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

April 15, 2010 20:00

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  • Youth action against terrorism held in Kabardino-Balkaria

    A youth rally-protest "Candle of Memory" dedicated to casualties of terror acts in Moscow, Dagestan and Ingushetia was in Uchebnoe village, Prokhladnoe District of Kabardino-Balkaria, under the initiative of young people of the village and students of the Terek Agricultural Technical School.

April 14, 2010 23:10

  • Vladikavkaz, Maxim Shevchenko (on the left, standing), a member of Russian Public Chamber, meets journalists of North Ossetia under Project "Peace to the Caucasus". March 21, 2010. Photo by Vladimir Mukagov Enver Kisriev: project "Peace to the Caucasus" may draw officials' attention to regional problems

    The project "Peace to the Caucasus" and the report of the Russian Public Chamber's working group on development of public dialogue and institutes of civil society in the Caucasus will give nothing in the practical sense, but will at least help to bring the materials to the knowledge of high-ranking officials. This is the opinion of candidate of philosophy, senior scientific worker Enver Kisriev, head of the division of sociology of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

April 14, 2010 22:20

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  • Baku Mayoralty, Azerbaijan. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org "Musavat" activists detained in Baku

    Today in Baku, the police have prevented a picket of activists of the "Musavat" opposition party in front of the building of the Baku Mayoralty with the demand for the freedom of assembly.

April 14, 2010 20:00

  • Refugees from South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia complain of bad living conditions

    Refugees from South Ossetia who live in Khurvaleti village, Gori District of Georgia, complain of intolerable living conditions. Arina Tavakarashvili, a UN expert who is in charge of monitoring the refugees' living conditions, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in Khurvaleti the situation for refugees was bad from the very start of building houses for them. Refugees from Abkhazia also speak about heavy living conditions.

April 14, 2010 19:00

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  • Georgian soldier's family sues Russia at ECtHR

    The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (AYLG) has filed a claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in favour of relatives of a Georgian soldier lost during the August events in South Ossetia in 2008. The claim refers to facts of torture and murder by Russian and Ossetian militaries of the Georgian soldier named Georgiy Antsukhelidze.

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  • FSB Director reports solution of recent resonant terror acts

    As reported by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau), at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), 26 members of the terrorist group, which organized blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009, were liquidated, and 14 more were detained.

April 13, 2010 22:00

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  • European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org ECtHR requests data from Russia about disappearance of Aushev's relatives

    Today, it became known that on April 7 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asked the government of the Russian Federation to present, before May 19, 2010, copies of all the documents relating to the measures taken to establish whereabouts of four relatives of human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, who was shot dead last October, or about their custody in case they are in hands of the state.

April 12, 2010 23:30

  • MIA: kidnappers of six-year girl found in Chechnya

    As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, a kidnapping of a girl of 6 was solved hot on the trail in the republic; the kidnappers demanded a ransom of 2 million roubles for the child.

Relatives of Chechen young men shocked by secret verdict

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