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14:00, 4 July 2009

About 13,000 jobless persons involved in public works in Astrakhan Region

Under the programme aimed to reduce tensions in the labour market of the Astrakhan Region, by July 2, a total of 580 contracts were signed with employers of all forms of ownership about organization of public works for 12,937 persons; 6160 of them have already started their public works.

13:00, 4 July 2009

Gasoline grows more expensive in Chechnya

Starting the end of June, the Chechnya's fuelling stations see a growth of prices on automobile fuel. On the average, a litre of every car fuel became more expensive by 2-3 roubles (at 1 US dollar = 31 Russian roubles).

12:00, 4 July 2009

Saakashvili: opposition has caused more damage to Georgia than war against Russia

On July 3, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili stated that the actions of the opposition, which is holding from April 9 its actions in Tbilisi demanding resignation of the country's leader, have caused more financial damage to the nation than Russian bombardments in August 2008.

11:30, 4 July 2009

Nine militiamen from Chechnya killed in shelling in Ingushetia

As a result of shelling a motor vehicle with militiamen from Chechnya in Arshty village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, nine persons perished and ten more were wounded, as reported by Alexei Vorobyov, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia.

11:00, 4 July 2009

Nabucco treaty to be signed on July 13 in Turkey

The official signing ceremony of the interstate treaty on construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline will take place on July 13 in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. This was announced by the European Commission on July 3.

10:00, 4 July 2009

Unemployment on the fall in North Ossetia

Analysis of the situation in labour market of North Ossetia shows that the number of workplaces is no longer shrinking, and the number of jobless workers no longer grows, as reported Nikolai Koliev, head of the division on labour migration.

09:00, 4 July 2009

HRC concerned of attacks on oppositional activists in Georgia

The organization named "Human Rights Centre" (HRC) has promulgated a statement on detentions in Georgia of activists of the opposition and attacks on them, as Simon Papuashvili, coordinator of the HRC in Tbilisi, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

20:00, 3 July 2009

Polyakova: Russian soldiers in South Ossetia are beaten not only by senior conscripts but also by officers

Ella Polyakova, chair of the human rights organization "Soldier's Mothers of St Petersburg", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that regular soldiers, who take their service in South Ossetia, are in "brutal conditions" there. According to her story, soldiers in South Ossetia are beaten not only by senior conscripts, but also by officers.

19:00, 3 July 2009

President of Ingushetia is back in consciousness

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was heavily wounded in an attempt on him, has come to his senses. Doctors managed to replenish his blood loss and stabilize his blood tension.

18:00, 3 July 2009

Human rights activists to help deportee from Egypt Makhsud Abdullaev

As reported by the press service of Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, local human rights activists are ready to help Maskhud Abdullaev, a native of Chechnya and deported student from Egypt, in obtaining the general civil Russian passport, and to defend his rights.

17:00, 3 July 2009

Another case opened against advocate in "Neva-Express" case

The Investigatory Department for the Novgorod Region of the ICPO has initiated the second criminal case against Magomed Razakov, a lawyer of the Moscow Bar, who defended a figurant accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train. This time the case was opened on the article of "Contempt of the court".

14:00, 3 July 2009

"Chernovik" criminal cases get back to Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan

Today, the Leninskiy Court of Makhachkala has held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case, where 5 journalists of the "Chernovik" weekly are defendants. The criminal case comes back to the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

13:00, 3 July 2009

ICPO: 5315 persons recognized to be victims in South-Ossetian war

Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the ICPO, has presented the above figure of those who suffered in the war in South Ossetia in August 2008 as the latest result of the investigation into the conflict in the Caucasus.

12:00, 3 July 2009

Karachaevo-Circassia: prominent sambo athlete killed by power agents buried

On June 1, the body of Murat Ristov, world champion in combat sambo (Russian style of self-defence), who was killed on May 28 in Kabardino-Balkaria, was rendered to the mould in his homeland - Karachaevo-Circassia. Ristov was trained and became a well-known sportsman in Adygea.

Ingushetia, wedding. Photo by www.ingushetia.ru

11:00, 3 July 2009

Mutsolgov: 95 percent of bride kidnappings in Ingushetia are pre-agreed

The majority of bride kidnappings in Ingushetia take place upon prior agreement between the families of the would-be couple. According to Magomed Mutsolgov, a member of the advisory board on human rights in Russia and leader of the human rights NGO "Mashr", only five percent of such kidnappings end with opening of criminal cases.

Yerevan, Northern avenue. Photo of "Caucasian Knot"

10:00, 3 July 2009

Armenian opposition holds rally and street march in Yerevan

On July 2, in the capital of Armenia, supporters of the opposition held a several thousand strong rally and then marched along the streets of Yerevan.

09:00, 3 July 2009

Special operation is over in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

Two suspected militants were blocked today at night in a flat of a dwelling block in Nalchik. As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies, they surrendered to militiamen.

08:00, 3 July 2009

In Ingushetia, grenade blows up in household of UBOP deputy head

Today, at about 3:30 a.m. Moscow time, an unidentified person has thrown a grenade into the yard of a private household in Nazran, where Rustam Khalukhaev, deputy head of the division for fighting extremism of the Department for Fighting Organized Crime (UBOP) of Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), lives.

22:00, 2 July 2009

Woman from Chechnya wins her claim against Russia at ECtHR

Russia has lost a case at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on the claim of Zina Pukhigova, a resident of Chechnya, and should pay 39,757 euros for disappearance and death of her husband Salman Abdulazizov in February 2001.

21:00, 2 July 2009

MIA of Chechnya: terror act against Kadyrov prevented

In Grozny, as reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, a militant was killed, who had prepared terror acts against the Republic's leadership, including President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Also, a woman-militant was wounded and detained; a militiaman was wounded in a special operation.

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