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March 24, 2009 23:30

• Russian militaries complain of non-payment of bonuses for participation in South-Ossetian warfare

  To Russia Military Prosecutor's Office has received over a hundred complaints on violations of the rights of the recruits who took part in the August conflict in South Ossetia.

March 24, 2009 23:00

• Azerbaijan holds a marathon session in support of convicted journalists' families

  The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has summed up the "Novruz Marathon" action - a charitable fundraising session in favour of the families of six convicted journalists. The action started on February 25 and ended on March 20 - by the Novruz spring holiday.

March 24, 2009 22:40

• Natella Akaba: Belarus is frankly bargaining for recognition of Abkhazia

  Natella Akaba, Secretary of the Public Chamber of Abkhazia and Chair of the Association "Women of Abkhazia" has treated the Belarus' position on recognition of Abkhazia's independence as "frank bargaining." She made this statement in the TV Programme "Akhtuskua" (Events) on the Abkhazian State TV Channel.

March 24, 2009 22:30

• "Union for Democracy" finds March 18 referendum in Azerbaijan illegitimate

  The "Union for Democracy" (UD) that unites the oppositional parties of Azerbaijan has stated that the referendum on March 18 on amendments to the Constitution of Azerbaijan was illegitimate.

March 24, 2009 22:00

• Group of sappers shelled in Ingushetia, no casualties

  Today in the morning, an engineering-sapper group of the Internal Troops of Russia's MIA was shelled by unidentified persons from a passenger car. Fortunately, nobody was killed or wounded.

March 24, 2009 21:30

• Der Spiegel: war in South Ossetia was launched by Saakashvili

  The International EU Commission (IEUC) set up for investigating the five-day war in South Ossetia in August 2008 has found evidences that the warfare was initiated by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. However, the Commission has no incontestable proofs of Saakashvili's guilt, since the Georgian party had made them a state secret, as the Der Spiegel German magazine writes.

March 24, 2009 21:00

• Two suspects of exploding Cherkizovo marketplace released

  Two out of eight defendants in the case about explosion in the Cherkizovo marketplace in Moscow, when 14 persons were lost, are at large after expiry of their two-year punishment. The grouping that committed the explosion had repeatedly attacked natives from the Caucasus.

March 24, 2009 20:00

• Stavropol Territory commemorates victims of 2001 terror act in Minvody

  Today, the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), Stavropol Territory, has hosted mourning events to commemorate the victims of the terror act committed on March 24, 2001. On that day, three explosions in Stavropol Territory and Karachaevo-Circassia killed 26 persons and wounded over 150.

March 24, 2009 19:00

• Georgia's MIA investigates links of suspects of buying arms with the opposition

  In Georgia, the two detainees - Malkhaz Gvelukashvili and Lasha Chkheneli - have been charged with illegal purchase and storage of firearms. Now the MIA of Georgia tries to prove that the arms had been purchased for the opposition.

March 24, 2009 18:00

• Dagestan's MIA identifies casualties in Karabudakhkent District

  Mark Tolchinskiy, head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan, has refuted the information that bodies of mercenaries-Arabs were found among the militants liquidated in the special operation conducted on March 21.

March 23, 2009 23:30

• Head of Chechnya's MIA calls militants to come back home

  At the meeting with relatives of participants of armed formations, held in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, Ruslan Alkhanov, Interior Minister, has stated that "he guarantees objective and impartial consideration of the problems of those militants who will come back."

March 23, 2009 23:00

• Tskhinvali announces damage from war with Georgia

  The Mayoralty of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, has summed up the inspection of the available city's housing stock, which suffered from the warfare in August of 2008.

March 23, 2009 22:10

• Residents of Chechnya are ambiguous as to Kadyrov's meeting with Putin

  In Chechnya, people are differently assessing the meeting on March 20 in Moscow of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

March 23, 2009 22:00

• In South Ossetia, convicts of treason released

  Tamara Charaeva and Givi Chigoev, residents of Akhalgori village, South Ossetia, accused of treason by Ossetian authorities, have been released. This was reported by Avtandil Kochishvili, head of the administration of the Akhalgori District.

March 23, 2009 22:00

• Ingushetia: a car shelled, eyewitnesses state extrajudicial execution

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Ingushetia reports from the place of events that in Karabulak, opposite the store "Karabulak" in Oskanova Street, at about midday, unidentified persons in a "Lada-Prior" black car shelled a silver VAZ-21110 car. Local residents think that the attackers were power agents.

March 23, 2009 21:00

• In Georgia, arrests of oppositionists continue

  In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, two activists of the oppositional party "People's Movement to Save Georgia" were arrested. Last night the police also detained activists of the Party headed by Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament, named "Democratic Movement - United Georgia".

March 23, 2009 20:00

• Armenia: trial on "Case of Seven" postponed till April 1

  In Armenia, the court has satisfied the petition lodged by Koryun Piloyan, a representative of the prosecution, who referred to not yet enacted amendments to Articles 225 and 300 of the Criminal Code, under which the figurants in the "Case of Seven" were charged, and postponed the court session till April 1.

March 23, 2009 19:00

• Defendants in Nalchik attack case move numerous petitions

  Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has provided the defendant in the case on the events on October 13, 2005, with the right to make statement and move petitions. Almost half of the defendants have enjoyed the right.

March 23, 2009 18:00

• Father of missing resident of Dagestan prepares appeal to Russian President

  Umakhan Udamanov, a resident of Sultanyangiyurt village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, whose son Shamil Udamanov is regarded missing since 2007, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about his plan to ask President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev again in the near future to help him.

March 21, 2009 21:00

• MIA: Zakaryaev's grouping of militants liquidated in Dagestan

  As a result of a special operation conducted near Kakashura village, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, the group of militants under command of Abdulgapur Zakaryaev was liquidated. 12 militants were killed, Zakaryaev among them, as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.