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22:00, 6 May 2010
Madina Khadzieva, press secretary of the Ingush MIA, has confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the information about liquidation by DFSB agents of Zelimkhan Oziev as a suspected militant. He was murdered in Kantyshevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia. However, Ms Khadzieva gave no details, since, according to her story, the data about this special operation was kept by the Russian DFSB for Ingushetia. Oziev's relatives assert that Zelimkhan was subjected to extrajudicial execution.
19:00, 6 May 2010
Today, Magomedzagir Isagadjiev, a resident of Novy Kostek village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on April 27 by unidentified armed persons, supposedly, power agents, in Makhachkala right from a hospital ward, came back home. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Isa Magomedov, head of the village administration.
18:00, 6 May 2010
The organizers of today's rally in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, where clashes with the police took place, assert that the action was peaceful. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) says that the protesters threw stones at policemen.
23:40, 5 May 2010
The Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Centre "Eco-Accord" (Moscow) have launched, together with the IPEN (International POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) Elimination Network) their global campaign "Without Mercury: You, I and Children". According to the initiators of the action, they plan to lobby adoption in 2013 of "a tough global agreement on mercury." Researches within the campaign have shown that the Volgograd Region is still under threat of mercury pollution.
23:00, 5 May 2010
Lithuanian law enforcers assert that they prevented a terror act, planned to be committed in Russia, according to the Lithuanian State Office of Public Prosecutor, by Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania.
22:30, 5 May 2010
In the near future, the former Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy promises to make his new video appeal revealing facts about 800 cases of corruption in the MIA.
22:20, 5 May 2010
Andrei Lebedev, Deputy of the State Duma (from the LDPR), sent an appeal to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev asking him to clarify the situation with contacts of the head of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with extraterrestrials.
22:00, 5 May 2010
On May 4, four families from the Imereti Lowland, whose houses and land plots had been alienated because of building Olympic objects, marked their housewarming parties in new cottages in Nekrasovskoe village, Krasnodar Territory. At the same time, other Imereti residents were surprised to learn that their resettlement to new houses in Nekrasovskoe is postponed, or cancelled whatsoever.
22:00, 5 May 2010
Dmitri Peskov, press secretary of Russian Premier, has stated that the Reporters Without Borders (RWB), who called Vladimir Putin in their annual report an enemy of the free press in Russia, had superficial knowledge of the topic. The press service of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic, stated that the estimate given by the RWB was biased when ranking Kadyrov among oppressors of the freedom of speech.
21:20, 5 May 2010
The Khamovniki Court of Moscow has sentenced Konstantin Pereverzev, who struck on March 31 at a Moscow metro station Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the oldest Russian human rights organization - Moscow Helsinki Group - to one conditional year.
21:00, 5 May 2010
As reported by the spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, the two women injured today in the course of a special operation in central Nazran (one of them later died in hospital), were helpers of Magomed Gardanov, leader of Ingush armed underground, liquidated in the skirmish.
18:00, 5 May 2010
The residents of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, detained on April 15, were set free on April 18 only after active interference of human rights activists and media. All this time 16 persons were in the open air, since the ROVD (District Interior Division), where they were brought, has no enough room for keeping that number.
23:50, 4 May 2010
In Astrakhan, employees of a bank branch were stealing money for several months in a row from accounts of orphans and minors left without parental care.
23:00, 4 May 2010
Prime Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba and George Drndorski, representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and deputy coordinator of programmes for Eastern Europe, discussed at their meeting on May 3 the opportunity to continue the programme of the ICRC Mission in Abkhazia on searching those who disappeared in the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhazian war and identification of its casualties.
23:00, 4 May 2010
President of Chechnya is officially accused of involvement in murder of his former security; attempt committed in Kabardino-Balkaria on former and present state officials; journalists are again in authorities' disgrace, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 26-May 2, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".