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September 17, 2010 23:40

• Armenia drafts bill on invalids' rights

  As explained by Asmik Khachatryan, head of the PR division of the Ministry of Labour and Social Matters, the new law, prepared in Armenia, will guarantee protection of rights of people with limited capabilities.

September 17, 2010 23:20

• Dagestan: detainee Kurbanmagomedov placed in IVS again

  Timur (Suleiman) Kurbanmagomedov, accused of putting kiosks selling alcohol on fire, was transferred from SIZO-1 (investigatory detention facility) of Makhachkala to the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the MIA of Dagestan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Magomed Guchuchaliev, Kurbanmagomedov's advocate.

September 17, 2010 23:10

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan again takes control of the case of pregnant woman who was killed in special operation

  The prosecutor's office of Dagestan has again taken under personal control the case on the fact of execution on November 3, 2006, by law enforcers from the Kazbek ROVD (District Interior Division) of Sapiyat Magomedova, who was in the fourth month of pregnancy. This was reported on September 16 by her husband - Gasan Baisultanov.

September 17, 2010 23:00

• Persons involved in Vladikavkaz terror act established

  As reported today by Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the persons Involved in the terror act in Vladikavkaz had been established. According to his story, "the investigation has moved rather far."

September 17, 2010 22:50

• Warsaw court leaves Ahmed Zakaev at large

  Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, earlier announced by Russia into international search for terrorist activities, who came to the Polish capital for taking part in the World Congress of Chechen People, can be released. This decision was made today by the Warsaw Regional Court.

September 17, 2010 22:40

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports loss of soldier on the border with Azerbaijan

  As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, a serviceman of the Karabakh Army was lost in a skirmish in the contact line of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

September 17, 2010 22:20

• Danish police suspect a Chechen of organizing explosion in Copenhagen

  A native of Chechnya, aged 24, suspected of committing the explosion in one of hotels in Copenhagen on September 10, was detained In Denmark. A map was found on him of the second-largest Danish city of Arhus, where the address of the editorial board of the newspaper "Jyllands-Posten", which published 12 caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in 2005, was marked.

September 17, 2010 22:10

• Isa Yamadaev pardons convicts for his brother's murder in exchange of pardoning his family's feudists

  The reconciliation that took place in the end of August this year between President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the Yamadaev clan, represented by Isa Yamadaev, has received further development. Isa has stated that he is ready to pardon one of the two convicts in Dubai sentenced for murdering Sulim Yamadaev - Makhdi Lorniya, Ramzan Kadyrov's personal horseman.

September 17, 2010 22:00

• Non-government kindergarten in Adygeia fined for mass poisoning of the children

  Maikop municipal court had a session on administrative material from Rospotrebnadzor concerning a non-government educational organization "Beriozka Plus" where a mass poisoning of children had been registered.

September 17, 2010 22:00

• Officer suspected of torturing soldiers is arrested, Armenian media report

  Today, a number of Armenian mass media have published reports that the officer, whose mockeries at soldiers had been videoed and placed on the Internet on September 11, was identified and detained. However, his name is not disclosed yet, while the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia neither confirms nor refutes the information.

September 17, 2010 21:00

• A militiaman killed in Dagestan

  Kaspiysky Department of Interior Affairs reported that a militia officer had been shot down by some strangers in the evening of September, 16, near the reception room of one of the hospitals of Kaspiysk, Dagestan.

September 17, 2010 20:00

• A participant of an anti-raider's action detained on September, 16 in Sochi released

  Irina Kolesnikova who arrived in Sochi together with a group of other women from Krasnodar on September, 16, in order to inform Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on raider's seizures of enterprises in Krasnodar region was released my militiamen four hours after detention.

September 17, 2010 19:00

• Ahmed Zakaev detained in Poland

  Ahmed Zakaev, Chechen separatists' emissary, announced for federal search by Russia has been detained by Polish police.

September 17, 2010 18:00

• Residents of Volgodonsk paid tribute to the victims of terror of 1999

  On September, 16, residents of Volgodonsk, Rostov region, paid tribute to the victims of the act of terror which took place eleven years ago.

September 16, 2010 23:50

• ECtHR starts considering claim of six citizens of Azerbaijan against Armenia

  On September 15, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began considering the claim of six Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The claimants state violation of their civil rights in 1991-1992 during the Karabakh war.

September 16, 2010 23:45

• ECtHR starts considering "Sarkisyan versus Azerbaijan" case

  On September 15, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began considering the claim lodged by citizen of Armenia Minas Sarkisyan against Azerbaijan. The applicant states violation of his civil rights during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

September 16, 2010 23:40

• Aslambek Kekharsaev: Zakaev is already in Warsaw

  By now, the presence in Poland of Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, who is in international search, has been confirmed by his assistant Aslambek Kekharsaev, representative of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Poland, who had earlier refuted the information that appeared in the morning in Polish media that Zakaev had already arrived in Warsaw.

September 16, 2010 23:30

• Russians who lost houses in Abkhazia appeal against court ruling in favour of MFA

  The Russians who had lost their housing facilities in Abkhazia lodged a cassation complaint against the court decision, which upheld the actions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in addressing their property issues in this Caucasian republic.

September 16, 2010 23:20

• Health Ministry: 202 persons suffered in terror act in North Ossetia

  According to latest data, the number of victims of the terror act in Vladikavkaz, committed on September 9, makes 202 persons, the Russian Ministry of Public Health and Social Development reports. 18 persons were lost.

September 16, 2010 23:10

• Five persons lost in special operation in Dagestan

  In the course of a special operation, conducted in the border of the Suleiman-Stahl and Magaramkent Districts, five persons were killed, whom local power agents regard to be members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).