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May 26, 2010 16:00

• Georgia celebrates its Independence Day today

  Today, in Georgia' capital city, there were staged the military parade timed to the main national holiday - Georgia's Independence Day. The parade was taken by Commander in Chief, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

May 26, 2010 15:00

• Accused of beating a human rights activist Karastelev did not admit guilt

  Vladimir Tender, accused of beating the leader of Novorossiysk human rights committee, Major Alexei Dymovsky's lawyer Vadim Karastelev, did not admit his guilt during the preliminary inquiry.

May 26, 2010 14:00

• Aslan Maskhadov's son publishes a book "My Father - Chechen President"

  A book by Anzor Maskhadov "My Father - Chechen President" was published in Norway in 3000 copies. The author - the son of Aslan Maskhadov, President of the non-recognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), - told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about his work.

May 26, 2010 12:00

• Azerbaijan forbids foreign observers at Nagorno-Karabakh elections to enter the country

  From now on, the five Deputies of the Russian State Duma and the citizens of France, Germany, Slovakia and Argentina, who took part in observing the May 23 parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, are under the entrance ban to Azerbaijan.

May 25, 2010 19:00

• First Georgian president's widow demands meeting with authorities

  The widow of the first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia, in connection with a hunger strike of her son Tsotne Gamsakhurdia in prison, demands a meeting with Georgia's minister of corrections and legal assistance but authorities still refrain from contacts.

May 25, 2010 18:00

• Resignation of North-Ossetian Mufti accepted

  On May 24, the Spiritual Department of Moslems (SDM) of North Ossetia accepted the resignation of the Mufti of the Republic Ali-Hadji Evteev. This was reported today by the Ministry on Nationalities' Matters of North Ossetia.

May 25, 2010 17:00

• In Makhachkala, bomb blows up at drugstore door

  Today at night in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, an unidentified explosive device was triggered. This was reported by the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

May 25, 2010 16:00

• In Stavropol region, Internet game player convicted of incitement of national enmity

  The Nevinnomyssk court of Stavropol region has sentenced a local college student Ilya Kartsev, a former member of the Internet project "Big game. Break the system" to one year imprisonment for extremism and xenophobia. He was found guilty under the article "Incitement of national enmity".

May 25, 2010 15:00

• Methods of combating militants are more important than counting them, Chechen experts say

  Local experts believe that power agencies have no exact data about the number of militants in the Chechen Republic, but note that not the present number of militants in Northern Caucasus matters, but the way the power agents could cope with small groups of militants.

May 25, 2010 14:00

• In Georgia, a landslide cut off several villages

  In Abasha region, west Georgia, the rivers Zana and Anasha overflowed their banks due to torrential rains and flooded the village of Sepieti. On 24 May, authorities declared an emergency in Abasha town.

May 25, 2010 13:00

• Militia dog handler injured in new explosions in Kabardino-Balkaria

  In Elbrussky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, a road traffic safety inspection car was undermined today; while examining a crime scene, four more explosives were detected, two of them exploded, having injured a militia dog handler.

May 25, 2010 12:00

• Supreme Court of Chechnya treats article about Chechens in "Big Encyclopaedia" as extremist

  The Supreme Court of Chechnya has upheld the decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of the city of Grozny, which had recognized the article about Chechnya published by the "Terra" Publishing House in the 58th volume of its "Big Encyclopaedia" as extremist. This was announced by Judge Iskenderova, who chaired the session.

May 25, 2010 11:00

• Center for Contemporary Art "Tobacco House" opened in Rostov-on-Don

  Opening of the Centre for Contemporary Art "Tobacco House" was held in Rostov-on-Don on 24 May within the framework of the first South-Russian Biennale of Contemporary Art in the Don capital. Experts admit that such a large-scale display of contemporary artworks takes place for the first time here. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has attended the Center opening ceremony.

May 25, 2010 10:00

• All-Russian exhibition of breeder sheep opened in Kalmykia

  On May 24, first participants of the 12th all-Russian exhibition of breeder sheep to be solemnly opened on May 28 arrived in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia. Delegations from Dagestan, Karachai-Circassia, Rostov Region and Tatarstan have already brought their best animals to the destination.

May 25, 2010 08:00

• Armenian Diaspora in Georgia worries about non-participation of Armenian candidates at elections

  The Assembly of Tbilisi Armenians is concerned with the "fact of ignoring the interests of the 86-thousand-strong Armenian community in Georgia" at local government elections to be held on May 30.

May 25, 2010 07:00

• HRC "Memorial": members of Ozdiev family detained in Chechnya

  On May 21, in Chechnya, Isa and Belal Ozdiev - members of the family of well-known Chechen businessmen - Ozdiev brothers were detained. The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports with reference to eyewitnesses of the incident that the brothers were beaten at detention.

May 24, 2010 23:00

• OSCE not to recognize elections in Nagorno-Karabakh

  As stated by Kanat Saudabaev, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and the current OSCE Chairman, the May 23 parliamentary elections held in Nagorno-Karabakh did not promote any conflict settlement in the region.

May 24, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 17-23

  Elections in Nagorno-Karabakh caused a resonance far abroad; human rights defenders meet President of Russia and tell him about the burning problems of Northern Caucasus, while people are still perishing and kidnapped in the region, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of May 17-23, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 24, 2010 22:00

• 54 passengers on a flight from Tbilisi to Moscow

  Today, 54 passengers have departed on the first spring-summer charter flight from Tbilisi to Moscow performed by Airzena, Georgian Airways.

May 24, 2010 21:00

• Bagapsh: Abkhazia to extract Black Sea oil

  As stated today in Sukhumi at a press conference by local President Sergey Bagapsh, Abkhazia, like other countries of the Black Sea region, would develop sea oil fields.