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February 18, 2013 22:00

• Members of power ministries are carrying out a special operation searching for gunmen in the South of Chechnya

  A special operation on search of leaders of the gunmen is going on in the high mountain Vedeno district of Chechen Republic, a source in power-wielding structures of the republic reported. According to him, law enforcement officers do not rule out that leader of the “Caucasus Emirate” Dokku Umarov might be hiding himself there.

February 18, 2013 21:00

• Campaign headquarters of the presidential election in Armenia reported violations during voting

  “Nasledie” (“Heritage”) party whose Chairman Raffi Ovanissyan, one of the candidates for presidency of Armenia, reports violations during voting, Press Secretary of “Nasledie” party Ovsep Khurshudyan informed.

February 18, 2013 20:00

• Law enforcement officers in Dagestan are investigating the circumstances of an explosion in a store in the settlement of Babayurt

  In the evening of February, 15, unidentified persons activated an explosive device in the settlement of Babayurt, Babayurt district of Dagestan. There were no victims or injured people.

February 18, 2013 19:00

• Committee of Inquiry: the main version of the murder of visitors of a cafe in Makhachkala is hostile relations

  The policeman knew the men he shot down in the cafe in Makhachkala, a source in law enforcement bodies of the town reported. The main version of the murder is a quarrel that emerged from hostile relations, Committee of Inquiry of Russia in Dagestan informed.

February 18, 2013 18:00

• The court in Moscow requested a translation of the judgement of ECtHR on "Nord-Ost" case from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

  Today Lefortovsky district court of Moscow decided to submit a request to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to provide a translation of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on the case of the storm of the theatre centre in Dubrovka street.

February 18, 2013 17:00

• Ahmed Bilalov asked the Olympic Committee of Russia to dismiss him from the office of Vice President

  Today Ahmed Bilalov submitted a statement asking to dismiss him from the office of Vice President of the Olympic Committee of Russia (OCR) of his own free will, a source in sports circles reported.

February 18, 2013 16:00

• Temerkhanov’s attorney appealed against the resolution of dismissal of the jury on the case of Budanov’s murder

  Today defence of the defendant on the case of murder of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov appealed against the resolution of judge of Moscow city court Andrey Korotkov of dismissal of the jury, Yusup Temerkhanov’s attorney Murad Musaev reported.

February 18, 2013 15:00

• Four men killed in a special operation near the settlement of Michurino, Dagestan, identified

  Four out of six supposed gunmen killed on February, 14, in a special operation near the settlement of Michurino, Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, were identified. All of them were members of “Khasavyurt group”, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent was told in the Investigative Department of Dagestan today.

February 18, 2013 14:44

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

  Self-explosion of suicide bomber in Khasavyurt and subsequent special operations in Dagestan; putting Givi Targamadze, a Georgian MP, on the Russia's wanted list; verdict to policemen accused of torturing a detainee in the Stavropol Territory; dissolution of jurymen in Budanov's murder case; deprivation of Shirshov, Russia's State Duma Deputy from the Krasnodar Territory, of his deputy's immunity; announcement in Azerbaijan of a reward for an ear of the writer Ailisli, who wrote a novel about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; mass poisoning in South Ossetia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of February 11-17, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 18, 2013 14:00

• CEC: 60,05% of the electorate voted at the presidential election of Armenia

  According to the final data of CEC of Armenia, turnout of voters at the presidential election made 60,05%.

February 16, 2013 23:00

• Picketers in Vladikavkaz: authorities render no help in fighting against "Electrozink"

  Today in Vladikavkaz, another picket against the operation of the OJSC "Electrozink" was held. According to the organizers and participants of the action, no action against violations in the work of the factory is taken.

February 16, 2013 22:00

• In Tbilisi, defrauded housing investors demand to give them the housing they paid for

  An action of protest with a demand to pay attention to the housing shareholders who were deceived by construction companies was held in Tbilisi.

February 16, 2013 21:00

• Power agents: person killed in Dagestan identified as Arsen Kuramagomedov

  The person shot dead today in a shoot-out with the police in Dagestan has been initially identified as Arsen Kuramagomedov, the leader of a terrorist grouping, said a source from law enforcement bodies.

February 16, 2013 20:00

• In Dagestan, unidentified persons shoot dead Kizlyar resident

  A 27-year-old resident of Kizlyar was killed by unidentified persons in Groznenskaya Street.

February 16, 2013 19:00

• Two suspected militants detained in Stavropol

  In Stavropol, two young men have been detained, who are suspected of involvement in the murder of a policeman in Karachay-Cherkessia.

February 16, 2013 18:00

• Azerbaijani Parliament tightens financial control over NGOs

  On February 15, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan adopted amendments to some legislative acts of the country, which are aimed at tightening the financial control over the activities of civil society institutions.

February 16, 2013 17:00

• Tina Sean, Deputy Secretary General of the PA OSCE, comes to Yerevan

  On February 15, Tina Sean, Deputy Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) arrived in Armenia with an observation mission.

February 16, 2013 16:00

• EU urges Azerbaijani authorities to stop persecuting oppositionists and journalists

  The European Union made a second statement within the last week in connection with the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan.

February 16, 2013 14:00

• Makhachkala: supposed militants' helper surrenders to law enforcers

  As reported by the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), in Makhachkala, the woman- cohabiter of the suspected militant Nabi Nabiev, who was killed in a special operation, has surrendered to power agents and is evidencing.

February 15, 2013 23:30

• Azerbaijan's SC upholds court decision to fine "Azadlyg"

  The Azerbaijan's Supreme Court (SC) upheld the verdict obliging the newspaper "Azadlyg" to pay to Tagi Akhmedov, Chief of the Baku metro, a fine in the amount of 30,000 manats. A representative of the newspaper treated the decision as the pressure on the newspaper from the authorities.