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September 28, 2009 22:00

• President of Ingushetia: Prigorodny residents should be brought back to their houses

  Today, there is a real opportunity to return all the Ingushes from the Prigorodny District back to their houses, as stated by President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who explained his attitude to the problem of this district - a part of North Ossetia.

September 28, 2009 21:10

• Youngsters assassinated in Chechnya were students

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya have reported that the two young men, suspected of participating in the armed underground, who were killed yesterday, on September 27, in the Shatoy District, were second-year students at two leading higher schools of the republic.

September 28, 2009 21:00

• Head of FIDH: Kadyrov failed "taming" HRC "Memorial"

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov offered employees of the HRC "Memorial" not to cover violations of human rights in media, but notify the head of Chechnya in private order. This was stated by Soer Belassen, President of the International Federation on Human Rights (FIDH), in her exclusive interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent; she was present on September 25 at the trial on Kadyrov's claim against head of the HRC Oleg Orlov.

September 28, 2009 20:00

• Criticism of Ramzan Kadyrov of HRC "Memorial" keeps Chechen NGOs on alert

  Ramzan Kadyrov's interview to the newspaper "Zavtra" (Tomorrow) of September 24, in which he poured his criticism on upon the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", having accused it of "undermining Russia" and its employees - of absence of patriotism, has seriously worried activists of local NGOs. In the opinion of some of them, such statements just escalate tension and can lead to most negative consequences.

September 28, 2009 19:00

• Georgian opposition moves ultimatum to Saakashvili because of early relief of Girgvliani murderers

  Today in Georgia, the members of the oppositional movement "November 7" have held a protest action against the early relief of four policemen, who in January 2006 beat bank employee Sandro Girgvliani to death.

September 28, 2009 18:00

• Lokshina: residents of Chechnya fear complaining of arsons of their houses

  Since this July, in Chechnya, human rights activists have registered about 30 arsons of houses of relatives of those, who were blamed as militants' helpers. It is more and more difficult to register such arsons as victims are too frightened to complain, as Tatiana Lokshina, deputy head of the Moscow bureau of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in her conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

September 26, 2009 22:00

• Head of Stary Achkhoy and his son assassinated in Chechnya

  Ali Artamov, head of the village administration of Stary Achkhoy, and his son Anzor, who worked as his father's security, have been murdered in Chechnya.

September 26, 2009 20:00

• Tsintsadze: refusal to return to parliament makes Georgian opposition weaker

  The refusal of opposition parties of Georgia to take part in elections does not strengthen, but only weakens the political force of the opposition, political scientist Soso Tsintsadze said in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

September 26, 2009 18:00

• Peaceful resident of Makhachkala, killed in skirmish, was announced militant, his uncle states

  One of the eyewitnesses of the special operation in Makhachkala on September 24 asserts that an innocent peaceful resident was killed in it and later announced to be a militant. Kurban Magomedov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his nephew, Alikhan Dinov, 26, occasionally happened to be there and got into the skirmish.

September 26, 2009 17:00

• Georgia: street traders ask MIA to stop oppressing them

  In Tbilisi, the street traders, who worked in the territory adjoining the "Dynamo" stadium, sent a letter to Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, calling him to stop oppressions.

September 26, 2009 16:12

• Pakhomov: Sochi to conquer European level of service

  The city-resort Sochi has long-term experience of receiving guests, but by Olympic Games-2014 it will have to reach the European level of rendering of services, Anatoly Pakhomov, Sochi Mayor, said in the context of the 8th International Investment Forum "Sochi-2009".

September 26, 2009 15:00

• Adygea commemorates Cossacks executed during civil war

  Today, the Maikop District of Adygea hosts the traditional Dakhov commemoration of the Cossacks who perished in the years of civil war.

September 26, 2009 13:00

• Georgian parliament to consider boycott of Sochi Olympiad

  Next week, the parliament of Georgia will consider the issue of boycott of the Sochi Olympiad. Georgian Olympians will be also invited to the session.

September 26, 2009 12:00

• Guluzade: neither USA nor Russia need Gabal Radar Station in Azerbaijan

  After the States' refusal to deploy their ballistic missile defence system in Eastern Europe, the joint Russian-American use of the Gabal Radar Station in Azerbaijan is an alternative scenario, but, generally speaking, neither country in fact needs the station. This is the opinion of Azerbaijani political scientist Vafa Guluzade, former state adviser on foreign policy.

September 26, 2009 11:00

• Georgia to simplify dual citizenship procedure for Diaspora

  Georgia will simplify the procedure for obtaining dual citizenship for its compatriots from abroad, President Mikhail Saakashvili promised in New York on September 23 while present at a charitable concert, organized to raise money for buying a building for the St Nino Georgian Church.

September 25, 2009 23:00

• South-Ossetian officials dissatisfied with Ergneti meeting

  Merab Chigoev, deputy plenipotentiary representative of President of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement, finds the last meeting on incident-prevention, held on September 24 in Ergneti village, Gori District, in the Georgian-South-Ossetian border, fruitless.

September 25, 2009 22:00

• Native of Dagestan arrested on suspicion of hacking official websites in Northern Caucasus

  The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has arrested Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, suspected of hacker attacks on the websites of power bodies of some republics of Northern Caucasus.

September 25, 2009 21:00

• CPJ awards "Freedom of Press" to convicted Azerbaijani journalist

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced decoration of a group of journalists from several countries of the world with the award "Freedom of Press" for 2009. Among the recipients are journalists from Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Einullah Fatullaev, a convicted Azerbaijani journalist.

September 25, 2009 19:00

• Georgian opposition plans new protest actions

  The opposition of Georgia is not going to give up and will continue its protest actions against the policy of President Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by Levan Gachechiladze, leader of the public movement "Defend Georgia" and one of the organizers of protest actions, held this spring.

September 25, 2009 18:00

• At UN General Session, Saakashvili promised to return Abkhazia back to Georgia

  On Thursday, September 24, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili spoke at the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, drew parallel between the Berlin wall and loss of territorial integrity of Georgia, and promised to bring Abkhazia back into Georgia.