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October 14, 2010 22:00

• Seven soldiers detained in Armenia in connection with the death of soldier Khachatryan

  Seven servicemen have been detained in connection with the death of Samwell Khachatryan, statutory service soldier, on October, 3, in one of the military units of Armenia.

October 14, 2010 21:00

• The court in Karachai-Circassia will be hearing a case of an arson of a Baptist church

  A criminal case of Arthur Eziyev accused of an arson of Evangelist Christian Baptist church "New Life" has been brought before Karachai court.

October 14, 2010 20:00

• Investigation of the case of "black transplantation" started in Azerbaijan

  Ministry of Interior affairs and Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan have started an investigation in connection with the reports available on "black transplantation" of human organs.

October 14, 2010 19:00

• The All-Russian population census in Chechnya is going on under an intensified guard

  Population census in Chechnya as well as in all the rest regions of Russia has started today. Law enforcement agencies of the republic will remain on an intensified watch regime until the end of the census.

October 14, 2010 18:00

• A "Cross-cultural interaction School" with participation of delegations of Ingushetia and North Ossetia is under way in Moscow

  Students and young specialists from Ingushetia and North Ossetia are participating in a seminar "Cross-cultural interaction School" which is under way in Moscow from October, 10, to October, 16.

October 13, 2010 23:50

• Resident of Ingushetia blames doctors for negligence that led to his daughter's sterility

  Boris Evloev, a resident of the village of Nesterovskaya (Ingushetia), states that his daughter Khava lost her reproductive function after spending a week in the Malgobek Central District Hospital (CDH) and intends to have a criminal case initiated on this fact.

October 13, 2010 23:40

• Opening Georgian border for residents of NCFD has propagandistic nature, experts say

  Political analysts in Russia and Georgia are actively discussing the decision of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on unilateral opening the border for residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). In Georgia, experts fear a flood of refugees from Russia and the "creeping aggression" of Ossetians; their Russian counterparts see it as Tbilisi's propaganda step.

October 13, 2010 23:20

• Ramzan Kadyrov becomes head of the World Congress of Chechen People

  Today in Grozny, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was elected by the delegates of the World Congress of Chechen People to be Secretary General of the Congress. According to observers, this will make him more independent from the Kremlin.

October 13, 2010 23:10

• Stavropol Region starts campaigning for exit from NCFD

  Residents of the Stavropol Region, who are bagging subscriptions since October 10 for the Region's exit from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), assert that after unification with the North-Caucasian republics the region faced increased criminality, terror acts and ethnic conflicts.

October 13, 2010 23:00

• Chelysheva: police has fabricated links between Egle Kusaite, Magmadovs and Gataevs

  The cases of Aishat and Apti Magmadovs, arrested near Moscow, Egle Kusaite, suspected of terrorism in Lithuania, and the Gataev family of Chechen refugees, currently pending of their refugee status in Finland, were deliberately linked together to give more international resonance. This was stated by Oksana Chelysheva, deputy director of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship.

October 13, 2010 22:50

• Volgograd Region: court refuses to restore official who retired after fires

  The Rudnya District Court of the Volgograd Region has rejected the claim on reinstatement lodged by Viktor Morozov, former head of the district administration, who had voluntarily resigned after local fires on September 2-3. The claimant is going to challenge this decision.

October 13, 2010 22:50

• Three cases initiated after check of elections to Rostov-on-Don Duma

  The Investigatory Committee for the Rostov Region has initiated three criminal cases on facts of falsifying election documents at elections to the Rostov-on-Don City Duma on October 9, said the Committee's spokesman.

October 13, 2010 22:40

• In Krasnodar Territory, rector of state university accused of using fake diploma

  The criminal case against Albina Gatieva, Rector of the Armavir State Pedagogical University, accused of a fraud through use of a faked diploma of Doctor of Sciences, was sent to the court.

October 13, 2010 22:20

• Rustam Dzeitov, kidnapped in Ingushetia, found in Vladikavkaz SIZO

  The whereabout is now known of Rustam Maksharipovich Dzeitov, born in 1982, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo, whose kidnapping on September 7 by unidentified power agents from his home was reported by his relatives. As of October 12, Rustam Dzeitov was kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Vladikavkaz, says the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" received by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 13, 2010 22:10

• Dagestan: lawyer Mirzaeva demands to prosecute militiamen who detained her

  Lawyer Zinfira Mirzaeva has lodged a repeated application on attracting militiamen to responsibility for the illegal, in her opinion, detention and seizure of her phone, runs the message of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" that arrived to the "Caucasian Knot".

October 13, 2010 22:00

• Nalchik holds mourning ceremonies on 5th anniversary of attack

  The Square of Accord in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria was the venue of the rally on the fifth anniversary of the tragic events in Nalchik in 2005, when militants attacked power agencies of the republic. By the end of the rally, a group of women appeared in the square, whose sons took part in the attack and were killed or arrested, and whose sons were killed in special operations or disappeared.

October 13, 2010 21:00

• Ex-deputy of the Ministry of Education in Georgia is accused of corruption

  The personnel of the Investigation department of Head Public prosecutor's office of Georgia detained Alexander Chikvaidze, Ex-deputy Minister of Education and Science, on accusation of abuse of power and bribery.

October 13, 2010 20:00

• Two top-level militiamen in Stavropol region are suspected of bribery

  Criminal proceedings against Chief of Specialized investigative department for economic crimes and Head of Investigation unit of Department of Interior affairs in Stavropol suspected of an attempt and complicity in taking a bribe of one million rubles have been started in Stavropol region.

October 13, 2010 19:00

• ROSTRUD held up the work of three mines in Rostov region

  Federal Labor and Employment Service (Rostrud) held up the work of three mines in Rostov region. The reason for doing so had become blatant violations of labor security creating an actual danger for the miners' lives committed by the employers, Andrey Selivanov, Deputy Head of Rostrud, reported.

October 13, 2010 18:00

• A new expertise acknowledged the defendants in the process on a series of exploding houses in Sochi sane

  A repeated psychological and psychiatric expertise of the defendants in the process on a series of exploding houses in Sochi in 2008-2009 established that they were sane. The expert opinion was announced on October, 12, at the session of the court in Krasnodar.