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  • Inspection of arriving passengers at the entrance to the Domodedovo Airport, January 24, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" Domodedovo confirms bomb warning received by telephone

    At the Domodedovo Airport, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent received confirmation of the information about the operative actions held in the terminal building and related to the received call about the bomb planted in the airport.

January 26, 2011 22:20

  • Poland rejects visa to Akhmed Zakaev

    As reported by Radoslav Bashuk, advocate of Akhmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who is now in London and who was put by Russia on the international search list, Poland refused to grant visa to his client.

January 26, 2011 22:10

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  • In Kabardino-Balkaria, heavily sick women are kept in custody

    Yesterday, on January 25, The Public Observation Commission over Detention Places of Kabardino-Balkaria visited the women's colony located in the village of "Sovietskiy" in the Prokhladnoe District, where 389 women are currently serving their terms. Some of them are seriously ill, many have no jobs.

January 26, 2011 20:00

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  • Five militiamen wounded in Chechnya as a result of a domestic gas explosion

    At night of January, 29, an explosion of domestic gas took place in one of the back rooms of a unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs dislocated in the settlement of Khankala, in the neighbourhood of Grozny. Five officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia assigned to Chechnya from different regions were taken to hospital with woundings of various extent of gravity.

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January 25, 2011 22:20

  • Cordoned area at the entrance to the Domodedovo Airport, January 24, 2011. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" Over the past 15 years 1561 persons suffered in terror acts in Moscow

    The explosion at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on January 24 became the 26th terror act committed in the Russian capital since 1996, and the first one committed in a Moscow international airport. Since 1996, terrorists attacked various crowded places in Moscow: hotels, public transport stations, trade centres, concert halls, transport means and even residential buildings, killing at least 627 persons and injuring 934 ones. At least 10 of these explosions were carried out by suicide bombers. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on data from open sources.

January 25, 2011 22:10

  • Miner dies in Rostov Region

    On January 24, one miner was killed and three more injured in a collapse of the elevator cage in the mine "Rostovskaya" of the city of Gukovo, Rostov Region; one victim is in grave condition, and two have minor injuries, said the spokesman from the Ministry of Public Health of the Rostov Region.

January 25, 2011 22:00

  • Public activists demand sooner adoption of law on status of terror act victims

    After the terror act in Domodedovo, activists of Russian public organizations, which unite the people who suffered from terror activities, keep reminding that the state resorts only to payment of compensations, but is not responsible for the further fate of the victims, who still need medical care and rehabilitation years after the terror acts, where they suffered.

January 25, 2011 21:00

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  • Einullah Fatullaev (on the left) and his advocate Isakhan Ashurov (centre) at the Garadag District Court of Baku. April 28, 2010. Photo by Turkhan Karimov for the "Caucsian Knot" Baku Court of Appeal upholds sentence to journalist Fatullaev

    The sentence against journalist Fatullaev remains in force; this was the end of considering the journalist's appeal complaint at the Baku Court of Appeal. It was a surprise for the advocates and the journalist, because the hearing of parties' arguments had been appointed for today.

January 25, 2011 18:00

  • At least 12 foreigners suffered in Domodedovo terror act

    According to the updated list of victims of the terror act in Domodedovo, posted on the website of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia, among those hospitalized there were citizens of Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Serbia and France - one of each; the list also includes three citizens of Tajikistan, two citizens of Moldova and one - of Uzbekistan.

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