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June 15, 2010 18:00

• 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

• Stavropol Territory commemorates Budyonnovsk victims

  Today, the Stavropol Territory holds mourning actions in memory of the victims of Shamil Basaev's attack on Budyonnovsk in June 1995.

June 14, 2010 23:10

• In Vladikavkaz, explosion injures four including the blaster

  Today in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, an explosion took place in the yard of the multi-storey apartment block No. 28 in Moskovskaya Street. As reported by the local MIA, it was triggered by a local aged 46.

June 14, 2010 23:00

• 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

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling its territory

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) asserts that within the last three days Armenian armed forces made a series of attacks on their Azerbaijani counterparts.

June 14, 2010 21:00

• President of Chechnya calls world community to help Kirghizia

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has expressed his regret in the context of tragic events in Kirghizia, stating to journalists on June 13 in Gudermes that several districts of this country sees the events, which cannot be understood or explained.

June 14, 2010 20:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdia stops his dry hunger strike

  Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, imprisoned in Tbilisi, has passed over from his dry hunger strike to a usual one.

June 14, 2010 19:00

• 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".

June 14, 2010 18:00

• Participants of rally in Kizlyar state that militia applied violence

  Several participants of the rally in Kizlyar, which was dispersed by militia on June 9, were traumatized; however, they were refused any official physical examination, as eyewitnesses of the events report.

June 12, 2010 21:00

• Mayoralty of Yerevan refused to sanction opposition's protest action

  On June 11, the Mayoralty of Yerevan rejected the application submitted by Karapet Rubinyan, coordinator of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons, on holding a sit-in protest action on June 18 in the Freedom Square.

June 12, 2010 20:00

• Azerbaijan suspends "Leader" money transfer system

  The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has instructed the banks operational in the country to suspend – starting June 11 – their business cooperation with the money transfer system "Leader", which is continuing its activity in Nagorno-Karabakh.

June 12, 2010 19:00

• Saakashvili is not going to be President of Georgia after 2013

  After expiry of his second presidential term, Mikhail Saakashvili will not apply for the post of the state leader, as he said today in Kutaisi.

June 12, 2010 18:00

• In Ingushetia, MIA's motor column shelled

  Today at night a motor column transporting employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was shelled in Ingushetia by unidentified persons: two militiamen were injured. It was reported by the spokesman of the Investigatory Department of the ICPO for Ingushetia.

June 12, 2010 17:00

• Azerbaijan: oppositional protest action dispersed

  Today in Baku the police did not allow activists of the "Musavat" Party and political block "Union for Democracy" to hold their protest action in Gusein Dzhavid Park in the Yasamal District of the capital of Azerbaijan. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 12, 2010 16:00

• Three suspected militants liquidated in Vedeno District of Chechnya

  Three suspected militants were killed in the mountains of the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic. This was reported today to journalists by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who was during the last three days in the special operation area.

June 12, 2010 14:00

• Explosion in Kaspiisk kills one and injures five

  As a result of today's explosion in the city of Kaspiisk in Dagestan, one person was lost also five more wounded, as reported by the spokesman of the republic's MIA.

June 12, 2010 11:00

• Dagestan opens international festival "Mountaineers"

  The 4th International Festival of Folklore and Traditional Culture "Mountaineers" was launched in Makhachkala; its participants will give travel concerts in different districts of Dagestan.

June 12, 2010 10:00

• Female NGO activists of Georgia and South Ossetia meet in Baku to search ways to stop enmity

  Women of Georgia and South Ossetia are capable to bring their contribution into restoration of trust and peace between Georgians and Ossetians. This is the leitmotif of the two-day meeting of female-activists from Georgia and South Ossetia, which is taking place on June 11 and 12 in Baku.

June 12, 2010 09:00

• Imereti residents stop their hunger strike

  After a meeting with officials of the Krasnodar Territory, five residents of the Imereti Lowland of Sochi stopped their hunger strike.