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January 05, 2011 18:00

• A kidnapped resident of Ingushetia Hamkhoev refuses hospitalization

  In spite of traumas and fractures Adam Hamkhoev, resident of Ingushetia who returned home after he was kidnapped, refuses treatment in hospital. Hamkhoev is at home now because he does not rule out a new kidnapping.

January 04, 2011 23:40

• "Dagestani Airlines" promise to upgrade fleet in 2011

  In 2011, the "Dagestani Airlines" Company plans to upgrade the fleet of aircrafts by replacing its obsolete Tu-154 aircrafts for modern models, said Deputy Director General Gadjikhan Keramaliev.

January 04, 2011 23:30

• Lithuania will try to strengthen OSCE's role in settling Transcaucasian conflicts

  Lithuania, which will chair the OSCE in 2011, plans to revive the solution process of frozen conflicts, including those in Transcaucasia, said Audronius Ažubalis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania.

January 04, 2011 23:20

• Georgian authorities toughen legislation for benefit of tourists in Adzharia

  Amendments have been made in the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences, offered by the Government of Adzharia, which stipulate fines for livestock appearance on the beaches and in other places visited by tourists.

January 04, 2011 23:10

• In Stavropol, bear bites cleaner of his cage to death

  In the Zoo of Stavropol, which is situated in the Victory Park, this morning a bear has bit a human to death, said Boris Skripka, head of the Civil Defence and Emergency Department of the Administration of Stavropol.

January 04, 2011 23:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: explosion in a night club

  In the city of Nalchik, unidentified criminals planted a bomb into the building of the entertainment club named "Sahara". No injuries were reported.

January 04, 2011 22:50

• Illegal tree felling continues in Yerevan, ecologists assert

  In the capital of Armenia, within the second half of 2010, 150 trees were cut down. This was reported to journalists by Arthur Aftandilyan, spokesman of the initiative group "We are City Managers".

January 04, 2011 22:40

• In Georgia, court fines protesting veterans

  Tea Tadashvili, Judge of the Tbilisi City Court, has fined 11 participants of the protest action of war veterans who were detained on charges of rendering resistance to policemen. Each of them was administratively fined by 400 laris (about 230 US dollars).

January 04, 2011 22:30

• Ingushetia: kidnapped Adam Khamkhoev returns home and reports torture

  Adam Khamkhoev, a resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, who was kidnapped on December 30 together with the other two young persons - Pliev brothers - was released on January 3. His father Musa Khamkhoev asks the republic's public prosecutor to investigate the case, claiming that his son was tortured by power agents.

January 04, 2011 22:20

• Selling exhibition of inmates' works opens in Yerevan

  The House of Culture of the Erebuni community is housing a selling exhibition of works performed by fifty prisoners serving their sentences in penal institutions in Armenia. The event was organized by the Fund of Assistance to Convicts at the Ministry of Justice.

January 04, 2011 22:10

• Names of casualties of special operation in Dagestan defined

  The persons liquidated during the special operation in Shamkhal village, Kirov District of Makhachkala, have been identified. They are Badrudi Rasulov and Maksud Ismailov, suspected of attempts on law enforcers.

January 04, 2011 22:00

• A child shot down in Georgia on the New Year's night

  Giorgi Chkoidze aged 12 was shot down from a shotgun on the balcony of his house in Tbilisi. The man who had shot, the boy's neighbour, yielded to the police on his own accord.

January 04, 2011 21:00

• A hand grenade exploded near a militia duty group in Ingushetia

  Unidentified people threw two hand grenades into a militia duty group guarding the New Year tree in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.

January 04, 2011 20:00

• Deputy Chief of the headquarters of a military unit dislocated in Ingushetia wounded in an explosion in Vladikavkaz

  This morning an explosive device was activated in Vladikavkaz, in a car with Deputy Chief of the headquarters of a military unit dislocated in Ingushetia inside it. The officer was taken to hospital with grave wounding, Alla Akhpolova, Manager of Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of North Osetia, reported.

January 04, 2011 19:00

• Identity of the man whose remains were found in a burial place near Vedeno, Chechnya, established

  The personality of one of the four participants of armed underground whose remains were found on the New Year's Eve in the mountains of Chechnya has been identified. This is a twenty-two-year-old native of the district center of Vedeno. law enforcement bodies are continuing an inspection on the fact.

January 04, 2011 18:00

• Arrested veterans of war are waiting for the beginning of the process in the Municipal Court of Tbilisi

  Seven veterans of war arrested during an action of protest in Tbilisi have by the moment been taken to the building of the Municipal Court where they are waiting for the beginning of a trial, lawyer Gela Nikolaishvili told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

January 03, 2011 23:30

• Parade of Santa Clauses held for the first time in Volgograd

  The parade of Russian Fathers Frost and German Santa Clauses, first held in Volgograd, brought together about three hundred participants.

January 03, 2011 23:10

• Shakhinoglu: appointment of US Ambassador to Azerbaijan will not solve all bilateral problems

  Elkhan Shakhinoglu, head of the Research Centre "Atlas", has treated the fact of appointment of the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, after the post was vacant for 18 months, as a positive fact for bilateral relations. However, as he said, it does not mean that all the problems between the two countries will be solved.

January 03, 2011 23:00

• About 300 employees of Armenian Pension Fund lose their jobs

  On December 29, the Government of Armenia signed an agreement with the Company "AiPost", under which pensions will be paid out at post offices. This caused discontent among hundreds of employees of the Pension Fund, who lost their jobs as a result of such arrangements.

January 03, 2011 22:50

• In Georgia, police disperses hunger-striking war veterans

  In Tbilisi, the Police of Georgia has used force to disperse the protest action of war veterans. Several persons were detained.