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August 17, 2010 19:00

• Two passers-by wounded in skirmish in Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, two suspected militants were liquidated, who, by the official data, had opened fire on militiamen. As a result, one of the employees of the MIA, a boy and a woman were wounded.

August 17, 2010 18:00

• Gurtuev: Balkars' hunger strike in Moscow lost its sense

  As stated by Oyus Gurtuev, deputy chair of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP), the protest action of a group of residents of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow has lost any further sense; the hunger strike should be stopped, and European structures should be addressed for help.

August 17, 2010 17:00

• In Dagestan, teenager partially lost hearing after beating by militiamen, rights defenders assert

  On August 13, 2010, Makhmud Akhmedov, earlier beaten by militiamen at interrogation, was discharged from the Central Republic's Hospital. As a result of his trauma, Makhmud lost hearing by one ear. Doctors conclude that in case of necessary treatment and favourable conditions the hearing can be restored, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

August 17, 2010 16:00

• Suicide bomber kills two militiamen in North Ossetia

  As a result of an explosion, committed today in the morning by a suicide bomber at the check point in the North-Ossetian-Ingush border, two militiamen were lost and three more wounded.

August 17, 2010 15:00

• Moscow-Tbilisi flights to resume on August 23

  Today, the "Siberia" Airline ("S7 Airlines") has announced that since August 23 it will start its flights to Georgia.

August 17, 2010 13:00

• Grozny: ten-day subbotnik lasts for two months already

  The broad-scale subbotnik (citizens' volunteer work) started in mid-June and aimed to clean streets of the capital of Chechnya of rubbish and household wastes is not over yet. Some of the sectors, into which Grozny was split, failed to cope with the task to improve and clean the territory, although initially ten days were allocated for cleaning the city streets. The protraction of the event causes residents' bewilderment.

August 17, 2010 12:00

• Begeyev, accused of murdering a militiaman, surrenders to FSB

  In Dagestan, Rumil Begeyev, who was in federal search for murdering a militiaman, committed at his detention on January 22 in Derbent. Earlier, Begeyev's relatives had stated that they failed to receive guarantees from law enforcement bodies of observance of legality in exchange for his readiness to surrender.

August 17, 2010 10:00

• Exhibition-sale of Indian goods held in Adzharia

  The exhibition of India-made goods, held in Batumi, the capital of Adzharia, within the programme of popularization of Indian culture in Transcaucasia, will last till August 28.

August 17, 2010 09:00

• Armenia: students of de-licensed higher schools can move to other ones

  After the decision of the Ministry of Education of Armenia to deprive a number of higher schools of their licenses, over 2000 students will be able to move, in the period from August 17 to September 15, to other establishments to continue their studies. This was announced to journalists by Aga Avetisyan, deputy minister of sciences and education of Armenia.

August 17, 2010 08:00

• Over 100,000 Sochi residents lost electricity and water supplies for about 24 hours

  On August 15-16, it took local electricians almost 24 hours to repair a broken electric cable. In some city districts, where water delivery depends on electricity, people remained without water and electric power in 40-degree heat.

August 16, 2010 21:00

• Hacker Saaev sentenced to 2.5 years for cracking official North-Caucasian websites

  The Supreme Court of Chechnya has sentenced Albert Saaev, who cracked official websites of the authorities of several republics of Northern Caucasus, to 2.5 years of high security colony for complicity to militants.

August 16, 2010 20:00

• Court extends arrest of suspect of Markelov's murder

  The nationalist Nikita Tikhonov, accused of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in January 2009, will continue staying in custody.

August 16, 2010 19:00

• Armenia: TV Companies "А1+" and "GALA" try to resume broadcasting

  After eight years of suspension, the TV Company "А1+" will making everything possible to win objectivity of the National Commission on Radio and Television (NCRT) and will surely take part in the contest for the right to broadcast, as Mesrop Movsesyan, director of the Company, told journalists.

August 16, 2010 18:00

• Split in "Imarat Kavkaz" evidences drop of Umarov's influence, experts believe

  A number of local experts believe that the statement of some field commanders about exit away from subordination to Dokku Umarov is a symptom of serious contradictions within the armed underground and an abrupt drop of the authority of the Amir of the Caucasus, as Umarov calls himself.

August 16, 2010 17:00

• Authorities of Rostov Region object to transfer of "Azov-City" to Anapa

  The offer put forward by the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory to move the gambling zone "Azov-City" to Anapa was negatively perceived by their counterparts in the Rostov Region, who believe that it will poke away investors and damage the business.

August 16, 2010 16:00

• Archaeological monuments found during construction in Sochi

  As reported by Roman Mimokhod, head of the archaeological expedition, in the course of the broad-scale archaeological studies, conducted in parallel to construction of Olympic sites, several dozens of monuments were found.

August 16, 2010 15:00

• Three candidates run for presidency in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The incumbent head of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, and chairs of local government and parliament Alexander Merkulov and Anuar Chechenov, accordingly, are on the list of candidates for the head of the region, drafted today by the Party "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia).

August 16, 2010 14:00

• Court extends custody of the Ingush who provoked incident in Domodedovo

  The Moscow City Court has found lawful the arrest of Magomed Patiev, a citizen of Kazakhstan and a native of Ingushetia, accused of an attempt to capture an aircraft in Domodedovo Airport.

August 16, 2010 13:00

• Two explosions triggered in Makhachkala

  This night two explosions were triggered in the capital of Dagestan in a couple of minutes one after the other, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

August 16, 2010 12:00

• Jehovah's Witnesses from south of Russia complain of stronger pressure

  In the south of Russia, pressure on Jehovah's Witnesses continues; three facts of this sort were registered in July. According to the report of the religious organization, in April-May, the SFD (South Federal District) and NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) saw at least 17 cases, when believers' rights were broken; while all over Russia for the same period right of Jehovah's Witnesses were broken at least 95 times.