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July 15, 2009 20:20

• Murdered resident of Chechnya announced to be a militant, was earlier kidnapped from his house

  According to residents of the Staropromyslovskiy District of Chechen capital, the young man, whom power agents announced as liquidated militant, was earlier kidnapped by them from his apartment in Grozny.

July 15, 2009 20:00

• In the near future, Chechen human rights activists will advance their version of Estemirova's murder

  Michael Ezhiev, leader of the NGO named "Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic", is shocked by the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya. According to Mr Ezhiev, now members of Chechen NGOs are discussing, who could Estemirova intervene with.

July 15, 2009 19:00

• Armenia: suspects of attempt on Kiviryan arrested

  In Armenia, Judge Gayane Karakhanyan has satisfied the petition lodged by the National Security Service (NSS) on arresting Vladik Serobyan and Gurgen Kilikyan, who had attempted to kill Argishti Kiviryan, coordinator of the Internet based edition "Armenia Today".

July 15, 2009 18:40

• HRC "Memorial" confirms Estemirova's murder in Ingushetia

  As reported today by Shakhman Akbulatov, head of the Grozny-based office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, Natalia Estemirova, a well-known human rights defender and employee of the "Memorial" office, was found murdered near the village of Gazi-Yurt in Ingushetia.

July 15, 2009 18:00

• HRW: houses are burnt down again in Chechnya

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented two new cases two new cases in Chechnya in which the homes of families related to suspected insurgents were torched by local law-enforcement officials as well as a public extrajudicial killing of a man suspected of providing food to insurgents.

July 14, 2009 22:00

• Supreme Court of Ingushetia acquits sports minister accused of embezzlement

  The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has acquitted Isa Ozdoev, former minister of physical culture, sports and tourism, who was earlier sentenced to three years of minimum security colony for non-targeted spending of more than 14 million roubles of budget money.

July 14, 2009 21:00

• UN and EU officials speak positive on Gali meeting

  The today's five-sided meeting on prevention and investigation of incidents, held in the Gali office of the UN Mission with participation of representatives from Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, United Nations and European Union was positively assessed by Johan Verbeke, special envoy of UN Secretary General for Georgia, and Hans-Jorg Haber, head of the EU's observation mission in Georgia.

July 14, 2009 20:00

• Solidarity picket with Uigurs dispersed in Azerbaijan

  Today, about fifty activists of the "Musavat" Party made an attempt to hold a picket in front of the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The action was planed as a protest against oppressions of Uigurs (Eastern Turkis) in China.

July 14, 2009 18:00

• Armenian opposition is dissatisfied with Karabakh settlement and demands President's resignation

  The Armenian opposition believes that the process of Karabakh settlement goes not in favour of Armenians, and demands resignation of President Serzh Sargsyan. This is the topic of the statement disseminated today by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC).

July 14, 2009 17:00

• Georgia holds mourning day for children killed in road accident

  In the context of the death of three teenagers on July 13 in a road accident, a mourning day is announced in Georgia. About twenty other children injured in the fall of a bus into abyss at the Nakerala mountain pass-over are still in hospital in Kutaisi.

July 14, 2009 15:00

• Sochi General Plan adopted, despite protests of ecologists and Russia's "Minprirody"

  Today, the session of City Assembly of Sochi has adopted the General Plan of civil development. According to city's Chief Architect Oleg Sheveiko, the overall objective of the Plan is in further development of Sochi and its transformation into the world-level tourist centre.

July 14, 2009 13:00

• National Mortgage Company launched in Armenia

  As reported by Arthur Dzhavadyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, a universal credit organization named "The National Mortgage Company" was founded and started in Armenia with the aim to develop and stimulate the local mortgage market.

July 14, 2009 12:00

• Militants' Amir killed in Dagestan

  According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, today at night, in the Karabudakhken District of the republic, the following suspected militants were liquidated: Amir Magomedmurad Osmanov with radio call sign 'Zubair" and a militant Magomed Batyrbekov with call sign "Ibragim". The person of the third casualty is now established.

July 14, 2009 11:00

• Downpour in Pyatigorsk brings 30-million-worth damage

  Experts have computed the damage caused by storm rains on July 10 to the economy of the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the information department of the City Duma of Pyatigorsk that under a tentative estimate, the overall damage has made more than 30 million roubles.

July 14, 2009 09:00

• Terek Cossacks want to restore Terek Region

  On July 7, at the Terek Cossack Circle (Assembly) in Vladikavkaz, Cossack Atamans raised the idea to restore the enlarged North-Caucasian Region in the form of the Terek Region that existed in the tsarist Russia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Mikhail Inkavtsov, Ataman of the Terek Cossack Army.

July 13, 2009 23:00

• Estemirova: power agents order relatives of the girl assassinated in Grozny to bury her "without noise"

  Representatives of power agencies have burnt down the house of relatives of Madina Yunusova, 20, the wife of Said-Selim Abdulkadyrov, who was killed in the course of a special operation on July 2, and gave out her body to relatives on July 5, having ordered to bury the girl "without noise". This was reported by Natalia Estemirova, representative of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

July 13, 2009 22:00

• Georgia finds Russian President's visit to South Ossetia to be a provocation

  As stated by Temur Yakobashvili, Vice-Premier and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia, the today's Dmitri Medvedev's visit to South Ossetia is a provocation.

July 13, 2009 20:00

• Russian President Dmitri Medvedev makes his first visit to South Ossetia

  Today, the first visit of Russian President to South Ossetia, after Russia had recognized its independence, took place. In the course of the visit, which was a surprise not only for residents of the republic, but also for Ossetian officials, Dmitri Medvedev has reiterated that Russia will help South Ossetia in restoring its economy and social sphere.

July 13, 2009 18:00

• Nabucco treaty signed in Turkey

  Heads of the governments of Turkey, Austria and Hungary, and of energy companies from Bulgaria and Romania have initialled the intergovernmental treaty on the Nabucco Project.

July 13, 2009 17:00

• Doctors do not exclude Evkurov's transfer to ordinary ward

  A source from the Vishnevskiy Surgery Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences has reported that President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was heavily wounded in an attempt on June 22, is still is the resuscitation ward; however, he is much better now and can be removed to an ordinary ward.