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May 08, 2010 11:00

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May 08, 2010 07:00

  • US Congress creates archive of Armenian families-survivals in genocide

    The Congress of the USA has set up an archive of life stories of those Armenians who had survived the genocide of 1915-1923 in the Ottoman Turkey. Adam Shiff, a US Congressman and one of the authors of Resolution No. 252 on recognition of Armenians' genocide was the initiator of the archive.

May 07, 2010 23:30

  • Zviad Dzidziguri: I shot to defend my children

    Today, Zviad Dzidziguri, a candidate to the post of the Mayor of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, held a briefing, where he gave his version of the incident that happened at night with billposters of electoral materials of the United National Movement.

May 07, 2010 23:00

  • Supposed financial emissary of "Imarat Kavkaz" detained in North Ossetia

    Yesterday, on May 5, Victor Grin, Deputy General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, signed the bill of particulars against Evgeniy Petrov, who, according to the version of the investigation, raised funds in Kazakhstan and Ukraine for militants of "Imarat Kavkaz" in Northern Caucasus. The case was sent to the Supreme Court of North Ossetia.

May 07, 2010 22:30

  • Prosecutor's Office appeals against Grabovoy's release

    Today, Grigory Grabovoy, convicted for swindle, will not get at large. The Berezniki Prosecutor's Office for supervision over law enforcement in corrective establishments lodged a cassation complaint against the court decision on Grabovoy's conditional early relief (CER).

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  • Resident of Dagestan denies information about release of his kidnapped brother

    The whereabouts of Magomedzagir Isagadzhiev, a resident of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, kidnapped in Makhachkala right from a hospital ward by unidentified armed persons, presumably, power agents, is still unknown. Today, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was reported about it by Magomedzagir's brother - Khamzat Isagadzhiev.

May 07, 2010 18:00

May 06, 2010 23:50

  • Chechen MPs ask for Kremlin's help in de-mining

    The problem of clearing the territory of the Chechen Republic of explosives calls for a special federal programme. According to experts, the republic needs end-to-end de-mining of about 24,000 hectares.

May 06, 2010 23:50

  • Astrakhan residents ask Presidents of Russia and Dagestan to help releasing their children

    Residents of Astrakhan - natives of Dagestan Elmira Gadmimuratova, Zalimkhan Ahmedov, Musaldibir Magomedov, Gentar Gazichaev, Sekhran Dzhalilov, Aslavdin Shikhaliev and Ibragim Ibragimov - have addressed Presidents of Russia and Dagestan Dmitri Medvedev and Magomedsalam Magomedov with a letter asking to help in releasing their children kept at the temporary custody facility (known as "IVS") of Astrakhan since June 30, 2009.

May 06, 2010 23:00

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  • Kidnapped Ingush resident Chitigov is in hospital

    Earlier kidnapped Zelimkhan Chitigov, 20, a resident of Ingushetia, was found by his relatives in the building of Karabulak OVD severely beaten. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from his mother Zuhra Chitigova.

May 06, 2010 22:00

  • FSB asserts that Zelimkhan Oziev liquidated in Ingushetia was a militant

    Madina Khadzieva, press secretary of the Ingush MIA, has confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the information about liquidation by DFSB agents of Zelimkhan Oziev as a suspected militant. He was murdered in Kantyshevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia. However, Ms Khadzieva gave no details, since, according to her story, the data about this special operation was kept by the Russian DFSB for Ingushetia. Oziev's relatives assert that Zelimkhan was subjected to extrajudicial execution.

May 06, 2010 19:00

  • In Dagestan, all earlier kidnapped locals are free

    Today, Magomedzagir Isagadjiev, a resident of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on April 27 by unidentified armed persons, supposedly, power agents, in Makhachkala right from a hospital ward, came back home. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Isa Magomedov, head of the village administration.

May 06, 2010 18:00

May 05, 2010 23:40

  • Volgograd Region is under threat of mercury pollution, ecologists assert

    The Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Centre "Eco-Accord" (Moscow) have launched, together with the IPEN (International POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) Elimination Network) their global campaign "Without Mercury: You, I and Children". According to the initiators of the action, they plan to lobby adoption in 2013 of "a tough global agreement on mercury." Researches within the campaign have shown that the Volgograd Region is still under threat of mercury pollution.

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