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April 06, 2013 15:00

• Eighty persons take part in action "Coloured Holes" in Volgograd

  About 80 people in 40 cars took part in the action "Coloured Holes" in Volgograd and marked with paint the dangerous holes in pavement of city streets.

April 06, 2013 14:00

• Dagestan: relatives of Imam Famil Kuchev claim his kidnapping in Moscow

  Relatives of Famil Kuchev, the Imam of the mosque of the village of Novofrig, Khiva District of Dagestan, cannot find him and believe that he could be kidnapped in Moscow.

April 06, 2013 13:00

• Yerevan commemorates murdered head of Proshyan

  In Yerevan's Freedom Square a candle-lighting ceremony, organized by the initiative group "Wake up Armenia!" and the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" in memory of Grachya Muradyan, the slain head of the village of Proshyan, the Kotayk Region, took place.

April 06, 2013 11:00

• Over the past 11 months, 186 persons returned from Syria to Abkhazia

  IN the period from May 2012 to March 2013, 186 persons came to Abkhazia from Syria for permanent residence, Vyacheslav Chirikba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, said on April 5 at the roundtable dedicated to problems of repatriation.

April 06, 2013 07:00

• Relatives of missing Ibragimov and Kadilov rally in Dagestan

  Makhachkala has hosted a spontaneous rally of the relatives of the two supposedly kidnapped residents of Dagestan Abdul Ibragimov and Magomed Kadilov.

April 05, 2013 23:00

• Picket against "Golos" held in Moscow

  A picket under the slogan "No place in Russia for Foreign Agents" took place in Moscow today at the office of the Association "Golos" (Vote), said Grigory Melkonyants, Deputy Executive Director of the Association.

April 05, 2013 22:00

• Seminar on adaptation of immigrants from Syria held in Nalchik

  Nalchik has hosted a training seminar for the compatriots from Syria living in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The event was organized to help the repatriates to get adapted to the life in the republic.

April 05, 2013 21:00

• Inspectors consider three versions of fire in "Grozny City"

  The version that the fire of a skyscraper in the territory of "Grozny City" was caused by carelessness is the inspectors' priority. They also study the version of an arson and non-compliance of the building with fire safety requirements.

April 05, 2013 20:00

• Two men disappear in Dagestan

  Yesterday, on April 4, two residents of Makhachkala – Abdullah Ibragimov and Magomed Kadilov – did not return home; and their relatives still do not know where they are.

April 05, 2013 19:00

• In Azerbaijan, Araz Guliev, editor-in-chief of religious website sentenced to 8 years in prison

  The court has sentenced Araz Guliev, the editor-in-chief of the religious website xeber44.com, who was detained at a protest rally of believers, to 8 years in prison. Seven other defendants in this case received from 3 to 8 years, said the lawyer Fariz Namazly.

April 05, 2013 18:00

• Georgia's Parliament to cut mandatory military service down to one year

  The Parliament of Georgia has approved by a majority of votes in the third reading the amendments to the law "On Military Duty and Military Service". Now, the term of mandatory military service will be reduced down to 12 months.

April 05, 2013 17:00

• "Rospotrebnadzor" has completed second inspection of Georgian wineries

  The second group of specialists of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision), which was engaged, since April 2, in inspecting Georgian wineries, wishing to supply their products to the Russian Federation, has completed its work.

April 05, 2013 15:00

• Power agents search for militants near Chechen-Ingush administrative border

  Law enforcers of Chechnya are conducting a special operation against militants in the mountains and forests of the Achkhoi-Martan District, near the administrative border with Ingushetia.

April 05, 2013 14:00

• Georgia's MIA: South-Ossetian authorities release six Georgian villagers

  As reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, six Georgian citizens detained at the administrative border with South Ossetia have been released.

April 05, 2013 13:00

• Political and public organizations in Azerbaijan start campaigning in support of arrested "Nida" activists

  Activists of the opposition and the country's democratic public of the country have decided to campaign in defence of the rights of the arrested activists of the "Nida". They arrests were also condemned by the Human Rights Watch.

April 05, 2013 11:00

• International Centre "GROSS" opens courses of Russian in Georgia

  In the region of Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), the international centre for cultural, humanitarian and economic Georgian-Russian cooperation named "GROSS" has opened free courses for studying the Russian language. First groups have already been formed. The centre plans to open similar courses throughout the country.

April 05, 2013 10:00

• Third issue of almanac "Southern Caucasus" presented in Stepanakert

  On April 3, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh hosted a presentation of the third issue of the literary and journalistic almanac, which includes the works of writers and poets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

April 04, 2013 23:00

• Court blames website "Ingushetiyaru.org" as extremist one

  According to the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, the website "Ingushetiyaru.org", owned by the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, was recognized as extremist by the court.

April 04, 2013 22:00

• Georgia's Parliament adopts amendments to the Law "On General Courts"

  Today, the Georgian MPs have approved by a majority vote in the third reading the amendments to the Law "On General Courts".

April 04, 2013 21:00

• Advocate: Tolmachov's case to come to court within a month

  In the Rostov Region, Alexander Tolmachov, a journalist, editor and publisher, accused of extortion, has signed documents about the of his familiarization with the materials of the criminal case against him. The case should arrive in the court within a month, said Sergey Karpov, Tolmachov's advocate.