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23:00, 2 December 2009
Exchange of militant statements between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the destiny of Karabakh; situation with public human rights organizations in Chechnya and resonant murders in Northern Caucasus; terror acts against trains in Dagestan and Novgorod Region, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 23-29 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
22:20, 2 December 2009
The section "Family and Public Health" of the Forum "Caucasus. Traditions and Modernization", held on November 30 in Kabardino-Balkaria, discussed the issue of preserving the Caucasian family values at the background of modernization of the rest of the life. In the opinion of singer Varvara, mother of four children, these values are surely exemplary. Other debated topics were social problems, health of the population and demography.
22:00, 2 December 2009
Militants of Northern Caucasus call the terror act against the "Neva-Express" train a link in the chain of "blows on strategic objects in the territory of Russia."
21:00, 2 December 2009
The Georgian party has released five citizens of South Ossetia: Ibragim Laliev, Lavrentiy Kaziev, Yakov Tekhov, Pavel Tekhov and Vladimir Eloev. The hostages were handed over at the Georgian-South-Ossetian border.
20:00, 2 December 2009
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya finds that the militants' statement about involvement of Doku Umarov's people in blowing up the "Neva-Express" to be just bluffing. However, their federal colleagues refrain from comments.
19:00, 2 December 2009
The arrest and subsequent imprisonment of the young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, convicted for hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries, has not resulted in any decrease of critical ideas in the blogosphere of Azerbaijan. This is proved by the analysis of blogs and interviews conducted by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent among civil society figures, experts and bloggers.
18:00, 2 December 2009
On December 1 in Krasnodar, opposite the building of the Forestry Department of the Krasnodar Territory, a picket was held in defence of the would-be Utrish Natural Reserve. Activists demanded, in particular, to stop construction of the so-called "anti-fire" road, where, in their opinion, relic forests are felled.
23:20, 1 December 2009
Today, the city of Anapa was to hold public hearings on the project "Forest Anti-Fire Road in the Anapa District Forestry", where the customer is the Department of Forestry of the Krasnodar Territory.
23:20, 1 December 2009
On December 1, the capital of Northern Ossetia starts a public reception office, intended to render free-of-charge legal aid and organized by law students.
23:10, 1 December 2009
The public organization of the Adyg people "Khasse" has made a statement on the fact of beating the leader of the "Circassian Congress" Ruslan Keshev in Kabardino-Balkaria. The statement notes that the aim of this attack was to disrupt preparation for the rally of Adyg public planned for December 5 in Nalchik.
23:00, 1 December 2009
Today, at the Tbilisi airport, a group of Russian experts was not allowed to cross the state border. Having spent half an hour in Georgia, they took a return flight and came back to Moscow via Yerevan.
22:30, 1 December 2009
Workers of mass media, authorities and the public took part in the section "Inter-Confessional and Interethnic Dialogue in Media Space" of the forum "Caucasus: Tradition and Modernization", held on November 30, 2009, in Nalchik.
22:00, 1 December 2009
As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, on November 25 in Karabulak, two suspected militants were killed in a skirmish in their VAZ-2109 car. The casualties were Mustafa Tochiev and Khamzat Uzhakhov. Mustafa was in federal search. However, the eyewitnesses and Uzhakhov's relatives assert that Tochiev was just a passenger in Uzhakhov's taxi car.
21:00, 1 December 2009
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has handed over to Russia its notes of protest related to the murder in Moscow on November 23 of Eduard Gurtskaya, a refugee from Abkhazia, and detention on November 29 of Ramaz Makasarashvili, a citizen of Georgia.
19:00, 1 December 2009
Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the humanitarian organization "Let's Save the Generation", who was kidnapped and murdered together with her husband Alik Dzhabrailov in Grozny earlier this August, was an occasional victim of the culprits: she died because of the husband. This was stated on Tuesday by Victor Ledenyov, head of the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia.