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April 23, 2011 21:00

• Yerevan holds torchlight march in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide

  A torchlight march dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide was held in Yerevan today. This year saw coincidence of two important dates for Armenia - the Easter and the Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide.

April 23, 2011 20:30

• Fifth bomb within a day found in Dagestani railway

  As reported by the press service of the Department for Dagestan of the Russian FSB, today's fifth bomb was found in the railway section Kizilyurt-Temirgoe in this republic; the bomb was successfully defused.

April 23, 2011 19:00

• Magomed Khazbiev's family announces reward for information about his kidnappers

  The family of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has announced a reward of one million roubles for information about the persons who on March 23 captured him and his two brothers, Murad and Berd, in their own home and delivered to the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

April 23, 2011 18:30

• Moscow hosts rally against subsidizing Northern Caucasus

  The participants of the rally started today at 3:00 p.m. near Chistye Prudy metro station are protesting against allocation of budget funds for supporting North-Caucasian republics.

April 23, 2011 18:00

• Gizatulin: some of our pilgrims go to Mecca as tourists or tradesmen

  On the eve of the upcoming May accreditation of tourist operators for the Hajj, different viewpoints are expressed. The governmental commission on religious communities believes that travel agencies and mediation companies are the perpetrators of the problems encountered by pilgrims. The board of muftis puts part of the blame on pilgrims as such.

April 23, 2011 17:30

• Three women detained in Dagestan at attempt to sell a baby

  On April 22, law enforcers of Dagestan and Chechnya conducted an operation and detained three female residents of Khasavyurt who tried to sell a newborn baby.

April 23, 2011 17:13

• Picket against high-rise buildings is on in Sochi

  In front of the Central Marketplace in Moskovskaya Street of Sochi, a picket is being held from 2 to 4 p.m., organized by Evgeniy Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of the resort city against skyscrapers.

April 23, 2011 16:30

• Kvedaravichyus: film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya gives an actual picture

  The documentary "Barzakh" telling about facts of torture and kidnappings in Chechnya, which was presented at film festivals in Lithuania, Switzerland and Spain, aims to tell the world about the situation in today's Chechnya, the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 23, 2011 16:00

• Grocery store burnt down in Kabardino-Balkaria

  At night on April 22, in the village of Khasanya, a suburb of Nalchik, unidentified persons set fire to a grocery store, which burned down completely. Nobody was hurt.

April 23, 2011 15:00

• Housing construction suspended in South Ossetia

  As reported by the State Committee for Restoration Projects in South Ossetia, the funding of housing construction in Tskhinvali has been suspended; it is unknown when it may be resumed.

April 23, 2011 08:00

• Dagestan: protesters demand to investigate policemen's murders

  On April 22, Makhachkala hosted a rally of residents of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan and public activists. The action in defence of law enforcers was about 600 persons strong.

April 22, 2011 23:40

• Meeting of relatives of captured sailors with head of Adzharia postponed

  Yesterday, on April 21, a meeting was to take place of relatives of the Georgian sailors, kept for over eight months by Somalia pirates, with the head of the government of Adzharia Levan Varshalomidze; however, it was reappointed on April 27.

April 22, 2011 23:40

• For the week of April 11-17 armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away 17 lives

  During the week from April 11 to April 17, at least 17 persons were killed and at least 15 more were wounded in the glowing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 22, 2011 23:20

• Georgia: Deputy Governor of Shida Kartli detained on bribery charges

  Employees of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained Avtandil Mestvirishvili, Deputy Governor of the region Shida Kartli (Eastern Georgia), on bribery charges. No details have been disclosed so far.

April 22, 2011 23:20

• Orlov: stability in Northern Caucasus is impossible without observance of human rights

  Respect for human rights and the rule of law in Northern Caucasus are prerequisites for ensuring peace and stability in the region, said Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", at a press conference on human rights in Chechnya.

April 22, 2011 23:10

• Chechnya gets ready to celebrate Orthodox Easter

  For celebrations of the Orthodox Easter, Chechnya expects arrival of plenty of its former residents. A special working group has been set up to cope with all the activities associated with this holiday.

April 22, 2011 23:10

• Presentation of a book about Chechen woman convicted on terrorism charges to take place in Moscow

  On April 27, the Moscow Cultural Centre "Pokrovskie Vorota" will host a book presentation, written by Zoya Svetova, a Russian human rights activist, a publicist and journalist, about the trials of the scientist Igor Sutyagin, convicted as a spy, and of the Chechen woman Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism.

April 22, 2011 23:00

• In Krasnodar, Prosecutor's Office accuses Mayoralty officials of fraud

  As reported by the press office of the Territorial Prosecutor's Office, several officials of the Krasnodar Mayoralty have repeatedly violated the law, while forming the budget, distributing and using the budgetary funds, placing orders on the purchase of goods, works and services for municipal needs, and in managing and disposing municipal property, including land resources.

April 22, 2011 23:00

• In Stavropol Territory, chief physician of hospital where child was raped is accused of negligence

  As reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the chief physician of the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, where a 9-year-old girl was raped, is accused of a failure to ensure the proper guarding of his hospital, which allowed the criminal to get into it.

April 22, 2011 22:50

• Armenia decides to re-investigate disorders of March 1, 2008

  The Special Investigatory Service (SIS) in charge of investigating the dispersal of the mass opposition rallies on March 1, 2008, has issued a statement urging people to help in investigating the events of those days. The service decided to revise the investigation of the "March 1" case.