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February 02, 2011 22:00

• Ten persons detained as suspects of preparing terror acts in Moscow

  Ten suspects of preparing a series of terror acts on the New Year holidays in Moscow have been detained; seven of them have been charged.

February 02, 2011 21:00

• Unknown attackers on militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria stole their guns

  The criminals who attacked militiamen today in the city of Chegem (the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR)) took away the casualties' firearms.

February 02, 2011 20:00

• Attackers on Nazran in 2004 sentenced to long prison terms

  Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court passed a sentence to 12 defendants, figurants in the case on the attack on Nazran (Ingushetia) in 2004, one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest - to 10-25 years of high security colony.

February 02, 2011 19:00

• Austria to give Chechen suspected of terrorism out of Belgium

  On February 1, the Austrian court decided to extradite Aslambek L., 32, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in December 2010, to Belgium, where he is suspected of terrorist activities.

February 02, 2011 18:00

• Father of Dagestanian detained in Italy is unaware of his son's whereabouts

  Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhany and father of Anvar Sharipov, whose detention in Italy was announced by some media, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had long been unaware of his son's whereabouts. Law enforcement officials believe that it was Sharipov who accompanied his sister-suicide bomber, when she blew herself up at the Lubyanka Moscow metro station on March 29, 2010.

February 01, 2011 22:00

• Sergey Gaplikov appointed to head "Olympstroy"

  Instead of Taimuraz Bolloev, Sergey Gaplikov, deputy head of the government's office, has been appointed the head of the State Corporation on Construction of Olympic Venues and Development of Sochi.

February 01, 2011 21:00

• NATO is promoted in Georgia through children's drawings

  On January 31, the NATO Information Centre in Georgia presented a calendar, illustrated with children's drawings and statements of activists of Georgian public organizations.

February 01, 2011 20:00

• US and UK Embassies urge their citizens in Azerbaijan to take care

  On January 31, the Embassies of the United States and Great Britain in Baku made appeals to citizens of their countries in Azerbaijan asking them to be vigilant in view of possible threat of attacks on them.

February 01, 2011 19:00

• Krasnodar court drops charges against ecologists detained at the action in defence of "Utrish"

  Today, the Magistrate Court has withdrawn charges of administrative cases initiated against two activists of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus Andrei Rudomakha and Dmitry Shabalin, detained in Krasnodar on December 12 last year during a rally in defence of the natural reserve named "Utrish".

February 01, 2011 18:00

• Students and schoolchildren of Northern Caucasus to be tested for drugs

  In 2011, voluntary testing for drug using among schoolchildren and university students will be held in all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

February 01, 2011 17:00

• Agaev: explosion in Kuzminki has possibly frustrated an act of mothers revenge for her murdered sons

  A hypothesis of Magomed Daudov having been involved in the explosion in “Domodedovo” airport was based upon our own analyses of the theme, Mairbek Agaev, editor of information and politics department of Dagestani newspaper “Chernovik” (“Draft”) told a reporter of “Caucasian Knot”.

February 01, 2011 16:00

• Militia of Rostov-on-Don denies national background of mass scuffle on January, 19

  Commenting on the information of a mass scuffle in Rostov-on-Don on January, 19, Deputy director of the school near which the incident took place declared that her pupils were not implicated in the scuffle.

February 01, 2011 15:00

• Italian authorities refute Ruslan Umarov’s detention

  Representatives of Italian authorities have refuted the information of detention of Ruslan Umarov, a thirty-five-year-old brother of Dokku Umarov, leader of North Caucasian gunmen.

February 01, 2011 14:00

• One more action within the framework of “Strategy-31” passed off in Sochi

  Human rights and civil activists, leaders of Territorial Public Self-government groups (TPS), members of non-governmental organizations and political parties gathered in the public garden near Municipal administration building of Sochi on January, 31, from 17 to 19 o’clock, for a sanctioned meeting in protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation within the framework of the All-Russian action “Strategy-31”.

January 31, 2011 22:00

• Equipping of airport completed in Stepanakert

  The construction works at the new airport in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh are nearing completion. Now, the equipment is being installed; in April they will bring in furniture; and in May they plan to receive the first aircraft.

January 31, 2011 21:00

• Parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh refuses to discuss Declaration "On the Right of People of Nagorno-Karabakh to Peace and Free Development"

  The parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh decided not to discuss the draft declaration "On the Right of People of Nagorno-Karabakh to Peace and Free Development" brought in by the Public Council of Nagorno-Karabakh on foreign policy and security.

January 31, 2011 20:00

• Azerbaijan: CMDPC calls authorities to hold new parliamentary elections

  The Azerbaijani Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) has urged the authorities to hold new parliamentary elections, "to prevent the development of the situation in the country under the Tunisian or Egyptian scenarios."

January 31, 2011 19:00

• Life of ROVD head wounded in Kabardino-Balkaria is out of danger

  According to doctors, the life of Anatoly Sundukov, 51, head of the Urvan ROVD (District Interior Division), and his driver Zamir Shikov, 26, who were wounded today by an explosion that occurred in the Federal Highway Rostov-Baku, is out of danger.

January 31, 2011 18:00

• Employee of Azerbaijani Embassy perished in riots in Cairo

  Nidzhat Godzhaev, an official of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Cairo, was lost during the riots in Egypt.

January 31, 2011 17:00

• President of “Olympstroy” state corporation Bolloev submitted a report of resignation

  Teimuraz Bolloev, President of “Olympstroy” state corporation is leaving his office, Press service of the state corporation reported.