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October 19, 2009 20:00

• Khazbiev: someone voted for my family on election day in Ingushetia

  In the voting day in Nazran, on October 11, Magomed Khazbiev, leader of Ingush opposition, detected and registered the facts evidencing that some other person cast votes instead of his family members. According to his story, similar situations could be observed in many settlements of Ingushetia.

October 19, 2009 19:00

• Krasnodar "greens" to complain to Russian FSB of their detention by frontier guards in Sochi

  Activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus are writing a letter to Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB, with complaints against the actions of the FSB frontier guards, who had detained ecologists for breaking the frontier regime. This was reported by Suren Gazaryan, member of the Board of the Ecological Watch.

October 19, 2009 18:00

• Political prisoners accuse US, Russia and France of immoral deal with Yerevan

  Today, the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons of Armenia has addressed its open letter to Presidents of Russia, USA and France, where it accuses the leaders of these countries of an immoral deal with the authorities of Armenia.

October 17, 2009 23:00

• Demonstrators in Novorossisk to demand nuclear-free Black Sea status

  On the International day of the Black Sea to be marked on October 31, a demonstration is planned in Novorossisk under the slogan "Nuclear-free status - to the Black Sea!" As explained by Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights, who has submitted an application on the action to the Mayoralty, such status means a ban not only on nuclear weapon, but also on transportation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) across the sea waters.

October 17, 2009 23:00

• Litigation chronicle: Chechen President vs. head of HRC "Memorial"

  One of the consequences of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", committed on July 15, 2009, which aroused a broad public resonance in Russia and abroad, was the litigation under the claim lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial", who had stated Kadyrov's guilt in Estemirova's murder. The "Caucasian Knot" follows the course of events and offers its readers the chronicle thereof.

October 17, 2009 22:00

• South Ossetia to found its film studio

  Tamerlan Dzudtsov, Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, said that in 2010 the republic will start making its own feature films.

October 17, 2009 21:00

• In Chechnya, militia fights with excessive car glass tinting

  On October 16, an operation under the conventional title "Automobile" started in the republic. Law enforcers stop cars with excessive glass tinting.

October 17, 2009 19:00

• Bastrykin: Anna Politkovskaya's murder will be solved

  On October 16, Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, said that the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" will be solved.

October 17, 2009 18:00

• TV producer from Georgia asks political asylum in Russia

  Badri Afanasiev, producer of the Georgian TV Channel "Imedi", has applied to Russia for political asylum.

October 17, 2009 16:00

• CTO regime cancelled in Sunzha District of Ingushetia

  Today, the operative staff of the FSB in Ingushetia has made a decision to lift the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the morning on October 15 in the territory of the Sunzha District of the republic.

October 17, 2009 15:00

• Parliament of Karachai-Circassia failed to elect Derev to be Senator for the fourth time

  The National Assembly (NA) of Karachai-Circassia has for the fourth time rejected the candidature of Vyacheslav Derev, who was nominated by leaders of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party to the position of representative of the NA at the Russian Council of Federation.

October 17, 2009 13:00

• "Strong Georgia": EU report allows starting Saakashvili's impeachment

  The report of the commission of the European Union (EU), where President of Georgia was found guilty of unleashing the war in South Ossetia, allows initiating the procedure of impeaching President Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by Carlo Kopaliani, member of the Republican Party and an MP from the oppositional faction "Strong Georgia", at a press conference on October 16.

October 17, 2009 12:00

• Azerbaijan wants to refuse from gas supplies via Turkey

  The absence of solutions to the issues of transit between Azerbaijan and Turkey compels Baku to look for new markets for Azerbaijani gas, as President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev said at the sitting of his government.

October 17, 2009 11:00

• Experts to teach Volgograd peasants how to use manure energy

  Employees of the Volgograd Centre for Power Efficiency plan to build and test a biogas installation on the basis of the breeding farm located in the Volgograd Region for converting the animals' manure into useful energy.

October 17, 2009 06:00

• Biyakai Magomedov: "order" to strangle "Chernovik" failed

  After replacement of the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, the efforts of the local prosecutor's office against five journalists of the edition "Chernovik", accused of excitation of national, racial or religious hostility, began to come to naught; it means that the urgency of the "order" to shut down the edition has been exhausted. This was stated by Biyakai Magomedov, the lawyer of the "Chernovik".

October 16, 2009 23:50

• Prosecutor's office of North Ossetia opens administrative proceedings against "Electrozinc"

  The prosecutor's office of the Industrial Municipal District of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has opened an administrative case against the "Electrozinc" factory in the context of the latter's emissions of sulphur dioxide to the atmosphere on October 5; also a presentation was passed on violation of ecological legislation.

October 16, 2009 23:20

• In Azerbaijan, court considers claim of Mamedov's widow

  Today, the Nasimin District Court of Baku, chaired by Ikram Shirinov, continued considering the claim lodged by the widow of Novruzali Mamedov, former head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) against the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan, Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15.

October 16, 2009 23:00

• Moscow GUVD sends Kadyrov vs. Orlov criminal case to prosecutor's office

  All the materials of the case concerning Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under the article of slander have been transferred to the Moscow prosecutor's office. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who had submitted an application demanding to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov.

October 16, 2009 22:20

• Ecologists to challenge their detention by FSB frontier guards in Sochi

  On Monday, October 19, members of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus, will file their application to the Adler District Court; the ecologists protest against their detention by frontier guards of the FSB, when they were surveying the construction of Olympic object - the combined railway and motor road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.

October 16, 2009 22:00

• In Rostov, nine schoolchildren hospitalized after vaccination

  In Rostov-on-Don, nine school pupils were hospitalized after flu vaccination, some more kids addressed the local polyclinic after inoculation.