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September 04, 2010 14:00

• Minister for national police and information wounded in explosion in Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, a car was blown up, and one person was lost, while two others, including Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, local minister for national policy, foreign relations and information, were wounded.

September 04, 2010 13:00

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria states that FSB agent took away her car

  Rita Kanametova, a resident of the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria has addressed her complaint to the prosecutor's office of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and human rights organizations saying that a person, who presented himself as an employee of the FSB Department for Kabardino-Balkaria, confiscated her car BMW-520. Later it appeared that there is no such employee in the Department.

September 04, 2010 12:00

• Nine fire victims of Volgograd Region are still in hospital

  Nine persons who were injured during natural fires in the Volgograd Region are still hospitalized, while 19 more victims are taking their out-patient treatment, as reported by the Southern Regional Centre (SRC) of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation.

September 04, 2010 11:00

• International climb on Mount Kazbek starts in North Ossetia

  Today at midday, the Manezh Square of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, was the venue of the farewell ceremony of the participants of the ascent on Mount Kazbek. In total, the international expedition is 200 persons strong, including climbers from all Russian regions, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Tajikistan and South Ossetia.

September 04, 2010 10:00

• In Ingushetia, mother defends her daughter's right to wear hijab at school

  Lydia Gomkargieva, principal of School No. 3 of the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, has not allowed a five-form schoolgirl, as her mother reports, to attend school in a hijab. Another higher school pupil was not let to lessons in a headscarf and a long school uniform. The ministry of general and vocational training of Ingushetia has sent a special commission to this school.

September 03, 2010 23:50

• Beslan holds day of silence in memory of terror act victims in School No. 1

  Yesterday, on September 2, a traditional day of silence was held in Beslan: during the whole day people kept coming to School No. 1 and memorial cemetery in "City of Angels" to pay tribute of memory to victims of the terror act in September 2004.

September 03, 2010 23:30

• In Azerbaijan, unknown criminals shell a mosque and kill a man

  Last night, certain armed people opened fire on the people who gathered in the mosque yard in the Lyankyaran District of Azerbaijan in the south of the country. The district police authority reports that one villager was lost, and one more was wounded.

September 03, 2010 23:10

• Detainee dies in Krasnodar SIZO

  A man of 24 died in one of the cells of the investigatory isolation facility (known as "SIZO") No. 1 of the city of Krasnodar. The ICPO for the Krasnodar Territory is conducting a pre-inquiry check of the circumstances of the detainee's death.

September 03, 2010 23:00

• Defendant Budtuev in Nalchik attack case will not returned to SIZO

  The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on changing the freedom restriction regime for Kazbek Budtuev, a defendant in the case dealing with the attack on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005. After five years in SIZO (pre-trial prison) he was transferred into house arrest. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by advocate Liza Shak.

September 03, 2010 22:20

• European MPs meet human rights activists in Ingushetia

  On September 2, the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran hosted a meeting of human rights activists and applicants to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with members of the European Parliament. In total, eight European parliamentarians came to Ingushetia; the delegation was headed by Heidi Hautala, chair of the human rights committee.

September 03, 2010 22:00

• Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan sign four documents

  As a results of negotiations of Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan Dmitri Medvedev and Ilham Aliev, today in Baku four documents were signed, including the bilateral treaty on stat border with an appendix on the procedure of border crossing.

September 03, 2010 21:00

• Akhilgov: Ingush alternative parliament rejects contacts with authorities

  In Ingushetia, members of the alternative parliament - Mekhk-Kkhela - never tried to contact the republic's leadership, said Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia. According to Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, the main reason for restarting the alternative parliament is that Yunus-Bek Evkurov is continuing the policy of his predecessor Murat Zyazikov.

September 03, 2010 20:00

• European MPs condemn kidnapping of Islam Umarpashaev in Chechnya

  Heidi Hautala, chair of the human rights committee of the European Parliament, who is a member of the delegation of the European MPs who met on September 2 Ingush human rights activists, has criticized the kidnapping and torture of Islam Umarpashaev and called the Russian authorities not to press him in the context of Umarpashaev's readiness to help in establishing his kidnappers.

September 03, 2010 19:00

• Volgograd Region: ICPO suspects officials of negligence in relation to natural fires

  As reported by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the Russian Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), the Committee is currently investigating a number of criminal cases opened against officials in the Volgograd Region. Crime attributes may be revealed in bureaucrats' actions (or inaction) related to mass natural fires. Now, the investigation has data about five persons lost in fires on September 2.

September 03, 2010 18:00

• Hurricane damages hundreds of dwelling houses in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As a result of the hurricane that fell last night on the republic, hundreds of houses and electric networks were damaged in the Prokhladny District of Kabardino-Balkaria. As reported by the local department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies, over 10,000 residents remained without electricity, and two persons were taken to hospital with traumas.

September 02, 2010 23:20

• Dagestan: district FSB head killed and militiaman wounded

  In Dagestan, today in the morning, the car of lieutenant colonel Ahmed Abdullaev, head of the Russia's FSB division for the Tsumadin District of the republic, was blow up killing the owner. Then, the unknown persons, who organized the explosion, wounded a militiaman, the Russia's ICPO has reported.

September 02, 2010 23:10

• Militiaman killed in Ingushetia, his wife wounded

  Last night unknown persons shelled the house of the head of the personnel division of the Sunzha ROVD of Ingushetia; the militiaman was lost, and his wife was hospitalized, said a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.

September 02, 2010 23:00

• In Dagestan, managers of "Novoye Delo" think prosecutor's check is revenge for "Nazi anecdote"

  According to Hadjimurad Sagitov, deputy editor-in-chief of the popular independent Dagestan weekly "Novoye Delo" (New Business), there are no grounds for the pre-inquiry check initiated by the prosecutor's office of Dagestan of the weekly issue of August 27, 2010, where an anecdote was published about two SS-officers joking about smoke from crematorium chimney.

September 02, 2010 22:00

• Poet Adallo's son was detained by power agents in Dagestan for prophylactics, observers note

  According to Regina Shakirova, a lawyer of the Kazan Human Rights Centre, Gamzat, 34, son of the Dagestan poet Ali Adallo (Aliev), detained on July 5 by employees of Botlikh ROVD (District Interior Division) had no chance to avoid punishment in the form of five days of the imprisonment, awarded by a magistrate judge for disobedience to militiamen.

September 02, 2010 21:00

• In Azerbaijan, consideration of journalist Fatullaev's appeal complaint reappointed on September 7

  The today's preparatory sitting for consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by journalist Einullah Fatullaev at the Baku Appeal Court under presidency of Mirashi Guseinov was postponed again.