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23:30, 24 March 2011

Sochi: declaration on restoration of Mzymta River ecosystem signed

The actors of the Olympic construction in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, have committed themselves to restore the basin ecosystem of the Mzymta River, where sports-and-tourism facilities and roads are built.

23:10, 24 March 2011

Armenian Ombudsman states police misconduct against Raffi Ovannisyan

The Human Rights Ombudsman of Armenia Karen Andreasyan has treated the police's ban to install a tent for Raffi Ovannisyan, Chairman of the "Heritage", who continues his hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan, as a human rights violation.

23:00, 24 March 2011

Twelve persons lost their lives within a week in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

During the week on March 14-20, the low intensity armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 12 lives and injured at least 10 persons. These are the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" made on the basis of its own sources and other open data outlets.

22:00, 24 March 2011

Oppositionist Khazbiev and his brother were not delivered to Nazran IVS

The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev and his brother Berd, who were sentenced today to ten days of administrative arrest, were again taken instead of the Nazran IVS (temporary detention facility) to some other unknown place. This was reported by their sister Khadi Khazbieva.

22:00, 24 March 2011

Investigation reveals suspect of murdering Chuvashov, judge of Moscow City Court

The Moscow Court has issued a warrant in absentia to arrest Alexei Korshunov, 28, a Muscovite and the alleged killer of Eduard Chuvashov, a Moscow City Court judge, in April 2010. According to the investigation the reason of the murder was the judge's participation in judicial processes on extremist crimes.

21:00, 24 March 2011

In Ingushetia, power agents search rights defender's house

Currently, policemen from the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) from Ingushetia are searching the house of Zurab Tsechoev, an employee of the human rights organization "MASHR", located in the village of Troitskaya, Sunzha District. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush News Agency "Maximum".

19:00, 24 March 2011

Video from place of abduction of Ingush opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev shows his kidnappers

On the video record from the place of abduction of the opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev, which was committed on March 23 from his father's house in Nazran, the kidnappers are visible - there were about twenty of them. They were armed men dressed in camouflage; some of them were in masks, but there were also people in ordinary police uniform with open faces.

18:00, 24 March 2011

Magomed Gorchkhanov asks for help in searching his brother Ilez kidnapped in Ingushetia

On March 22, Magomed Gorchkhanov, a resident of the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, addressed his applications to the authorities of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking them to help in searching his kidnapped brother Ilez Gorchkhanov and protect his constitutional rights.

23:00, 23 March 2011

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 14-20

The Caucasus is not indifferent to the Japanese tragedy, however, while helping Japan, it calls on its countrymen to return home; in Armenia, "Zvartnots" Airport and "Armavia" Airline cannot agree on cooperation; fans wishing to watch the World Cup in Freestyle Wrestling in Dagestan were calmed down by truncheons; in central Yerevan oppositionist is on hunger strike in anticipation of changes in the country, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 14-20, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Blockade of construction works on Cape Vidny, Khosta District of Sochi. March 23, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

20:00, 23 March 2011

In Sochi, ecologists block Olympic construction on Cape Vidny

Today in the morning, fifteen ecological activists have blocked the construction works in the territory of Cape Vidny, Khosta District of Sochi, where they are currently laying the railway track and building a new tunnel. Both objects are elements of the Olympic construction programme.

Dagestani journalist Gitinmagomed Gadjimagomedov kept in Krasnodar SIZO. Courtesy of detainee's family to the "Caucasian Knot"

19:00, 23 March 2011

Relatives of journalist kept in Krasnodar SIZO fear for his life

The defence and relatives of Gitinmagomed Gadjimagomedov, a Dagestani journalist, kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) as a murder suspect, state that he is tortured and pressed towards pleading guilty; they also fear for his life.

18:00, 23 March 2011

Georgia creates oppositional bloc "National Forum"

On March 22, the political parties named "People's Forum", "Union of Traditionalists" and "Women's Party" decided to unite in Georgia and named their bloc as the "National Forum". According to Girguli Maghradze, leader of the "Women's Party", this name has already become a sort of a political brand.

18:00, 23 March 2011

Resident of Dagestan states protraction of inquiry into murder of his pregnant daughter-in-law

The criminal investigation into the execution by militiamen in 2006 of pregnant Sapiyat Magomedova is deliberately protracted by the Investigatory Department of Dagestan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Mamatkhan Baisultanov, father-in-law of the casualty and a resident of Khasavyurt.

Housing construction in Grozny, 2005. Photo by chechnyafree.ru

17:00, 23 March 2011

Dwellers of a restored settlement in Grozny are afraid to live in new buildings

Local residents state that blocks of flats built in 2008 in the 20-th section of Oktyabrsky district of Grozny have become outworn and are literally tumbling down in front of their very eyes.

16:00, 23 March 2011

Organizing assemblage of Taiwanese make of Luxgen car is being planned in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

Taiwanese company Yulon and "Derways" factory located in Cherkessk (Karachaevo-Cherkessia) are negotiating on assemblage of Luxgen cars on the base of "Derways" factory.

15:00, 23 March 2011

A resident of Stavropol region reports impossibility of leaving the settlement of Gubden in Dagestan because of its blockade

This morning the settlement of Gubden, Karabudakhkent district, was totally blocked by law enforcement officers, entry and departure from the settlement are under complete ban. A reporter of “Caucasian Knot” received this news from Gaji Khalilibragimov, resident of Stavropol, who is in the blocked settlement at the moment.

14:00, 23 March 2011

Ombudsman subjected the methods of struggle against underground in Northern Caucasus to criticism

Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin submitted his annual report on the state of affairs in the sphere of human rights and freedoms to State Duma in which he subjected the methods of struggle against participants of paramilitary groups in Northern Caucasus to criticism.

23:00, 22 March 2011

Azerbaijani opposition supports attacks of international forces on Gaddafi's troops

Activists of the Azerbaijani oppositional forces support the actions of the international armed force aimed to enforce the Resolution of the UN Security Council on protection of the civilian population of Libya against attacks of the troops loyal to the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

22:00, 22 March 2011

Chechnya lacks pre-school institutions

88 percent of children in Chechnya have no opportunity to attend kindergartens and nurseries due to acute shortage of such institutions.

21:00, 22 March 2011

Wife of Issa Khashagulgov, suspected of organizing terror act in Vladikavkaz, demands meetings with her husband

Pyatimat Khashagulgova, the wife of Issa Khashagulgov, a suspect of committing a terror act in Vladikavkaz, kept in the Lefortovo SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Moscow and charged of illegal arms possession and participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs), complaints that she is not allowed to see her husband for six months already.

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