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January 01, 2014 11:44

• Volgograd buries two children killed by explosion at railway station

  On December 31, the funeral of Alexei Valenta, 12, and Alexander Dolgikh, 11, who died in the terror act in Volgograd, took place in the farm of Vertyachy, Gorodische District of Volgograd Region.

January 01, 2014 08:40

• Spontaneous dump liquidated in Sochi

  A spontaneous dump that appeared in Parallelnaya Street in Sochi and caused protests of local residents is liquidated. However, district officials and special truck fleet, as well as local residents, believe that the problem is solved only temporarily.

January 01, 2014 06:50

• Sochi: rally demanding to put housing and communal services into order scheduled for January 5

  On January 5, 2014, Sochi will host a rally demanding to put the systems of housing utilities and urban management into proper order. The action was sanctioned, said the Mayoralty.

December 31, 2013 19:05

• Alexander Cherkasov finds new book of HRC "Memorial" interesting in context of Sochi Olympic Games

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has published the book "Three Years of 'Stability'", which combines quarterly newsletters with analysis of the situation in the conflict zone in Northern Caucasus from the human rights defenders' point of view. The book is interesting in the context of the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi. Thus was emphasized by Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial".

December 31, 2013 19:05

• Northern Caucasus-2013: independent experts sum up the year (video)

  The change of power in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria; refusal from direct elections of heads of most of the regions; termination of the militants' adaptation commission and suspension of dialogue among different currents of Islam in Dagestan – these events, as the most significant for Northern Caucasus in 2013, as of December 24, were assessed by the experts dealing with the region.

December 31, 2013 18:55

• Ibragim Nurov, murdered in Stavropol Territory, was earlier kidnapped from mosque, his relatives assert

  Ibragim Nurov, 25, a resident of the aul of Abram-Tybe, Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, who was killed on December 30 near the village of Kayasula, had been earlier kidnapped by unidentified persons on December 27 from the mosque in Neftekumsk, his relatives assert.

December 31, 2013 17:57

• Makhachkala: 2000 come to commemorate victims of Volgograd terror acts

  Today, about two thousand people took part in the memorial rally about the victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of the head of Dagestan.

December 31, 2013 14:20

• Car explosion kills assistant to Buynaksk Public Prosecutor

  Rasul Gasanov, an assistant to the Public Prosecutor of the city of Buynaksk, was in his car, when an explosion occurred underneath. Gasanov died on the spot, said Rasul Temerbekov, the spokesman of the local Investigating Committee.

December 31, 2013 13:26

• Death toll of Volgograd terror acts reaches 36

  The explosion in Volgograd trolleybus killed 16 people, including the suicide bomber, not 15, as reported earlier, the spokesman of the local Ministry of Public Health said today. Thus, the total number of casualties of the explosions on December 29 and 30 is 36 people.

December 31, 2013 13:10

• Death toll of car explosion in Khasavyurt is two

  The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports with reference to the latest data of power agents that the explosion of a police car in Khasavyurt on December 30 claimed two human lives.

December 31, 2013 12:13

• States offer to help Russia in securing Sochi Olympics

  The US Govt has offered its Russian counterpart a full support in ensuring security of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, said Caitlin Hayden, the press secretary of the US National Security Council.

December 31, 2013 10:02

• Social care bodies of Volgograd Region receive 107 million roubles to pay victims

  107 million roubles have been transferred to the social care bodies of the Volgograd Region, engaged in payments to casualties' families and victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd. On December 30, financial aid was paid to 17 people, said the regional governor Sergey Bozhenov.

December 31, 2013 08:39

• Volgograd: list of casualties of trolleybus explosion is 16 already (video)

  The death toll of the trolleybus explosion in Volgograd has reached 16 people, including the suicide bomber. At night on December 31, a wounded man died in hospital, said a medical source from the Southern Federal District (SFD).

December 31, 2013 02:12

• HRW: Akhshtyr villagers in Sochi have no access to drinking water and public transport

  The mountain village of Akhshtyr, Adler District of Sochi, has been deprived for five years of reliable water supply and is cut off from public transport and other infrastructure because of the Olympic construction, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports.

December 31, 2013 01:58

• Details of detentions in Volgograd: policemen disrupt nationalists' action

  The police have detained about 30 members of the "People's Assembly" in Volgograd, organized in the context of recent terror acts. According to eyewitnesses, the rally was attended by about 200 people, but the police began to disperse and detain them.

December 31, 2013 01:50

• Serenko: in Volgograd Region terrorists make use of power agents' drawbacks

  Terror act organizers are successful in the Volgograd Region because of the weakness of local power agents, who are unable to prevent suicide attacks, said Andrei Serenko, the coordinator of the "Club of Experts of Volgograd". In order to prevent terror acts, it is necessary to consolidate the society, said political scientist Ruslan Kurbanov.

December 30, 2013 22:30

• Two Volgograd terror acts committed within 24 hours killed 33 and wounded 64 persons

  The death toll of the two terror acts committed in Volgograd on December 29 and 30 includes 33 people, including the suicide bombers. The Volgograd Regional Administration has spread the list of those wounded which contains the names of 64 people.

December 30, 2013 16:30

• In Krasnodar Territory, defence challenges verdict against ecologist Evgeny Vitishko

  In the Krasnodar Territory, the defence of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who was sentenced to penal settlement for damage to the fence of the so-called "summer cottage of the Governor" of the Krasnodar Territory, has challenged the court's decision. This was reported by Alexander Popkov, advocate of the sentenced ecologist.

December 30, 2013 15:52

• Ministry of Health: 41 persons were injured in explosion in Volgograd trolley-bus

  According to the recent information, 41 persons suffered in the explosion in the trolley-bus in Volgograd. Of them, 27 persons were hospitalized. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Health. According to the preliminary information, the explosion killed a 5-year-old child.

December 30, 2013 15:02

• NAC: persons, killed in Kabardino-Balkaria, were involved in attack on UFSIN staff members

  Suspected militants, who were killed on Monday during a special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria, were involved in the murders of two staff members of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as UFSIN). This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies of the republic.