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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

June 16, 2010 18:00

June 15, 2010 23:40

  • Astakhov: NCFD regions need children's psychological services

    Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman at the President of the Russian Federation, has justified, in his report on the outcomes of his inspection visit to Northern Caucasus, the need to set up psychological services for children in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). According to his story, many children and teenagers in Chechnya grew up amidst warfare and have traumas and wounds.

June 15, 2010 23:10

June 15, 2010 23:00

  • Militiaman shot dead in Dagestan

    As a result of shelling the RPS (road-post service) post located at the northern exit from the capital of Dagestan a militiaman was killed.

June 15, 2010 23:00

  • Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 7-13

    Capture of militants' leader named Magas; hot debates on the role of the Russian language in Armenia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of June 7-13, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 15, 2010 22:20

  • In Stavropol Territory, case of student convicted for kindling ethnic enmity sent to revision

    The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, refused to uphold the verdict passed by the local city court to student Ilya Kartsev. According to Zakhar Kazaryan, senior assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the city of Nevinnomyssk, his boss brought in a cassation presentation - a complaint against legality of the verdict; and now the case of Nevinnomyssk gamer will be reconsidered by the Territorial Court, the panel on criminal cases.

June 15, 2010 22:00

June 15, 2010 21:10

  • Georgia and Abkhazia hold emergency meeting in Gal

    Today, in the city of Gal, an extraordinary meeting is held of the working group on prevention of incidents and reaction mechanisms to them in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone. The United Nations have initiated the meeting.

June 15, 2010 21:00

  • Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria were killed recently

    On June 14-15, in Kabardino-Balkaria, a number of incidents took place. Thus, today in Nalchik an explosion was triggered and wounded an FSB agent. Yesterday, on June 14, two local residents were killed in the capital of the republic. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

June 15, 2010 20:00

  • Peaceful resident wounded in South Ossetia

    As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, in South Ossetia, in the vicinity of Disev village, which is bordering on Georgia, after an attack from the Georgian post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs located in the village of Koshki, a citizen of the republic Anatoly Kisiev was wounded.

June 15, 2010 19:00

June 15, 2010 18:00

  • Participants of protest action "Stop. Electrozink!" in Vladikavkaz. Inscription on the mask: "Stop. Electrozink!" December 19, 2009. Photo by http://iriston.ru Vladikavkaz residents protest against amicable agreement with "Electrozink"

    While "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) and "Electrozink" Factory are compiling an action plan of improving the ecological situation, someone is tearing off information leaflets stuck in the city by opponents of the enterprise. This was reported by sanitary physician Atsamaz Khadikov, a well-known Vladikavkaz fighter against "Electrozink".

June 14, 2010 23:50

  • Chechen MIA: all militants liquidated in Vedeno District identified

    The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have disclosed the names of several suspected members of the armed underground who were killed on June 9 in the mountainous Vedeno District. Last weekend four more potential militants were liquidated here, the bodies assert. Local human rights activists are sceptical of the data.

June 14, 2010 23:20

June 14, 2010 23:10

June 14, 2010 23:00

  • Alexander Khloponin (on the left), Dmitri Medvedev, Ramzan Kadyrov and Adam Delimkhanov (on the right) after arrival in Tsentoroy village. Chechnya, June 14, 2010. By courtesy of the press service of the President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev makes a visit to Chechnya

    Firstly, President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev paid a visit to the tomb of the first President of Chechnya Ahmad Kadyrov in Tsentoroy village, then held a meeting in Grozny on development issues of the republic with participation of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Plenipotentiary of the President in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District) Alexander Khloponin, First Deputy Head of the President's Administration Vladislav Surkov and Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov.

June 14, 2010 22:00

June 14, 2010 21:00

June 14, 2010 20:00

June 14, 2010 19:00

  • Baku, June, 12, 2010. Police disperses a rally held by the "Musavat" Party and Political Block "Union for Democracy". Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" Azerbaijan: two oppositionists arrested for 10 day, two more fined

    In total, 32 participants of the Saturday's protest action in Baku, organized by the "Musavat" Party and the political block "Union for Democracy", were detained; the cases of six of them were sent to the court. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Arif Gadzhily, head of the central office of the "Musavat".

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