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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.

April 22, 2011 22:30

• Dagestan: three Kidero villagers disappear after detention, rights defenders report

  In the village of Kidero, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, law enforcers conducted searches in the houses of Magomed Abdulkhalikov, Shakhban Magomedov and Magomed Magomedov and took the young men away to some unknown place. Currently, their whereabouts are unknown. On April 20, 2011, Mukhtar Kamaludinovich Zhabuev, a resident of the village, submitted a respective application to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

April 22, 2011 22:30

• Apsheronsk: all hospitalized children discharged, kindergarten head sacked

  Doctors have discharged all the pupils of kindergarten No. 7 of the city of Apsheronsk, Krasnodar Territory who were hospitalized with a suspected infectious disease, said an employee of the press service of the district administration. The kindergarten remains closed; its head was fired; and district doctors are visiting the homes and examine all the pre-school children who visited the kindergarten.

April 22, 2011 21:00

• Fifteen people injured as a result of a road accident in Chechnya

  Fifteen people got injured as a result of a collision of three cars. It has been the biggest road accident in the republic during the past several months.

April 22, 2011 20:00

• NAC: one of the gunmen killed in Chechnya was an emissary of "al-Qaeda" in Northern Caucasus

  National Anti-Terrorist Committee reports that one of the people killed during a special operation in Chechnya was an Arab hireling, chief emissary of "al-Qaeda" under the alias "Moganned". The other killed person was identified as resident of Grozny by name of Sultygov.