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February 03, 2011 20:00

• In Georgia, miners stop striking

  The top managers of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Gruzugol" has agreed to take measures as necessary to improve safety at the Mindeli Mine in Tkibuli, and to increase the wages. The workers decided to stop the strike.

February 03, 2011 19:00

• Defence of convicts in the case of attack on Ingushetia in 2004 to appeal against the sentence

  Relatives and advocates of the convicts categorically disagree with the verdicts passed by the Stavropol Territorial Court yesterday, on February 2, to 12 natives of Ingushetia and Chechnya, found guilty of committing attack on subdivisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Ingushetia in the summer of 2004.

February 03, 2011 18:00

• Red Book orchids are liquidated in Cape Vidny, ecologists say

  As reported by activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", in Cape Vidny, where the customer's service of the Directorate for Complex Reconstruction of Railways and Construction of Railway Objects in Sochi (DKRS-Sochi) of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Russian Railways" is running some construction, part of Red Book plants - wild orchids - were cut away.

February 02, 2011 23:50

• Cafe blown up in Kizlyar - no casualties or victims

  Last night, an explosive device was triggered in the cafe "Maidan", in the city of Kizlyar in Dagestan, said a source from local law enforcement bodies. There are no casualties and victims.

February 02, 2011 23:40

• In Georgia, miners are on strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions

  Today, starting from 6 in the morning, a full-fledged strike began at Tkibuli coal mines in Western Georgia. Their two-hour-long warning strike was held on Monday, January 31.

February 02, 2011 23:00

• In Volgograd, district head is suspected of bribe-taking

  A criminal case has been initiated against Alexander Gorbunov, head of the administration of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District of Volgograd, under the article of "huge bribe-taking".

February 02, 2011 22:30

• KBR: people are searched who install mined road signs "Imarat Kavkaz"

  Persons are searched in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who install mined billboards along the roads in dwelling settlements of the republic with inscription "Imarat Kavkaz" or "United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay"; they are searched with involvement of aviation, armoured vehicles and special units. Road-patrol services are also involved in the search actions.

February 02, 2011 22:10

• GUVD of Krasnodar Territory does not confirm attack on Dymovskiy

  According to Igor Zhelyabin, militia spokesman of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, there was no attack on Alexei Dymovskiy, former militia major and now the leader of the movement named "White Tape": Alexei just fell asleep in a fixed-route taxi; and his cell phone was stolen.

February 02, 2011 22:00

• Ten persons detained as suspects of preparing terror acts in Moscow

  Ten suspects of preparing a series of terror acts on the New Year holidays in Moscow have been detained; seven of them have been charged.

February 02, 2011 21:00

• Unknown attackers on militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria stole their guns

  The criminals who attacked militiamen today in the city of Chegem (the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR)) took away the casualties' firearms.

February 02, 2011 20:00

• Attackers on Nazran in 2004 sentenced to long prison terms

  Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court passed a sentence to 12 defendants, figurants in the case on the attack on Nazran (Ingushetia) in 2004, one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest - to 10-25 years of high security colony.

February 02, 2011 19:00

• Austria to give Chechen suspected of terrorism out of Belgium

  On February 1, the Austrian court decided to extradite Aslambek L., 32, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in December 2010, to Belgium, where he is suspected of terrorist activities.

February 02, 2011 18:00

• Father of Dagestanian detained in Italy is unaware of his son's whereabouts

  Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhany and father of Anvar Sharipov, whose detention in Italy was announced by some media, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had long been unaware of his son's whereabouts. Law enforcement officials believe that it was Sharipov who accompanied his sister-suicide bomber, when she blew herself up at the Lubyanka Moscow metro station on March 29, 2010.

February 01, 2011 22:00

• Sergey Gaplikov appointed to head "Olympstroy"

  Instead of Taimuraz Bolloev, Sergey Gaplikov, deputy head of the government's office, has been appointed the head of the State Corporation on Construction of Olympic Venues and Development of Sochi.

February 01, 2011 21:00

• NATO is promoted in Georgia through children's drawings

  On January 31, the NATO Information Centre in Georgia presented a calendar, illustrated with children's drawings and statements of activists of Georgian public organizations.

February 01, 2011 20:00

• US and UK Embassies urge their citizens in Azerbaijan to take care

  On January 31, the Embassies of the United States and Great Britain in Baku made appeals to citizens of their countries in Azerbaijan asking them to be vigilant in view of possible threat of attacks on them.

February 01, 2011 19:00

• Krasnodar court drops charges against ecologists detained at the action in defence of "Utrish"

  Today, the Magistrate Court has withdrawn charges of administrative cases initiated against two activists of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus Andrei Rudomakha and Dmitry Shabalin, detained in Krasnodar on December 12 last year during a rally in defence of the natural reserve named "Utrish".

February 01, 2011 18:00

• Students and schoolchildren of Northern Caucasus to be tested for drugs

  In 2011, voluntary testing for drug using among schoolchildren and university students will be held in all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

February 01, 2011 17:00

• Agaev: explosion in Kuzminki has possibly frustrated an act of mothers revenge for her murdered sons

  A hypothesis of Magomed Daudov having been involved in the explosion in “Domodedovo” airport was based upon our own analyses of the theme, Mairbek Agaev, editor of information and politics department of Dagestani newspaper “Chernovik” (“Draft”) told a reporter of “Caucasian Knot”.

February 01, 2011 16:00

• Militia of Rostov-on-Don denies national background of mass scuffle on January, 19

  Commenting on the information of a mass scuffle in Rostov-on-Don on January, 19, Deputy director of the school near which the incident took place declared that her pupils were not implicated in the scuffle.