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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

June 17, 2010 23:20

  • ICPO: all casualties of special operation in Dagestan identified

    As reported by the press service of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Dagestan, all the persons liquidated in the course of the special operation conducted in Stary Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, have been identified.

June 17, 2010 23:00

  • "Transstroy" barred from building Sochi port

    Oleg Deripaska's Corporation "Transstroy" has been deprived of the 2.99-billion-rouble contract on building the second phase of the cargo port in Sochi - one of the main sites of the Olympic construction programme.

June 17, 2010 23:00

  • ECtHR finds Russia guilty of seven disappearances in Chechnya

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found Russia guilty of disappearance and death of seven residents of Chechnya and ruled that Russian authorities should pay 470,000 euros of compensation. This is stated in the press release of the Court.

June 17, 2010 22:00

  • Militiaman's peaked cap. Photo by http://photos.grabli.net Dagestan residents dissatisfied with law enforcers' nonfeasance

    Recent frequent murders of militiamen and attacks on public catering establishments have causes worry in local residents. People believe that the militia, which is unable to ensure safety of its workers, moreover cannot take care and defend peaceful residents.

June 17, 2010 21:00

  • Tbilisi policemen detain oppositional protesters in front of the Chief Interior Administration. July 15, 2009. Photo by http://yugo-vostok.org Anniversary of protest action dispersal in Tbilisi passed without excesses

    On June 15, a 30-minute protest action was held at the building of the former Chief Police Administration of Tbilisi. About 80 protesters wanted to remind about the events on June 15, 2009, when in that very place policemen dispersed a rally of the opposition by applying physical violence and arrested several participants, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

June 17, 2010 20:00

  • South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" ICG: Russia allotted 28,000 US dollars per resident of South Ossetia

    After the August conflict of 2008, the whole economy of South Ossetia had to reorient towards Russia. The Russian Federation had allocated 840 million US dollars (26 billion roubles) to the breakaway republic; however, the economy, which should have consumed the money, shows no recovery. This was the conclusion of the international NGO named "The International Crisis Group" (ICG).

June 17, 2010 19:00

June 17, 2010 18:00

June 16, 2010 23:40

  • FSIN refutes data on Khasis' hunger strike

    Evgenia Khasis, a figurant in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, did not refuse to take prison food at the "Lefortovo" SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is now kept. This was stated by the spokesman of the press service of the Federal Corrective Service (known as "FSIN").

June 16, 2010 23:00

June 16, 2010 22:20

June 16, 2010 22:10

  • Ten supposed militants liquidated today in Dagestan

    They were killed in two armed clashes that burst out in Dagestan today. Six of them were killed in the course of the special operation conducted in Stary Kostek village, and four more were shot dead in the city of Derbent. The general losses of the federal forces made four casualties and eight wounded servicemen.

June 16, 2010 22:00

  • In Irkutsk, three natives of Ingushetia are accused of kidnapping

    The Investigatory Department (ID) of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia for the Irkutsk Region has indicted three natives of Ingushetia of kidnapping. Two of the detainees had earlier worked in the MIA bodies of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

June 16, 2010 21:00

  • Armenian and Azerbaijani media should build bridges, journalists of both countries believe

    Events similar to the international journalists' conference held in early May in the Italian city of Cagliari could become a sort of bridge between the peoples of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Azer Khasret, head of the Azerbaijani information network CASCFEN, and Boris Navasardyan, President of the Yerevan Press Club, who took part in the above international journalists' conference in Sardinia.

June 16, 2010 20:00

June 16, 2010 19:00

  • Paintball rifles. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org Chechen MIA knows nothing about attacks on women without headscarves

    In the context of the widespread information about numerous cases of attacking girls and women without headscarves from paintball rifles, the enforcement bodies of Chechnya assert that they received no complaints or applications on the occasion of such attacks in Grozny. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) also knows nothing about the facts of appearance of leaflets with threats to girls and women who appear in the streets with uncovered head.

June 16, 2010 18:00

June 15, 2010 23:40

  • Astakhov: NCFD regions need children's psychological services

    Pavel Astakhov, Children's Ombudsman at the President of the Russian Federation, has justified, in his report on the outcomes of his inspection visit to Northern Caucasus, the need to set up psychological services for children in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District). According to his story, many children and teenagers in Chechnya grew up amidst warfare and have traumas and wounds.

June 15, 2010 23:10

June 15, 2010 23:00

  • Militiaman shot dead in Dagestan

    As a result of shelling the RPS (road-post service) post located at the northern exit from the capital of Dagestan a militiaman was killed.

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