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19:00, 2 February 2009

Three hunger-strikers hospitalized in Rostov Region

Three miners-pensioners, who take part in the hunger strike held in the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, have been hospitalized because of health deterioration.

18:00, 2 February 2009

Commander of 58th Army: Glukhov was recruited by Georgia special agencies

The Command of the 58th Army asserts that Junior Sergeant Alexander Glukhov who found himself in the territory of Georgia could have been recruited by Georgian special services.

20:00, 31 January 2009

Georgia accuses Abkhazia of shelling EU observers and journalists

The law enforcement bodies of Georgia assert that today observers from the European Union and a group of foreign journalists were shelled from the territory of Abkhazia near the village of Shamgona, Zugdidi District. Abkhazia declares that it has nothing to do with the incident.

18:00, 31 January 2009

Terror act on gas main line prevented in Dagestan

Today in Dagestan, a clock-operated explosive was detected under the main Mozdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. The bomb was neutralized.

17:00, 31 January 2009

IOC believes that Russia will cope with preparing Sochi to Olympiad-2014

Jean-Claude Killy, Chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for preparing Olympiad-2014, has expressed his confidence that Russia will manage to get ready timely for holding the Winter Olympic Games; however, he has noted that today Sochi is not ready to be an Olympic capital.

15:00, 31 January 2009

In Azerbaijan, 50 families refuse to move to houses built in former cemetery

In the capital of Azerbaijan, bureaucrats want to move about 50 families who live in the private houses allegedly subjects to demolition into the new ones built in the territory of destroyed Nariman cemetery.

13:00, 31 January 2009

Congress of the Nation opens in Ingushetia

Today, the Congress of Ingush Nation was opened. Its agenda has three points: public and political situation in the Republic and ways to improve it; adoption of the Law on Local Self-Government; and counteraction to corruption.

12:00, 31 January 2009

Georgia: Zviad Gamsakhurdia's widow goes on hunger strike

Today, Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia, widow of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has announced a dry hunger strike in the reception room of the Republic's Hospitals in Tbilisi.

11:00, 31 January 2009

Stalingrad Battle damage counted up in Volgograd Region

The Volgograd Region has published a collection of documents evidencing the damage caused by the actions of fascist troops during the Volga Battle in 1942-1943.

09:12, 31 January 2009

In 2010, South Ossetia will count its residents

In 2010, for the first time in the last 20 years, South Ossetia will hold a national census. The decision was passed at the sitting of the presidium of the government of South Ossetia, where the respective bill was presented.

06:00, 31 January 2009

Azerbaijan to apply for holding 2020 Summer Olympiad

Azerbaijan will file an application for holding Olympic Games of 2020 in Baku. This statement was made by Azad Ragimov, Minister for Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan.

05:00, 31 January 2009

Kalmykia finishes erecting first wind power plant in the South of Russia

The Priyutnenskiy District of Kalmykia, 15 kilometres off the capital Elista, is finalizing the installation of wind power generators of the first wind power plant in the South of Russia. By 2010, they plan to commission the Republic's wind power yard consisting of 126 wind-driven generators for the aggregate power capacity of 150 megawatts.

23:00, 30 January 2009

In Chechnya, militiamen detained three local residents

Yesterday, on January 29, three residents of Chechnya, suspected of complicity with the armed underground groups, were detained in the Urus-Martan District by power agents. They assert that confiscated a grenade from one of the detainees.

23:00, 30 January 2009

Medvedev explains his silence on murders of Markelov and Baburova

On January 29, in the Kremlin, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev met Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta", and Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR and a co-owner of the newspaper.

22:00, 30 January 2009

In Rostov-on-Don, veterans of Afghan War hold picket in defence of their rights

In Rostov-on-Don, about 50 former soldiers, the so-called "Afghans", have gathered today in the morning for holding a picket with a demand to allot land plots to them for building of dwelling houses.

22:00, 30 January 2009

Armenia hosts rally in support of "Case of Seven" defendants

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that already before the start of today's session on the "Case of Seven" at least five hundred participants of the protest action have rallied near the building of the General Jurisdiction Court of the Shengavit community.

22:00, 30 January 2009

Militia of Dagestan report detention of two suspected militants

In Dagestan, militiamen have detained two persons suspected of taking part in illegal armed formations.

21:00, 30 January 2009

Supreme Court of Ingushetia finds Evloev's detention illegal

The decision of the court on illegality of detention in the airport of the city of Magas by law enforcement bodies of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", who later perished in the militia car last August, has come into its legal force.

20:00, 30 January 2009

Armenia: defendant in "Case of Seven" needs hospitalization

Ombudsman in Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has addressed Gevork Danielyan, Minister of Justice of Armenia, with a request to transfer Deputy Sasun Mikaelyan, accused under the "Case of Seven", who is suffering from cardiac insufficiency, into the prison hospital. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the press service of the oppositional Armenian National Congress.

19:00, 30 January 2009

Head of Azerbaijani NTRB: foreign broadcasting will not be resumed

The National Television and Radio Board (NTRB) of Azerbaijan has made its decision: the legislation is against foreign broadcasting in national frequencies. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Nushiravan Magerramli, head of the Board, who made his comments on the statement of the US Embassy that the American party is waiting for proposals on restart of broadcasting of the radio stations Liberty and Voice of America.

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