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March 12, 2013 22:00

• At trial on terror act in "Domodedovo" Airport, witness described structure of "Imarat Kavkaz"

  Today, the Moscow Regional Court continued considering the case on the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport in January 2011. A witness, who is now serving his term in a colony in North Ossetia, was questioned through videoconferencing.

March 12, 2013 21:00

• North Ossetia: Cossacks take part in CTO

  Cossacks of the Terek Cossack Army are invited to maintain order during the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in a number of dwelling settlements of North Ossetia.

March 12, 2013 20:00

• Special operation underway in Untsukul District of Dagestan, a local resident reports

  Law enforcers are conducting a major special operation in a forest near the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

March 12, 2013 19:00

• Onischenko: so far, only one Georgian company brought its wine samples to Russia

  Out of the 52 Georgian wine producers that had applied for importing their products into Russia, only 19 have delivered the documents for examination; and only one company brought its wine samples, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the "Rospotrebnadzor".

March 12, 2013 18:00

• Doctors report improved health of KBR resident who jumped from window of MIA building

  As reported by relatives and the doctor on duty of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH) in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the health condition of Mukhamed Khabilov, who jumped on February 25 from a third floor window of the MIA building.

March 12, 2013 17:00

• NAC: persons killed in KBR had links with militants and extorted money from businessmen

  The four suspected militants killed today in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been identified. According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation, they were engaged in supplying members of the armed underground with arms and ammunition; and were involved in extorting money from businessmen. Eight suspected militants were also detained in the course of today's special operation.

March 12, 2013 15:00

• In Baku, Avaz Zeinalov, editor-in-chief of "Khural", sentenced to nine years in prison

  Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has announced the conviction to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. Azerbaijani human rights activists have already called Zeinalov a political prisoner.

March 12, 2013 14:00

• Cossacks of Southern Russia and Urals urge federal and regional authorities to recognize them as nation

  More than two thousand Cossacks from the Don, Terek, Kuban and the Urals have signed a petition to the authorities to recognize them as a nation.

March 12, 2013 13:00

• Concert of Yuri Bashmet in Tbilisi was accompanied by protest

  During a charity concert of Yuri Bashmet in Tbilisi on March 11, several dozens of young people held a protest action, demanding the arrest the musician for his visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

March 12, 2013 12:00

• "Nida" activists arrested in Azerbaijan can be exposed to illegal methods of pressure, their leaders are concerned

  In Azerbaijan, parents of the arrested activists of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout) Bakhtiyar Guliev, Shakhin Novruzlu and Mamed Aziziov refused from the services of independent lawyers, suggested by the leaders of the movement. The leaders of the movement are concerned about possible pressure on the detainees and believe that the criminal case against them was fabricated.

March 11, 2013 23:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia: suspects of killing Shebzukhov challenge the verdict

  Three out of four figurants in the murder case of Fral Shebzukhov, an advisor of the former head of Karachay-Cherkessia, convicted by the Supreme Court of the republic to various terms of imprisonment, have appealed against their verdict.

March 11, 2013 22:00

• Inquiry into peoples' deaths during Krymsk flooding is over

  The investigation of a criminal case against four senior officials of the Krymsk District, accused of negligence that entailed deaths during the flood in July 2012, is over. The case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment.

March 11, 2013 21:00

• Hunger strike in Zverevo suspended for negotiations with authorities

  Residents of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, who run a hunger strike in disagreement with the growth of utility rates, have stopped their protest action for the time of negotiations with regional authorities.

March 11, 2013 20:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia: fellow villagers of assassinated Renat Temrezov announce protest action

  After Renat Temrezov was shot dead by a policeman, the village of Chapaevskoe, Karachay-Cherkessia, hosted a protest action that was attended by about 400 people, the villagers report. After the funeral, a meeting took place of local residents with the district administration; and there no "spontaneous" sentiments in the village, according to Marat Botashev, the head of the rural settlement.

March 11, 2013 19:00

• Five protesters against non-combat losses in Azerbaijani Army arrested

  Five citizens of Azerbaijan have been subjected to administrative arrest, and 16 others were fined for taking part in a non-sanctioned protest against non-combat losses in the army. The rulings were passed today by the Sabail and Nasimi District Courts of Baku.

March 11, 2013 18:00

• Ex-presidential candidate Andreas Gukasyan lodges two petitions to Armenia's CC

  Today, at the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia, which hears the case on non-recognition of the results of the presidential election, a former candidate Andreas Gukasyan has demanded to remove the representatives of the incumbent president and to involve the president himself in the process.

March 11, 2013 17:00

• Soldier killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  As reported by the MoD of Azerbaijan, Ali Abilov, its soldier was killed in the Karabakh conflict zone.

March 11, 2013 16:28

• Ex-presidential candidate Ovannisyan urges young people to stop hunger strike

  Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate of Armenia and the leader of the oppositional "Heritage" Party, who holds a hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan to protest against the rigged election, called the young people who had joined him to stop their action.

March 11, 2013 15:00

• Policemen search for folk healer's killer in Dagestan

  The folk healer, who was killed on March 10 in Dagestan, was an invalid, engaged in making amulets. A special operative plan was introduced in the republic with the aim to find the offender.

March 11, 2013 14:00

• In Chechnya, artillery wounds two locals

  On March 10, in the south-west of Chechnya, in the foothill Achkhoi-Martan District, the shelling by militaries of the forest, two local residents, who were gathering wild leek, were wounded. They are now in grave condition.