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23:20, 23 November 2009
Victoria Radochinskaya, 31, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, is the winner of the prestigious international contest "Missis of the World-2009", which was held in the evening on November 22 in the southern Vietnamese city of Vungtau. She was awarded a white-gold crown decorated with 63 rubies worth about 100,000 US dollars.
23:00, 23 November 2009
Vandals continue desecrating the memorial boulder installed in the place of mass executions of Jews by fascists. This statement was made by Ms Yael Ioffe, leader of the Jewish community of Volgograd, in her welcoming speech at the opening of the information-methodical seminar "Efficient Counteraction to Extremism and Xenophobia".
23:00, 23 November 2009
Visit of Belarusian MPs to Abkhazia and South Ossetia to get ready for consideration of recognizing the breakaway republics; preparation to elections in regions of Northern and South Caucasus; kidnapping and liberation of the son of Buinaksk administration head, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 16-22 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
22:00, 23 November 2009
Children-invalids from this republic have no chances to receive due treatment - for more than 40,000 such children Chechnya has only one rehabilitation centre.
21:00, 23 November 2009
Today, the court precinct No. 106 of Khasavyurt began preliminary hearings on the criminal case against lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who is accused by Arslankhan Arslankhanov, an inspector for especially important cases of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, of insulting him with swear words. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Salimat Kadyrova, an advocate of the Kizilyurt Inter-District Bar, who is defending Magomedova.
20:00, 23 November 2009
Starting Monday, November 23, schoolchildren of Chechnya will go to additional vacations in the context of possible swine flu epidemic. The pupils' forced rest will last for at least ten days.
19:00, 23 November 2009
As a result of revising drugstores in Vladikavkaz, employees of the republic's prosecutor's office revealed facts of setting extra charges on 20 vital and major medicines in four city drugstores.
18:00, 23 November 2009
Activists of ten NGOs from different regions of Russia have announced establishment of the Public Commission on Chechnya, which will have its main tasks in defending victims of torture and inhuman treatment and bringing those guilty of rough violations of human rights or of failure to take the necessary measures to prevent such violations and punish for them to responsibility.
23:00, 21 November 2009
An unidentified culprit used a grenade launcher to shell a stationary militia post in Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia; one employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has suffered.
22:00, 21 November 2009
Hadjimurad Kamalov, a Dagestan political scientist and director of the LLC "Freedom of Speech", said in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Moscow had not decided yet whom to support at the presidential election in Dagestan.
21:00, 21 November 2009
As reported by Andrei Goncharuk, deputy head of the secretariat of the President of Ukraine, in designing the gas line "White Stream", Georgia will rely on the potential of the Ukrainian gas transportation system.
19:00, 21 November 2009
As reported by Armen Minasyan, chair of the Yerevan-based "Democracy and Peace Centre", the statement of Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, about possible force solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a threat to regional stability.
18:00, 21 November 2009
Opinions differ in Dagestan as to the chances of the five candidates for presidency, approved on November 19.
17:00, 21 November 2009
In the context of the recent collapse of the Church Surb Gevorg in Tbilisi, erected in 1356, the Supreme See of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) has accused the authorities of Georgia of indifference to preservation of the Armenian relics located in this country.
12:00, 21 November 2009
Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossisk, who had earlier asked Russian Premier Putin about a personal meeting in his video appeal, has given up his intention, now saying that his meeting with Putin will be an "offence to his honour."