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September 10, 2010 23:00

• Count of victims of explosion in Vladikavkaz exceeds 160

  According to the latest data, as reported by Olga Krivonos, director of the department for organization of medical aid and development of health services of the Russian Ministry of Public Health and Social Development, in total 161 persons are on the list of victims of the explosion in Vladikavkaz.

September 10, 2010 22:40

• Yerevan mayoralty again bans oppositional action in Freedom Square

  On September 9, the mayoralty of the capital of Armenia rejected the notification submitted by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) about a rally to be held on September 24 in Freedom Square.

September 10, 2010 22:20

• AI condemns terror act in North Ossetia

  The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) condemns the terror act committed on September 9 by a suicide bomber in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, as a result of which at least 16 peaceful residents were lost and dozens more received injuries.

September 10, 2010 22:10

• Russian MfE's detachment to come to Chechnya for land de-mining

  Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation will arrive next week to Chechnya to continue de-mining of arable lands in the "Zarya" State Farm, Grozny District.

September 10, 2010 22:00

• Head of corrective colony shot dead in Makhachkala

  As reported by law enforcement bodies of the capital of Dagestan, last night unidentified criminals killed the head of Corrective Colony No. 7; his wife was wounded.

September 10, 2010 21:00

• District militiaman shot dead in Dagestan

  In the city of Kizil-Yurt, Dagestan, unidentified persons killed a district militia captain and stole his firearms.

September 10, 2010 20:00

• State-supporting politicians disagree with conclusion of "Article 19" on freedom of speech in Azerbaijan

  In the last five years, the state of things with democratic freedom has been steadily worsening in Azerbaijan. This conclusion is made in the report of the international human rights organization "Article 19", which was presented on September 10 in Baku, in the Azerbaijani House of Human Rights.

September 10, 2010 19:00

• Large forest is on fire in Pankissi Gorge, Georgia

  In Pankissi Gorge the fire has captured 40 hectares of forest in the vicinity of Matana village, the Ahmet District.

September 10, 2010 18:00

• Krasnodar Territory: investigation of schoolboy's death at physical culture lesson

  Inspectors are studying the death of a 16-year-old schoolboy at a physical culture lesson in the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory.

September 09, 2010 23:40

• UN General Assembly approves resolution on refugees prepared by Georgia

  The General Assembly of the United Nations has approved the new resolution on return of forced migrants back to the breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has expressed gratitude to those countries whose delegations have supported the resolution. The Russia's MFA, in its turn, finds the very idea of the resolution counterproductive.

September 09, 2010 23:00

• 16 casualties of Vladikavkaz explosion identified

  The authorities of Vladikavkaz have promulgated a list of casualties of the terror act committed today in the city central marketplace. By now, all the casualties have been identified.

September 09, 2010 22:20

• Georgia: human rights activists demand investigation of inmates' beating in Ksan prison

  Lawyer Liya Mukhashavriya, head of the Georgian NGO "Priority of Human Rights", demands that the prosecutor's office, Ministry of Justice and prison administration start investigating the fact of beating prisoners in the Ksan prison, located in Eastern Georgia, which happened on August 19.

September 09, 2010 22:00

• Relatives of the Russian woman arrested in South Ossetia plan picketing in Moscow

  Relatives of Svetlana Osipova, director general director of a Russian company, who went on hunger strike in Tskhinvali, are going to hold a picket in Moscow in defence of all the Russians imprisoned in South Ossetia.

September 09, 2010 22:00

• Investigation names ex-assistant of public prosecutor from Dagestan as customer of the murder of ICPO inspector

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has reported solution of the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the Chief Investigatory Department of the ICPO, which was accomplished in 2007 in Moscow. Said Abdulakimov, former assistant of the public prosecutor of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, is named to be the customer of the crime.

September 09, 2010 22:00

• Svetlana Gannushkina offers to hold post-conflict children's camps in the Caucasus

  Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the committee "Civil Assistance", has voiced a number of offers, when speaking at a meeting of women-peacemakers of Russia and Georgia, concerning joint projects and cooperation of the public of the two countries. In particular, she finds it reasonable to hold post-conflict children's camps in the region.

September 09, 2010 22:00

• Two persons lost in explosion and shooting in Makhachkala hotel

  Two persons were lost in a skirmish that burst out in a hotel in Makhachkala last night. The incident has happened after an explosion that was triggered in one of the hotel rooms.

September 09, 2010 21:00

• Russian SC upholds verdicts to nationalists Ryno and Skachevskiy

  Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to the leaders of a nationalist group Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy, sentenced to 10 years in prison for a series of murders.

September 09, 2010 21:00

• In Georgia, relatives of seamen kidnapped in Gulf of Aden know details from journalists

  Nobody has officially contacted yet the families of the Georgian seamen captured by pirates in the Gulf of Aden: neither Georgian authorities and nor the company-employer, say the relatives. In its turn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has stated that the "actively work" with the fact of kidnapping.

September 09, 2010 20:00

• Participants of forum in support of the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan call to release Fatullaev and bloggers

  Today, the Baku-based Business Centre "Landmark" has hosted a conference held within the forum of public support of the freedom of speech and expression in Azerbaijan. Its participants have called to release journalist Fatullaev and bloggers Milli and Gadjizade.

September 09, 2010 19:00

• HRC "Memorial": Chechen power agents use militants' relatives as "live shield"

  Residents of Chechnya report that relatives of the young men, who went to the forest to join militants, are persecuted by local power agents. Human rights activist note that it happens under the initiative of Chechen leadership, since President Ramzan Kadyrov has openly stated that militants' relatives shall respond for their actions.