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September 14, 2009 23:20

• Flow of refugees from Georgia falls on Poland

  Plenty of refugees from Georgia seek asylum in Poland. According to the Polish Department for Foreigners' Matters, every day about 100 citizens of Georgia apply for granting a refuge; they try to enter the country through the Polish-Belarus border check point in Terespol, a railway junction on the Polish side near Brest.

September 14, 2009 23:10

• Residents of Ingushetia report kidnapping of two persons

  Kidnappings continue in Ingushetia. On September 5, employees of some unknown power agencies kidnapped Magomed Oziev, 23, a resident of Nesterovskaya village, Sunzha District; and on September 11, Muhammad Syuleimanov, 36, a resident of the city of Malgobek, disappeared. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by relatives of the missing persons.

September 14, 2009 23:00

• In Dagestan, RFSDTC officer accused of attempt on local MP

  Lieutenant Colonel Mukhtar Agaev, an officer of the Dagestan Department of the Russian Federal Service for Drug Trafficking Control (RFSDTC) is accused of organizing an illegal armed formation (IAF) and attempt on the life of Shamil Isaev, a Deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan.

September 14, 2009 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 7-13

  New terror acts committed by suicide bombers; recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Venezuela; visit of the Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of September 7-13 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 14, 2009 22:10

• Isaeva: kidnappings in Dagestan are made to assess potentials of Muslim communities

  Kidnappings in Dagestan are committed not so much with the aim to liquidate some particular person, but sooner to assess the readiness of the respective Muslim community to resolute actions after disappearance of its member, and to further aggravate the situation in the republic. This is the opinion of Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan newspaper "Chernovik".

September 14, 2009 22:00

• Kishmariya: restart of Tbilisi-Sukhumi bus communication still at a distant date

  The issue of opening the Tbilisi-Sukhumi bus route is not considered by Abkhazia and will hardly be considered in the immediate perspective. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Ruslan Kishmariya, plenipotentiary representative of Abkhazian President in the Gali District, who made his comments on Georgia's intention to offer Abkhazia to start such bus route.

September 14, 2009 21:00

• Isaeva: murders of human rights activists in Chechnya and "execution list" in Dagestan stem from different roots

  The so-called "execution list", recently disseminated in Dagestan, hardly has anything to do with the recent murders of human rights defenders. This is the opinion of Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan-based newspaper "Chernovik", who is also on the list.

September 14, 2009 20:00

• Chechen MIA tries to identify the recent suicide bomber

  The law enforcement bodies have not managed yet to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber who blew himself up in the morning on September 12 in central Grozny and heavily wounded three local militiamen.

September 14, 2009 19:00

• Residents of ruined houses in Kvaisa, South Ossetia, have to live in tents

  After the earthquake at night on September 8, six 5-storied apartment blocks in the city of Kvaisa, Dzhava District of South Ossetia, are in unsafe condition. Ten private cottages are also unfit for residence. People have to live in tents.

September 14, 2009 18:00

• Russian experts: Abkhazia's and South Ossetia's accession to Russia is hardly probable

  In the opinion of leading Russian political scientists, accession of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Russia is the least probable scenario of developments.

September 12, 2009 22:00

• MIA inspector shot dead in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, in the city of Nazran, in the district "Tsentr-Kamaz", unidentified persons assassinated Azamat Bersanov, an inspector of the Investigatory Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

September 12, 2009 21:00

• Azerbaijan: IPD director calls judge to be objective in bloggers' case

  Leila Yunus, director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has addressed Araz Guseinov, a judge of the Sabail District Court of Baku, with an appeal to objectively consider the case of bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade and to become "the first fair Azerbaijani judge."

September 12, 2009 19:00

• Relatives of missing Makhachkala resident assert that he was shadowed

  Zhanna Shamsudinova, the wife of Magomed Sheikhov, a resident of Makhachkala, who disappeared on September 9 under strange circumstances, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband had been thoroughly shadowed by unidentified persons for a long time.

September 12, 2009 16:00

• Persons accused of organizing military mutiny in Georgia plead guilty

  The majority of the persons arrested for the mutiny at the military base of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia in Mukhrovani have recognized their guilt. This was reported by Gela Nikolaishvili, advocate of one of the defendants.

September 12, 2009 15:00

• DFSB for Dagestan: leader of Makhachkala militants liquidated

  One of the casualties of the special operation conducted today in the morning in Makhachkala is Bagautdin Kamalutdinov, leader of the armed underground acting in the city and nephew of Magomed Bagautdinov, ideologist of Dagestan militants. This was reported by the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Dagestan.

September 12, 2009 14:00

• Kalmykia spent money for South Ossetia on rock festival

  In Kalmykia, the inquiry has revealed that the money in the sum of 5.705 million roubles, raised for rendering help to the victims of the war in South Ossetia, was spent on holding a musical festival.

September 12, 2009 12:00

• Despite President's order, detainee's mother is not let to see her son

  Khadishat Chibieva, mother of Maskhud Chibiev, who was detained in Ingushetia and suspected by local MIA of involvement in the explosion at the GOVD building in Nazran on August 17, complains that local officials have failed to fulfil the order of President of Ingushetia, who instructed them to organize her meeting with Maskhud.

September 12, 2009 11:00

• Suicide bomber commits terror act at militia post and school

  Today, an explosion took place in the Leninskiy District of Grozny, near the militia post opposite Gymnasium No. 1. The Chechen MIA has stated that by the operative data, a woman-suicide bomber blew her up.

September 12, 2009 08:00

• Russian human rights activists state pressure on them in Abkhazian border

  Anastasia Denisova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Krasnodar Territory, and journalist Yuri Ivaschenko were subjected to interrogation by Russian customs officers and frontier guards at their entrance to and departure from Abkhazia. All their personal belongings were carefully examined.

September 12, 2009 06:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria to present seven projects to investment forum in Sochi

  Seven investment projects to the total value of 66.8 billion roubles will be presented by Kabardino-Balkaria at the 8th International Investment Forum "Sochi-2009" to be held on September 17-20. This was reported by official sources in the government of the republic.