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March 08, 2011 23:00

• Two more social network users detained in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani police continue detaining users of social networks in the context of the mass anti-government action named the "Great People's Day", scheduled by the members of the group set up on the Facebook under the same name.

March 08, 2011 22:50

• Participants in conference in Warsaw state absence of journalist's investigation into Estemirova's murder

  On March 4-6, Warsaw hosted a conference of journalists from different countries, who work in the genre of investigative journalism. Among other things they discussed the situation in Northern Caucasus, including the murder of human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova committed in 2009.

March 08, 2011 22:40

• Transparency International ranks Georgia fifth by low level of corruption in police

  Georgia is in the fifth place in the world in terms of police corruption, while three percent of the polled citizens of the country said that they gave bribes last year to officials of state institutions. These are the results of the international non-governmental organization (NGO) "Transparency International".

March 08, 2011 22:20

• Resident of Ingushetia demands examinations to define the cause of his grandson's death

  Boris Evloev, a resident of the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, who had stated that his daughter Khava Tangieva lost her child and became unable to have children in future because of doctors' negligence, is now stating injustice of judicial and investigatory bodies. Without any success he demands a DNA assay, supposing that the child could be substituted at the maternity hospital.

March 08, 2011 22:10

• Suspect of committing massacre in Kuschevskaya extradited from Ukraine to Russia

  As announced today by Yuri Boichenko, head of the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Ukraine, this country has given out Vladimir Alexeev, a Russian citizen and one of the suspects of committing the mass murder in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.

March 08, 2011 22:00

• Juha Molari, opponent of website "Kavkaz-Centre", interrogated in Finland

  Today the Finnish police have questioned Pastor Juha Molari, who had openly criticized the work of the website "Kavkaz-Centre", which is supporting the activities of Caucasian separatists.

March 08, 2011 21:00

• Piquets against arrest of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko passed off in Krasnodar

  A series of piquets in defense of Evgeny Vitishko, activist of "Ecologic Watch in Northern Caucasus" and "Yabloko" party, passed off in Krasnodar. Suren Gazaryan, Vitishko's colleague in "Ecologic Watch" and the party, was the organizer of the piquets.

March 08, 2011 21:00

• Rally held in KBR to commemorate deportation of Balkars

  In Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), at the Memorial to victims of repressions of the Balkar people, a memorial rally took place, attended by about three hundred persons. During the event, calls were pronounced to start collecting signatures under petition in favour of self-determination of the Balkar nation.

March 08, 2011 20:00

• "Black hawks" in Kabardino-Balkaria go on threatening gunmen and their accomplices with punishment

  A group in Kabardino-Balkaria calling itself "Black hawks" and positioning itself as an anti-Wahabiite one gave a warning to Asker Japuev, emir of Kabardino-Balkar gunmen, concerning possible actions of armed underground against the residents of the republic. "Black hawks" state that they have already exposed the gunmen's accomplices and threaten with punishment to those who extort money from entrepreneurs.

March 08, 2011 19:00

• The cause of the crash of Tu-154 airplane which was following from Tehran to Yerevan in July, 2009, has been made public

  A technical failure was acknowledged as the cause of a crash of an airliner belonging to Iranian company Caspian Airline which was flying from Tehran to Yerevan on July, 15, 2009.

March 08, 2011 18:00

• An explosion happened near a shop in Buinaksk, there are no victims or injured persons

  Last night there was an explosion near a shop in Buinaksk, there are no victims or injured ones, a representative of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported. The bomb was stuffed with damage agents in form of bolts and screw nuts.

March 07, 2011 23:20

• In Azerbaijan, advocates of arrested Bakhtiyar Gadjiev report law violations in relation to their client

  On March 5, Alaif Gasanov and Elchin Namazov, advocates of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, 28, who was arrested on Friday, March 4, could meet their client in SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 of the city of Gyandzha. They believe the arrest of Gadjiev, who is under threat of up to two years in prison, to be a political order.

March 07, 2011 23:00

• Volgograd medics rewarded for developing new drug

  A group of Volgograd scientists headed by Rector of the Volgograd Medical University (VMU) received the Prize of the Russian Government for development of a new drug named "Asparkam-L".

March 07, 2011 22:50

• Ecologist detained in Krasnodar Territory denies claiming political asylum in Germany

  Yesterday, on March 6, Suren Gazaryan, a member of the Board of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", was released from the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the Tuapse UVD (Interior Department) after 7 days of administrative arrest. He refuted the earlier information that he had applied for political asylum in Germany.

March 07, 2011 22:30

• Two residents of Chechnya injured in mass brawl in central Moscow

  As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies, at night on March 6, two residents of Chechnya were hospitalized in Moscow with injuries caused by traumatic weapons.

March 07, 2011 22:10

• Khasu Batalov, detained in Moscow, suspected of links with Dokku Umarov

  One of the four suspected militants detained in Moscow on February 15 - Khasu Batalov - had been on the federal search list as a potential commander of militants, subordinated to Dokku Umarov. He tried to go abroad with faked documents to another name.

March 07, 2011 22:00

• Finnish journalist accused of organizing Chechens' illegal entry to Finland

  In Finland, journalist Mikael Storsjo is accused of helping 22 Chechens to enter Finland via Turkey without visas. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Ilyas Akhtaev, a Chechen, who is now in Finland waiting for his refugee status.

March 07, 2011 21:00

• Georgia blames Russia for failure of Geneva talks

  As stated at a briefing in Tbilisi by Nikoloz Vashakidze, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, another round of Geneva talks on security in the Caucasus was fruitless again because of Russia's unconstructive position. The Russian party believes that Geneva negotiations have no alternative.

March 07, 2011 20:00

• Ramazan Utarbiev, suspect in Sviridov's murder case, detained in Dagestan

  As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), at night on March 7 in Makhachkala Ramazan Utarbiev was detained, a participant of the fight, during which on December 6, 2010, Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, was killed.

March 07, 2011 19:00

• The students of Rostov-on-Don celebrated Shrovetide in their own way

  Social art project "Shrovetide Now" passed off on March, 5 and 6, in Rostov Children's and young people's Art Center, with informational support of Committee of Youth Policy of Rostov regional administration. The young people presented a modern review of the folk holiday.