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June 08, 2010 22:20

• In South Ossetia, not all residents are happy with new mobile telephone codes

  Users in South Ossetia were switched to new codes of mobile telephony. The "old" network "Megaphone Kavkaz" (code 928) is in roaming - after June 1 in the territory of South Ossetia, while all the incoming and outgoing calls will cost 9 roubles per minute of conversation. Now the communication services are provided by the local operator - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Ostelecom".

June 08, 2010 21:00

• Gannushkina: they plan to accrue compensations to residents of Chechnya by July

  On June 7, the Russian Ministry of Regional Development held a meeting on compensations for lost houses in Chechnya. According to Svetlana Gannushkina, leader of the NGO "Civil assistance", the officials told that they would be able to calculate the value of the project by July only and asked for a delay.

June 08, 2010 20:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: unidentified bandits attack liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses

  Today, at 4 a.m., two unidentified persons opened a window and got into the building for religious meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses located in the town of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria.

June 08, 2010 19:00

• Magistrate judge shot dead in Dagestan

  Today at night, Abdurakhman Gamzatov, a magistrate judge of the Untsukul District, Dagestan, was shot dead, the on duty unit of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) reports.

June 08, 2010 18:00

• Rights defenders plan to challenge at the Constitutional Court the law on extremism in the context of ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog

  As stated by the participants of the press conference convoked because of the address of Jehovah's Witnesses to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the prohibition of this religious community in the city of Taganrog, any persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia is inadmissible. The believers do not exclude an accelerated consideration of their complaint in Strasbourg, while human rights activists prepare their complaint on the law on extremism to the Constitutional Court.

June 07, 2010 23:50

• Four persons wounded by explosion in Dagestan capital

  Today in Makhachkala an explosive device was triggered in Akushinsky Avenue near the Tsumadin wholesale marketplace: four civilians suffered.

June 07, 2010 23:30

• In Ingushetia, criminals shot dead two locals

  Today in Nazran unidentified criminals shelled a car with a local resident inside. The driver died in place. Also near the city's marketplace another person was shot dead.

June 07, 2010 23:20

• "First Caucasian" TV Channel to decide on broadcasting continuation after judgement on satellite access

  The "First Caucasian" TV Channel has announced its reorganization, reduced the number of programmes and changed the news schedule. According to Georgi Chanturiya, Director General of the Public Television and Radio Broadcasting of Georgia, the decision to go on with the channel will be made depending on the decision of the court in Paris about access to the satellite.

June 07, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on May 31-June 6

  Elections in Georgia and totals thereof; clashes of the opposition with police in Armenia and Azerbaijan; kidnappings in Northern Caucasus; murders in zones of Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zones; Jehova's Witnesses' complaint to the ECtHR; and outcomes of Circassians' Congress, - look these and other events in the review of the week from May 31 to June 6, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 07, 2010 23:00

• Defence hopes for conditional sentence to hacker Saaev

  No additional circumstances have been revealed in the new case initiated against Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, accused of complicity to members of the armed underground. This is the opinion of his advocate Viserhadji Ibragimov, who hopes for a conditional sentence to his client.

June 07, 2010 22:00

• Calamity leaves 50,000 without electricity in Chechnya

  The strongest downpour last night and today in the morning in Chechnya stopped electric power supplies to several dwelling settlements. Currently, repair teams try to restore them.

June 07, 2010 21:00

• Journalist Elman Malyev arrested in Azerbaijan

  On June 6, a well-known Azerbaijani journalist Elman Malyev was arrested and handed over to the inquiry, as reported today by the Central Police Department (CPD) of the city of Baku.

June 07, 2010 21:00

• Kalmykia commemorates journalist Larissa Yudina assassinated 12 years ago

  Today in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, an action was held in memory of Larissa Yudina, a journalist, who perished twelve years ago: friends and colleagues of the former editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Sovietskaya Kalmykia Today" laid flowers to her tomb.

June 07, 2010 20:00

• "Georgian Emigrants" announce start of protest actions in Tbilisi

  In Georgia, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) "Georgian Emigrants" has again announced a start of a permanent 24-hour action near the building of the parliament. A similar announcement was already sounded on May 29.

June 07, 2010 19:00

• Rally in Dagestan demands to speed up search of missing person

  Today, another rally was held in the city of Kizlyar, where demands to the authorities were voiced out to speed up the search of Ahmednabi Nazhmudinov, a native of Cherniayeva village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, who disappeared last week.

June 07, 2010 18:00

• At trial on events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik defendants accuse victim of torture

  Today at the process on events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik the victim Ilyas Mashbashev gave evidences. On October 13, 2005, he was senior operative agent at Centre "Т". The defendants accused him of torturing them.

June 05, 2010 19:00

• In Baku, police disperses protest action of oppositional block "Azadlyg"

  Today, in the capital of Azerbaijan the police have dispersed the participants of the protest action organized by the oppositional block "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who demanded the freedom of assembly and fair parliamentary elections. All the protesters were brought to the police station.

June 05, 2010 18:00

• Delegates of extraordinary congress of Circassians demand Circassian autonomy

  Today, the delegates of the congress of Circassian people, which takes place in Karachai-Circassia, have adopted a resolution with a demand to restore the Circassian autonomy within the Russian Federation in the status of a republic.

June 05, 2010 17:00

• In Armenia, experts worry about ecological situation in Yerevan

  Implementation of many construction projects in the capital of Armenia is negatively affecting the environment. This was stated on June 5 at the press conference dated to the UN's World Day of Environment by Karine Danielyan, former minister of ecology of Armenia, now the chair of the Association "For Sustainable Human Development".

June 05, 2010 16:00

• Georgia stops issuing old-type passports

  As from now citizens of Georgia can receive only the new-type biometric passports. Old ones are no longer issued.