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October 29, 2012 11:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 22-28

  Celebration of one of the major Muslim holidays – Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Fitr); approval of the Cabinet of Ministers headed by Bidzina Ivanishvili by newly elected MPs; suicide bombing at a police post on the North-Ossetian-Ingush border; extraordinary congress Dagestani nations in Moscow; early termination of powers of Alexei Knyshov, Russian State Duma Deputy from Rostov Region, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 22-28, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 29, 2012 10:00

• All the committees of the Supreme Council of Adzharia were headed by representatives of the “Georgian Dream”

  Five committees will be functioning in the Supreme Council (SC) of Adzharia elected recently. Their chairpersons were elected yesterday, October, 28, at a session of SC by secret ballot. It is also already known that there will be four fractions in the Parliament of Adzharia.

October 29, 2012 09:00

• Kotiev: the wife of one the gunmen’s leaders came as self-reported criminal

  Anastasia Alexeyeva (Ganieva), wife of one of the leaders of “Sunzha” paramilitary group Timur Khayauri, called to the telephone hotline for remorseful members of armed underground created in Ingushetia. She gave herself up, Secretary of Security Council of the republic Ahmed Kotiev reported.

October 29, 2012 07:00

• The pilots of McLaren won the finals of City Challenge in Baku

  Pilots of McLaren MP4 GT3 race car Frederick Makovievski and Steph Dusseldorf won the final competition of GT3 City Challenge going on in Baku.

October 27, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismajlova receives award "For Courage in Journalism"

  In New York, Khadija Ismajlova, an observer of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty was awarded the prize of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) "For Courage in Journalism" for the year 2012.

October 27, 2012 22:00

• Some Chiatura miners stop their strike

  Some of the miners of the city of Chiatura have agreed to the offered 32-percent increase in wages and stopped their strike. Those who have decided to go on with their protest assert that the proposed salary increase will be made by reducing the premiums.

October 27, 2012 21:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia receives 24 repatriates from Syria

  As reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by Mukhamed Cherkesov, the chairman of the movement "Adyge Khase – Circassian Parliament" of Karachay-Cherkessia, as of today, the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia has received a total of 24 Syrian Circassians.

October 27, 2012 20:00

• Relatives of Yunus Didigov, detained resident of Ingushetia, cannot find his whereabouts

  Relatives of Yunus Didigov, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was detained by special services of North Ossetia, know nothing about his whereabouts, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by his wife and father.

October 27, 2012 19:00

• Volgograd: series of solo pickets held against nickel extraction near Khopyor River

  About 25 Volgograd residents took part in a series of pickets held today against extraction of nickel in the area of the Khopyor River.

October 27, 2012 18:16

• Delegates of Congress of Dagestani Nations held in Moscow offer general election of republic's head

  The delegates of the Extraordinary Congress of Dagestani Nations, held in Moscow on October 26, expressed distrust the current authorities of the republic, offered to dissolve the People's Assembly of Dagestan and hold a general election of the head of the republic.

October 27, 2012 16:00

• Georgia: Borjomi factory stops striking

  The employees of the Borjomi Factory No. 1 have stopped their strike; the production process is fully restored, says the statement of the "IDS Borjomi Georgia", the owning company of the factory, released on October 26.

October 27, 2012 15:00

• Capturers of Tax Service in Tbilisi declare their readiness to go on hunger strike

  The socially vulnerable residents of Tbilisi, who seized the building of the tax service of the Nadzaladevi District, plan to go on a hunger strike, should their demands to provide housing remain unsatisfied.

October 27, 2012 14:00

• Azerbaijan claims shelling by Armenian Armed Forces in Karabakh conflict area

  On October 26 and at night on October 27, the Armenian Armed Forces shelled the dispositions of the Army of Azerbaijan, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. On the other hand, Movses Akopyan, the Defence Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, has stated that from the start of the year, the Azerbaijani party has violated the ceasefire on the Karabakh direction for about 12,000 times.

October 27, 2012 13:00

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria asks her son convicted conditionally for storing weapons to return home

  Rimma Mashezova, a resident of the village of Islamey, Kabardino-Balkaria, has recorded a video message with a request to her son Alim Mashezov to return home. Alim had been conditionally convicted for storing arms; and a year after that he left his home.

October 27, 2012 12:00

• Colony prisoner stops his hunger strike in Stavropol Territory

  The hunger strike, announced by one of the prisoners of the Correction Colony No. 11 of the Stavropol Territory, who complained about the illegal actions of the colony employees, has been stopped, said a source from the colony. The penitentiary service denies the fact of the hunger strike.

October 26, 2012 23:00

• Over hundred came in Moscow to commemorate "Nord-Ost" victims

  Today, ten years after the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, an action was held in memory of the perished hostages, which brought together over a hundred people. The participants have noted that through all this time they were unable to learn all the circumstances of the tragedy, and failed to fix a dialogue with Russian authorities.

October 26, 2012 22:00

• Policeman wounded in explosion in North Ossetian is in grave but stable condition

  Vadim Khoranov, the law enforcer who suffered at a terror act in the village of Chermen has undergone a surgery. His current medical condition is estimated by doctors as serious but stable, said Karina Besolti, the spokesperson of the permanent mission of North Ossetia in Moscow.

October 26, 2012 21:00

• Kravets: my house in Sochi was pulled down without the presence of representatives of the Department for protection of rights of the underage

  A house in Adler district of Sochi was pulled down without the presence of representatives of the Department of the affairs of family and childhood in spite of the fact that a child had lived there, owner of the pulled down house Alexey Kravets declared.

October 26, 2012 20:00

• Refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia capture about 30 buildings in Georgia

  Refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia seize buildings for housing, because, according to their stories, they are unable to pay the rent. Over the past two days they captured about 30 buildings.

October 26, 2012 18:18

• Azerbaijani Muslims celebrate Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Adha)

  The Muslims of Azerbaijan, together with the entire Islamic world, celebrate the Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice). The country has announced October 25 and 26 to be days-off.