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October 16, 2010 19:00

• Ingush woman reports militia's pressure on her son

  Tanzila Mutsolgova, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, said that her earlier kidnapped son Ibrahim Tochiev, now under investigation, is exposed to pressure and deprivation of rights at the Nazran Interior Division for Ingushetia of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). She herself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 16, 2010 18:00

• Conflict with North-Caucasian natives burst out in military unit in Perm Territory

  At the aviation base of Military Unit No. 40383, located near the "Bolshoe Savino" Airport, 120 recruits from Northern Caucasus refused to obey their commanders. In total, 500 soldiers and sergeants take their service there.

October 16, 2010 16:00

• United Armenian opposition holds rally

  On October 15, in Yerevan, in front of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran a rally was held by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) against corrupt power structures.

October 16, 2010 15:00

• Residents of Adygea find visa-free entry to Georgia incomplete

  Many residents of Adygea note that the visa-free entry to Georgia for residents of Northern Caucasus is fine and convenient, but the fact that it exists for only a few regions makes, in their opinion, makes such a gesture incomplete.

October 16, 2010 14:00

• Sochi holds film festival about life of people with disabilities

  Over eighty documentaries, feature and animated films were presented to the 5th International Film Festival "Cinema without Barriers", held in the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.

October 16, 2010 13:00

• Armenia opens ropeway "Tatev Wings"

  Today, Armenia hosted the opening ceremony of the world's longest reversible ropeway "Tatev Wings".

October 16, 2010 11:00

• On October 18, North Ossetia to commemorate victims of Vladikavkaz terror act

  On that day the republic will cancel all festivities and entertainment television programmes in connection with the mourning ceremonies on the 40th day after the attack near the central marketplace in Vladikavkaz.

October 16, 2010 10:00

• Georgian opposition urges victims on November 7, 2007, events to get registered

  The youth opposition movement "November 7" has established a registration centre for the victims of the violent dispersal of the opposition rally in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007, and calls those who suffered at those events to get registered in the context of prepared complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

October 16, 2010 09:00

• In Armenia, Yazidis protest against violation of their rights

  On October 15, Yazidis held their rally near the presidential residence because of the decision of the Ministry of Education of Armenia to publish textbooks in the Kurdish language and allocate lessons for studying Kurdish in schools, which, according to the protesters, infringes the rights of the Yazidis as a national minority.

October 16, 2010 08:00

• ECtHR upholds decision on immediate release of journalist Fatullaev

  The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld its previous verdict on immediate release of Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev from prison.

October 15, 2010 23:40

• Azerbaijan issues a memo on policemen's behaviour during elections

  Within the series of activities aimed to educate the election subjects, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has published the "Memo on Policemen's Participation in Elections to National Assembly". The opposition doubts of its usefulness.

October 15, 2010 23:30

• South Ossetian authorities invite Georgians who left the republic in 2008 back

  The authorities of South Ossetian have declared their readiness to return, under supervision of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the Georgians, who left the Leningor Region (South Ossetia) during the war in August 2008 and now live in Georgia, to their former homes.

October 15, 2010 23:20

• Tankman lost at military exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh

  On October 12, in the course of exercises in one of tank military units of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), a soldier was lost.

October 15, 2010 23:10

• Soldier who wounded his comrade and escaped with firearms sought in Dagestan

  In the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan a soldier wounded another one and fled with firearms after a quarrel with some other soldiers, said today a source from local law enforcement bodies said today.

October 15, 2010 23:00

• Zviad Gamsakhurdia's son plans to run for Georgian presidency

  Konstantin Gamsakhurdia, an MP and son of the first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has announced his decision to participate in the 2013 upcoming presidential election.

October 15, 2010 22:50

• Rights defenders want to insist that Georgian authorities withdraw Georgian peacekeepers from Afghanistan

  The Centre of Human Rights plans to make a formal appeal to the Government of Georgia with a demand to withdraw Georgian troops from the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. This was reported by Ucha Nanuashvili, head of this NGO. According to his story, many politicians say in private conversations that they do not approve Georgian citizens' fighting outside their homeland, although they do not express their views in public.

October 15, 2010 22:10

• Sapiyat Magomedova, beaten by militia in Dagestan, remains under recognizance not to leave

  Since September 30, lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was attacked and beaten by militiamen in the city of Khasavyurt, is under recognizance not to leave. The investigator who is running the case initiated under the claim of one of the militiamen, involved in the incident, believes that the lawyer can escape or hamper the preliminary investigation.

October 15, 2010 22:00

• Special operation underway in Derbent; CTO regime announced

  Currently, special fighters of the FSB and MIA of Dagestan are conducting special actions; there is a skirmish underway. There is information about one casualty, said the spokesman of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation.

October 15, 2010 21:00

• Spartak fans against RFU's refusal to toughen punishment to Anzhi

  The most well-known association of Moscow Spartak fans "Fratria" decided to break all relations with all official football organizations in Russia. One of the main reasons was the refusal of the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) to disqualify the stadium in Makhachkala.

October 15, 2010 20:00

• Meskhetins in Georgia are going to ask Saakashvili to legalize their status

  Meskhetin migrants from Gori district of Georgia are going to submit President Mikhail Saakashvili a request to solve the problem of legalizing their status.