laser detained

  Today the officers of the Interior Division for Grozny District of Chechnya detained a teenager who, according to the law enforcement agents, nearly blinded the pilot of the aircraft. An attempt of blinding took place on July 3 in the evening, when the plane was landing at the airport of Grozny.

July 04, 2011 19:00

• Armenia: ecologists argue against dolphin captivity

  Today in Yerevan at the dolphinarium "Nemo" the Armenian ecologists held the picket for protection of dolphins. Ecologists pointed out the inadmissibility of putting wild animals into captivity, which, according to the scientists, leads to severe psychological consequences for the animals.

July 04, 2011 17:00

• Case on Sviridov's murder to be considered by jurymen

  In the Moscow City Court Judge Andrei Rasnovsky announced the decision on the criminal case on the football fan Yegor Sviridov's murder. The petition from the defence on consideration of the case involving the jury was satisfied. The defendants remained under arrest, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the scene.

July 04, 2011 17:00

• Azerbaijan: people affected by flooding demand full compensation

  Today in Azerbaijan residents of four villages of Sabirabad District held the second for the last week mass action, demanding to pay full compensation for the damage which they suffered during the floods of May and June 2010 in the Kura and Araz Rivers.

July 04, 2011 16:00

• Dagestan: Prosecutor's Office challenges acquittal of "Chernovik" journalists

  On July 5 the Supreme Court of Dagestan will consider the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic to the verdict of the Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala dated May 19, 2011. The Prosecutor's Office demands to cancel the acquittal of the journalists of the Dagestani weekly newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

July 04, 2011 14:00

• Defendant in case of attack on Nalchik seeks case consideration without his presence

  Sergei Kaziev, the defendant in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, which is under proceedings at by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, filed a motion for consideration of the case without his presence due to health deterioration. Today's court hearing was adjourned until Thursday, July 7, due to Sergei Kaziev's disease.

July 04, 2011 12:00

• A Committee of UNESCO protests against building a health resort of Lagonaki in Adygeia

  UNESCO Committee of World Heritage expressed its concern about the plans of “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” public corporation to build a health resort Lagonaki in the territory of an object of World Heritage “Western Caucasus”.

July 04, 2011 10:00

• Attorney of the defendant accused of murder of fan Sviridov in Moscow will seek for hearing the case in camera

  The trial on the case against the twenty-seven-year-old native of Nalchik Aslan Cherkesov accused of murder of “Spartak” football fan Yegor Sviridov will start in Moscow city court today. According to the defendant’s attorney Dmitry Pankov, he intends to ask for holding the next session in camera.

July 04, 2011 09:00

• The Ministry of Interior Affairs: the gunmen in Vedeno district of Chechnya managed to escape from encirclement

  The search of the group of gunmen who on July, 2, started skirmish with members of power ministries in a mountainous and woody area of the highland district of Vedeno has ended in failure. The officers do not rule out that the participants of a paramilitary group under the command of Gakaev brothers could have left the blocked area in several small groups.

July 02, 2011 23:00

• Ingushetia: explosives found in two private houses, two persons detained

  Magomed Evloev and Alikhan Dovtaev, residents of the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, were detained on suspicion of possessing weapons and explosives. They are held in the IVS (temporary isolation facility) in Ingushetia, reported a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic.

July 02, 2011 22:00

• Georgian residents may visit Turkey by their IDs

  Starting July 1, citizens of Georgia are able to visit Turkey with identity cards. This is stipulated in the agreement signed by the Georgian President and the Turkish Prime Minister on May 31, 2011.

July 02, 2011 21:00

• Armenian residents to celebrate International Day for Captive Dolphins

  On July 4 the dolphin defenders in Yerevan will hold protest rallies. The protest actions are dated to the World Week for Captive Dolphins, which is held the first week of July.