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October 04, 2010 23:40

• Georgian political analysts differ in estimates of NATO office opened in Tbilisi

  The opening of the NATO representative office in Tbilisi is a certain address to Russia and demonstration that Georgia is a NATO's partner, said Georgian political analyst Tornike Sharashenidze. Another political and military expert Irakli Sesiashvili is somewhat more restrained in his estimates. In his opinion, the NATO office will not guarantee the country's security and is no evidence of Georgia's integration into the Alliance.

October 04, 2010 23:30

• Direct Georgia-Iran flights postponed till October 15

  The opening of regular Tbilisi-Tehran air flights, which was scheduled on October 1, has been postponed by two weeks, said Nino Giorgobiani, head of the press service of the Airzena Georgian Airways. It is supposed that flights will start since October 15.

October 04, 2010 23:10

• After emergency landing in Chechnya passengers go home

  All the passengers on the Moscow-Grozny flight, which made yesterday, on October 3, an emergency landing in the airport of Volgograd because of bomb information, have got to the destination. Law enforcement bodies report that there were no victims.

October 04, 2010 23:00

• Joel Simon: ICPO admits mistake in Anna Politkovskaya's inquiry

  At the meeting of the delegation from the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) with the heads of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian federation, investigators admitted the fact of a hasty transfer of the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta" to the court, said Joel Simon, Executive Director of the CPJ.

October 04, 2010 22:50

• MCC upholds sentence to organizers of "Forbidden Art" exhibition

  Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the sentence passed earlier to Yuri Samodurov, ex-director of the Sakharov museum and social centre, and Andrei Erofeyev, former head of the division of newest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery, organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006", fined for inciting religious hatred and enmity.

October 04, 2010 22:40

• Sochi court leaves ex-judge Novikov, accused of fraud, in custody

  The Khosta District Court of Sochi has ruled not to change the freedom restriction measure applied to the former judge Dmitri Novikov, accused of organizing in 2005 a theft by swindle of 17 land plots, said the court spokesman. The trial will be continued on October 11.

October 04, 2010 22:20

• Rights defenders report another kidnapping in Dagestan

  On September 26, in Khetokh village, Tsuntin District, a local resident Aliev, Ali Magomedovich, born in 1991, was kidnapped from his home, presumably by power agents, and taken away to some unknown place. His relatives appealed to human rights defenders.

October 04, 2010 22:10

• Dagestani asserts that he was beaten by district head supporters

  Mankuli Lamazov, a resident of Kurukal village and a confidant of Sharafidin Mukhurov, a candidate for a deputy of the district assembly from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), believes that he could be attacked and beaten by supporters of Safidin Mursalov, incumbent head of the Akhtyn District.

October 04, 2010 22:00

• Low-income groups in Novorossiysk will receive food ration tickets on bread and milk

  Low-income residents of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar region, will receive food ration tickets on bread and milk. This decision has been taken by Vladimir Sinyagovsky, mayor of the city, after the growth of prices on socially-significant products, Press service of Novorossiysk administration reports.

October 04, 2010 21:00

• Militia post fired at in Dagestan, there are no victims

  In the suburbs of the town of Derbent, Dagestan, unknown men opened fire at a militia post last night, the republican law enforcement bodies reported. No one was injured as a result of the attack.

October 04, 2010 20:00

• "Spartak"'s fans were fired at in Dagestan while returning from the football match

  Last night in Dagestan there was an attack at a bus with fans of "Spartak" football team which on October, 3, had a game with local "Anzhi" football club and won with a score 1:0.

October 04, 2010 19:00

• Participants of a protest action on Tuapse established a Committee in protection of the city

  The participants of the protest action held on October, 3, in Tuapse which numbered from five hundred to one thousand people data dependence established a Committee in protection of Tuapse. The action lasted about two hours and passed off peacefully. The personnel of law enforcement bodies behaved correctly. No one was detained.

October 04, 2010 18:00

• Head of the village of Chirijurt and Chairman of a collective farm killed in Kiziljurt district of Dagestan

  The republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports that this morning Khabib Jabrailov, Head of the village of Chirijurt, Kiziljurt district of Dagestan, and Murad Kochkharov, Chairman of the local collective farm, were killed.

October 02, 2010 23:00

• Anti-terror rally failed in Vladikavkaz

  The non-sanctioned anti-terrorism rally expected today in the capital of North Ossetia was disrupted by interference of local law enforcers, said one of women-organizers, who preferred to remain anonymous.

October 02, 2010 22:00

• Experts: upcoming elections provoke growing tension in Dagestan

  The situation in Dagestan is more and more strained with the approaching October 10 elections, experts say. But the elections are just a catalyst, but the situation in the country is heavy without them, they emphasize.

October 02, 2010 21:00

• Kati Marton: head of Chechnya interrogated on Estemirova's murder

  It was stated, at the meeting of the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the leadership of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), headed by Alexander Bastrykin, that under Natalia Estemirova's murder case the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was interrogated. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Kati Marton, a board member of the CPJ.

October 02, 2010 20:00

• Anti-terror rallies held in Ingushetia

  More than 3000 persons went today to protest rallies against terrorism in four dwelling settlements in Ingushetia.

October 02, 2010 19:00

• Picket in memory of casualties of terror act in North Ossetia held in Moscow

  Today Moscow has hosted a picket in memory of the victims of terror acts committed on September 9 in Vladikavkaz. The participants of the event have expressed their hope that the situation in North Ossetia would not turn into an ethnic conflict.

October 02, 2010 17:00

• "High Fest" International Theatrical Festival starts in Armenia

  The Eighth International "High Fest" Festival was launched on October 1 in Armenia with participation 33 theatrical groups from 22 countries.

October 02, 2010 16:00

• Two civilians wounded in special operation in Makhachkala

  In the course of the special operation, the militants, who had barricaded in an apartment of a high-rise building in Engels Street in Makhachkala, wounded two young men, who tried to run across the yard, when residents were evacuated.