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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

June 17, 2010 18:00

June 16, 2010 23:40

  • FSIN refutes data on Khasis' hunger strike

    Evgenia Khasis, a figurant in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, did not refuse to take prison food at the "Lefortovo" SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is now kept. This was stated by the spokesman of the press service of the Federal Corrective Service (known as "FSIN").

June 16, 2010 23:00

June 16, 2010 22:20

June 16, 2010 22:10

  • Ten supposed militants liquidated today in Dagestan

    They were killed in two armed clashes that burst out in Dagestan today. Six of them were killed in the course of the special operation conducted in Stary Kostek village, and four more were shot dead in the city of Derbent. The general losses of the federal forces made four casualties and eight wounded servicemen.

June 16, 2010 22:00

  • In Irkutsk, three natives of Ingushetia are accused of kidnapping

    The Investigatory Department (ID) of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia for the Irkutsk Region has indicted three natives of Ingushetia of kidnapping. Two of the detainees had earlier worked in the MIA bodies of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

June 16, 2010 21:00

  • Armenian and Azerbaijani media should build bridges, journalists of both countries believe

    Events similar to the international journalists' conference held in early May in the Italian city of Cagliari could become a sort of bridge between the peoples of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Azer Khasret, head of the Azerbaijani information network CASCFEN, and Boris Navasardyan, President of the Yerevan Press Club, who took part in the above international journalists' conference in Sardinia.

June 16, 2010 20:00

June 16, 2010 19:00

  • Paintball rifles. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org Chechen MIA knows nothing about attacks on women without headscarves

    In the context of the widespread information about numerous cases of attacking girls and women without headscarves from paintball rifles, the enforcement bodies of Chechnya assert that they received no complaints or applications on the occasion of such attacks in Grozny. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) also knows nothing about the facts of appearance of leaflets with threats to girls and women who appear in the streets with uncovered head.

June 16, 2010 18:00

June 15, 2010 23:40

  • Astakhov: NCFD regions need children's psychological services

    Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman at the President of the Russian Federation, has justified, in his report on the outcomes of his inspection visit to Northern Caucasus, the need to set up psychological services for children in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). According to his story, many children and teenagers in Chechnya grew up amidst warfare and have traumas and wounds.

June 15, 2010 23:10

June 15, 2010 23:00

  • Militiaman shot dead in Dagestan

    As a result of shelling the RPS (road-post service) post located at the northern exit from the capital of Dagestan a militiaman was killed.

June 15, 2010 22:20

  • In Stavropol Territory, case of student convicted for kindling ethnic enmity sent to revision

    The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, refused to uphold the verdict passed by the local city court to student Ilya Kartsev. According to Zakhar Kazaryan, senior assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the city of Nevinnomyssk, his boss brought in a cassation presentation - a complaint against legality of the verdict; and now the case of Nevinnomyssk gamer will be reconsidered by the Territorial Court, the panel on criminal cases.

June 15, 2010 22:00

June 15, 2010 21:10

  • Georgia and Abkhazia hold emergency meeting in Gal

    Today, in the city of Gal, an extraordinary meeting is held of the working group on prevention of incidents and reaction mechanisms to them in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone. The United Nations have initiated the meeting.

June 15, 2010 21:00

  • Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria were killed recently

    On June 14-15, in Kabardino-Balkaria, a number of incidents took place. Thus, today in Nalchik an explosion was triggered and wounded an FSB agent. Yesterday, on June 14, two local residents were killed in the capital of the republic. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

June 15, 2010 20:00

  • Peaceful resident wounded in South Ossetia

    As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, in South Ossetia, in the vicinity of Disev village, which is bordering on Georgia, after an attack from the Georgian post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs located in the village of Koshki, a citizen of the republic Anatoly Kisiev was wounded.

June 15, 2010 19:00

June 15, 2010 18:00

  • Participants of protest action "Stop. Electrozink!" in Vladikavkaz. Inscription on the mask: "Stop. Electrozink!" December 19, 2009. Photo by http://iriston.ru Vladikavkaz residents protest against amicable agreement with "Electrozink"

    While "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) and "Electrozink" Factory are compiling an action plan of improving the ecological situation, someone is tearing off information leaflets stuck in the city by opponents of the enterprise. This was reported by sanitary physician Atsamaz Khadikov, a well-known Vladikavkaz fighter against "Electrozink".

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