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December 01, 2010 18:00

• The wife of a resident of Ingushetia lost in Dagestan asks Director of State Security Service to find out his location

  Zarema Khutiyeva, resident of Nazran, reports that she still knows nothing of the fate of her missing husband Muhamed Aslambekovich Khutiyev born in 1973 who disappeared yet on October, 20. She has submitted a request to State Security Service to render her assistance in establishing her husband's location.

November 30, 2010 23:50

• Stavropol Territory: violent death of head of village soviet is not confirmed

  According the preliminary data of the investigation, the cause of the death of the head of the Irgaklin Rural Soviet, Stepnovskiy District, and her brother was poisoning with carbon monoxide, said Ekaterina Danilova, senior assistant to the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia in the Stavropol Territory.

November 30, 2010 23:40

• Former head of Kuschevskiy District gets to hospital after suicide attempt

  Valery Palkin, former head of the Kuschevskiy District, Krasnodar Territory, cut his veins open and was hospitalized, said the press service of the regional GUVD.

November 30, 2010 23:10

• Georgia to try suspects of spying for Russia in mid-December

  In Georgia, the Batumi City Court will start, presumably on December 14-15, the trial of the 13 citizens of Russia and Georgia detained as members of a spy network set up in the country.

November 30, 2010 23:00

• Brussels: European Parliament holds "Circassian Day"

  Today, the European Parliament in Brussels starts the event called "Circassian Day", held for the fifth time already and aimed at discussing the issues of ethno-cultural revival, development and political problems of the Circassian nation and society.

November 30, 2010 22:50

• Chechnya checks pharmacies for selling counterfeit drugs

  From November 24 on, employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are detecting pharmacies and retail outlets, where non-licensed and counterfeit drugs are sold. Sellers of such drugs will face administrative punishments.

November 30, 2010 22:40

• Russian MIA declares solving all terror acts in Northern Caucasus

  All the terror acts committed in the territory of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have been solved, Sergey Chenchik, Head of the GUVD of the MIA for the NCFD, said at a press conference today.

November 30, 2010 22:30

• Medvedev: Kuschevskaya is an example of power-crime merge

  Addressing today his message to the Russian Federal Assembly, President Dmitri Medvedev stated the need to fight laxity in law enforcement agencies and other bodies of state power. As an example he cited the events in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where 12 persons were assassinated on November 5.

November 30, 2010 22:20

• President of Chechnya will not evidence at the trial on Israilov's murder

  Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will not go to Vienna to the trial on the murder in Austria of his former bodyguard Umar Israilov. This was stated by Andrei Krasnenkov, Kadyrov's advocate. In his opinion, the investigation has no proofs of President's involvement in the murder. However, the human rights activists, engaged in monitoring the litigation, are convinced that Kadyrov shall evidence and point to strong arguments present in case materials.

November 30, 2010 22:10

• Special operation is on in Dagestani village of Balakhani

  Today, from 8 in the morning, Balakhani village, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is blocked by units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). This was reported by power structures of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

November 30, 2010 20:00

• Georgian opposition demands drawing representatives of the USA an EU to investigation of explosions in Tbilisi

  The oppositional Labour Party of Georgia stands for arrival of representatives of the US Congress and the European Parliament in Georgia in order to prove complicity of the country's authorities in the explosions which took place in Tbilisi at night of November, 29, with their assistance.

November 30, 2010 19:00

• A teenager in Dagestan identified the militiamen who had beaten him up

  On November, 26, in the Prosecutor's office of Sovetsky district of Makhachkala, Dagestan, a procedure of identification of the militiamen who at the end of June beat up a fourteen-year-old Makhmud Akhmedov, took place, the teenager was taken to hospital as a result of beating.

November 30, 2010 18:00

• Relatives of missing people in Chechnya held a meeting in Grozny

  On November, 29, women relatives of missing citizens of Chechen Republic held an action in Grozny in which over 30 women took part. The participants adopted an appeal to the community asking for help in search of their kidnapped or missing relations.

November 29, 2010 23:40

• Chechnya: circumstances of mass brawl in a village are investigated

  Law enforcement agencies of the republic hold investigation into the mass brawl that burst out in a foothill settlement of the Shali District and resulted in several injured persons, including one militiaman.

November 29, 2010 23:30

• Chechen journalists receive special prize of TV Festival "Hero of Our Time"

  On November 27, Rostov-on-Don closed the "Hero of Our Time" festival of socially relevant television programmes and TV films. It was held for the fourth time by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), and for the first time - in the south of Russia. A series of programmes made by Chechen journalists by the 65th Victory Anniversary was specially marked.

November 29, 2010 23:10

• WikiLeaks materials show US awareness of start of 2008 Five-Day War

  The website of WikiLeaks has posted documents, which indicate that the USA knew about the events in August 2008, when the Georgian-South-Ossetian conflict escalated into the "Five-Day War" between Georgia and Russia, but concealed facts from the world community.

November 29, 2010 23:00

• Official Yerevan refuses from comments on WikiLeaks publications

  The official Yerevan has refused to comment on the document on arms supplies to Iran by Armenia, made through bypassing the international sanctions; the document was posted on the WikiLeaks website. Experts, in their turn, believe that appearance of a large number of official diplomatic documents on WikiLeaks is a result of internal US squabbles.

November 29, 2010 22:50

• GPO: farm belonging to mother of main suspect in Kuschevskaya case received state funds under faked data

  In the course of a check conducted in the village of Kuschevskaya, the Krasnodar Territorial Prosecutor's Office revealed violations at allocation of subsidies to one of the agrarian farms, located in the village - the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Artex-Agro", managed by Nadezhda Tsapok - mother of Sergey Tsapok, a suspect of organizing the awful massacre. This was reported by Marina Gridneva, official spokesperson of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).

November 29, 2010 22:40

• TB patients are kept in Pyatigorsk SIZO together with healthy detainees, Ingush's relatives say

  Relatives of a resident of Ingushetia, who is kept in the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison), known as "Bely Lebed" (White Swan), allege violations of prisoners' rights to appropriate custody conditions. The SIZO administration denied the information.

November 29, 2010 22:30

• Ogandzhanyan: in 2010, 37 servicemen perished in crossfire in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Karen Ogandzhanyan, head of the public organization named "Helsinki Initiative-92", said that skirmishes among soldiers of the Karabakh Army occur frequently enough; and only in 2010, 37 soldiers were killed in such incidents.