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  • Georgia offers residents of South Ossetia to move freely across the border

    The official Tbilisi has allowed residents of South Ossetian to freely cross the administrative border. The initiative was announced on December 10 at the meeting of the mechanism to prevent incidents, involving representatives of the Observers' Mission of the Council of Europe (OMCE), OSCE, Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia in the Georgian village of Ergneti.

December 11, 2010 09:00

  • Adygea holds republic's beauty contest

    In the evening on December 10, the stage of the Maikop House of Culture was the venue of the contest "Beauty of Adygea-2010", organized by the "Svet Models", a model agency of Maikop, with support of the Republic's Committee on Youth Matters.

December 11, 2010 08:00

  • Abkhazia appoints local elections

    On December 10, Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh signed a decree on appointing elections to local self-government bodies on Saturday, February 12, 2011.

December 11, 2010 07:00

  • Participants of the protest rally at the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan. Baku, December 10, 2010. Photo by Turkhan Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
 Baku residents stage protest against ban of hijabs in schools

    A rally and a march to the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan were held on December 10 by schoolchildren and their parents, who protested against a possible ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs) in schools. Hundreds of people came to the rally.

December 10, 2010 23:50

  • Militia officer was shot dead in Dagestan

    As reported by the press service of the Dagestani MIA, tonight a STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) inspector was shot dead in the village of Sergokala, Sergokalin District of Dagestan.

December 10, 2010 23:40

  • In Dagestan, investigation into lawyer Magomedova's beating case extended

    The term of preliminary investigation into the case initiated in relation to lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten in June by employees of the Khasavyurt militia department. At the same time, Ms Magomedova asserts that the criminal case opened against the militiamen who had beaten her, is not investigated.

December 10, 2010 23:20

  • Liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses set on fire in Labinsk

    Bottles with Molotov cocktail were thrown into the building for liturgical sermons of Jehovah's Witnesses, located in the city of Labinsk, Krasnodar Territory. The building caught fire; the door and some window frames were knocked out by the blast. Fortunately, there were no human casualties.

December 10, 2010 23:10

  • Residents of Astrakhan Region - participants of the picket in Moscow in Pushkin Square on December 7, 2010. Poster on the right: "Governor idling - law asleep". Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" Lev Ponomaryov: problems with justice in Astrakhan Region need Medvedev's attention

    The situation in the Investigatory Department of the ICPO in the Astrakhan Region needs attention of President Dmitri Medvedev, believes Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the All-Russian Public Movement (ARPM) "For Human Rights", who was present at the press conference "Astrakhan Kingdom of Lawlessness ", held on December 7 in Moscow. Astrakhan authorities refrain from comments on the presented facts.

December 10, 2010 23:00

  • Inspector from Kuschevskaya rejects GPO's accusations

    Ekaterina Rogoza, an investigator of the Kuschevskiy ROVD (District Interior Division), who had posted her video appeal to the Russian President on the Internet with accusations against high-ranking law enforcement officials, has rejected the information about concealment of her incomes and her unofficial contacts with the family of Sergey Tsapok.

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  • In Sochi, nature defender asserts that she suffered in fight for trees on Cape Vidnoe

    Gayane Antonova, a nature defender, states that she was hurt as a result of another attempt to protect the red-book trees from felling on Cape Vidnoe, Khosta District of Sochi. Builders argue that Antonova intentionally stood under an already undercut tree and failed to react to requests to leave the construction site; no violent actions were taken against her.

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Relatives of Chechen young men shocked by secret verdict

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