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December 28, 2010 23:10

• Court to consider cassation of the driver who killed Bella Ksalova after New Year

  Arsen Abaikhanov, who on July 25 in Karachay-Cherkessia knocked down by his car Bella Ksalova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who later died, has lodged a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court, claiming that "the verdict was unfair and too severe." As reported by the office of the Prikubanskiy District Court, Abaikhanov's cassation will be considered only after the New Year. So far, he is at large.

December 28, 2010 23:00

• No information so far on whereabouts of Israil Torshkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Begkham Atigov, Acting Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia. On November 18, Israil Torshkhoev was taken away to some unknown place by unknown persons in camouflage and masks.

December 28, 2010 22:50

• Two persons injured in gas explosion in Ingushetia

  As reported by the spokesman of the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), two young men suffered in an explosion of household gas in the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia.

December 28, 2010 22:30

• Ecologists demand to change railway project on Cape Vidny near Sochi

  Under the pressure of ecologists the Customer's Service of the Directorate for Complex Reconstruction of Railways and Construction of Railway Objects in the City of Sochi (known as "DKRS-Sochi") of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Russian Railways" has held a repeated dendrological examination of Cape Vidny. After the examination, it was decided to transplant the Red-Book plants growing in the way of the construction. However, ecologists are going to fight for changing the whole railway construction project.

December 28, 2010 22:20

• Mother of suspect of murdering Pshikhachev denies her family's links with Astimir Mamishev

  Marina Mamisheva, a resident of Nalchik and mother of Astimir Mamishev, who is searched on charges of committing a number of crimes, claims that her family - she and her two other sons - have no relation to Astimir's activities.

December 28, 2010 22:10

• One person injured at car explosion in Makhachkala

  In the capital of Dagestan, unidentified criminals tried to blow up a car belonging to an employee of the Savings Bank of Russia. One person was wounded, supposedly, the car owner.

December 28, 2010 21:00

• Azeri journalist Fatullaev will stay in prison

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan, chaired by Imran Gadzhigaibov, has dismissed the cassation appeal of journalist Fatullaev. The complaint was filed against the decision of the Baku Court of Appeal about Fatullaev's freedom restriction measure in the form of arrest.

December 28, 2010 20:00

• Assault upon ex-militiaman in Dagestan

  An ex-officer of the republican riot squad was attacked last night in the village of Bairamaul, Khasavyurt district, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

December 28, 2010 19:00

• Explosion in a block of flats in Nalchik

  An explosion took place on December, 27, in the ground floor of a five-storey domestic building of 60 flats in Kalmykov street in the micro-district of Volny Aul, Nalchik.

December 28, 2010 18:00

• An action in support of imprisoned journalists passed off in Moscow

  A piquet in support of the journalists taken into custody in the countries of CIS passed off in Moscow, opposite the Belarusian embassy. The participants also spoke about the cases of victimization and murders of journalists in Northern and Southern Caucasus.

December 27, 2010 23:00

• Russian ICPO investigates appeal of daughter of former rector of higher school in Krasnodar Territory

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has sent an appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office against the sentence to former rector Galina Kroshka. During the reception of citizens in the village of Kuschevskaya, the head of the ICPO Alexander Bastrykin was addressed by Evgenia, Galina Kroshka's daughter.

December 27, 2010 22:40

• Medvedev makes region heads responsible for combating interethnic enmity

  At today's sitting of the State Council the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev called his law enforcement bodies to immediately suppress any attempts of inciting ethnic enmity and riots. He also opposed the idea of setting up the Ministry for National Policy, but demanded from heads of Russian regions to "start working" towards counteracting the interethnic enmity.

December 27, 2010 22:30

• Resident of Ingushetia asks rights defenders to find his daughter who disappeared in North Ossetia

  On December 22, in the village of Chermen, Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, Zalina Elkhoroeva, 30, a resident of the city of Nazran (Ingushetia), was abducted. As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the statement that arrived to the editorial office of the "Caucasian Knot", this fact was announced by Zalina's father - Idris Elkhoroev.

December 27, 2010 22:10

• Chechnya introduces tougher marriage regulations

  The Chechen authorities are tightened the marriage rules for the republic's citizens. Now, young people willing to get married will have to present medical certificates about absence of severe diseases.

December 27, 2010 22:00

• Timoshenko: CPJ lacks information about deaths of three Russian journalists

  In December, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a special report on murders of journalists in the world. The list lacks the names of three lost Dagestani journalists. According to the Glasnost Defence Foundation (GDF), their murders had to do with their professional activities.

December 27, 2010 21:00

• Officials from Ministry of Labour hold protest action in Armenia

  Employees of the State Social Care Service of the Ministry of Labour and Social Matters Affairs have organized a protest action in Yerevan, in front of the building of the government, against mass layoff.

December 27, 2010 20:00

• GUVD: brawl in Stavropol Territory had no interethnic context

  The mass fight in the village of Stepnoye between Cossacks and natives of the Caucasus burst out against the background of drinking alcohol, rather than on ethnic grounds. This was reported by the spokesman of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Stavropol Territory.

December 27, 2010 19:00

• Armenia: head of National Seismic Service suspected of embezzlement

  A criminal case on charges of embezzling about 6500 euros has been initiated against Alvaro Antonyan, head of the National Seismic Service of Armenia and Director of the Public Organization "Centre for Support of Programme of Seismic Risk Reduction".

December 27, 2010 18:00

• In Dagestan, veterans of Afghan War put off their hunger strike

  Some 120 persons took part in another picket held in Makhachkala by former soldiers of the war in Afghanistan. At a later meeting with state officials veterans decided to postpone their hunger strike until a meeting with the president of the republic.

December 27, 2010 18:00

• Aishat Magomedova, Head of Women's Charitable Hospital, died in Dagestan

  On December, 26, Aishat Magomedova, founder and permanent Head of a women's charitable hospital, died in one of the hospitals of Makhachkala after a long-lasting illness. She had been 66.