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December 29, 2010 22:20

• Mass fight in Derbent had religious context, locals report

  The mass brawl in Derbent could be caused by a conflict between the followers of the Salafi and Tariqa trends of Islam, said a local resident Magomed Khanmagomedov. So far, the local militia has refused to disclose any details of the incident.

December 29, 2010 22:10

• Stavropol Territory: OMON fighter accused of deliberately knocking down a Korean by his car

  An OMON (special militia) serviceman was detained in the Stavropol Territory; he is suspected of attacking, along with his friends, local Korean nationals. During the attack, they cried out nationalistic slogans. According to eyewitnesses, after the fight the militiaman deliberately knocked down one of the Koreans to death. So far, inspectors do not confirm any ethnic motives of the murder.

December 29, 2010 18:00

• Over one hundred peaceful residents perished in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus in 2010

  2010 in Northern Caucasus has been marked with a loss of over one hundred peaceful residents in armed confrontations. Some of them perished because of actions of members of the top brass. The number of victims can be even more if we take into consideration statements of relatives of the people who died in special operations and skirmishes, they say that their people became accidental victims or were kidnapped.

December 28, 2010 23:40

• Young Chechen residents went to Moscow to take part in riots

  Several groups of young people from Grozny visited the Russian capital with the aim to support their relatives, friends and Caucasians in general, after mass riots out of national hatred burst out on December 11 in Manege Square in Moscow.

December 28, 2010 23:30

• Kalmykia marks Memory Day of victims of Stalin deportation

  Today, Elista - the capital of the republic - and its districts hosted commemoration actions dated to the 67th anniversary of deportation of the Kalmyk people. On December 27, 1943, a decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet was signed "On Liquidation of the Kalmyk ASSR", and on the following day the operation "Uluses" was launched, which assumed forced resettling of the entire nation to remote localities of the country.

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.