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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

March 31, 2011 23:10

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  • Egle Kusaite in premise of the District Court
of Vilnius, Lithuania. March 2011. Photo by
Ruslan Kondratiev, www.balsas.lt Thomas Chivas: Lithuanian VSD was first to contact FSB on Magmadovs' and Kusaite's case

    The Lithuanian mass media have released documents from the case of Egle Kusaite, who had been allegedly recruited by Apti and Aishat Magmadov, natives of Chechnya living in Russia, for committing a terror acts in Russia. According to the documents, the Lithuanian State Security Service (VSD) was the first to appeal to the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) with a request for cooperation on this case. Arvidas Anushauskas, chairman of the Seym Committee for National Security and Defence (NSDC) argues that he knows nothing about cooperation of the Lithuanian and Russian intelligence services.

March 31, 2011 22:20

  • Building of the secondary school in the village of Novosasatli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Photo from the school website: http://novosasatlu.dagschool.com Residents of Dagestan report suspicious medical commission in schools

    On March 22, at the only secondary school in the village of Novosasetli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, doctors of some medical commission conducted examination of children and, after putting disappointing diagnoses, suggested that parents buy corsets for their children for 500 roubles each; and many parents did it. However, as it turned out, neither the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan nor the Ministry of Education know nothing about this commission.

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March 30, 2011 23:50

  • Chechnya sums up literary contest on Kadyrov

    The republic has held a literary contest among students of philological departments dedicated to the local head Ramzan Kadyrov. In the coming days it will be summed up, and the winners will be rewarded.

March 30, 2011 23:40

  • Journalist Teplischev hospitalized in Astrakhan

    Today at 1 p.m. the Magistrate Court of Precinct No. 4 of the Sovietskiy District of Astrakhan was to hold another session on the case of journalist Oleg Teplischev, accused of beating Deputy from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Rifkat Shabanov. However, the session was postponed because the defendant was hospitalized.

March 30, 2011 23:30

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  • Ruslan Kurbanov: no clear picture of investigation into Moscow metro terror acts

    The persons involved in explosions in Moscow metro in 2010 have been liquidated; and the investigation of the case is in deadlock, Andrei Soldatov, editor-in-chief of the website "Agentura.Ru", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Ruslan Kurbanov, a political scientist, agrees that over the past year no coherent picture of what happened at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations has been presented.

March 30, 2011 23:10

  • Persons detained in the course of a special operation. Republic of Ingushetia, Nazran, March 5, 2011. Photo from the Independent Internet Portal Angusht.com Operation against militants in Ingushetia was prepared secretly from local law enforcers

    The fact that a large-scale special operation against militants, which was held on March 28, was being prepared in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was a secret for local law enforcers. According to relatives of the brothers Ilez and Islam Yandiev, detained during the operation, power agents planted ammunition, when they searched their house. According to law enforcers, the arrested brothers were not only involved in the explosion at the "Domodedovo" Airport, but were also preparing a new terror act.

March 30, 2011 23:00

  • Kabardino-Balkaria has about 90 long-livers

    Under the outcomes of the 2010 all-Russian census, about 90 long-livers (aged 100 and more) live in Kabardino-Balkaria, said Larissa Chelysheva, head of the census division of the "Kabbalkstat" (Department for Statistics of Kabardino-Balkaria).

March 30, 2011 22:50

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  • Jehovah's Witness preaching in the street. Photo by noterror.ru In Rostov Region, Jehovah's Witness states illegal interrogation of her minor children

    As stated by Olga Petkevich, a resident of the village of Leninskiy, Matveyev-Kurgan District of Rostov Region, the principal of the village school and agents of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) questioned her minor children at home, when there were no parents. In her opinion, the reason for interrogation could be in the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, which she has started confessing recently. On the other hand, the inspector on minors' matters said that the check was organized, because the children often miss classes at school.

March 30, 2011 22:10

  • Records, where figurants of Markelov's murder case discuss their weapons, made public at trial

    At the Moscow City Court, where the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova is considered, prosecutors have released the bugging record, made in the flat leased by the defendants shortly before their detention. They discussed their impressive arsenal - numerous pistols and submachine guns, and the course of investigation into the murders of Markelov and Baburova.

March 30, 2011 22:00

  • In Armenia, Raffi Ovannisyan stops his hunger strike

    Today, after 16 days of hunger strike, Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the Armenian oppositional "Heritage" Party stopped his protest action. The politician said that now he intends to continue his struggle for realization of his demands by other methods.

March 30, 2011 20:00

Relatives of Chechen young men shocked by secret verdict

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