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23:40, 14 September 2009

Number of victims of human trafficking on the rise in Azerbaijan

Last year, the number of registered facts of trafficking in people in Azerbaijan was 394, and in the first six months of this year already 250 such cases were recorded. This was reported by Araz Babaev, senior operative officer of the MIA, at a seminar on the problems of trafficking in humans.

23:20, 14 September 2009

Flow of refugees from Georgia falls on Poland

Plenty of refugees from Georgia seek asylum in Poland. According to the Polish Department for Foreigners' Matters, every day about 100 citizens of Georgia apply for granting a refuge; they try to enter the country through the Polish-Belarus border check point in Terespol, a railway junction on the Polish side near Brest.

23:10, 14 September 2009

Residents of Ingushetia report kidnapping of two persons

Kidnappings continue in Ingushetia. On September 5, employees of some unknown power agencies kidnapped Magomed Oziev, 23, a resident of Nesterovskaya village, Sunzha District; and on September 11, Muhammad Syuleimanov, 36, a resident of the city of Malgobek, disappeared. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by relatives of the missing persons.

23:00, 14 September 2009

In Dagestan, RFSDTC officer accused of attempt on local MP

Lieutenant Colonel Mukhtar Agaev, an officer of the Dagestan Department of the Russian Federal Service for Drug Trafficking Control (RFSDTC) is accused of organizing an illegal armed formation (IAF) and attempt on the life of Shamil Isaev, a Deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan.

23:00, 14 September 2009

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 7-13

New terror acts committed by suicide bombers; recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Venezuela; visit of the Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of September 7-13 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Dagestan, Derbent. Photo by http://venividi.ru/user/183, Artem Rusakovich

22:10, 14 September 2009

Isaeva: kidnappings in Dagestan are made to assess potentials of Muslim communities

Kidnappings in Dagestan are committed not so much with the aim to liquidate some particular person, but sooner to assess the readiness of the respective Muslim community to resolute actions after disappearance of its member, and to further aggravate the situation in the republic. This is the opinion of Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan newspaper "Chernovik".

22:00, 14 September 2009

Kishmariya: restart of Tbilisi-Sukhumi bus communication still at a distant date

The issue of opening the Tbilisi-Sukhumi bus route is not considered by Abkhazia and will hardly be considered in the immediate perspective. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Ruslan Kishmariya, plenipotentiary representative of Abkhazian President in the Gali District, who made his comments on Georgia's intention to offer Abkhazia to start such bus route.

21:00, 14 September 2009

Isaeva: murders of human rights activists in Chechnya and "execution list" in Dagestan stem from different roots

The so-called "execution list", recently disseminated in Dagestan, hardly has anything to do with the recent murders of human rights defenders. This is the opinion of Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan-based newspaper "Chernovik", who is also on the list.

20:00, 14 September 2009

Chechen MIA tries to identify the recent suicide bomber

The law enforcement bodies have not managed yet to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber who blew himself up in the morning on September 12 in central Grozny and heavily wounded three local militiamen.

19:00, 14 September 2009

Residents of ruined houses in Kvaisa, South Ossetia, have to live in tents

After the earthquake at night on September 8, six 5-storied apartment blocks in the city of Kvaisa, Dzhava District of South Ossetia, are in unsafe condition. Ten private cottages are also unfit for residence. People have to live in tents.

Abkhazia, Sukhum, Mayor's Office. Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/photophoca, Vladimir Sokolov

18:00, 14 September 2009

Russian experts: Abkhazia's and South Ossetia's accession to Russia is hardly probable

In the opinion of leading Russian political scientists, accession of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Russia is the least probable scenario of developments.

22:00, 12 September 2009

MIA inspector shot dead in Ingushetia

In Ingushetia, in the city of Nazran, in the district "Tsentr-Kamaz", unidentified persons assassinated Azamat Bersanov, an inspector of the Investigatory Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

Azerbaijan, Baku. Photo by www.echo-az.com, Samir Aliyev

21:00, 12 September 2009

Azerbaijan: IPD director calls judge to be objective in bloggers' case

Leila Yunus, director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has addressed Araz Guseinov, a judge of the Sabail District Court of Baku, with an appeal to objectively consider the case of bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade and to become "the first fair Azerbaijani judge."

Dagestan, Makhachkala. Photo by http://venividi.ru/user/183, Artem Rusakovich

19:00, 12 September 2009

Relatives of missing Makhachkala resident assert that he was shadowed

Zhanna Shamsudinova, the wife of Magomed Sheikhov, a resident of Makhachkala, who disappeared on September 9 under strange circumstances, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband had been thoroughly shadowed by unidentified persons for a long time.

16:00, 12 September 2009

Persons accused of organizing military mutiny in Georgia plead guilty

The majority of the persons arrested for the mutiny at the military base of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia in Mukhrovani have recognized their guilt. This was reported by Gela Nikolaishvili, advocate of one of the defendants.

15:00, 12 September 2009

DFSB for Dagestan: leader of Makhachkala militants liquidated

One of the casualties of the special operation conducted today in the morning in Makhachkala is Bagautdin Kamalutdinov, leader of the armed underground acting in the city and nephew of Magomed Bagautdinov, ideologist of Dagestan militants. This was reported by the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Dagestan.

14:00, 12 September 2009

Kalmykia spent money for South Ossetia on rock festival

In Kalmykia, the inquiry has revealed that the money in the sum of 5.705 million roubles, raised for rendering help to the victims of the war in South Ossetia, was spent on holding a musical festival.

Ingushetia. Photo by http://venividi.ru/user/7

12:00, 12 September 2009

Despite President's order, detainee's mother is not let to see her son

Khadishat Chibieva, mother of Maskhud Chibiev, who was detained in Ingushetia and suspected by local MIA of involvement in the explosion at the GOVD building in Nazran on August 17, complains that local officials have failed to fulfil the order of President of Ingushetia, who instructed them to organize her meeting with Maskhud.

11:00, 12 September 2009

Suicide bomber commits terror act at militia post and school

Today, an explosion took place in the Leninskiy District of Grozny, near the militia post opposite Gymnasium No. 1. The Chechen MIA has stated that by the operative data, a woman-suicide bomber blew her up.

08:00, 12 September 2009

Russian human rights activists state pressure on them in Abkhazian border

Anastasia Denisova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Krasnodar Territory, and journalist Yuri Ivaschenko were subjected to interrogation by Russian customs officers and frontier guards at their entrance to and departure from Abkhazia. All their personal belongings were carefully examined.

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