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21:00, 27 January 2011

Officers of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (STSI) detained in Volgograd for suspicion of extortion

A group of officers of STSI who according to the investigation's version had been extorting money from their subordinates was detained in Volgograd. Criminal proceedings were started on January, 26, according to three points of clause 290 of the Criminal code "Bribe-taking by an organized group on a large scale with the use of extortion".

20:00, 27 January 2011

Investigation: personnel of "Domodedovo" airport extorted money from the passengers

Multiple facts of extorting money from passengers arriving from Central Asia have been discovered among the personnel of Line Department of Interior Affairs (LDIA) of "Domodedovo" airport, Tatiana Morozova, official representative of Moscow Inter-regional Transit Investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry, reported.

19:00, 27 January 2011

A child perished as a result of gas explosion in Chechnya

On January, 26, one child perished and two more got severe burns and traumas as a result of domestic gas explosion in Grozny district. This has been already the third case of this kind in the territory of the republic for the last week.

18:00, 27 January 2011

Explosion in Khasavyurt is qualified as an act of terror

The power of the explosion that took place in the evening of January, 26, in the town of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) by preliminary estimation of the experts made 30 kilogram trotyl equivalent. The explosion is qualified as an act of terror.

23:50, 26 January 2011

Supposed member of "Tsapok's gang" tries to cut veins in Novorossiysk SIZO

Vitaly Ivanov, a member of the so-called "Sergey Tsapok's gang", who is not accused of murdering 12 persons in the village of Kuschevskaya, but is a figurant in other murder cases, attempted to commit suicide in Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison).

23:40, 26 January 2011

KBR: criminal case initiated against militiaman who issued gun license to Cherkesov

A criminal case has been opened against the head of the license-and-permit division of the Nalchik UVD (Interior Department), where a self-defence gun license had been granted to Aslan Cherkesov, accused of murdering "Spartak" fan Yegor Sviridov in Moscow.

23:30, 26 January 2011

In Ingushetia, MPs and public figures outraged with Zhirinovsky's statements about Caucasians

The utterances of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), about the nations of Northern Caucasus, pronounced on January 20, in Vladimir Solovyov's programme "Poyedinok" (Duel) on "Rossiya-1" National TV Channel, caused an extraordinary sitting of the Council of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia.

Hall of plenary sessions of Brussels residence of the European Parliament. Photo from www.flickr.com/photos/xaf by Xavier Larrosa

23:20, 26 January 2011

Heidi Hautala, European MP, asks Ingush Ombudsman to meet relatives of abducted persons

On January 25 the European Parliament held a sitting of the Human Rights Commission. The MPs discussed the situation in Northern Caucasus. Heidi Hautala, Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee, drew attention to kidnappings and torture of citizens of Ingushetia.

23:10, 26 January 2011

Two persons killed by car explosion in Dagestan

According to preliminary reports, two persons were killed and five injured in an explosion of as mined car in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan.

Inspection of arriving passengers at the entrance to the Domodedovo Airport, January 24, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

23:00, 26 January 2011

Domodedovo confirms bomb warning received by telephone

At the Domodedovo Airport, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent received confirmation of the information about the operative actions held in the terminal building and related to the received call about the bomb planted in the airport.

23:00, 26 January 2011

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 17-23

Tragedy in Kuschevskaya village continued by massacre in the Stavropol Territory; African swine fever attacks South of Russia; wave of earthquakes covers Southern Caucasus; European Parliament finds Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be occupied territories, - look these and other events in the review of the week of January 17-23, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

22:20, 26 January 2011

Poland rejects visa to Akhmed Zakaev

As reported by Radoslav Bashuk, advocate of Akhmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who is now in London and who was put by Russia on the international search list, Poland refused to grant visa to his client.

22:10, 26 January 2011

Social moderators initiate discussion of bullying in militia of Stavropol Territory

On January 31, Pyatigorsk plans to host a roundtable with participation of public, mass media and human rights activists with the aim to launch public control over the course of investigations into human rights violations committed by law enforcers of the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Stavropol Territory.

22:00, 26 January 2011

Movement "Open Coast" set up in Russia to protect Black Sea shore

In January 2011, a new public movement named "Open Coast" was founded Russia with the aim to conduct a "broad public monitoring" and inform citizens about "most obvious violations of their fundamental right to unobstructed use of the natural resources of Russia."

21:00, 26 January 2011

In Kabardino-Balkaria, heavily sick women are kept in custody

Yesterday, on January 25, The Public Observation Commission over Detention Places of Kabardino-Balkaria visited the women's colony located in the village of "Sovietskiy" in the Prokhladnoe District, where 389 women are currently serving their terms. Some of them are seriously ill, many have no jobs.

20:00, 26 January 2011

Deputy head of Transit militia in North-Caucasian Federal Okrug detained for suspicion of bribery

Sergey Levchenko, Deputy head of Transit Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in North-Caucasian Federal Okrug, is suspected of bribe-taking to a sum of 50 thousand rubles, Press service of Southern Transit Prosecutor's office reports.

19:00, 26 January 2011

Five militiamen wounded in Chechnya as a result of a domestic gas explosion

At night of January, 29, an explosion of domestic gas took place in one of the back rooms of a unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs dislocated in the settlement of Khankala, in the neighbourhood of Grozny. Five officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia assigned to Chechnya from different regions were taken to hospital with woundings of various extent of gravity.

18:00, 26 January 2011

A witness on the case of Israilov's murder in Austria denied his former evidence out of fear for his people's fates in Chechnya

A next in turn session of the Criminal Court of Vienna, the tenth one, on the case of murder of Umar Israilov, ex-officer of President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov's security guard, took place on January, 19. A witness was interrogated during the session who denied his former evidence out of fear for his people living in Chechnya.

Cordoned area at the entrance to the Domodedovo Airport, January 24, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

22:20, 25 January 2011

Over the past 15 years 1561 persons suffered in terror acts in Moscow

The explosion at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on January 24 became the 26th terror act committed in the Russian capital since 1996, and the first one committed in a Moscow international airport. Since 1996, terrorists attacked various crowded places in Moscow: hotels, public transport stations, trade centres, concert halls, transport means and even residential buildings, killing at least 627 persons and injuring 934 ones. At least 10 of these explosions were carried out by suicide bombers. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on data from open sources.

22:10, 25 January 2011

Miner dies in Rostov Region

On January 24, one miner was killed and three more injured in a collapse of the elevator cage in the mine "Rostovskaya" of the city of Gukovo, Rostov Region; one victim is in grave condition, and two have minor injuries, said the spokesman from the Ministry of Public Health of the Rostov Region.

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