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February 17, 2011 21:00

• Residents of Makhachkala hold action demanding authorities' non-interference in election of Kayakent District Head

  About 100 residents of the Kayakent District gathered in the square in front of the White House in Makhachkala. They sent several representatives to President of Dagestan to demand to grant residents the right to freedom of expression at election of the head of the district. The rest of the rally was driven by militiamen away from the square towards the park.

February 17, 2011 21:00

• Astakhov and Magomedov to supervise inquiry into rape of 13-year-old girl in Khasavyurt

  The Runet blogosphere is actively discussing the case of a three-day-long violence over a 13-year-old girl committed back in summer of 2010 in Khasavyurt by a group of teenagers who have not been punished yet. After a broad resonance of the incident on the Internet, Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman in Russia, and Magomedsalam Magomedov, President of Dagestan, took the investigation into this rape under their personal control.

February 17, 2011 20:00

• Russia's Supreme Court upholds sentence to ex-head of Astrakhan UBOP

  The Panel on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of life imprisonment to Rinat Salekhov, former head of the department for combating organized crime (known as "UBOP") at the UVD (Interior Department) for the Astrakhan Region, for organizing a criminal grouping and committing especially grave crimes.

February 17, 2011 19:00

• UN Commissioner: tough antiterrorist measures worsened situation in Northern Caucasus

  The tough methods used in the past in Northern Caucasus to fight terrorism had only worsened the situation in the region, said Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at a today's press conference.

February 17, 2011 18:00

• ECtHR fines Russia by 152,000 euros for disappearance of two residents of Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found the Russian authorities guilty of disappearance of two residents of Chechnya in 2002 and fined Russia by 152,500 euros.

February 16, 2011 23:10

• Sumgait Appeal Court leaves PFPA activist behind bars

  The Sumgait Appeal Court has dismissed the complaint lodged by Dzhabar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and upheld the decision of the first instance court - to keep him in custody for 2 months.

February 16, 2011 23:00

• Ingush SC leaves suspect of terror act in "Domodedovo" in custody

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has upheld the decision of the Magas District Court to arrest Umar Aushev, accused of helping the suicide bomber who blew him up in "Domodedovo" Airport on January 24.

February 16, 2011 22:30

• In Rostov Region, "Rosreyestr" official is suspected of causing multi-million damage

  A criminal case has been initiated against Vyacheslav Morozov, head of the Aksai Division of the Rostov Regional Department of the Federal Service of State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography ("Rosreyestr").

February 16, 2011 22:10

• Ukraine deports suspect of Kuschevskaya massacre to Russia

  On February 15, the Ukrainian authorities satisfied the request of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia to give out Vladimir Alexeev, who is accused of murdering several persons in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory. This was announced by Marina Gridneva, spokesperson of the GPO. The detainee was extradited to Russia, along with Vyacheslav Ryabtsev, on February 9.

February 16, 2011 22:00

• Foreman dies at "Vostochnaya" mine in Rostov Region

  On February 15, a foreman was lost at "Vostochnaya" mine, located in the Krasnosulin District of the Rostov Region. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the press service of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the region that a pre-inquiry check is now made on the fact.

February 16, 2011 21:00

• Prosecutor's office finds extremism in actions of deputy head of Novocherkassk

  In the Rostov Region, the prosecutor's office has brought a presentation to the head of city administration of Novocherkassk demanding to bring Vladislav Zhuravlyov, administration deputy head, to "disciplinary responsibility for extremist statements."

February 16, 2011 20:00

• Selimkhanov obliges Chechen state officials to wear Muslim clothes

  Magomed Selimkhanov, Deputy Head of the Government of Chechnya and Head of the Administration of the Head and the Government of the Chechen Republic, has ordered the employees of state bodies and administrations of districts and cities to bring their clothes in conformity with the norms "of the service and Vainakh ethics." This is the topic of his statement published in the section "Wiki of the Caucasus" on the website of the "Caucasian Knot".

February 16, 2011 19:00

• Last week, armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away 12 lives

  During the week - on February 7-13 - at least 24 persons became victims of the glowing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, 12 were killed and as many as that were wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" made on the basis of its own materials and information from other open sources.

February 16, 2011 18:00

• MIA denies that man detained in Rostov Airport is internal troop serviceman

  The man detained at the airport of Rostov-on-Don on whom thunder flashes were found is not a serviceman of the internal troops: he had documents of an army captain with him. This was stated by Vasily Panchenkov, head of the press service of the Internal Troops of the Ministry on Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

February 15, 2011 23:10

• Azerbaijan: leader of opposition party cannot get his foreign passport

  For five years already, Ali Kerimli, leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), cannot receive his foreign passport, and, therefore, cannot go abroad. This point, as reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, was discussed on February 14 at the roundtable held at the office of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

February 15, 2011 23:00

• NCFD to establish Institute of Caucasian Studies

  The Institute of Caucasian Studies, to be founded in the near future, will help to correct understanding of the processes underway in the Caucasus. This was stated by Yuri Oleinikov, deputy plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), at the roundtable "Caucasus. Problems of understanding history".

February 15, 2011 22:20

• In Chechnya, three principals are accused of abuse of powers

  Directors of three secondary schools of the Gudermes District of Chechnya will stand trial on charges of misuse of powers. According to law enforcement bodies of Chechnya, their violations were revealed by prosecutors last September.

February 15, 2011 22:10

• Stavropol OMON fighters suffer in special operation on Karachay-Cherkessian border

  Details are becoming known of the special operation conducted on the administrative border of the Stavropol Territory and Karachay-Cherkessia, near the village of Belomechetskaya. In the course of the operation, four fighters of the OMON (Special Militia) of the Stavropol Territory received heavy gunshot wounds, one serviceman was lost. Power agents of Karachay-Cherkessia have no losses or victims.

February 15, 2011 22:00

• Defence challenges refusal to grant political asylum to Anvar Sharipov in Italy

  On February 14, advocate Gianfranco Carbone filed a complaint against refusal of political asylum in Italy to Anvar Sharipov, brother of Maryam Sharipova, who, according to the investigation, blew herself up in Moscow metro in March 2009.

February 15, 2011 21:00

• Chechen authorities report explosions of two suicide bombers at detention attempt in Grozny

  As announced by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, two suicide bombers blew themselves up today in Grozny at an attempt to detain them in a city private house.