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August 02, 2010 21:00

• Balkar hunger-strikers offered to stop their action

  The group of Balkars who are holding a hunger strike in Essentuki near the representative office of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) was visited by Alexei Verbitskiy, federal inspector in Kabardino-Balkaria, who offered them to go home.

August 02, 2010 21:00

• Opposition rapper Noise MC arrested in Volgograd

  The Volgograd Court has arrested Ivan Alekseev, a well-known rapper, singer and composer, also known as "Noise MC, for 10 days on the charge of hooliganism.

August 02, 2010 20:00

• Armenia: recruits should be better examined, experts say

  The tragic death of six servicemen became a result of omissions of one of the links of the system, which had recruited a person, representing potential danger to the society. This opinion was stated today at a press conference by psychologist Karine Nalchadzhyan, who noted that the incident proved the need of a more careful medical examination of recruits.

August 02, 2010 19:00

• In Sochi, mayoralty employees donate one-day salary to fire victims

  Bureaucrats of the city will donate their one-day salaries into the assistance fund to victims of forest fires in Russia.

August 02, 2010 18:00

• Change of militants' leaders may activate their actions in Northern Caucasus, experts believe

  Dokku Umarov, leader of the armed underground in Northern Caucasus, has declared his resignation as "Amir of Imarat Kavkaz", created by him in autumn of 2007, and transfer of the powers to his successor. Experts believe that the change of power among militants may result in sharp increase of separatists' activity in the region.

July 31, 2010 20:00

• OMON motorcade shelled in Dagestan with victims

  Today, unknown persons blew up and shelled a column of OMON (special militia) vehicles in Dagestan. Under preliminary data, 12 militiamen were wounded. The incident happened near the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.

July 31, 2010 20:00

• School of Koran experts to open in Chechnya in August

  A school of hafizes (readers of the Koran by heart) will open on August 23 in Ramzan Kadyrov's family village - Khosi-Yurt (Tsentoroi). The school will be named after Zelimkhan, senior brother of President Kadyrov, who died in 2004.

July 31, 2010 19:00

• Picket against monetization of privileges held in Elista

  Today, in Elista, near the building of the Kalmyk State University, opposite the House of Government of Kalmykia, a picket was held against the republic's law on monetization of privileges coming into effect from August 1.

July 31, 2010 18:00

• ICPO: seven wounded in mass fight in Dagestan

  As reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) the Russian Federation, seven persons were wounded in the mass fight on July 30 in Dagestan.

July 31, 2010 17:00

• Police disperses oppositional protest action in central Baku

  In Baku, the police have dispersed a joint protest action of the oppositional parties "Musavat" and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), held with the demands of the freedom of assembly, ensuring the democratic character of the parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 and account of the national interests of Azerbaijan at negotiations on Karabakh settlement.

July 31, 2010 16:00

• North Ossetia to hold first national-cultural contest of Ossetian beer

  The first nationwide contest of Ossetian beer "Iron Bagany-2010" is aimed towards revival of the traditions of house brewing and attraction of the population's interest to the national historic heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of North Ossetia has announced.

July 31, 2010 15:00

• Rostov-on-Don opens largest in Russia park of butterflies

  As stated by Sergey Trifonov, director general of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Barbos" - the Rostov park of live butterflies, the park opened in Rostov-on-Don is the first in the south of Russia and the largest in the country. In the first two days of its work, the park was visited by about 500 persons.

July 31, 2010 14:00

• Adygea: case of Karachai-Circassians accused of extremism sent to court

  In Maikop, the capital of Adygea, a group of students-natives of Karachai-Circassia, accused of offending and beating a Russian guy will soon face the trial.

July 31, 2010 12:00

• Residents of South Ossetia address for help to other countries in house rebuilding

  The residents of South Ossetia, who suffered in the August 2008 conflict, have addressed the authorities of other countries with a request to help in restoring the destroyed housing. According to their story, similar appeals to the leadership of the republic and Russia were fruitless.

July 31, 2010 11:00

• Mosque opened in Sochi after reconstruction

  On July 30, a mosque restored on public donations, was opened in aul Tkhagapsh, Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, as reported by Tatiana Katanidi, specialist of the department for interaction with law enforcement bodies and public organizations of the administration of Sochi.

July 30, 2010 23:40

• Oleg Orlov's case sent to court

  As reported by the human rights defender himself, the investigation of the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is over.

July 30, 2010 23:30

• Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova treats beating of leader of Ex-Combatants' Union of South Ossetia as "mob law"

  The beating of Timur Tskhovrebov, chairman of the public organization "Union of Ex-Combatants of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO)", is categorically contradictory to those democratic values, pursued by South Ossetia, said Lira Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova, director of the Resource Centre of South-Ossetian NGOs and chair of the association of women of South Ossetia for democracy and defence of human rights.

July 30, 2010 23:20

• Dagestan lawyers demand safety guarantees from MIA and Prosecutor's Office

  On July 29, the Board of the Bar of Dagestan disseminated a statement listing the facts of violence applied to lawyers in the republic and demanding to guarantee their safety and access to their clients. The statement was sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Magomedov and Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov.

July 30, 2010 23:10

• Ella Pamfilova's retirement accepted

  President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has accepted retirement of Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Human Rights Board under the President. This was reported by the Kremlin's press service.

July 30, 2010 23:00

• "Rosprirodnadzor" reveals violations in Sochi Olympic objects

  The "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Supervision) made checks of the construction progress of Olympic objects in Sochi and revealed 25 violations of the nature protection legislation, on which fact administrative cases were initiated.