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17:10, 28 March 2009

NGOs of North Ossetia state poor care of invalids

Children's and youth public organizations, movements and associations of North Ossetia urge to pay more attention, when building objects of social infrastructure, to problems of limited capacity people - wheelchair invalids.

15:00, 28 March 2009

Boris Nemtsov registered as candidate for Sochi Mayor

Boris Nemtsov has been registered as a candidate to the post of Mayor of Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

13:14, 28 March 2009

Mass lay-offs of servants launched in Ingushetia

On March 26, state organizations and establishments of Ingushetia, administration heads of cities, districts and settlements received a written instruction to dismiss chief accountants and deputy heads of respective organizations, and also of division heads.

07:00, 28 March 2009

Today, Kabardino-Balkaria marks Revival Day of Balkar Nation

Today, Kabardino-Balkaria will host celebratory events in honour of the Revival Day of Balkar Nation. All the Culture Houses in Balkar villages will hold celebratory concerts and other festivities.

04:00, 28 March 2009

FSB: terror act of suicide bomber prevented in Ingushetia

The militants liquidated in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya had planned a terror act to be committed by a woman-suicide bomber, as reported on March 27 by Dmitri Sedletskiy, official spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia.

02:00, 28 March 2009

The New York Times journalist detained in South Ossetia

On March 27, Christopher John Chivers, a correspondent of the American newspaper The New York Times, was detained in South Ossetia at an attempt to cross the border of this republic with Georgia, as reported by the press service of South Ossetia's KGB (State Security Committee).

23:00, 27 March 2009

Medvedev instructs FSB Director to consider CTO termination in Chechnya

At his meeting on Friday with Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB and head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NATC), President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev asked him to consider the issue of lifting the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, which has lasted for more than nine years.

22:30, 27 March 2009

Human rights activists from Kabardino-Balkaria not on the list of prison observers

The Public Chamber of Russia has approved the list of public observers to be in charge of public control over places of detention according to the Law of the Russian Federation of June 10, 2008, "On Public Control over Ensuring Human Rights in Places of Detention and on Assistance to Inmates".

22:00, 27 March 2009

In North Ossetia, Brigade Commander suspected of exploiting soldiers

Military inspectors suspect the commander of the brigade deployed in Vladikavkaz of using labour of ten soldiers at his private household.

21:00, 27 March 2009

Two persons killed and two detained in special operation in Ingushetia

In Ingushetia, the special operation conducted by power agents since March 26 in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village is over. According to the command of the Internal Troops, two persons who had rendered armed resistance were killed, and two others detained. Three militiamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia were wounded.

19:00, 27 March 2009

Chechnya residents show a mass burial where Budanov's regiment was deployed

In Chechnya, fellow-villagers of Elza Kungaeva, for whose kidnapping and murder former Colonel Yuri Budanov was convicted, showed journalists a mass burial in Tanga-Chu village. The collective grave keeps remains of 23 persons.

Photo CK correspondent Natalia Estemirova

18:00, 27 March 2009

Grozny residents failed to meet President near mosque

Today, on March 27, several dozens of townspeople rallied in Grozny near the central mosque named "Heart of Chechnya" hoping to meet President of Chechnya and give him their petitions. However, Ramzan Kadyrov failed to appear.

23:40, 26 March 2009

General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia: 3500 suffered from war with Georgia

The State Office of Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has recognized about 3500 persons to be victims of the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008. This was stated by Taimuraz Khugaev, General Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia, at the international seminar, held in Essentuki on March 24-26, on the problems of fighting crime, law enforcement activities and development of criminal and criminal-procedural legislation.

23:30, 26 March 2009

Public hearings in Kabardino-Balkaria note lack of criticism in media

The official media of Kabardino-Balkaria are torn away from life; they have no analytics and little criticism. These statements were made at the hearings held by the Public Advisory Board under President of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

23:10, 26 March 2009

South Ossetia reports shelling from Georgia's side

The MIA of South Ossetia has reported that yesterday, on March 25, late at night, the South-Ossetian village of Mugut was shelled from the Georgian side. Nobody suffered.

23:00, 26 March 2009

Nemtsov: Olympic construction in Sochi needs declassifying

Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, believes that the secrecy regime imposed by the federal centre on the topic of Olympiad-2014 construction should be lifted. Candidate Alexander Lebedev, in his turn, is sure that Sochi residents' problems should be addressed before the Olympic ones.

22:00, 26 March 2009

Eyewitnesses of special operation in Dagestan refute the official version

The eyewitnesses assert the skirmish in the capital of Dagestan on March 20, as a result of which four persons were lost and three wounded, was launched by law enforcers. Earlier it was reported that the fire on the patrol car was opened by passengers of a "Zhiguli" car, who were named militants in official statements.

22:00, 26 March 2009

Budanov to be interrogated on kidnapping of Chechens

Yuri Budanov will be interrogated within the inquiry of the case related to kidnapping of residents of Chechnya in 2000. This was stated by Alexander Sorochkin, head of Military Department of the ICPO. However, all over again, Budanov should be found.

21:00, 26 March 2009

In Ingushetia, special operation goes on and brings casualties

The skirmish between the agents of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia and, presumably, militants who made their ambush in one of private houses in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District, continues, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source in law enforcement bodies. Local residents say that more than 10 power agents were wounded and killed.

20:00, 26 March 2009

Forced migrants fear to move from Ingushetia to Chechnya

Forced migrants from Chechnya who live in temporary accommodation centres (TACs) in Ingushetia are forced to come back home. They say they have nowhere to go.

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