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March 25, 2011 23:30

• Zurab Tsechoev associates search in his house with rally in Nazran

  The employee of the human rights organization "MASHR" Zurab Tsechoev is convinced that the pretext for the search of his house in the village of Troitskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was in his participation in the protest rally in Nazran dedicated to the disappearance of Ilez Gorchkhanov.

March 25, 2011 23:20

• Victims of Beslan terror act tell Khloponin about drawbacks of inquiry

  The impartial investigation into the Beslan terror act; an urgent examination of children and the law on the status of victims of terror acts - these were the main topics discussed at the meeting of the victims of the Beslan terror act with Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

March 25, 2011 23:10

• Tent appears in Freedom Square of Yerevan for hunger-striking Raffi Ovannisyan

  Today in Yerevan, at the initiative of a number of public organizations, a tent was set up for Raffi Ovannisyan, Chairman of the "Heritage" Party, who continues his hunger strike. The policemen who stood nearby did not interfere.

March 25, 2011 23:00

• In Dagestan, soldier accidentally wounds OMON fighter

  On March 24, in the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, a soldier of Interior Troops of the Russian MIA mistakenly shelled a car with his colleague - an OMON (special militia) fighter - inside. The latter was hospitalized with a minor injury.

March 25, 2011 22:50

• In Nazran, provider CJSC "ITT" resumes access to the "Caucasian Knot"

  In the city of Nazran (Ingushetia), the Internet provider - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "ITT" - has restored access to the Internet medium "Caucasian Knot".

March 25, 2011 22:40

• Georgia sent million dollars to help calamity victims in Japan

  The money was sent via the Japanese office of the International Red Cross. Besides, the Georgian authorities are still ready to send drinking water and a rescue to Japan.

March 25, 2011 22:30

• Georgian police detains oppositional activists

  In Georgia, the police have detained several oppositional activists who were holding a protest action in defence of prisoners' rights. Merab Chikashvili, an oppositional leader, and Giya Burdzhanadze, a member of the National Assembly, are among the detainees.

March 25, 2011 22:10

• Residents of Imereti Lowland in Sochi smash the fence of Olympic construction

  Today at night, in the Imereti Lowland of Sochi, in the territory of the "Rossiya" State Farm, in the area of the "Bolshevik" recreation base, a 40-meter-long metal fence was erected across the beach, local ecologists report.

March 25, 2011 22:00

• AI demands from Russian authorities to thoroughly investigate Magomed Khazbiev's beating and detention in Ingushetia

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) and Heidi Hautala, chair of the subcommittee on human rights of the European Parliament, express their concern about the beating and detention in Ingushetia of Magomed Khazbiev, a civil activist, and his two brothers, who were arrested on March 23 in Nazran shortly after dispersal of a spontaneous protest action against violent disappearances. The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov instructed his power agents to provide him with all the necessary information about the oppositionist's detention.

March 25, 2011 21:00

• A shop exploded in Kizlyar district of Dagestan

  Militia is searching for four men who committed powerful explosions in a food store in the settlement of Malaya Areshevka, Kizlyar district of Dagestan, on March, 24, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

March 25, 2011 20:00

• A Georgian sailor released from the pirates' prison

  A MV HANNIBAL II tanker among whose crew there was one citizen of Georgia captured by Somali pirates has been released.

March 25, 2011 19:00

• Experts on the Caucasus in Moscow discussed the "Сherkessian question"

  On March, 24, experts on the Caucasus in Moscow discussed the historic past of the Сherkessians and their today's problems at a conference "The Сherkessian question": historic memory, historiographic discourse, political strategies".

March 25, 2011 18:00

• Clients of close corporation "ITT" internet provider in Nazran have had no access to "Caucasian Knot" for a week

  Uses of the services of close corporation "ITT" internet provider in Nazran (Ingushetia) have been out of access to online-media "Caucasian Knot" since March, 16. The provider's technical support staff cannot explain the reason.

March 24, 2011 23:30

• Sochi: declaration on restoration of Mzymta River ecosystem signed

  The actors of the Olympic construction in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, have committed themselves to restore the basin ecosystem of the Mzymta River, where sports-and-tourism facilities and roads are built.

March 24, 2011 23:10

• Armenian Ombudsman states police misconduct against Raffi Ovannisyan

  The Human Rights Ombudsman of Armenia Karen Andreasyan has treated the police's ban to install a tent for Raffi Ovannisyan, Chairman of the "Heritage", who continues his hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan, as a human rights violation.

March 24, 2011 23:00

• Twelve persons lost their lives within a week in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week on March 14-20, the low intensity armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 12 lives and injured at least 10 persons. These are the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" made on the basis of its own sources and other open data outlets.

March 24, 2011 22:00

• Oppositionist Khazbiev and his brother were not delivered to Nazran IVS

  The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev and his brother Berd, who were sentenced today to ten days of administrative arrest, were again taken instead of the Nazran IVS (temporary detention facility) to some other unknown place. This was reported by their sister Khadi Khazbieva.

March 24, 2011 22:00

• Investigation reveals suspect of murdering Chuvashov, judge of Moscow City Court

  The Moscow Court has issued a warrant in absentia to arrest Alexei Korshunov, 28, a Muscovite and the alleged killer of Eduard Chuvashov, a Moscow City Court judge, in April 2010. According to the investigation the reason of the murder was the judge's participation in judicial processes on extremist crimes.

March 24, 2011 21:00

• In Ingushetia, power agents search rights defender's house

  Currently, policemen from the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) from Ingushetia are searching the house of Zurab Tsechoev, an employee of the human rights organization "MASHR", located in the village of Troitskaya, Sunzha District. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush News Agency "Maximum".

March 24, 2011 19:00

• Video from place of abduction of Ingush opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev shows his kidnappers

  On the video record from the place of abduction of the opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev, which was committed on March 23 from his father's house in Nazran, the kidnappers are visible - there were about twenty of them. They were armed men dressed in camouflage; some of them were in masks, but there were also people in ordinary police uniform with open faces.