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November 24, 2010 23:10

• Residents of Kuschevskaya file over 180 applications about crimes

  In the course of the reception session, residents of Kuschevskaya village, Krasnodar Territory, submitted over 180 allegations of crimes to the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO). Currently, all the received information is analyzed and summed up.

November 24, 2010 23:00

• Dagestan: OVD building shelled from grenade launcher

  Tonight, unidentified attackers made a shot from a rifle-attached grenade launcher at the building of the OVD (Interior Division) in the Dagestan city of Derbent. There are no casualties and victims, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

November 24, 2010 23:00

• Girl of 12, who disappeared in Makhachkala, returns to family, but poorly recalls what happened to her

  Ruzana Ivanova, 12, whose disappearance in Makhachkala was earlier declared by her mother Elena Ivanova, a resident of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, returned to her relatives at night on November 17, having managed to escape from her kidnappers. Her relatives are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.

November 24, 2010 22:50

• Political prisoner Musheg Sagatelyan released in Armenia

  Today, Musheg Sagatelyan, an activist of the opposition and a member of the "Republic" Party, was let free from the criminal-correction institution "Nubarashen" after having served half of his sentence.

November 24, 2010 22:50

• Clergymen call traders in Grozny to honesty

  At the republic's shopping centre "Berkat" in Grozny, employees of the Centre of Spiritual and Moral Education and Development held an action with an appeal to fair trade. Traders in the marketplace were given letters; and sermons were read on the issue of fair trade.

November 24, 2010 22:40

• Soldier suspected of killing his four colleagues arrested in Nagorno-Karabakh

  One of the four soldiers, who were wounded in the incident in the Gadrut unit of the Nagorno-Karabakh Army - Manvel Azroyan - has been charged of murder one or more persons. His arrest was chosen as a freedom restriction measure, reports the Investigatory Service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

November 24, 2010 22:40

• Russian consul meets his fellow-countrymen accused of spying in Georgia

  On Monday, November 22, Andrei Smaga, head of the section of Russia's interests at the Swiss Embassy in Georgia, visited the Russian citizens accused of espionage. Neither the Russian nor the Georgian parties make any comments on the meeting.

November 24, 2010 22:30

• Issa Khashagulgov's advocates insist on his innocence

  At the session of the Lefortovo District Court held on November 23 on selection of the further freedom restriction measure for Issa Khashagulgov, suspected of organizing the terror act in Vladikavkaz, extension of his custody was defined well in advance, his advocates assert.

November 24, 2010 22:00

• Nadira Isayeva, journalist from Dagestan, awarded the "Free Press" prize

  On November, 23, a ceremony of awarding the laureates of international prize "Free Press" 2010 by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was held in New York, a thirty-one-year-old journalist from Dagestan, Nadira Isayeva, Editor-in-Chief of "Chernovik" ("Draft") weekly among them.

November 24, 2010 21:00

• The ninth suspect of mass murder in Kuschevskaya detained

  One more suspect of having committed the mass murder in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar region, was detained tonight. This is Igor Chernikh by alias of "Amur", born in 1965, previously convicted.

November 24, 2010 20:00

• A serviceman wounded as a result of firing in Chechnya

  An armed attack upon the servicemen of a unit of federal military forces took place tonight in Urus-Martan foothill district of Chechnya. One of the servicemen got wounded in his head. Security officials are currently in search of the attackers.

November 24, 2010 19:00

• Improper expenditure of 900 thousand rubles of budget money discovered in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia

  During the inspection carried out by the republican Public Prosecutor's Office serious financial violations have been discovered in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia which may result in imposing penal sanctions.

November 24, 2010 18:00

• General Prosecutor's Office discovered abuses with an official of district Department of Interior Affairs in Kuschevskaya

  The Head of a unit of the Center of Counteraction to extremism of district Department of Interior Affairs in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar region, is suspected of abuse of authority, Marina Gridneva, official representative of General Prosecutor's Office, reported on November, 23.

November 23, 2010 23:55

• "Aikakan Zhamanak": hazing brought to death of four soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The main culprit of the tragedy in the Army of Nagorno-Karabakh became Manvel Azroyan, who shot at seven of his colleagues; then tried to commit suicide but survived. Azroyan was hazed and bullied by his comrades-in-arms. This is reported today by the Armenian newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time).

November 23, 2010 23:50

• Plenipotentiary Khloponin listens to NCFD residents

  On November 22, the first United Day for Personal Reception of Citizens, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), held a meeting with residents of the region.

November 23, 2010 23:45

• Advocate of suspect in Kuschevskaya murder case unaware of her client's whereabouts

  Alla Golovina, advocate of Sergey Tsapok, a suspect of organizing the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, has reported that she could not contact her client for five days.

November 23, 2010 23:40

• Dagestan: relatives of assassinated Abusupyanov say that he was shadowed

  Magomed Magomedov, a resident of the village of Chernyaevka, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, said that his cousin Sheikhulislam Abusupyanov, who was considered missing since November 18 and was found assassinated two days later, had been shadowed by unknown persons.

November 23, 2010 23:30

• Car shelled in Nazran; one person lost

  As reported by the spokesman of the Investigatory Department of the ICPO of Russia for Ingushetia, today in central Nazran, unidentified persons shelled a car and killed a man.

November 23, 2010 23:20

• EU and Georgia sign Readmission Agreement

  On Monday, November 22, in Brussels, officials of the European Union and Georgia signed the Readmission Agreement, which establishes mutual procedures for repatriation of illegal migrants.

November 23, 2010 23:10

• President of Georgia pardons 220 convicts on occasion of "Giorgoba"

  In Georgia, full pardon on the occasion of St George's Day ("Giorgoba") was granted to 182 inmates; 32 other prisoners had their sentences halved; three others have their terms reduced; and for three more the conditional imprisonment was replaced by public works.