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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.

December 25, 2010 23:00

• Driver who knocked "Caucasian Knot" correspondent down to death is still at large

  Arsen Abaikhanov, who knocked down, on July 25 in Karachay-Cherkessia, Bella Ksalova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who died as a result of injuries received in the road accident, and was sentenced on November 10 to 3.3 years of imprisonment in colony, is still at large.

December 25, 2010 22:00

• Picket against authorities' actions held in Sochi

  Today, residents of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, went out to hold another picket in protest against authorities' actions.

December 25, 2010 21:00

• Another rally of nationalists prevented in Moscow

  Today in Moscow, law enforcement officers and interior soldiers have prevented another nationalists' attempt to hold an unsanctioned rally in Manege Square.

December 25, 2010 20:00

• In Georgia, refugees ask Subari to set committee to protect their rights

  The internally displaced persons living in Georgia sent a letter to Sozar Subari, the former Georgian Ombudsman and now the leader of the "Georgian Party", with a request to create a coordination office and a committee for protection of refugees' rights.

December 25, 2010 19:16

• Ecologists sue Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection

  The Administrative Court of Armenia has accepted to consideration the suit lodged by a public association named "Ensuring Ecological Safety and Promotion of Democracy" against the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia.

December 25, 2010 19:00

• Exhibition of Salvador Dali's unknown works opened in Stavropol

  The works by Salvador Dali from a private Italian collection are for the first time exhibited for the public at the Stavropol Territorial Museum of Fine Arts.

December 25, 2010 18:00

• FSB blocks weapon delivery channel from South Ossetia to Stavropol Territory

  Agents of the FSB department for the Stavropol Territory blocked the channel of delivery of weapons from South Ossetia to the Stavropol Territory.

December 25, 2010 17:33

• First in Armenia Dolphinarium opened in Yerevan

  On December 24, Yerevan held an opening ceremony of the first Armenian Dolphinarium. Ecologists protest against its operation, believing that it is dangerous.

December 25, 2010 17:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, 29 families live in emergency house

  In the settlement of Adiyukh, located in the suburb of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a five-story 60-apartment house, where 29 families still live, is in emergency condition.

December 25, 2010 16:00

• Georgia opens new resort - Mestiya

  On December 24, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili opened a new resort in the village of Mestiya located in Svaneti. A new nearby airport for small aircrafts will service the new resort.

December 25, 2010 15:00

• Agreement on extension of stay of Russian military base in Armenia sent to Constitutional Court

  Currently, the agreement on extension of deployment of the Russian military base in Armenia, which was signed on August 20 during the visit of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to Yerevan, is pending at the Constitutional Court of Armenia.

December 24, 2010 23:10

• Resident of South Ossetia detained in Georgia is back at large

  Yesterday, on December 23, Radislav Kachmazov, a resident of South Ossetia, who was detained a day earlier in Georgia, was released.

December 24, 2010 23:00

• In North Ossetia, half of children under six do not attend kindergarten

  In total 5500 children of North Ossetia have no chances to attend preschool establishments. Only 56.7 percent of children aged 1.5-6 years are covered by preschool education.