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23:10, 6 April 2011
On April 5 in Moscow, an 18-year-old resident of Chechnya suspected of killing Pavel Kazakov, 19, a football fan on December 10, 2010. On that day Moscow saw funeral of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the Moscow "Spartak" Football Club, killed in a fight with residents of Northern Caucasus.
23:00, 6 April 2011
According to preliminary results of the 2010 census, the average annual birth rate in Chechnya is about 32,000 newborns against the mortality rate of about 6200, with the migration loss of about 2000, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Ramzan Digaev, head of the Territorial Department of the Russian Federal State Statistics ("Rosstat") for the Chechen Republic.
23:00, 6 April 2011
Power agents hope to identify Dokku Umarov among those liquidated in Ingushetia; while the former Mayor of Volgograd is seeking his reinstatement, it was decided to liquidate the post of Mayor whatsoever - in favour of the post of City Manager; Azerbaijani authorities respond by mass arrests to mass protests, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 28 to April 3, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
22:00, 6 April 2011
The officials of the Azov Sea Port argue that the two spots of oil products, detected yesterday in the Don River near the city of Azov (Rostov Region), pose no threat. At the same time, an activist of an environmental organization said that the river pollution was significant, while information about the incident is concealed.
21:00, 6 April 2011
Ambassador Fernando M. Valenzuela, Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU), paid a visit to the Republic of Ingushetia. During the visit he met with Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the human rights organization named "MASHR".
20:00, 6 April 2011
A trial of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evading military service, starts in Azerbaijan. On April 7, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha, chaired by Emin Akhundov, plans to hold a preliminary hearing on the case.
19:00, 6 April 2011
Yesterday, April, 5, actions in support of detained political prisoners passed off in two towns of Rostov region. As a result of the picket in Rostov three activists of "Another Russia" were detained. Activists in Taganrog had to organize a single-person picket because the municipal administration prohibited holding a meeting.
18:00, 6 April 2011
Yesterday, April, 5, oppositional community of Georgia put forward a suggestion to the ruling party to recommence negotiations on electoral system. The statement they issued runs that the opposition is ready to make some concessions but at the same time it is going to start a broad campaign of informing the population on the amendments it offers.
23:50, 5 April 2011
Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, 36, son of the first president of Georgia, who is serving his prison term has treated - in his letter to US President Barack Obama - the situation as "deplorable" in the Georgian penitentiary system, in justice, in the electoral system, and in the spheres of the freedom of speech and respect for human rights.
23:40, 5 April 2011
Today Chechnya will host the ceremony of official inauguration of Ramzan Kadyrov as the head of the republic. From April 2 on, security measures in central Grozny have been essentially intensified, causing, together with all the preparations, serious problems for the residents of the Chechen capital.
23:30, 5 April 2011
The rights of ethnic minorities in Georgia are duly protected, said 60.4 percent of respondents in the region of Kvemo-Kartli region, populated by Azerbaijanis, and in Samtskhe-Dzhavakheti, populated mostly by Armenians. This figure was voiced out on March 30 at presentation of the sociological study conducted in these regions last December.
23:10, 5 April 2011
The Georgian aviation authorities and UN officials will conduct a joint inquiry into the catastrophe, which happened with the UN aircraft belonging to the "Airzena-Georgian Airways" airline in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
23:00, 5 April 2011
The reduction of the population of Ingushetia in-between the censuses of 2002 and 2010 happened due to the fact that the Chechen refugees, who stayed in Ingushetia in 2002, later returned to their former residences. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Ibragim Kurkiev, head of the territorial body of the Federal State Statistics Service ("Rosstat") for the Republic of Ingushetia.
22:20, 5 April 2011
The "Caucasian Knot" was reported at the administration of the Batumi port that the radioactive substance caesium-137 detected in the port has been already withdrawn and transported to a secure storage.
22:10, 5 April 2011
Alexei Baranovskiy, a friend of the defendants in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, is under threat of criminal liability for perjury, said the victims' advocate Vladimir Zherebenkov.