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22:00, 4 September 2010

Stavropol Territory joins action "Russia Against Terror"

On September 3, the Solidarity Day in War on Terror, Stavropol, Budyonnovsk, Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk and other cities of the territory held actions within the All-Russia campaign "Russia Against Terror".

19:00, 4 September 2010

In Sochi, protesting ecologists found guilty of disobedience

The magistrate court of the settlement of Dagomys, Lazarevskoe District of the city of Sochi, has passed a verdict to seven persons detained in Vardane settlement for protesting against construction of a domestic waste landfill. They were found guilty of disobedience to militiaman's demands.

18:00, 4 September 2010

Russia holds mourning actions on sixth anniversary of Beslan terror act

The mourning actions in Beslan started on September 1 and lasted for 3 days. On September 3, mourning actions were also held in Moscow.

17:00, 4 September 2010

Female journalist from Sochi who covered Novikov's case receives threats

Svetlana Kravchenko, a journalist from Sochi, who was covering the case of Dmitri Novikov, former judge of the Khosta District Court of the Krasnodar Territory, accused of plundering "Olympic" lands, is now receiving threats.

15:00, 4 September 2010

Ceasefire broken again between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan

One Azerbaijani soldier was killed and several more wounded by a mine explosion in the contact line of Azerbaijani and Nagorno-Karabakh troops, as reported by the press service of the defence army of this breakaway and non-recognized republic.

14:00, 4 September 2010

Minister for national police and information wounded in explosion in Dagestan

In Makhachkala, a car was blown up, and one person was lost, while two others, including Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, local minister for national policy, foreign relations and information, were wounded.

13:00, 4 September 2010

Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria states that FSB agent took away her car

Rita Kanametova, a resident of the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria has addressed her complaint to the prosecutor's office of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and human rights organizations saying that a person, who presented himself as an employee of the FSB Department for Kabardino-Balkaria, confiscated her car BMW-520. Later it appeared that there is no such employee in the Department.

12:00, 4 September 2010

Nine fire victims of Volgograd Region are still in hospital

Nine persons who were injured during natural fires in the Volgograd Region are still hospitalized, while 19 more victims are taking their out-patient treatment, as reported by the Southern Regional Centre (SRC) of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation.

11:00, 4 September 2010

International climb on Mount Kazbek starts in North Ossetia

Today at midday, the Manezh Square of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, was the venue of the farewell ceremony of the participants of the ascent on Mount Kazbek. In total, the international expedition is 200 persons strong, including climbers from all Russian regions, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Tajikistan and South Ossetia.

10:00, 4 September 2010

In Ingushetia, mother defends her daughter's right to wear hijab at school

Lydia Gomkargieva, principal of School No. 3 of the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, has not allowed a five-form schoolgirl, as her mother reports, to attend school in a hijab. Another higher school pupil was not let to lessons in a headscarf and a long school uniform. The ministry of general and vocational training of Ingushetia has sent a special commission to this school.

Mourning actions in memory of victims of the terror act in Beslan School No. 1 in 2004. North Ossetia, September 1, 2010. V. Ivanov for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:50, 3 September 2010

Beslan holds day of silence in memory of terror act victims in School No. 1

Yesterday, on September 2, a traditional day of silence was held in Beslan: during the whole day people kept coming to School No. 1 and memorial cemetery in "City of Angels" to pay tribute of memory to victims of the terror act in September 2004.

23:30, 3 September 2010

In Azerbaijan, unknown criminals shell a mosque and kill a man

Last night, certain armed people opened fire on the people who gathered in the mosque yard in the Lyankyaran District of Azerbaijan in the south of the country. The district police authority reports that one villager was lost, and one more was wounded.

23:10, 3 September 2010

Detainee dies in Krasnodar SIZO

A man of 24 died in one of the cells of the investigatory isolation facility (known as "SIZO") No. 1 of the city of Krasnodar. The ICPO for the Krasnodar Territory is conducting a pre-inquiry check of the circumstances of the detainee's death.

23:00, 3 September 2010

Defendant Budtuev in Nalchik attack case will not returned to SIZO

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on changing the freedom restriction regime for Kazbek Budtuev, a defendant in the case dealing with the attack on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005. After five years in SIZO (pre-trial prison) he was transferred into house arrest. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by advocate Liza Shak.

22:20, 3 September 2010

European MPs meet human rights activists in Ingushetia

On September 2, the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran hosted a meeting of human rights activists and applicants to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with members of the European Parliament. In total, eight European parliamentarians came to Ingushetia; the delegation was headed by Heidi Hautala, chair of the human rights committee.

22:00, 3 September 2010

Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan sign four documents

As a results of negotiations of Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan Dmitri Medvedev and Ilham Aliev, today in Baku four documents were signed, including the bilateral treaty on stat border with an appendix on the procedure of border crossing.

21:00, 3 September 2010

Akhilgov: Ingush alternative parliament rejects contacts with authorities

In Ingushetia, members of the alternative parliament - Mekhk-Kkhela - never tried to contact the republic's leadership, said Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia. According to Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, the main reason for restarting the alternative parliament is that Yunus-Bek Evkurov is continuing the policy of his predecessor Murat Zyazikov.

20:00, 3 September 2010

European MPs condemn kidnapping of Islam Umarpashaev in Chechnya

Heidi Hautala, chair of the human rights committee of the European Parliament, who is a member of the delegation of the European MPs who met on September 2 Ingush human rights activists, has criticized the kidnapping and torture of Islam Umarpashaev and called the Russian authorities not to press him in the context of Umarpashaev's readiness to help in establishing his kidnappers.

19:00, 3 September 2010

Volgograd Region: ICPO suspects officials of negligence in relation to natural fires

As reported by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the Russian Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), the Committee is currently investigating a number of criminal cases opened against officials in the Volgograd Region. Crime attributes may be revealed in bureaucrats' actions (or inaction) related to mass natural fires. Now, the investigation has data about five persons lost in fires on September 2.

18:00, 3 September 2010

Hurricane damages hundreds of dwelling houses in Kabardino-Balkaria

As a result of the hurricane that fell last night on the republic, hundreds of houses and electric networks were damaged in the Prokhladny District of Kabardino-Balkaria. As reported by the local department of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies, over 10,000 residents remained without electricity, and two persons were taken to hospital with traumas.

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