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October 08, 2010 18:00

• A figurant of the case of murdering Politkovskaya was brought a new accusation

  On October, 7, the Committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation brought a new accusation of organizing the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", against Sergey Khajikurbanov, ex-major of the Moscow Directorate for Combating Organized Crime.

October 07, 2010 23:40

• Georgia to open four refugee centres

  Today, the Georgian city of Gori will open four restored collective residence centres for 24 refugee families.

October 07, 2010 23:20

• Dagestani Jamaat "Guraba" confesses of blowing Irganai HPP

  A grouping of Dagestani militants who call themselves Jamaat "Guraba", took responsibility for the explosion triggered on September 7 at the Irganai Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in the Untsukul District of Dagestan.

October 07, 2010 23:10

• In Dagestan, former head of Kayakent District suspected of excess of power

  After the prosecutor's check in relation to Nariman Abdurazakov, former head of the Kayakent District of Dagestan, a criminal case was opened. He is suspected of excess of power.

October 07, 2010 23:00

• North Ossetia: alimony debts exceed 40 million roubles

  According to the local department of the Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM), the alimony debts in this republic exceed 40 million roubles. For the second month already photos of malicious defaulters are hung out in the centre of Vladikavkaz at advertisement boards with indication of their passport details and the amount of debt.

October 07, 2010 22:50

• European Parliament commemorates Anna Politkovskaya

  On October 6, the European Parliament paid tribute to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated right four years ago.

October 07, 2010 22:40

• Rally in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya held in Moscow

  The event marking the 4th anniversary of the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" was held in Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow.

October 07, 2010 22:30

• Gilauri: Georgia would not support Russia's accession to WTO

  As stated by Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri, his country will not vote for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), unless Russia allows Georgian customs officers to work in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

October 07, 2010 22:20

• In Georgia, director general of "Trialeti" TV Company fined by 400 laris

  The Gori District Court has imposed a fine of 400 laris on Joni Nanetashvili, director general of "Trialeti" TV Company, for resisting patrol policemen.

October 07, 2010 22:10

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay 350,000 euros to residents of Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia shall pay out around 350,000 euros on the claims lodged by relatives of those Chechens who had disappeared or were tortured.

October 07, 2010 21:00

• Chechen refugees held an action of protest in Strasbourg

  Chechen refugees who arrive in Europe come across a number of problems often connected with specific features of European laws and in such situations they are most of all afraid of deportation to Russia. Therefore by holding an action of protest on October, 6, in Strasbourg these people wished to draw public attention to their problems, Helena Gabrelyan, journalist of French radio RFI said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

October 07, 2010 20:00

• A corpse of a murdered man found in a car in Ingushetia

  A car with a corpse of an unknown man, arms and grenades in the cabin was found at 23:50, October, 6, in the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, a source in law enforcement agencies of the region reported.

October 07, 2010 19:00

• Firemen in Grozny dispersed a meeting against abuse of mothers' capital

  A women's meeting of protest in front of the house of the Government in Grozny on October, 4, was dispersed with the help of the firemen of Ministry of Emergency situations (MES), a representative of one of the local non-governmental organizations reported. He said that a group of women was protesting against frauds with the mothers' capital.

October 07, 2010 18:00

• Field commanders in Chechnya have selected a new leader

  Chechen field commanders publicly renounced their oath to Dokku Umarov and selected a new leader for themselves. This has become Husein Gakaev.

October 06, 2010 23:50

• In Georgia, commission for studying Gamsakhurdia's death requests materials from Russia

  The interim commission of the parliament of Georgia set up to study the circumstances of the death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of Georgian, is waiting for photo materials from the Russian Prosecutor's Office of the examination, which was held in Rostov-on-Don in 2007.

October 06, 2010 23:20

• ICPO wants to extend inquiry into Politkovskaya's murder till February 2011

  As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, new suspects have now been established in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", and international requests have been sent on legal aid to a number of European countries.

October 06, 2010 23:10

• Anthrax focus liquidated in Krasnodar Territory

  As reported today by the territorial department of the "Rospotrebnadzor", all the preventive and anti-epidemiological measures have been completed in the Beloglinskiy District of the Krasnodar Territory, where after September 19, cases of anthrax (Siberian plague) in animals were revealed in one of the farms.

October 06, 2010 23:00

• Large-scale special operation against militants is on in Chechnya

  The large-scale actions aimed to find members of the armed underground unleashed in late September in the foothill and mountain regions of Chechnya continue, but so far, despite involvement of huge forces, they gave no feasible results.

October 06, 2010 22:50

• Ognianova: ICPO is ready to reconsider Magomed Evloev's murder case

  At the meeting at the ICPO, the CPJ experts were told that the Committee is involved in all the above mentioned 19 murder cases of Russian journalists; inspectors are ready to reconsider some of them, for example, the murder case of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru".

October 06, 2010 22:40

• Skinheads who committed several murders in Volgograd and Moscow convicted

  Today, the Moscow City Court has sentenced three skinheads to 8-21 years in prison after finding them guilty of several murders committed in Volgograd and Moscow in 2007-2009, as well as of organizing a series of explosions in public places.