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May 28, 2010 09:00

• Chechnya: two locals wounded by land mine explosion

  On May 27, in the southwest of Chechnya, a self-made explosive item was triggered and wounded two shepherds who were tending their sheep.

May 27, 2010 23:00

• Investigation considers two priority versions of Stavropol terror act

  Inspectors are studying several versions of the terror act committed in the centre of Stavropol on May 26, in particular, they think that it could be a militants' action or some commerce-based "showdown".

May 27, 2010 21:00

• Relatives of arrested Russians in Tskhinvali hold pickets in Moscow

  On 27 May, in front of South Ossetia Embassy in Moscow, relatives and colleagues of three Russia's citizens that had been arrested in Tskhinvali, hold a series of single pickets. In protestors' opinion, Russia's citizens are being victimized in the republic.

May 27, 2010 20:00

• On Independence Day Georgia opens memorial of perished heroes

  On May 26, Georgia's Independence Day, the memorial to heroes who died for the freedom and unity of the Georgian state was opened in the Square of Heroes in Tbilisi.

May 27, 2010 19:00

• Bomb blows up near cafe in Ingushetia, no victims

  Today early in the morning, a self-made explosive item was triggered in a suburb of the city of Malgobek, Ingushetia; nobody has suffered.

May 27, 2010 18:00

• Kalmykia: believers commit virtuous acts to mark Buddha's birthday

  Today, Buddhists celebrate the most important anniversary of their religious calendar - the birthday, enlightenments and departure to Parinibbana of Buddha Shakyamuni. This year this day falls on May 27.

May 27, 2010 17:00

• 19 injured from terror act in Stavropol are in critical condition

  Among victims of Stavropol terror act of 26 May, 19 persons are in a grave and extremely grave condition, the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office liaison department officer reported. Death toll hits 7, wounded - 45.

May 27, 2010 16:00

• PACE concerned with early marriages in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan faces serious problems with gender mainstreaming and women's rights protection. That was the key note of the press conference on 26 May given by PACE delegation participated in Council of Europe Conference of Minister members "Gender equality: bridging the gap between de jure and de facto equality" that was held on 24-25 May in Baku.

May 27, 2010 15:00

• Russia lost another action in the European Court of Human Rights on disappearances of people in Chechnya

  Today the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on the case "Hutsaev and others against the Russian Federation", found Russia guilty of illegal detention and subsequent disappearance of three inhabitants of Chechnya.

May 27, 2010 14:00

• Since May 2009, 20 suicide-bombers blew them up in Northern Caucasus

  During the period after May 15, 2009, when a suicide-bomber for the first time blew him up in Chechnya after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, and until today 20 terror acts have been committed by 22 suicide-bombers in "hot" regions of Northern Caucasus - Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

May 27, 2010 13:00

• No houses built for residents of North Ossetia in Leningori District

  The Leningori District of South Ossetia runs no construction of houses for the refugees who arrived in the 1990s to live in North Ossetia, since there is no need of it, as Alan Dzhussoev, head of the district, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

May 27, 2010 12:00

• In Chechnya, theologians and militia reveal witch doctors and foretellers

  Employees of the Centre of Islamic Medicine (CIM) are raiding, together with local law enforcers, districts of Chechnya aiming to reveal people who present themselves as healers and fortune-tellers. About 40 persons of this sort have been detained within a fortnight.

May 27, 2010 03:00

• Collection of Markelov's works presented in Moscow

  On Monday, May 24, the A. Sakharov Museum and Public Centre in Moscow hosted a presentation of the memorial collection of lawyer Stanislav Markelov assassinated in January 2009; the collection includes his main articles, interviews and presentations.

May 26, 2010 23:00

• Explosion in Stavropol: six persons lost, 46 wounded

  The number of victims of the explosion in Stavropol is on the rise. According to the latest data, six persons were killed and 46 more were injured.

May 26, 2010 22:00

• Azerbaijan: examination results announced at Fatullaev's trial

  On May 26, the Garadag District Court of Baku continued considering the case of earlier convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev, this time accused of illegal drug storage. The session heard the results of three different examinations.

May 26, 2010 21:00

• Russian GPO orders to check rights violation of two Jehovah's Witnesses in Dagestan

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Ombudsman's Office of the Russian Federation demand that the Khasavyurt District Prosecutor's Office and that of Dagestan check the actions of the employees of the local Department of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau), who detained on March 3 in Khasavyurt two members of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses who administered their sermon.

May 26, 2010 20:00

• Explosion in Stavropol killed three persons

  Explosion took place in Stavropol today, having killed three persons and injured twenty, the law enforcement bodies of the Stavropol region report.

May 26, 2010 19:00

• In Ingushetia, Khamzat Tsechoev released on recognizance

  On the evening of May 19, a member of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr" Hamzat Tsechoev, whom law enforcement officers had sized in his house, was released on recognizance in Magas militia department, where he was kept for more than twenty-four hours, his sister Zarema said.

May 26, 2010 18:00

• In Krasnodar, local TV reporter beaten

  In the evening of May 25, in Krasnodar, Kuban New Television (NTK) Company reporter Alexander Leonenko got beaten by the unidentified persons. TV journalist's colleagues do not take off this attack relates to his professional activities.

May 26, 2010 17:00

• Trafficking victims on the rise in Armenia

  In 2009, sixty persons became victims of trafficking in persons in Armenia against 34 persons in 2008. The data was presented today by the "Resource Centre for Helping to Combat Trafficking" in Yerevan at presentation of the book dealing with the fight against this phenomenon.