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March 23, 2013 23:00

• Picketers in Volgograd demand solution of children's health problems

  In Volgograd, the participants of today's picket in defence of children's rights have moved a number of demands to the authorities, including provision of accessible school training and opening of rehabilitation centres, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

March 23, 2013 22:00

• Dagestan celebrates Novruz Bayram

  On the day of vernal equinox, Dagestan marked Novruz Bayram marking the beginning of spring. Many areas of the republic hosted celebrations culminating with a ritual fire.

March 23, 2013 21:00

• ICRF: seven killed in special operation in Semender

  Bodies of five suspected militants have been found in the place of a special operation in the Dagestani village of Semender. During the fight, two riot police agents were killing and six more were wounded, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the spokesman of the Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

March 23, 2013 20:00

• Akhmed Bilalov expelled from commission on socio-economic development of NCFD

  The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree to expel Akhmed Bilalov, the former chairman of the board of directors of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus", from the governmental commission on socio-economic development of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

March 23, 2013 19:00

• IPGA called on Azerbaijani authorities to release protesters arrested in March

  The International Partnership Group with Azerbaijan (IPGA) has expressed concern about the recent arrests of journalists and activists of social and political organizations, and has urged the authorities to stop persecuting people for realization of the right to freedom of expression.

March 23, 2013 18:00

• In Dagestan, relatives of Deputy Magomedaliev ask for help in finding him

  Relatives of Magomedkhabib Magomedaliev, the chairman of the district assembly of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, who had been blocked by power agents in his house during the special operation, still cannot locate him and asked for help to the head of the republic.

March 23, 2013 17:00

• Russian State Duma allows regions to abolish direct election of governors

  The MPs of the State Duma have passed in the third and final reading the law giving the regions the power to determine the procedure of electing their governors.

March 23, 2013 16:00

• Armenia: court appoints sentencing on suit against newspaper "Zhokhovurd" for March 27

  The decision on the claim of defamation lodged by Khachik Khachatryan, the owner of the Yerevan poultry factory, to the newspaper "Zhokhovurd" and its correspondent Sonia Grigoryan will be made on March 27, as Judge Ruben Apinyan said during his consideration of the lawsuit.

March 23, 2013 15:00

• Georgia refutes detention of Abkhazian ship in Poti

  The Georgian party has denied the information that the ship "Aydar" sailing to Turkey from Abkhazia was detained in international waters and escorted to the port of Poti. According to the Georgian party, the ship could not continue its way because of a storm.

March 23, 2013 14:00

• Draft amendments to Constitution of Georgia passed second reading

  The Georgian parliament has adopted in the second reading the draft constitutional amendments, aimed at partially restricting the presidential powers. Georgian political analysts believe that in the case of the final adoption of the amendments the power to dismiss the government and dissolve the parliament will be beyond Saakashvili's powers.

March 23, 2013 12:00

• Volgograd: activist of "People's Stroykontrol" states shelling of her car

  The car of Victoria Sopoleva, the chair of the public movement "People's Stroykontrol", was fired on March 22 from a traumatic pistol in the yard of a house in Lavochkin Street of the Voroshilov District of Volgograd, the woman herself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

March 23, 2013 11:00

• Part of observers over election of Anapa Mayor could not leave Taganrog

  The Taganrog observers over the election of Anapa Mayor were forced to return home after their buses were stopped by GIBDD (traffic police) inspectors, who also took away the number plates from the buses.

March 22, 2013 23:00

• Dagestan: search of lawyer's house results in detention of 11 people

  Tonight, during a search of the house of the lawyer Musa Suslanov in the village of Kalininaul, Kazbek District of Dagestan, 11 persons were detained, the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Suslanov was not at home at that time.

March 22, 2013 22:00

• Bus with election observers of Anapa Mayor stopped in Taganrog

  Inspectors of the Taganrog GIBDD (traffic police) have detained a bus with 42 residents of the Rostov Region, who were on the way to Anapa as observers at the election of the mayor of the city, as Alexei Tsivenko, the coordinator of the project "Citizen Observer" told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

March 22, 2013 21:00

• Magomedova: fate of missing resident Kaspiisk Murad Aliev remains unknown

  The whereabouts of the missing resident of Kaspiisk Murad Aliev has not yet been established. According to Sapiyat Magomedova, the family lawyer, Aliev could be taken out of the IVS (temporary detention facility) in Kizilyurt.

March 22, 2013 20:00

• Man with knife tried to enter the building of Armenian Parliament

  Vrezh Galstyan, 25, a resident of the city of Masis, armed with a knife, tried to get into the National Assembly of Armenia. According to the General Public Prosecutor's Office, he had two previous convictions and was registered as a patient with a psychiatric disorder.

March 22, 2013 19:00

• Indictment on case of scuffle at "Evropeisky" approved

  The criminal case opened after a scuffle near the Shopping Centre "Evropeisky" in Moscow has been sent to the Moscow City Court (MCC), the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia reports.

March 22, 2013 18:00

• Volgograd Regional Duma deputies sue city administration because of bad roads

  On March 21, the deputies of the Volgograd Regional Duma Natalia Latyshevskaya and Sergey Popov turned on in the Central District Court of Volgograd with a claim against the department of urban maintenance of the city administration on their obligations of road repair and maintenance of pavements.

March 22, 2013 17:00

• Makhachkala: house completely destroyed in special operation

  Employees of law enforcement bodies have completely destroyed a private house in the township of Semender in the outskirts of Makhachkala, which is under the CTO regime since March 20, said a source from law enforcement bodies of the city.

March 22, 2013 16:00

• Court in Stavropol drops the suit against ban on hijabs in schools

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has dismissed the suit lodged by the lawyer Murad Musaev in protest against the decision of the Stavropol territorial government on introduction of the school uniform and ban on hijabs.