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January 16, 2012 22:10

• Azerbaijan names missing sailors from tanker "Edirne"

  The State Maritime Administration of Azerbaijan (SMAA) has announced the names of three crew members of the tanker "Edirne", which were regarded missing after the vessel had sunk.

January 16, 2012 22:00

• Adygea: deputy suspected of fraud amounting to 3.3 million roubles

  A deputy of the Soviet of People's Deputies of the City of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, is suspected of a fraud amounting to 3.3 million roubles within the shared construction in the city, reports the Investigatory Department for Adygea of the ICRF.

January 16, 2012 21:40

• "Volgograd-Ecopress" reports chlorine release near Volgograd

  On January 13, residents of the Svetloyarsk District, Volgograd Region, which is bordering on the Southern Industrial Zone of Volgograd, again felt a stable and suffocating smell of chlorine. The officials of local "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Protection) have no data yet about the nature and volume of release.

January 16, 2012 21:30

• Explosion of utility gas in Baksan causes fire and kills people

  As reported by a source from the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) the reason of the tragedy in the city of Baksan on January 14, when a fire killed a woman and two small children, was an explosion of household gas.

January 16, 2012 21:20

• After "Caucasian Knot" publication, heat comes to Baksan houses

  The apartment houses in the micro-district "Kooperator" in the city of Baksan (Kabardino-Balkaria) have been connected to the heating system after the "Caucasian Knot" made a respective publication.

January 16, 2012 21:10

• Rostov Region: higher school teacher sentenced conditionally for bribe-taking

  The Rostov Regional Court has found a female associate professor from the Shakhty Institute guilty of bribe-taking and fined her by 40,000 roubles.

January 16, 2012 21:00

• Refutation: bringing a judgment against the wounded Iljas Nalgiev was not planned on January, 13

  According to the data verified by the "Caucasian Knot", the information that a verdict against ex-head of Criminal police of Karabulak Iljas Nalgiev was going to be brought on January, 13, spread by Lifenews.ru after an attempt at Nalgiev is untrue.

January 16, 2012 20:00

• A police car fired upon in Dagestan

  A police car was fired upon in the evening of January, 15, near the settlement of Novokhushet, Dagestan. No one was injured.

January 16, 2012 19:00

• Georgia passed ahead of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the rating of economic freedom

  Georgia moved from the 29th position in 2011 in the rating of economic freedom index to the 34th place in 2012. This is the best index among the countries of Southern Caucasus mentioned in a report drawn up by American Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Wall Street Journal.

January 16, 2012 18:00

• A well-known Ingush footballer killed in South Ossetia

  Zelimkhan Dzangiev, a well-known goal scorer of "Angusht" Ingush football club, was killed in Vladikavkaz. According to unofficial information, it happened as a result of a scuffle near a night club.

January 14, 2012 23:55

• Woman from Dagestan states that her son-teenager was beaten by policemen

  In Dagestan, five employees of the Magaramkent ROVD (District Interior Division) thrashed Sharvili Ramazanov, 14, a resident of the village of But-Kazmalyar, said his mother Tsukver Ramazanova.

January 14, 2012 23:00

• ECtHR upholds complaint of two Jehovah's Witnesses from Armenia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found Armenia guilty of breaking the right to freedom of conscience and religion in relation to Ike Bukharatyan and Ashot Tsaturyan, convicted in 2003 for refusal from military service on religious convictions.

January 14, 2012 22:20

• Azerbaijan: relatives of Turadj Zeinalov demand exhumation of his body to establish the reason of his death

  In Azerbaijan, relatives of Turadj Zeinalov, who died last August at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) reject the official version of the reason of his death. They believe that Zeinalov died from torture, and in order to prove that they agree to exhume his remains.

January 14, 2012 22:13

• Chechen builders wage protest in Grozny

  In the afternoon on January 13, nearly a hundred construction workers went out for a rally in central Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, demanding payment of their wages. All the protesters are employees of the Turkish construction company "Penta".

January 14, 2012 20:29

• ICA urges Russian authorities to facilitate return of 115 Circassians from Syria

  Today, the city of Nalchik has hosted an enlarged sitting of the International Circassian Association (ICA), which adopted an appeal to the leadership of Russia to help in return of 115 Circassians living in Syria to their historic homeland.

January 14, 2012 19:14

• Dagestani Gimry village hosts rally demanding cancellation of CTO regime

  About a thousand residents of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, gathered today to a rally demanding to cancel the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

January 14, 2012 19:00

• In Adygea, rescuers and foresters inspect the area of possible landslide

  The upper section of the Belaya River in the dwelling settlement of Guzeripl is studied in search of a landslide, which has created problems in water supply to the village of Kamennomostsky, Maikop District. The works are on since January 12.

January 14, 2012 18:00

• Relatives of Yerevan March 1, 2008, casualties express distrust in investigation and PACE

  Relatives of the victims of mass riots on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan are dissatisfied with the course of the inquiry into the deaths of people on that day; the have stated that they do not trust both the investigators and Co-Rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

January 14, 2012 17:00

• Families of power agents who perished killed in Vedeno District of Chechnya to get million roubles each

  The Chechen authorities will pay one million roubles to every family of the law enforcers lost in the special operation undertaken in the Vedeno District. The wounded participants of the operation were promised 300,000 roubles each, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

January 14, 2012 15:00

• 75-year-old man shot dead in Makhachkala on January 9 was folk healer

  On January 9, in the Kirov District of the capital of Dagestan, two unidentified persons penetrated into the house of a local resident, born in 1937, and fired several shots from an unidentified firearm. The man was brought to the Trauma Centre of Makhachkala, where he died from his wounds.