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March 05, 2011 17:00

• Advocates of Natalia Estemirova's sister plan to file a complaint to the ECtHR

  A complain against inefficient preliminary investigation into the murder in Chechnya of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", namely, against non-admission of victims' representatives to the required materials of the case will be filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by advocates of Svetlana Estemirova, Natalia's sister.

March 05, 2011 16:30

• Ramzan Kadyrov approved as head of Chechnya

  Today, the Parliament of Chechnya has unanimously approved - at its extraordinary session - the candidacy of Ramzan Kadyrov as head of the republic for the second term in power; his candidacy was brought to the parliament on February 28 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

March 05, 2011 16:25

• Resident of Ingushetia blows him up at detention

  On March 4, law enforcers of Nazran, Ingushetia, tried to detain a local resident. He resisted and exploded himself by triggering a bomb.

March 05, 2011 13:00

• Norwegian authorities to ban travels to homeland to refugees from Chechnya who received their residence permits

  On February 25, the leaders of the Chechen Diaspora in Norway held a rally near the Norwegian parliament against mass deportation of Chechen refugees to Russia. For those immigrants from Chechnya who obtained their residence permits in this country, a ban will be introduced on visits to their homeland.

March 05, 2011 12:00

• User of social networks arrested in Azerbaijan

  On March 4, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gyandzha passed a ruling on a 1-month arrest of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, an active Facebook user. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from his brother Vugar Gadjiev.

March 05, 2011 10:00

• Azerbaijan ratifies Declaration on "Southern Gas Corridor"

  The Azeri parliament has ratified the Declaration on the "Southern Gas Corridor", a joint document with the European Union (EU).

March 05, 2011 08:00

• Bike taxis will carry tourists in Batumi

  Starting May this year, the authorities of the capital of Adzharia will offer a new service to city visitors. The guests of the resort will be able to use bike taxis. The most environment-friendly, cheap and safe transport will move around the old town, the seaside promenade and the botanical gardens.

March 05, 2011 03:00

• Russia refuses to give nonaggression guarantees to Georgia

  Russia will not give guarantees of non-use of force to Georgia, because Moscow does not threaten Tbilisi, said Grigory Karasin, State Secretary and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, at the 15th round of Geneva talks on security and stability in Transcaucasia, held in the evening on March 4.

March 04, 2011 23:30

• Blogger Navalny makes public state order on a car worth 8.5 million roubles for Dagestani Finance Ministry

  The message about the state order on purchase of a luxury car worth 8.5 million roubles for the Ministry of Finance of Dagestan, which was published in his LiveJournal by the well-known blogger and lawyer Alexei Navalny, caused great resonance in the Internet. According to the latest data, the Dagestani Ministry has refused to buy the expensive foreign-made car.

March 04, 2011 23:10

• Rostov Regional Prosecutor's Office accuses chief regional ecologist of offence

  Valery Kuznetsov, Prosecutor of the Rostov Region has made a presentation to the Governor of the Rostov Region, asking to consider the issue of compliance of Grigory Skripka, Chairman of the Regional Committee for Environment Protection and Natural Resources, to his post. In the opinion of the Prosecutor's Office, he exhibited inaction and abuse of official powers.

March 04, 2011 23:00

• Man who perished in shelling in Makhachkala was ex-FSB officer

  The man, who was killed during today's shelling in Makhachkala, was a former FSB officer; he was recently employed as assistant of the head of the Russian Federal Tax Service (FTS) for Dagestan, said a source in law enforcement bodies.

March 04, 2011 22:30

• Three persons suffered in shootout in Nazran

  A law enforcement officer was killed today during a shootout in central Nazran. Besides, a suspected militant was killed and one more was wounded.

March 04, 2011 22:20

• Magomed Gaziev, kidnapped in Dagestan, is kept in IVS of Makhachkala

  Magomed Gaziev, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, who was kidnapped on March 1 by unidentified persons, is kept in the temporary detention facility (known as "IVS") of Makhachkala, where he was beaten and tortured, as his relatives report.

March 04, 2011 22:10

• Judge in murder case of Markelov and Baburova gets security

  As reported by Anna Usachova, head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Judge Alexander Zamashnyuk, who is presiding at the trial on the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, will be guarded for the purpose of his security.

March 04, 2011 22:00

• Dagestan: high-ranking tax inspector detained at bribe-taking

  The MIA of Dagestan reports that Nurullah Galimov, deputy head of the inter-regional inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) of Russia for the city of Dagestanskie Ogni, was detained for taking a bribe of 270,000 roubles.

March 04, 2011 21:00

• Soldier killed on Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijani border

  Nagorno-Karabakh has reported the death of a regular soldier of its Defence Army Grigory Shakhkyanov, born in 1991, as a result of violating ceasefire in the north-eastern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact (in Verkhniy Chailu).

March 04, 2011 20:00

• "Memorial" vs. Krasnenkov case sent to Izmailovo District Court of Moscow

  The civil lawsuit of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" against Andrei Krasnenkov, legal representative of the head of Chechnya, on protection of the business reputation of the HRC has been sent to the Izmailovo District Court of Moscow.

March 04, 2011 19:00

• Unidentified persons shell liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses in Novoshakhtinsk

  At night on February 25, unknown assailants opened airgun fire on the liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses, located in the city of Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov Region). No injuries were registered. This was reported today by Grigory Martynov, spokesman of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

March 04, 2011 18:00

• "Assa": Ingush authorities prevent holding picket

  As stated by Issa Akhilgov, head of the youth organization named "Assa", the picket on the Deportation Day of the Balkar nation, which was scheduled for March 8 near the memorial - the monument to victims of repression "Nine Towers" in Nazran, - was not sanctioned by the authorities.

March 03, 2011 23:00

• Tuapse, Krasnodar and Moscow host pickets in support of arrested ecologists

  On the day when appeals were considered against the verdict of the court, which had sentenced four activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" and the "Yabloko" Party to administrative arrests, protest actions were held in Moscow, Krasnodar and Tuapse demanding to release the arrested ecologists.