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September 03, 2010 20:00

• European MPs condemn kidnapping of Islam Umarpashaev in Chechnya

  Heidi Hautala, chair of the human rights committee of the European Parliament, who is a member of the delegation of the European MPs who met on September 2 Ingush human rights activists, has criticized the kidnapping and torture of Islam Umarpashaev and called the Russian authorities not to press him in the context of Umarpashaev's readiness to help in establishing his kidnappers.

September 03, 2010 19:00

• Volgograd Region: ICPO suspects officials of negligence in relation to natural fires

  As reported by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the Russian Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), the Committee is currently investigating a number of criminal cases opened against officials in the Volgograd Region. Crime attributes may be revealed in bureaucrats' actions (or inaction) related to mass natural fires. Now, the investigation has data about five persons lost in fires on September 2.

September 03, 2010 18:00

• Hurricane damages hundreds of dwelling houses in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As a result of the hurricane that fell last night on the republic, hundreds of houses and electric networks were damaged in the Prokhladny District of Kabardino-Balkaria. As reported by the local department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies, over 10,000 residents remained without electricity, and two persons were taken to hospital with traumas.

September 02, 2010 23:20

• Dagestan: district FSB head killed and militiaman wounded

  In Dagestan, today in the morning, the car of lieutenant colonel Ahmed Abdullaev, head of the Russia's FSB division for the Tsumadin District of the republic, was blow up killing the owner. Then, the unknown persons, who organized the explosion, wounded a militiaman, the Russia's ICPO has reported.

September 02, 2010 23:10

• Militiaman killed in Ingushetia, his wife wounded

  Last night unknown persons shelled the house of the head of the personnel division of the Sunzha ROVD of Ingushetia; the militiaman was lost, and his wife was hospitalized, said a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.

September 02, 2010 23:00

• In Dagestan, managers of "Novoye Delo" think prosecutor's check is revenge for "Nazi anecdote"

  According to Hadjimurad Sagitov, deputy editor-in-chief of the popular independent Dagestan weekly "Novoye Delo" (New Business), there are no grounds for the pre-inquiry check initiated by the prosecutor's office of Dagestan of the weekly issue of August 27, 2010, where an anecdote was published about two SS-officers joking about smoke from crematorium chimney.

September 02, 2010 22:00

• Poet Adallo's son was detained by power agents in Dagestan for prophylactics, observers note

  According to Regina Shakirova, a lawyer of the Kazan Human Rights Centre, Gamzat, 34, son of the Dagestan poet Ali Adallo (Aliev), detained on July 5 by employees of Botlikh ROVD (District Interior Division) had no chance to avoid punishment in the form of five days of the imprisonment, awarded by a magistrate judge for disobedience to militiamen.

September 02, 2010 21:00

• In Azerbaijan, consideration of journalist Fatullaev's appeal complaint reappointed on September 7

  The today's preparatory sitting for consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by journalist Einullah Fatullaev at the Baku Appeal Court under presidency of Mirashi Guseinov was postponed again.

September 02, 2010 20:00

• Consideration of complaint on verdict to "White Wolves" reappointed on September 13

  The Supreme Court has postponed consideration of the complaints lodged on the verdict passed this February to members of the nationalist grouping "White Wolves" accused of a series of nationalism-motivated murders till September 13.

September 02, 2010 19:00

• Woman from Nalchik asks prosecutor's office to protect her children from power agents' persecution

  Naida Gadzhieva, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed her application to Alexander Buksman, First Deputy General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, stating that her son and daughter are persecuted by some unknown power agents.

September 02, 2010 18:00

• Krasnodar Territory: inquiry into death of children from "Azov" camp is over

  The inquiry has been completed under the case opened against the teachers accused of gross negligence, as a result of which on July 7 six children from camp "Azov" drowned in the Yeysk sand bar of the Azov Sea. This was reported today in Krasnodar by Vitaly Tkachov, head of the Territorial Investigatory Department of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office).

September 01, 2010 23:55

• North Ossetia starts mourning actions dated to September 2004 terror act

  People began coming to School No. 1 in Beslan since early in the morning; and before the first ring at 9:15 a.m. over 2500 persons gathered in the school yard. Taimuraz Mamsurov, head of North Ossetia, Larissa Khabitsova, chair of the parliament, Nikolai Khlyntsov, chairman of the government, and many republic's officials came to commemorate the victims.

September 01, 2010 23:50

• "First Ring" in Chechen schools is held under strengthened security

  Today, the schools of Chechnya started their new school year with the "First Ring". On the eve, all the general educational establishments and adjacent territories were inspected, and round-the-clock securities were deployed.

September 01, 2010 23:40

• Sports journalist attacked in Azerbaijan

  The Baku police have started investigating an attack on the well-known sports observer Rasul Shukyursoy (Allahverdiev). As reported by the 4th branch of the Binagadin district police division, currently investigatory actions are underway to reveal the suspect and attract him to responsibility.

September 01, 2010 23:30

• Coordination board of Balkar organizations starts preparing Congress of Balkar People

  On August 31, the coordination board (CB) of Balkar NGOs made a decision to convoke a congress for deciding on the issue of self-determination of the Balkar people. Bakhaudin Etezov was unanimously elected to be the chairman of the organizing committee of the congress. The organizing committee includes all the CB members and will invite experts - Balkar historians, economists and lawyers.

September 01, 2010 23:10

• In Armenia, ecologists hold protest action in front of EBRD office

  On August 31 in Yerevan, the "Group of Tekhut Protection" held a protest action near the Yerevan office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Activists-ecologists are concerned of possible financing by Russian VTB of the disputable programme on development of the Tekhut deposit.

September 01, 2010 23:00

• Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev killed in Kabardino-Balkaria reject his involvement in IAFs

  Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev, who was killed on August 27 in the course of a special operation in Nalchik, disagree with the official version about his involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and are convinced that Aslan became an occasional victim of the operation.

September 01, 2010 23:00

• MoD of Nagorno-Karabakh refutes losses in the fight with Azerbaijani militaries

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh asserts that the losses of Azerbaijan during the combat clash on August 31 made at least seven killed and wounded persons. The Armenian party, as the department reports, had no losses; one soldier was wounded.

September 01, 2010 22:20

• In Abkhazia, investigation into beating of "Abaza" board chairman is fruitless

  The preliminary investigation in underway on the fact of beating of Mussa Takushinov, chairman of the board of the public organization of Abasins of the Karachai-Circassian Republic named "Abaza". The criminal case was initiated under the article of deliberate causing of medium-gravity harm to one's health by a group of persons out of hooligan intentions."

September 01, 2010 22:10

• Volgograd Region: number of WNE patients is over 200

  Within the week the number of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE) patients in the Volgograd Region went up by 36 persons, the local "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) Department has reported.