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April 09, 2012 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 2-8

  Election of Speaker and Vice-Speaker in Abkhazia; verdict to Georgian citizens accused of drug trafficking in Malaysia; protest action against "Electrozink" Factory in Vladikavkaz; reintroduction of direct election of Volgograd Mayor; the second round of repeated presidential election in South Ossetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 2-8, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 09, 2012 22:30

• Public figures and politicians go to Astrakhan to support hunger-strikers

  To support participants of the political hunger strike, who do not recognize the results of the election of the Mayor of Astrakhan, a number of public figures, journalists and politicians go to visit them.

April 09, 2012 22:20

• In Moscow, hunger strike in solidarity with Astrakhan hunger-strikers begins

  Sergey Udaltsov, the coordinator of the movement "Left-Wing Front", announced the beginning of a hunger strike in solidarity with Oleg Shein, ex-candidate for the position of Mayor of Astrakhan. At present, five members of the "Left-Wing Front" participate in the hunger strike.

April 09, 2012 22:10

• In Baku, court sentences seven activists of "Musavat" Party and PFPA to administrative arrests

  In Azerbaijan, seven activists, who were detained prior to the opposition rally held on April 8 at the time of distributing leaflets calling to participate in that action, were sentenced to administrative arrests.

April 09, 2012 22:00

• During rally in Sochi, teachers demand to stop tree felling

  Today, six teachers from the Centre for Creative Development and Humanitarian Education in Krasnoarmeyskaya Street held a rally, demanding to stop felling of trees and construction of parking facilities in the territory of the educational institution.

April 09, 2012 21:00

• In Stavropol, ecologists hold picket in support of forests

  On April 8, in Square of the 200th anniversary of Stavropol, the activists of the movement "Ecological Patrol" held a picket aimed at drawing attention to the problem of the destruction of urban forests. At the picket, the activist collected signatures on an appeal to the top-ranking officials of the country.

April 09, 2012 20:00

• During the week of April 2-8, 28 persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  At least 28 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in the period of April 2-8: 22 persons were killed and 6 wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", based on own materials and information from other public sources.

April 09, 2012 19:00

• Over 200 people participated in the "Russian jog" in Anapa

  Russian nationalists from Krasnodar, Slaviyansk-on-Kuban, Novorossiysk, the stanitsa of Dinskaya, Armavir and other places of Rostov and Stavropol regions came to take part in the "Russian jog". The action passed off without incidents.

April 09, 2012 18:00

• CEC: Tibilov was elected President of South Ossetia by 56,12% votes

  Ex-Head of KGB Leonid Tibilov was elected President of South Ossetia after polling 56,12% or 15 786 votes of the electorate, Chairperson of Central Election Committee (CEC) Bella Plieva reported. David Sanakoev polled 42,65% or 12 439 votes. Turnout of voters made 71,26%.

April 08, 2012 20:00

• Azerbaijan: oppositional rally demands early parliamentary elections

  The participants of the 10-thousand-strong rally in the capital of Azerbaijan have demanded to hold early parliamentary elections, release political prisoners, eliminate corruption and settle the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

April 07, 2012 23:00

• Picket in support of Pussy Riot held in Volgograd

  Today, a picket in support of the group of girls named "Pussy Riot" took place in Volgograd, where the picketers read verses and tried to communicate with the audience. Then they were attacked by some unknown persons, who were later detained by the police.

April 07, 2012 22:00

• LDPR activists mark start of road repairs in Stavropol with anti-corruption picket

  On April 6, the Stavropol Territorial Branch of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) held a rally against corruption in the road sector of the city of Stavropol. The picket was held outside the building of the city administration in Karl Marx Avenue and gathered over 30 participants.

April 07, 2012 21:00

• Georgia starts public hearings on amending Constitution

  The public debates on amendments to the Constitution have been initiated by the oppositional Christian-Democratic movement with the aim to make it possible for the leader of the coalition "Georgian Dream" Bidzina Ivanishvili to take part in the parliamentary elections.

April 07, 2012 20:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia starts action "Safe Internet"

  The aim of the action launched in the republic is to prevent offences committed in the global network and increase users', first of all schoolchildren's, technical awareness.

April 07, 2012 18:00

• Armenian mothers of large families move demands to president

  The mothers' appeal of April 7 signed by twelve women, who are bringing up from four to twelve children, put forward a number of social and economic demands to President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.

April 07, 2012 17:00

• Grenade triggered in Abkhazia, at liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses

  In the city of Gagra, Abkhazia, in the yard, where members of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses come for their prayer meetings, a grenade went up. There were no casualties, but the building was damaged. Believers say about recent increased pressure on them.

April 07, 2012 16:00

• Azerbaijan: scuffle bursts out of SOCAR employees with Sulu-Tepe villagers

  On April 6, in the village of Sulu-Tepe, located a few kilometres off Baku, the security service of the oil company SOCAR was using construction equipment to demolish the houses, which the company treats as illegally built. In protest against demolition, local residents took a fight with the workers.

April 07, 2012 15:00

• Pakhomov meets tenants of dilapidated house in Sochi and promises help

  Today, the Mayor of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov has met the tenants of the shabby house No. 3 in Petropavlovskaya Street and promised them to set up a commission for recognition of the house to be an emergency building and their resettlement to comfortable housing, the participants of the meeting with the Mayor said.

April 07, 2012 14:00

• CPRF holds rally "For Fair Elections" in Volgograd

  On April 6, in Lenin Square of Volgograd, activists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) held an action "For Fair Elections". The action was attended by about 150 people.

April 07, 2012 13:00

• Several villages hit by landslide in Adzharia

  As a result of a landslide in the mountainous Khuloy District of Adzharia highways and local roads and several houses were damaged.