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December 18, 2010 11:00

• Students of North Ossetia condemn extremist manifestations in Moscow

  Students-activists of North Ossetia are troubled of the situation in Moscow and promulgated an appeal today, expressing strong condemnation of the recent youth's extremist actions.

December 18, 2010 10:00

• Official Tbilisi disappointed with the 14th round of Geneva talks

  In the opinion of Giga Bokeriya, head of the Georgian delegation, the 14th round of Geneva talks was actually fruitless.

December 17, 2010 23:30

• Ecologists manage to suspend work in Cape Vidnoe in Sochi

  The construction of the railway section across the territory, where red-book plants are growing, in Sochi, will resume after reception of results of an additional examination of the territory.

December 17, 2010 23:20

• Mufti of Kabardino-Balkaria Anas Pshikhachev struggled with extremism and illegal persecution of Muslims

  Anas Pshikhachev, Mufti of Kabardino-Balkaria, who perished from hands of assassins, had repeatedly raised his voice against religious extremism. Well before the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, when militants attacked the power objects of the city, the Mufti warned from the pages of local newspapers that "Wahhabism can bring great harm to the republic." At the same time, Anas Pshikhachev has repeatedly and openly opposed illegal actions of law enforcement officials against Muslims.

December 17, 2010 23:10

• Georgia: bosses of Forestry Agency, Ministry of Ecology, detained on corruption charges

  Corruption and money laundering were the main reasons for detention of Papuna Khachidze, director of the Forest Agency of the Ministry of Ecology of Georgia, and Georgi Bagaturiya, head of the GIS Service of the Forest Agency. This was announced by David Sakvarelidze, General Public Prosecutor of Tbilisi.

December 17, 2010 23:00

• Refugees' protest action held in front of Georgian Parliament

  Opposition activists and several hundreds of internally displaced persons (forced migrants) held a protest action in front of the Parliament of Georgia. They demanded to stop evicting refugees from the places of their temporary residence in Tbilisi and provide the homeless refugees with housing in the capital.

December 17, 2010 22:40

• Rostov militia continues strengthened patrolling of the city; RSBU students under threat of expulsion for poor study

  The militia in Rostov-on-Don continues its work in the emergency mode; however, according to the statement of the Regional GUVD, no serious crimes were registered in the city for the last day. The Rostov State Building University (RSBU) is checking the study achievements of all the students. According to university bosses, student Khasbulat Markhiev, suspected of murdering Maxim Sychov had a lot of absenteeism and poor performance; therefore, he will be expelled from the university.

December 17, 2010 22:30

• HRC "Memorial": story about five missing Caucasians in Moscow turns into story about seven detainees

  The fate of the five natives of the Caucasus, who disappeared in Moscow in late September, is still unknown. Their relatives suppose that they were detained by power agents and are kept in some Moscow detention centre. Rights defenders, who have joined the search, found that the cases of three missing persons are run by the military inquiry department, while all the actions on the cases of the remaining two have been suspended. Besides, the story about five missing persons develops further and has transformed into a story about seven detainees.

December 17, 2010 21:00

• In a school of Moscow region during mass disturbances in the capital a teen-ager stabbed a native of Northern Caucasus with a knife

  A fourteen-year-old schoolboy who stubbed a pupil of the ninth form, native of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus, with a knife was detained in the town of Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, a source in law enforcement bodies reported today.

December 17, 2010 20:00

• Witnesses: Orlov did have reasons for accusations against Kadyrov

  Kadyrov might have been involved in organizing attempts at four of his critics and there is a number of proofs of this in the materials of criminal cases, witness Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya stated at the trial on the accusation of slander at Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, Head of "Memorial" Human Rights Center (HC) on December, 16. Andrey Krasnenkov, Kadyrov's attorney, called this statement slander.

December 17, 2010 19:00

• A militiaman in Dagestan killed one and wounded two people

  Last night a militia officer in the settlement of Khushet, Dagestan, wounded three of his acquaintances by a shot from a Government-issue pistol during a quarrel, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

December 17, 2010 18:00

• Freight train exploded in Dagestan

  A freight train was blown up in Derbent district of Dagestan. There is no information of injuries.

December 16, 2010 23:55

• Human rights defender from Kabardino-Balkaria calls Caucasians in other Regions of Russia not to yield to provocations

  Valery Khatazhukov, head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre, believes the events underway in Moscow in the context of the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a Spartak fan, are elements of the campaign of deliberate grazing Russian youth with their Caucasian counterparts. Murat Khokonov, a member of the Public Chamber of Kabardino-Balkaria, said that many parents already doubt, whether it is reasonable to send their children to universities in other regions of Russia.

December 16, 2010 23:50

• Moscow holds Journalists' Commemoration Day

  On December 15, the Moscow Central House of Journalists held the Journalists' Commemoration Day.

December 16, 2010 23:40

• Several dozens of detainees to respond for December 15 disorders in Moscow

  On December 15, the militia detained over 1300 persons and confiscated 16 traumatic pistols, more than 200 knives, hammers and baseball bats, a source from law enforcement bodies of Moscow said today. In total, 37 persons have been attracted to administrative responsibility for various offences.

December 16, 2010 23:30

• ECtHR fines Russia by 148,000 euros for disappearances in Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the complaint lodged by relatives of two persons in Chechnya, who disappeared in 2002 and 2004, and ruled to penalize Russia by 148,000 euros.

December 16, 2010 23:20

• Oppositionist's beaten relatives are rejected medical help in Nakhichevan, human rights defenders say

  On December 10, in the village of Pusyan, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), policemen beat relatives of Sakhavat Aliev, a former candidate for the Parliament of Azerbaijan from the 2nd Sharur Constituency; the relatives receive no medical assistance, human rights activists say. The authorities deny the fact of beating.

December 16, 2010 23:10

• Rostov-on-Don: over 150 detainees within 24 hours

  The militia of Rostov-on-Don is working in the strengthened regime in order to prevent possible mass disorders. Within the last 24 hours, 177 persons were detained; traumatic pistols were confiscated from many of them.

December 16, 2010 23:00

• Putin: riots in Moscow were provoked by authorities' idleness

  The reason of mass disorders in Moscow was not in the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak", but in the absence of the official authorities' response to this crime, said the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, while answering questions of Russian citizens live on air.

December 16, 2010 22:50

• Putin: local authorities and power agents are responsible for events in Kuschevskaya

  When answering the questions of the hotline dialogue with the population, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin treated the crime in the village of Kuschevskaya as a "failure of the whole law enforcement system." In his opinion, not only law enforcers but also the local authorities in general shall be made responsible for the crime revelry in the Kuschevskiy District of the Krasnodar Territory, as well as in other criminalized areas of Russia.