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July 01, 2013 21:18

• Barnov: voting for president of Georgia to take place on October 31

  The presidential election in Georgia will be held on October 31 this year. The earlier announced date – October 27 – was wrong, said Andro Barnov, the head of the Georgian presidential administration.

July 01, 2013 18:58

• Residents of TAC "Promzhilbaza" in Ingushetia go on endless hunger strike

  On Monday, the refugees from Chechnya, living in Ingushetia since the 1990s, went on an endless hunger strike demanding solution of their housing problems. In total, 21 persons have declared their intention to take part in the protest.

July 01, 2013 17:59

• Saakashvili decrees to hold presidential election in Georgia on October 27

  In Georgia, the 2013 presidential election will be held on October 27, Manana Mandjgaladze, the press speaker of the President of Georgia, has reported. On Monday, Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree with the date of the next presidential election, she said at a briefing in Tbilisi.

July 01, 2013 17:26

• Volgograd: investigators checked within the trial on GIBDD bribes

  At the trial dealing with bribes in the GIBDD (Road Safety Inspectorate), the statement of the regional FSB on telephone calls was added to the case files. The state prosecutor also said that her report in relation to some investigators of the Investigating Department for the Volgograd Region of the ICRF had caused a procedural check.

July 01, 2013 15:27

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 24-30

  Fight of power agents with militants in the mountains of Chechnya, where two persons were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded; detention of a regional parliamentarian in Dagestan; shelling of the police and killing of a suspect at detention in the Stavropol Territory; a fruitless round of Geneva discussions on security issues in Southern Caucasus; the sentence for the murder of the head of the MIA of Dagestan Adilgerey Magomedtagirov; incident in the Volgograd Region, where the unloading dock – an object of cultural heritage – was burned down, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 24-30, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 01, 2013 14:11

• Solo picketer Evgeny Zakharov released from police in Sochi

  Evgeny Zakharov, a member of the initiative group for protection of greenery of the resort city, who was detained during his action near the Sochi administration, is back at large. Law enforcers have no claims to him, said Lieutenant Colonel Victor Biryuchenko, the head of the division of district policemen of the Tsentralny District of Sochi.

July 01, 2013 13:39

• Sentencing of ex-deputy police chief of Cherkessk postponed until July 8

  The announcement of the verdict to Ruslan Rakhaev, the former deputy police chief of the city of Cherkessk, scheduled for July 1, did not take place. It is expected that the court will announce its decision on July 8 at 2:30 p.m., the Cherkessk City Court has reported.

July 01, 2013 07:33

• Sochi: builders of Olympic facility turn to ICRF on unpaid wages

  The construction teams, involved in assembling the equipment of the Olympic Transport Directorate in Sochi, sent an application to the Investigating Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a complaint about the delay of payment of salaries by the boss of the LLC "Sochiprofstroy-15.06".

July 01, 2013 06:51

• Chechnya plans to resettle residents of 76 emergency and dilapidated houses

  Till the end of this year, Chechnya will resettle residents of 76 houses, recognized as emergency and dilapidated ones; later, 160 other multi-family houses will also be resettled, said the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of Chechnya.

June 30, 2013 16:58

• Convict for blowing up "Neva-Express" Train dies in Ekaterinburg colony

  Tarkhan Kartoev, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, convicted on charges of blowing up the "Neva-Express" Train, has died in Penal Colony No. 2 (IK-2) of Ekaterinburg. "The telegram was signed by Major V. Mikheev. My son had stayed in the IK-2 for just a week. Today, with my nephew we fly to Ekaterinburg, where my son had been convoyed," Umatgiri Kartoev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 30, 2013 16:34

• Circassian organizations protest against Abkhaz conference held by European Parliament

  According to activists of a number of Circassian organizations, on 28 June in Brussels for the fault of the Abkhaz delegation, the Day of Circassian Culture at the European Parliament was disrupted. According to their story, instead of that Day, another event – the conference "Abkhazia and Europe – Ways to Mutual Understanding and Rapprochement" – was held.

June 30, 2013 12:35

• "Centre of Civil Initiatives" completes project on strengthening peacemaking role of women in Southern Caucasus

  On June 30, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the human rights organization "Centre of Civil Initiatives" completed a three-year inter-regional project "Strengthening of Women's Capacity for Building Peace in Southern Caucasus" which was launched in March 2010 under the auspices of the Caucasian representative office of the international organization named CARE.

June 30, 2013 06:46

• Participants in the rally "Derbent is Russia's southern outpost!" in Moscow demand to cancel renaming Sovietskaya Street

  On June 29 in Moscow, about 300 participants of the rally "Derbent is Russia's southern outpost!" passed a resolution demanding from the administration of the city of Derbent to cancel the decision of the assembly of deputies of the city to rename Sovietskaya Street into Geidar Aliev Street.

June 30, 2013 02:58

• Sochi: advocate of builder Demerchyan complains to the court about investigator's inaction

  The advocate of the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who claimed that he had been tortured by the police in Sochi, has filed a complaint against inaction of the investigator, who is examining the incident. The investigator Artyom Semenets, in his turn, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that all his actions were in compliance with the law.

June 29, 2013 22:11

• Pickets within the campaign "Derbent is Russia's Southern Outpost" held in cities of Russia

  On June 29, Dagestan hosted, within the campaign "Derbent is Russia's Southern Outpost", solo pickets against renaming Sovietskaya Street in the city of Derbent into Geidar Aliev Street. Within the campaign, a 500-person-strong rally took place in Moscow.

June 29, 2013 21:42

• In Yerevan, public activists commemorate military doctor Vage Avetyan

  On June 29, several dozens activists of the social movement "Vage Avetyan" gathered in front of the restaurant "Harsnaqar" in Yerevan, where on June 17, 2012, an incident occurred between the restaurant staff and visitors, resulting in the death of a military doctor Vage Avetyan.

June 29, 2013 20:46

• Residents of TAC "Promzhilbaza" in Ingushetia ready to go on hunger strike on July 1

  The forced migrants from Chechnya who live in Ingushetia have declared their readiness to start a hunger strike in protest against the unfair, in their opinion, distribution of certificates for purchase of housing.

June 29, 2013 20:23

• Sochi police demand to bring builder Demerchyan to liability for slander

  The Sochi police have sent an application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) asking to bring the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who had claimed being tortured at the police station of the village of Blinovo, to liability for slander.

June 29, 2013 19:19

• Boris Nemtsov: increased cost of Sochi Olympics is a result of corruption and theft of budget funds

  The reasons for the increased cost of Olympic facilities and the rising expenses for the Olympics-2014 are in the corruption and Olympic-scale of fund embezzlement, said Boris Nemtsov, a co-chairman of the Party "RPR-Parnas", who presented in Sochi his report "Winter Olympics in Subtropics".

June 29, 2013 16:58

• Magomedov, ex-MP of Dagestan put in custody on suspicion of helping militants

  The court has granted the petition of the investigation and put the former Dagestani parliamentarian from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Magomed Magomedov, who was detained on suspicion of organizing mass riots with the aim of helping militants during a special operation. in custody.