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May 31, 2010 18:00

• Magomed Garbakov, Sagopshi resident, kidnapped in Ingushetia

  On May 13 in Ingushetia, employees of unidentified power agencies kidnapped Magomed Musaevich Garbakov, a resident of Sagopshi village, Malgobek District of the republic.

May 29, 2010 22:00

• Picket against Rospotrebnadzor's amicable agreement with "Electrozink" held in Vladikavkaz

  Activists of the initiative group "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" held a picket near the building of the local Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, in protest against the amicable agreement concluded by the agency with the "Electrozink" Factory.

May 29, 2010 19:00

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, wounded at special operation, claims compensation of damage

  Mikhail Sova, 47, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, who happened to be on March 7 in the area, where a special operation aimed to neutralize suspected militant Valery Etezov was conducted, was wounded by an occasional bullet. Now, he went to the Nalchik City Court.

May 29, 2010 18:00

• Hurricane paralyses traffic in Rostov-on-Don

  Several districts of Rostov-on-Don were captured by hurricane accompanied by big hailstones. The calamity blocked the traffic; many cars were damaged by hailstones.

May 29, 2010 17:00

• Militiamen suspected of negligence that caused Stavropol terror act

  The Russian ICPO has initiated criminal cases against the officials of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Stavropol Territory, who had demonstrated their negligence in preparation for the concert at the local Palace of Culture. This was announced by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the ICPO.

May 29, 2010 15:00

• In Adygea, illegal fellers cut 780 cubic meters of fir-trees and beeches

  Valuable trees were felled in the territory of the regional-value nature monument named "Upper Reach of Pshekha and Pshekhashko Rivers" causing the damage of 97.4 million roubles.

May 29, 2010 14:00

• "Georgian Emigrants" announce start of protest actions

  The NGO named "Georgian Emigrants" demands better life for Georgian emigrants and their families and announces that from May 29 on they start sitting protest actions in front of the parliament. Activists of the organization accuse authorities of inattention and threaten to go on hunger strike.

May 29, 2010 13:00

• Adygea restricts stay of children in public places at night

  Children and teenagers of Adygea will be forbidden appear at night in public places without their parents.

May 29, 2010 12:00

• ICPO sends case of explosion organizers in Sochi to court

  The Division for Especially Important Cases of the Investigatory Department of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) for the Krasnodar Territory has sent to the Regional Court the criminal case about the series of explosions committed in Sochi in 2008-2009 and other crimes, as a result of which 14 persons perished and 20 more were wounded. Ilya Galkin, a former militiaman, and Mikhail Denisenko, an employee of a TV company, are accused of these crimes.

May 29, 2010 11:00

• AI calls to discuss situation in Northern Caucasus at EU-RF Summit

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has addressed its appeal to the official Brussels stating that violations of human rights, first of all in Northern Caucasus, and restrictions of the freedom of self-expression should be put on the debate agenda of the forthcoming Summit the European Union-Russian Federation, to open on May 30 in Rostov-on-Don.

May 29, 2010 08:00

• Astrakhan Region is at emergency fight on locusts

  Under decision of the Emergency Commission under the Government of the Astrakhan Region, the state of emergency has been introduced in the whole territory of the region because of a threat of locust invasion.

May 28, 2010 21:00

• Khloponin promises to punish bureaucrats for terror act in Stavropol

  Today, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NGFD), told journalists that because of failure to take due security measures in Stavropol, where the explosion on May 26 killed 7 persons, he ordered to open criminal cases on service negligence.

May 28, 2010 19:00

• Supreme Llama of Kalmykia asks Russia's MFA for proofs of charges against Dalai Lama

  Telo Tulku Rinchope, Supreme Llama of Kalmykia, addressed his open letter to Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, in the context of the refusal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia to give an entrance visa to Dalai Lama for visiting Russia. Mr Rinchope assures Mr Lavrov that Dalai Lama's relations with the Russian Buddhists have never had any political shading.

May 28, 2010 18:00

• Georgia gets to Eurovision final

  A singer from Georgia Sofiko Nizharadze has entered the ten of best performers and qualified for the final of "Eurovision-2010".

May 28, 2010 17:00

• North Ossetia to open branch of Movement "In the Name of Georgia"

  A branch of the Movement "In the Name of Georgia", which unites Georgian Diasporas of 53 regions of Russia, aiming to achieve, through charitable and cultural actions, closer relations of Russian and Georgian peoples, will be opened un North Ossetia.

May 28, 2010 15:00

• Today, Stavropol Territory is mourning over terror act casualties

  Today, the Stavropol Territory has a day of mourning over the victims of the terror act committed on May 26. In the whole territory, banners and flags are half-mast; TV Companies and culture establishments were recommended to cancel their entertaining broadcasts and events.

May 28, 2010 13:00

• SCPO regime introduced in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office), as of today the KBR is under the special complex preventive operation (SCPO) regime.

May 28, 2010 12:00

• Floods in Azerbaijan cause many families to live in streets

  Residents of the flooded areas of Azerbaijan who have lost their houses as a result of the calamity report that they received no compensation. Many of them have to live in the open air.

May 28, 2010 11:00

• Atamans call Cossacks of Rostov Region to take part in census

  The Board of Atamans of the All-Great Don Army has addressed the Cossack population of the Don River area to be active at the census planned in October 2010.

May 28, 2010 10:00

• War on extremism impossible without management and education reforms, experts believe

  The participants of the conference "Freedom of Conscience and Faith" held on May 27 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, emphasized the need of consolidation of the society before the terrorist threat.