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December 26, 2012 15:00

• Residents of Abkhazia fear new tremors

  Tonight, residents of Abkhazia felt two tremors. According to the State Committee for Ecology and Use of Nature, the maximum amplitude of the first shock was 5.2, and the second one was much weaker. However, people are afraid of a new earthquake.

December 26, 2012 14:00

• KBR buried KBAU Rector Boris Zherukov

  Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Agricultural University (KBAU) said farewell to Boris Zherukov, its Rector, who was shot dead by unidentified persons on December 25 in his office.

December 26, 2012 13:00

• Armenia: ARFD Party refuses to take part in presidential election

  The Armenian Revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun" (ARFD) Party has decided not to nominate its candidate for the presidential election in Armenia, Agvan Vardanyan, the Secretary of the ARFD Party, said at today's press conference.

December 26, 2012 12:00

• Movie "Innocence of Muslims" is put on the federal list of extremist materials

  The Russia's Ministry of Justice has put the movie "Innocence of Muslims" on the federal list of materials deemed as extremist.

December 25, 2012 23:00

• Shkhalakhov: in 2012, 452 immigrants arrived in Adygea from Syria

  In 2012, in total, 98 families – or 452 persons – came from Syria to Adygea; 346 of them remained in the republic; the remaining immigrants went to other North-Caucasian regions; some have returned to Syria, Asker Shkhalakhov, the chairman of the of the Committee of the Republic of Adygea for Nationalities, Relations with Compatriots and Media, said today.

December 25, 2012 22:00

• Georgia's GPO accuses former Justice Minister of organizing filming of beatings in prison

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has finished preparation of the materials for accusing the former Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili of organizing beatings of prisoners in Gldani Prison No. 8.

December 25, 2012 21:00

• Supreme Court of Dagestan leaves Gunashev in custody

  Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has considered a compliant lodged by the advocate of the anaesthetist Marat Gunashev, accused of involvement in the murder of the Chief of Police in Makhachkala, and upheld the decision of the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala on the extension of Gunashev's custody until January 27, 2013.

December 25, 2012 20:00

• Dagestan: resident of Shamkhal believed as kidnapped released

  Abdurakhman Abakarov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, who had been considered as kidnapped, was kept at the Centre for Combating Extremism, where he had been taken for questioning. Now Abakarov is at large, said his advocate Israpil Gadadov.

December 25, 2012 19:00

• Investigators consider Zherukov's professional activities as pretext for his murder

  Among the versions of the murder of the rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University (KBSAU) Boris Zherukov, his professional activities are considered. Law enforcement officials do not exclude that militants could be involved in the crime.

December 25, 2012 18:00

• Conservative Party leaves ANC

  Today, the Conservative Party of Armenia, a member of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), has declared its withdrawal from the ANC. The decision was made after the former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the leader of the ANC, refused to take part in the presidential election on February 18, 2013.

December 25, 2012 17:00

• Volgograd Region: former headmistress accused of bribe-taking for help in passing USE

  As reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd Region, the indictment has been approved against Svetlana Konovalova, the former headmistress of School No. 2 in the Octiabrskiy District, who was suspected of taking bribes for helping in passing the unified state examination (USE).

December 25, 2012 16:00

• North-Ossetian Catholics celebrate Christmas

  Last night, Catholics in North Ossetia welcomed the Christmas. The Pastoral Mass in Vladikavkaz was attended by about 40 people.

December 25, 2012 15:00

• Residents of Dagestani village of Sogratl intend to build a new mosque instead of the burnt one

  At night on December 24, a fire burst out in the village mosque in Sogratl, Gunib District of Dagestan. As a result, the building of the mosque was completely destroyed; the locals are going to build a new one.

December 25, 2012 14:00

• Armenia starts nominating its presidential candidates

  On December 25, Armenia launched the process of nominating presidential candidates; it will last until January 4, said the press service of the Central Election Commission (CEC).

December 25, 2012 13:00

• Chechnya bans felling coniferous trees

  The authorities imposed a complete ban on felling spruce and pine trees in Chechnya; the forests of these trees are guarded round the clock, said the republic's Department of Forestry. However, people can easily by live spruces in the streets of major cities and towns; they are brought to Chechnya from neighbouring regions.

December 25, 2012 12:00

• "Promzhilbaza" residents rely on Russian Ministry of Regional Development in solving their housing problems

  The migrants from Chechnya living in the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza" in the city of Karabulak, as well as in the private sector in districts of Ingushetia, have come to Moscow to meet officials of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation and the Federal Migration Service. They hope that the meetings will speed up the solution of their housing problems.

December 24, 2012 23:00

• Djappueva's parents seek to have their daughter's remains

  Ruslan Djappuev and Zainab Djappueva found on the site of the house in the city of Tyrnyauz, which was burnt down in the course of a special operation, ceramic tooth crowns, which, according to their daughter's dentist, belonged to their 24-year-old daughter Indira Djappueva.

December 24, 2012 22:00

• Inquiry into the case of editor-in-chief of "Tolyshi Sado" completed in Azerbaijan

  A criminal investigation against Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talyshes) is over in Azerbaijan. In the next few days the case files will be transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.

December 24, 2012 21:00

• During the week of December 17 to 23, 10 persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  On December 17-23, 2013, at least 10 persons suffered in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, three people were killed and seven wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

December 24, 2012 20:00

• Armenia: "Freedom" Party to nominate former Prime Minister Grant Bagratyan for presidency

  The today's congress of the "Freedom" Party, a member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), has decided to nominate Grant Bagratyan, a former Prime Minister of Armenia and a current MP and Chairman of the Party, as a candidate at the upcoming presidential election.