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April 12, 2010 23:00

• Three militaries perished in special operation in Dagestan

  In the course of special actions aimed to neutralize suspected militants, which were resumed today in the morning in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, three soldiers of the MIA's internal troops were lost, and seven more were wounded.

April 12, 2010 22:00

• Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped last year in Chechnya, released

  The Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture (IRCAT) has managed to release Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped on December 11, 2009, from his own house by unknown armed people in camouflage.

April 12, 2010 21:20

• Judge who sentenced Ryno-Skachevskiy grouping assassinated in Moscow

  Today in Moscow, near the door of his flat in No. 24, Strelbischenskiy Lane, Federal Judge Eduard Chuvashov, who tried the nationalist groupings "Ryno-Skachevskiy" and "White Wolves", was shot dead. The investigation believes that it was a murder for hire.

April 12, 2010 20:00

• Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev find verdict to his attempters fair

  The relatives of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok" (East) of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who became - one year ago in the United Arab Emirates - a victim of an attempt, welcomed the verdict passed in Dubai to Ramzan Kadyrov's groom Makhdi Lorniya, a native of Iran, and businessman from Tajikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov, who were convicted today to 25 years of imprisonment each.

April 12, 2010 19:00

• Missing Zeinap Daurbekova released in Ingushetia

  The mother of a large family Zeinap Daurbekova, who was detained by power agents on April 8, is at large. As reported by her relatives, yesterday, on April 11, employees of the FSB handed Zeinap over to local militiamen, and the latter brought her home.

April 12, 2010 18:00

• Sochi commemorates Poles who perished in air crash

  The Rome-Catholic Church in Sochi held, at plenty of parishioners present, a requiem service on the Poles who perished in the air crash near Smolensk. Members of the Polish Diaspora in Sochi plan to start a book of condolences, to be sent later to the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Russia.

April 12, 2010 11:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 5-11

  Russian federal and regional authorities plan to react as toughly as possible to terror acts in Moscow, while suicide bombers continue their self-destructive actions; ECtHR passes new decisions on kidnapping cases, however, disappearances of locals continue in Chechnya, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 5-11, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 10, 2010 22:00

• Head of criminal investigation blown up in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Tonight in Kabardino-Balkaria an attempt was made on Zuber Shukaev, head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). He died a bit later in hospital.

April 10, 2010 19:00

• Azerbaijan: number of refugees from Chechnya goes down

  The number of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan has reduced from 12 to 2 thousand persons, as reported by Ali Gasanov, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with Refugees and Forced Migrants.

April 10, 2010 17:00

• "National Council of Georgia" nominates Zviad Dzidziguri for Tbilisi Mayor

  Zviad Dzidziguri, leader of the Conservative Party of Georgia, has won the preliminary election (primaries) as the united candidate from the inter-partisan oppositional association "National Council of Georgia".

April 10, 2010 16:00

• Khazbiev's brothers are under recognizance not to leave Ingushetia

  On April 9, Makhmud, Ali and Berd – brothers of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev – were summoned for interrogation to the MIA of the republic as suspects in the case about beating of Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. After interrogation, they signed recognizance not to leave till the end of the investigation.

April 10, 2010 15:00

• Lawyer beaten in Dagestan is unconscious and in resuscitation

  Lawyer Sergey Kvasov was beaten in central Makhachkala on April 9 by five unidentified persons in masks. He is still unconscious and kept in the resuscitation ward.

April 10, 2010 14:00

• Chechnya to celebrate anniversary of CTO cancellation

  April 16 is one year from the date of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the territory of the Chechen Republic back in 1999. This anniversary will be marked in the region as a national holiday.

April 10, 2010 11:00

• Residents of Ingushetia report kidnapping of large-family mother

  An application has arrived to the human rights organization "Mashr" and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" from Ashet Daurbekova, a resident of Plievo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, about kidnapping of her daughter-in-law, mother of four children.

April 10, 2010 10:11

• Vladikavkaz opens monument to victims of terror

  On April 9, an opening ceremony took place in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, of the monument to victims of terror. As noted by the well-known sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin, author of the monument, his work is first of all dedicated to the victims of the terror act in Beslan.

April 10, 2010 09:00

• Scientists of Southern Caucasus have no general view on regional history

  Despite the attempts of the scientists of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia to generate some common scientific view on the history of the countries of Southern Caucasus, the idea remains non-realized yet. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent heard this opinion in the interview given by Aidyn Aslanov, deputy chair of the Society of Historians of Azerbaijan.

April 10, 2010 07:00

• Dagestan: fight grows into skirmish, three persons lost

  As a reported by a spokesman of the press service of the MIA of Dagestan, in the Dagestan city of Kizlyar, as a result of a fight, which grew into shooting, three persons were shot dead.

April 09, 2010 23:50

• ECtHR unites claims lodged by victims of Dubrovka terror act

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized eligible two groups of complaints that arrived from the victims of the terror act in Theatrical Centre in Dubrovka in Moscow and united two claims into one proceeding.

April 09, 2010 23:50

• Isa Yamadaev said that in attempt on him blanks were used

  Isa Yamadaev, brother of ex-MP Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev, said that he had known in advance about the attempt on him, which was planned in July 2009; and then operative agents replaced the cartridges in the pistol of the failed gunman Khavazh Yusupov for blanks.

April 09, 2010 23:30

• FSB: militants liquidated in Ekazhevo were involved in Karabulak terror act

  The militants liquidated as a result of the operation conducted in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo have been identified. According to the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), they are Korigov, Adam Magomedovich and Tsaloev, Ahmed Alikovich.