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February 09, 2011 18:00

• Under age relatives of the probable executor of terror in "Domodedovo" arrested in Ingushetia

  A brother and sister of Magomed Yevloev, direct executor of the explosion, have been arrested for suspicion of preparing the act of terror, one of the participants of a closed session of the State Duma held on February, 8, with the participation of leaders of power ministries of the Russian Federation said.

February 09, 2011 18:00

• Three explosions in Grozny within 24 hours

  As a result of another blast that happened in the evening in the Oktiabrskiy District of the Chechen capital, three OMON (special-purpose militia) fighters were wounded. In total, three explosions that occurred in Grozny within 24 hours wounded five persons.

February 08, 2011 23:20

• Members of Public Chamber of KBR offer to strengthen role of education and media in war on terror

  On February 7, the House of Government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), held a sitting of the Public Chamber of the KBR, which discussed the role of public in the fight against terrorism. The members of the Chamber shared their views on the reasons of the current socio-political situation and offered various measures on how to improve it.

February 08, 2011 23:10

• Volgograd Region: prosecutor accused of bribery sentenced to five years in prison

  The Court of the Sredneakhtubinskiy District of the Volgograd Region found Alexander Shtokolov, former district prosecutor, guilty of a fraud attempt. According to investigators, he had promised to help a local entrepreneur to acquire land plots for a bribe of over 4 million roubles.

February 08, 2011 23:00

• Advocate of PFPA activist arrested in Azerbaijan claims pressure on his client

  Dzhabbar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), arrested by the Sumgait City Court, had confessed under police pressure, his advocate Asabali Mustafaev said.

February 08, 2011 22:50

• NGO "Article 42 of Constitution" names major problems of human rights in Georgia

  This non-governmental organization (NGO) believes that the main problem in the sphere of human rights defence in Georgia relates to custody conditions in prisons. Its activists assert it in their report for 2010.

February 08, 2011 22:40

• Alexander Rusetsky: attitude to Russian language has changed in Georgia

  In recent years, Georgians have changed their attitude to the Russian language. This is a result of the Russo-phobia, which, after the events in South Ossetia in 2008, was on stable rise, says Alexander Rusetsky, head of the South-Caucasian Institute of Regional Safety.

February 08, 2011 22:30

• "Curfew law" for children brought juvenile crime down, Stavropol authorities believe

  The authorities of the Stavropol Territory say that the territorial law, which introduced a sort of "curfew" for children, is OK; and a system of measures was designed to promote it. Opponents of the law believe that it restricts human rights and indicate to the high corruption component that hampers to enforce it.

February 08, 2011 22:20

• Swedish capital to hold rally on February 23 dated to deportation of Chechens and Ingushes

  On February 23, Stockholm will host a rally of Chechen (Vainakh) refugees, organized by the Swedish-Chechen Committee (Johan Lagerfelt) and dedicated to the 67th anniversary of deportation of Chechens and Ingushes. According to the organizers, they were pushed to hold the action by the recent situation, associated with the attitude in Scandinavian countries to refugees from Chechnya.

February 08, 2011 22:10

• Head of Kabardino-Balkaria is ready to meet militants' parents

  Head of the Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov is ready to meet the rebels' parents who have turned to him asking for a meeting. Mr Kanokov told about it on February 7 at a sitting of the Public Chamber of the Republic.

February 08, 2011 22:00

• Employees of Chechen MIA arrested in Rostov Region

  Two Chechen militiamen, who, according to the investigation, threatened a waitress with firearms and resisted detention, were put in custody in the Rostov Region.

February 08, 2011 21:00

• Ramazan Utarbiev: I am ready to surrender in exchange for guarantees of lawfulness

  Native of Dagestan Ramazan Utarbiev who is in search as one of the participants of the mass scuffle in which Egor Sviridov, fan of the Moscow "Spartak", was killed issued a video message where he said he was ready to "surrender to the authorities" if he received guarantees of "fairness, justice and impartial investigation".

February 08, 2011 20:00

• Dokku Umarov took the responsibility for terror in Domodedovo

  Responsibility for organizing the act of terror which carried away 36 lives with the use of a suicide bomber in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo" on January, 24, was taken by Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian gunmen.

February 08, 2011 19:00

• Three persons got injured during an explosion of a militia car in Dagestan

  Three militia officers got injured as a result of an explosion of an unidentified explosive device on the way of a militia car's following in Makhachkala.

February 08, 2011 18:00

• An icicle fell down from a roof and killed a woman in Rostov region

  On February, 7, an icicle fell down from the roof of a five-storey dwelling house upon a fifty-year-old woman. The retiree died on-site before the rescuers and the ambulance arrived.

February 07, 2011 23:30

• Rescuers find the man who disappeared in Adzharia mountains

  In the village of Baratauli, Georgian rescuers found alive the man considered as missing due to landslides in Adzharia.

February 07, 2011 23:20

• In Azerbaijan, explosion of telecommunication centre kills two and wounds five

  In the city of Masally in Southern Azerbaijan, the rescue and search operation is completed in the venue of the explosion in the building of the district telecommunications node. Bodies of two casualties - Kishvyar Shakhverdieva, 55, an employee of the telecommunication node, and Asim Aliev, 28, head of the technical division of the enterprise, - were extracted from under the ruins.

February 07, 2011 23:10

• Azerbaijan claims shelling by Nagorno-Karabakh on the eve of OSCE monitoring

  Under the mandate of a personal envoy of the OSCE Chairman, the next OSCE monitoring in the contact line of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh will be held on February 8 near the village of Chemenli, Agdam District, says the press service of the Defence Ministry of Azerbaijan. According to its data, on February 6 and 7, the ceasefire regime was broken on different directions.

February 07, 2011 23:00

• Refugees hold protest action before Parliament of Georgia

  Another protest action, organized by refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, starts in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

February 07, 2011 22:50

• Court in Stavropol Territory finds district paediatrician guilty of death of three-year-old girl

  The Trunovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced the female paediatrician, who made a wrong diagnosis to a girl of three, who died because of that, to one year of settlement colony, Gennady Sobolev, public prosecutor of the Trunovsky District, said today.