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23:00, 17 June 2010
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.
23:00, 17 June 2010
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.
22:00, 17 June 2010
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.
21:00, 17 June 2010
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.
20:00, 17 June 2010
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).
19:00, 17 June 2010
Twenty-one workers of the chip-making factory in the city of Azov got food poisoning and were brought to hospital. Eight of them were left there for treatment.
18:00, 17 June 2010
On June 17, at the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, where the trial on the case of a group of citizen of the republic, accused of terrorism and attempt to overthrow the power, some of the defendants stated their innocence.
23:40, 16 June 2010
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").
23:00, 16 June 2010
After Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", interfered into the case of Ratmir Fotov, who had been detained in Kabardino-Balkaria, his advocate Larissa Dorogova, who was hired by Ratmir's relatives, managed to meet him.
22:20, 16 June 2010
Activists of ecological organizations of Armenia call to suspend construction of the hotel in the Khosrov Natural Reserve and start broad public debates on the use of this area for ecological tourism.
22:10, 16 June 2010
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.
22:00, 16 June 2010
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.
21:00, 16 June 2010
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.
20:00, 16 June 2010
Natik Gyulahmedoglu (Adilov), a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who was attacked today in Baku, was sent to forensic medical examination. His colleagues are afraid of possible provocations against him.
19:00, 16 June 2010
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.