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October 21, 2010 22:40

• Three men disappear in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On October 18, three residents of Elborus, workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Ropeways of Elborus" Asker Tavkeshev, Mohamed Alchagirov and Anatoly Mammeev left their homes in Kabardino-Balkaria and disappeared.

October 21, 2010 22:30

• Defendants in Nalchik attack case ask to summon ex-Interior Minister

  Today, at the trial on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), defendant Azamat Akhkubekov filed a motion to summon Khachim Shogenov, former Minister of Internal Affairs, as a witness.

October 21, 2010 19:00

• Ex-chief of investigation unit of Department of Interior Affairs detained in Stavropol district for suspicion of bribetaking

  Roman Tolstikov, ex-chief of investigation unit of Department of Interior Affairs was detained in Stavropol for suspicion of an attempt of taking a bribe of one million rubles.

October 21, 2010 18:00

• Five people injured during the act of terror in Vladikavkaz are still in Moscow hospitals

  Five people injured during the act of terror in the capital of North Osetia on September, 9, are still staying in Moscow hospitals. This news came from the Permanent Mission of the republic under the President of the Russian Federation.

October 20, 2010 23:50

• Twelve suicide explosions in 10 months in Northern Caucasus

  From the start of 2010, the Northern Caucasus saw 10 attacks committed by 12 suicide bombers, in which 49 persons were lost, apart from the bombers, and 308 persons more suffered. Two more such terror acts, according to law enforcers, were prevented.

October 20, 2010 23:40

• Two persons killed in special operation in Dagestan

  In the course of a special operation conducted in the wooded area in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, two suspected militants were liquidated, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

October 20, 2010 23:30

• CTO regime introduced in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The city of Tyrnyauz of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

October 20, 2010 23:20

• South Ossetia: roundtable discusses the law on teenagers

  The roundtable held on October 19 considered the idea of the law on the rights and duties of adolescents. It is planned that an entire chapter in it will be on parents and inadmissibility of breaking children's rights.

October 20, 2010 23:20

• Former MP assassinated in Dagestan

  Businessman Marat Ramazanov, a former deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan, was murdered tonight in Makhachkala, said the press service of the local MIA.

October 20, 2010 23:10

• Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers" is over in Sochi

  The resort city of Sochi has closed the Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers", dedicated to life of people with disabilities. The jury marked a total of 13 films in different categories. Prizes were granted to filmmakers from Germany, USA, Sweden, Great Britain, France and Russia.

October 20, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 11-17

  Krasnodar Territory occurred in power of "high water" - there are casualties and victims; the calamity caused multimillion losses; electoral battles in southern Russia continue after voting; Georgia accepts residents of Northern Caucasus in visa-free mode, while Russia withdraws its troops from the Ossetian-Georgian border, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 11-17, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 20, 2010 23:00

• Rights defenders tell CE Secretary about human rights violations in Armenia

  Human rights activists from Armenia sent a letter to Torbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), whose visit to Armenia will take place in the coming days. In the letter members of several public organizations draw Mr Jagland's attention to systematic human rights violations in their country.

October 20, 2010 22:50

• Militiaman killed in Ingushetia

  Yesterday, on October 19, in the Ingush city of Malgobek, unidentified assailants killed a militia senior lieutenant, an operative agent of the local GOVD (City Interior Department), said a source from law enforcement agencies.

October 20, 2010 22:40

• Tbilisi Mayoralty evacuated because of explosion threat

  After an anonymous call with a warning about a planted bomb, several hundreds of employees were evacuated from the 21-storey building of Tbilisi Mayoralty in Zhiuli Shartava Street.

October 20, 2010 22:30

• Azerbaijan: colleagues join imprisoned journalist in his hunger strike

  Colleagues of imprisoned Einullah Fatullaev have joined his protest action with a demand to the authorities to enforce the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about his immediate release. Fatullaev went on his termless hunger strike on Tuesday, October 19.

October 20, 2010 22:20

• Investigators identify one of the attackers on Parliament of Chechnya

  Law enforcement authorities have identified one of the suicide bombers involved in the October 19 attack on the Parliament of Chechnya. According to Ruslan Alkhanov, local Interior Minister, it was Muslim Chichkanov, 22, a resident of Chechnya.

October 20, 2010 22:10

• Picket for citizens' legal equality held in Krasnodar

  On October 19, in Heroes Memory Square, public activists of the Krasnodar Region held another picket in defence of Article 19 of the Russian Constitution, which proclaims equality of all before the court and the law.

October 20, 2010 19:00

• Zakaev denies his involvement in organizing the attack upon the Parliament of Chechnya

  On October, 19, Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, declared that the attack upon the building of the republican Parliament had been organized by Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of the Chechen separatists, who is currently staying in London. Zakaev denies his involvement in the incident.

October 20, 2010 18:00

• Magomed Evloev's father requests Prosecutor's committee of inquiry for starting new criminal proceedings on his son's murder

  On October, 14, Magomed Evloev, father of the murdered Ingush oppositionist Yahya Evloev, submitted an appeal to the Prosecutor's committee of inquiry under Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation asking to start new criminal proceedings in connection with a "newly-discovered evidence". He also submitted a statement to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the office.

October 19, 2010 23:40

• Tkachev sacks officials who failed to help flood victims

  The authorities of the Krasnodar Territory have dismissed the deputy head of the Tuapse District responsible for civil defence and emergencies and the head of the Georgievskiy rural settlement of the Tuapse District "for poor help to population who suffered from flooding."