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December 10, 2010 20:00

• Head doctor of a republican children's hospital discharged in Kalmykia upon demand of the Children's Ombudsman

  Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov at a conference in Elista on the results of inspection of child welfare institutions during his one-day visit to Kalmykia on December, 8, demanded to discharge Head doctor of the children's hospital.

December 10, 2010 19:00

• Militia post fired upon in Dagestan, at the drive to Khasavyurt

  In the evening of December, 9, in Dagestan unidentified people fired upon a Khasavyurt municipal entrance post "Don" with five militiamen there. According to one source, a militiaman was wounded, another one reports two wounded officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

December 10, 2010 18:00

• Prosecutor General's suspects an investigator from Kuschevskaya of concealing income

  Ekaterina Rogoza, investigator of the Department of Interior Affairs in Kuschevsky district, who has put out her video message to the President of Russia on the net concealed her income from leasing land, Marina Gridneva, official representative of Prosecutor General's, reported.

December 09, 2010 23:30

• Militia unit shelled in Kaspiisk, one person wounded

  As reported by a source from the MIA of Dagestan, a militiaman was wounded in an attack on a militia post in Kaspiisk.

December 09, 2010 23:20

• Resident of Kizilyurt District disappeared in Dagestan

  Yesterday, on December 8, in the evening, Zaur Alibekov, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, disappeared without any traces. This was reported by his wife, Gulnara Alibekova. She believes that local law enforcement officers may have to do with the incident.

December 09, 2010 23:10

• Activists of "The Other Russia" condemned in Rostov-on-Don

  Activists of the party "The Other Russia" ("Drugaya Rossia") were sentenced to ten days of custody on December, 8, in Rostov-on-Don for insubordination to militia. The arrested people themselves consider that they were detained for the period of Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to the city.

December 09, 2010 23:10

• Residents of Tsibari burned down in Dagestan lack warm clothing and tents

  The local school, kindergarten and building of the pension fund became temporary residences for the fire victims of the Dagestan village of Tsibari. The issue of their accommodation is not settled yet.

December 09, 2010 23:00

• In Ingushetia, relatives of detained Israil Torshkhaev know nothing about his whereabouts

  So far, there is no information about the whereabouts of Israil Torshkhaev (Torshkhoev), a resident of Ingushetia, who disappeared on November 18 after detention by unidentified power agents.

December 09, 2010 22:40

• Opposition of Tabasaran District believes that local authorities prevent their participation in Congress of Dagestani Nations

  On November 30, a conference was held in the Tabasaran District, where out of representatives of 175 villages 61 delegates were elected to the Congress of Dagestani Nations. However, as reported by Migdat Gadjiev, chairman of the public organization named "Anticorruption Committee of Tabasaran District", not a single activist of his NGO was admitted to the conference. The Public Chamber of Dagestan promises that the NGO will be present at the congress.

December 09, 2010 22:20

• Picketers in Moscow complain of illegal inspectors' methods used in Astrakhan Region

  The residents of the Astrakhan Region, who held a picket on December 7 in Pushkin Square, wanted to draw the attention of the President of the country and the public to the situation in the region. Irina Butyrina said, in particular, that her minor son was beaten by militiamen.

December 09, 2010 22:10

• Opposition activist Felix Gevorgyan is at large in Armenia

  During the last presidential election Felix Gevorgyan was the head of the election headquarters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of the opposition and a presidential candidate, in the Yerevan community "Achapnyak"; later he was convicted within the case of dispersal of mass opposition actions on March 1, 2008. Now, he has been early released from the Erebuni Prison.

December 09, 2010 21:00

• Opposition in Georgia is forming Committees of civil disobedience

  On Wednesday, December, 8, a deliberative body of the Representative People's Assembly in Georgia held its first session where a decision of preparing large-scale actions of civil disobedience was taken.

December 09, 2010 19:00

• Thirteen people got injured in a road accident in Rostov region

  Thirteen people got injured in a road accident in Rostov region where a bus collided with a car.

December 09, 2010 18:00

• Militiamen accused of tortures in Rostov region are under investigation

  An investigation is in process in Rostov region concerning the militiamen accused of using tortures against a suspect. For the benefit of the investigation concrete information on the case is currently kept in secret.

December 08, 2010 23:40

• In Dagestan, five MIA officers detained as bribery suspects

  On December 7, in the outskirts of the village of Korkmaskala, Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan, officers of the criminal investigation division of the Kumtorkalin ROVD (District Interior Division) were detained at the moment of obtaining 200,000 roubles of bribe for releasing of a woman suspected of a crime.

December 08, 2010 23:20

• MIA: farm belonging to Tsapok's mother in Kuschevskaya illegally detained citizens of Ukraine

  Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Southern Federal District (SFD) has confirmed the fact of illegal detention of citizens of Ukraine at the firm "Artex-Agro", headed by Nadezhda Tsapok - mother of Sergey Tsapok, suspected of organizing the massacre in Kuschevskaya village.

December 08, 2010 23:10

• "Georgian Times" stopped in Georgia

  The decision to close the "Georgian Times" was taken today by the managers of the newspaper. The publication is owned by Malkhaz Gulashvili, leader of Georgian Orthodox radicals.

December 08, 2010 23:00

• Rostov Region: 35,000 ask Medvedev to raise salaries of university teachers

  The trade union of the Southern Federal University (SFU) in Rostov-on-Don has sent an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev with a complaint about low salaries of teachers and a request to address the problem.

December 08, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 29-December 5

  Tu-154 crash questions the work of "Dagestani Airlines"; OSCE summit in Astana failed to help in settling conflicts in Southern Caucasus; cities of Southern Russia start getting ready to receive 2018 World Football Cup matches, - look these and other events in the review of the week of November 29-December 5, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 08, 2010 22:50

• New Muslim organization founded in Russia

  The Muftiate of the Stavropol Territory took part in Moscow in the inaugural conference, which today has created a new centralized religious organization of Muslims - the Russian Association of Islamic Accord (All-Russian Muftiate).