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March 18, 2013 23:00

• Court extends arrest of Gabibulaeva and Akaeva in North Ossetia

  Today, the arrest of residents of Dagestan Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, accused of illegal possession and transportation of explosives, was extended by two months – till May 18, 2013.

March 18, 2013 22:00

• Russia's Audit Chamber finds unjustified spending at "Resorts of Northern Caucasus"

  The Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation has revealed facts of unreasonable and inefficient use of funds at the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" the auditor Sergey Agaptsov said today. According to his story, the funds allocated from the state budget to the company had essentially exceeded its actual needs.

March 18, 2013 21:00

• Relatives of Kaspiisk resident declare his kidnapping

  On March 15, in Dagestan, Murad Aliev, a resident of Kaspiisk was kidnapped, said his wife. As reported by the spokesman of the Kaspiisk GOVD (City Interior Department), Murad Aliev was not delivered to the police station.

March 18, 2013 20:00

• Azerbaijani MoD announced detention of two Armenian citizens at crossing the border

  On March 16 and 17, two civilians passed from Armenia to Azerbaijan, said the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD). Both Armenian citizens were detained at the border, which is also the line of troops contact.

March 18, 2013 19:00

• In Georgia, Parliament starts considering amendments to Constitution

  The Legal Committee of the Georgian Parliament has begun considering the draft amendments to the Constitution, relating to restrictions on the president's power to personally appoint the cabinet in case of dissolution of parliament.

March 18, 2013 18:28

• Dagestan: investigators suspect policeman of attacking a lawyer

  In Dagestan, a policeman from Buinaksk is suspected of hitting the lawyer Khadizhat Magomedova.

March 18, 2013 18:00

• Gagloity: Georgia sets new post on border with South Ossetia

  The village of Zemo-Nikozi, near the border with South Ossetia, is now housing a police station set up there by the Georgian party. Khokh Gagloity, the head of the delegation of South-Ossetian, said today at the meeting in Ergneti within the MPRI, that such Georgia's actions go against international agreements.

March 18, 2013 17:00

• Residents of Dakhadayevsky District of Dagestan seek to change district authorities

  On March 17, in Makhachkala, residents of the Dakhadayevsky District of Dagestan held a rally stating falsification at the election of the head of the district and demanded a new early election.

March 18, 2013 15:00

• In Armenia, court dismissed complaint against arrest of Vardan Sedrakyan

  Today, the Court of Appeal has dismissed the petition of the defence of the former presidential candidate Vardan Sedrakyan, who was arrested for two months, asking to change his freedom restriction measure, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

March 18, 2013 13:00

• In Azerbaijan, court extends arrest of Tofig Yagublu, deputy chairman of "Musavat" Party

  Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has considered a motion to extend the detention in the form of arrest of Tofig Yagublu, a deputy chairman of the "Musavat" Party. Court granted the motion of the prosecutor's office and left the oppositionist behind bars for two months more.

March 18, 2013 12:00

• "Terek" FC from Chechnya may hold five matches without spectators

  The "Terek" Football Club (FC) can be fined and punished by match without spectators for publicly insulting the referee Michail Vilkov from Nizhny Novgorod during the match with the "Rubin" FC from Kazan.

March 18, 2013 11:00

• 22 persons suffered in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus on March 11-17

  During the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March 11 to March 17, 2013, at least 22 persons fell victim. Of them, 21 people were killed and one was wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

March 18, 2013 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 11-17

  Hostage-taking using a toy pistol and fake bomb in Astrakhan; decision of ECtHR on of a Chechen's disappearance; Russian SC's uphold of verdict to Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, figurant in Politkovskaya's murder case; relegation of Dagestani "Anji" FC out of Europa League; tougher punishment of ex –policeman who knocked down woman in the Stavropol Territory; conviction of editor of "Khural" newspaper Avaz Zeinalov in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 11-17, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 16, 2013 23:58

• "Russian Jogging" in Krasnodar gathered about 100 participants

  On March 16, the central Krasnodar hosted an action called "Russian Jogging" against holding the rock festival "Cubana" on the Black Sea coast. The action was attended by about a hundred Russian nationalists, members of the Kuban Cossacks Army and Cossack detachments, as well as activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

March 16, 2013 23:00

• Seven persons killed in special operation in Chechen-Ingush border

  As reported by the spokesman of the Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC), in the course of a special operation conducted by the power agents on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, seven militants were killed.

March 16, 2013 22:00

• Blown-up car with three bodies found in Dagestan

  Today, in the Buinaksk District, policemen found a burned car with three human bodies inside.

March 16, 2013 21:00

• The person accused of hostage-taking arrested in Astrakhan

  Today, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan has ruled to arrest Alexander Kuptsov accused of taking hostages at the Fishery College. The defendant believes that the court had no reason to arrest him.

March 16, 2013 20:00

• Volgograd: Communists state provocations at rally for Governor's resignation

  According to Nikolai Parshin, the first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), at a rally in Volgograd with a demand of resignation of the Governor of the Volgograd Region Sergey Bozhenov, there were detentions and provocations.

March 16, 2013 19:00

• Editor-in-chief of city paper attacked in Baku

  In Baku, on March 14, Gabil Veliev, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Gyundelik Baku", was attacked.

March 16, 2013 18:00

• Tbilisi: taxi drivers refuse to strike

  In Georgia, the drivers of fixed-route taxis have decided to refrain from striking for as long as the Parliament of Georgia accepts amendments to the new labour code, said Lavrenti Alaniya, the leader of the trade union of transport workers.