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16:00, 20 July 2010

Kabardino-Balkaria opens youth camp "Caucasus-2020"

On July 19, the city of Nalchik hosted an opening ceremony of the youth tent camp "Caucasus-2020", located on the coast of the picturesque Kurortnoe Lake, where more than one thousand young men from all Russia - from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad - gathered.

15:00, 20 July 2010

Georgia: schoolbook about 2008 war with Russia presented

In Tbilisi, a book was presented entitled "Russian Aggression in My Eyes", dedicated to the Russian-Georgian military conflict in August 2008.

14:00, 20 July 2010

Members of the Board under Russian President ask Medvedev to defend human rights activists in Chechnya

The Board for Assisting to Development of Civil Society Institutes and Human Rights under Russian President sent an appeal to Russian leader asking to protect human rights activists, including the employees of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", who work in Chechnya, against the threats pronounced by local president Ramzan Kadyrov, and ensure their normal working conditions.

13:00, 20 July 2010

One of women detained in Dagestan prepared self-blowing in Moscow, power agencies say

According to a high-ranking source in power agencies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), one of the six women detained on July 12 in Makhachkala was going to come to Moscow in July and commit a terror act there.

12:00, 20 July 2010

UN to rebuild burnt-down houses in Gal District of Abkhazia

In the village of Dikhazurga, Gal District, the burnt-down houses of local residents will be rebuilt in the near future. This became known today after the regular meeting within the mechanism for prevention and reaction to incidents held in the city of Gal.

11:00, 20 July 2010

Armenia and Russia agree about joint military production facilities

Konstantin Biryulin, deputy director of the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation, has discussed, in the course of his visit to Yerevan, with the Armenian party the opportunity of creating joint military-technical facilities and of involvement of Armenian enterprises in the Russian-Belarusian Financial and Industrial Group "Defence Systems".

10:00, 20 July 2010

Action against new HPP held in Armenia

On July 19, residents of the Gegarkunik Region of Armenia held a protest action against construction of a Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in their district. The protesters blocked the Yerevan-Martuni Highway demanding not to start the construction.

09:00, 20 July 2010

Infrastructure and communications added to settlement for residents of landslide zone in Ingushetia

The Malgobek District of Ingushetia continues building a residential settlement for the people who live in the territory of the landslide zone. The first resettlers move in back on June 4, but the process of building the infrastructure and laying down communications is not over yet.

01:00, 20 July 2010

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 12-18

One year after Natalia Estemirova's murder; forced eviction of Imereti residents from "Olympic" lands; start of ethnographic expedition of Russian bloggers to the Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 12-18, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

22:00, 19 July 2010

Residents of Imereti Lowland continue resisting resettlement

Eviction of residents is in full swing in the Imereti Lowland, a district of Sochi, where construction of the large Olympic Stadium is planned. However, because of inadequate, in the opinion of residents, compensations they continue protesting and bringing actions.

21:00, 19 July 2010

Constitutional Commission approves draft amendments to Constitution of Georgia

The draft of the new Constitution of Georgia was adopted by the majority of the members of the State Constitutional Commission: 44 votes were cast for the amendments, and only three members voted against.

19:00, 19 July 2010

In Azerbaijan, resident of Dagestan is sentenced to four years of imprisonment

Today, Telman Mamedov, Judge of the Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan, passed a verdict on the criminal case of Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of drug contraband and use. The convict was awarded four years of minimum security prison.

18:00, 19 July 2010

In South Ossetia, Russian frontier guards detain Georgian citizens

As reported by the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, on July 18, six citizens of Georgia were detained by servicemen of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia for illegal border crossing in the Znaur District of this republic.

17:00, 19 July 2010

Grand Prix of "Golden Apricot" Festival awarded to Turkish film director

The main prize of the 7th International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" was awarded to the Turkish film director Rekha Erdem for his film "Space".

15:00, 19 July 2010

Astrakhan: health condition of hunger-striking teachers gets worse

Ambulances are called to the teachers holding their protest hunger strike several times in day: three of them were offered hospitalization; the condition of one more protester causes special doctor's alarm - if sugar in his blood will drops by one point more, he is under threat of coma. Despite it, none of the 19 persons who take part in the hunger strike is going to stop the action.

14:00, 19 July 2010

In South Ossetia, July 20 announced mourning day on victims of Transkam accident

An extraordinary session of the government and parliament of South Ossetia made a decision to announce July 20 the mourning day on the victims of the bus falling in to the abyss from the Trans-Caucasian Highway (know as "Transkam") on July 18.

11:00, 19 July 2010

First batch of foreign passports arrived to Abkhazia

The first batch of Abkhazian passports for travels abroad made in Russia was brought to Sukhumi.

10:00, 19 July 2010

Children football team from Dagestan is prize-winner of international tournament in Austria

The children football team "Locomotive-NCRW" (North-Caucasian Railways) from the capital of Dagestan has won the third place in the prestigious international tournament, which was held in the Austrian city of Wels this July.

09:00, 19 July 2010

Abkhazian President arrives in Nicaragua

On July 18, the delegation of Abkhazia headed by President Sergey Bagapsh has arrived with the first official visit to the city of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.

23:00, 17 July 2010

In Imereti Lowland, people are resettled by force to new houses

On July 16, the authorities started forcing residents out of their houses in the area, where Olympic objects will be built. This week, the Adler District Court has issued enforcement orders. Those who failed to buy new homes are accommodated in boarding houses.

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Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov

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