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January 05, 2012 20:00

• Armenia to start judicial and legal reforms in 2012

  As announced by Grair Tovmasyan, the Minister of Justice of Armenia, in 2012 the country will start a programme of judicial and legal reforms aimed at transforming the judicial system.

January 05, 2012 19:00

• "Free Georgia" to challenge 2008 presidential election at European Court

  The opposition party "Free Georgia" has decided to appeal to the European Court and the Council of Europe in order to appeal against the outcomes of presidential election held on January 5, 2008.

January 05, 2012 18:00

• North Ossetia: picketers against "Electrozink" factory promise to hold regular protests

  The participants of the picket organized in Vladikavkaz by public organizations against pollution of the environment by the metallurgical factory "Electrozink" said that they would go on with their protests.

January 05, 2012 15:00

• HRW: Georgia violates rights of detainees for alleged administrative offences

  Many provisions of the Administrative Code of Georgia are legally untenable and violate human rights, says the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and encourages the Georgian authorities to amend the Code in order to guarantee the rights of detainees.

January 05, 2012 12:00

• Political parties financed from state budget in Georgia are under a special monitoring

  A new service of Supervision and auditing Chamber in Georgia created to monitor financing of political parties will pay special attention to the parties financed by the state, the management of the Camber reported.

January 05, 2012 11:00

• The National plan of actions in the sphere of human rights in Azerbaijan caused conflicting estimations

  The officials and human rights activists of Azerbaijan disagreed in their attitude towards the National plan of actions in the sphere of increase of effectiveness in protection of human rights and freedoms signed by President Ilham Aliev on the New Year’s eve.

January 05, 2012 10:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: 173 victims of armed confrontation in 2011

  Over the period of 2011, no less than 173 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Kabardino-Balkaria, 129 of them were killed and 44 got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on the data from its staff correspondents and other open sources.

January 04, 2012 21:00

• Georgian media managers set up NGO to protect the press

  Today, the managers of some Georgian television, radio and printed media have issued a memorandum on cooperation with the aim to protect the interests of media in Georgia and agreed to establish the NGO entitled "Solidarity for Media Freedom".

January 04, 2012 20:00

• Five football players amnestied in Georgia

  Zviad Sichinava, President of the Football Federation of Georgia, has amnestied five footballers earlier disqualified for organizing "fixed" matches.

January 04, 2012 19:00

• In Astrakhan Region, Jehovah's Witness claims threats from FSB

  In the city of Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan Region), investigators accuse Elena Grigorieva, 43, a member of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, of "inciting hatred or enmity." The believer herself denies the charges and complains about "threats and blackmail" from an FSB agent.

January 04, 2012 17:00

• Dagestani police investigate disappearance of two locals on applications of their relatives

  On January 3, two residents of Dagestan addressed the local police and reported disappearance of their relatives.

January 04, 2012 16:12

• Shevchenko: both militants and power agents need adaptation in Dagestan

  The main condition of a militant's adaptation is his refusal from armed struggle against the authorities, rather than from his views, while both militants and power agents need an adaptation mechanism, said journalist Maxim Shevchenko.

January 04, 2012 12:00

• Participants of a mass scuffle in Rostov region are established

  The police in Rostov region established the identity of the participants of a mass scuffle that took place in Novocherkassk in the evening of January, 2.

January 04, 2012 11:29

• North Ossetia: 14 victims of armed conflict in 2011

  In 2011, at least 14 persons fell victim of the armed conflict in North Ossetia, of whom 4 persons were killed and 10 more injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

January 04, 2012 11:00

• The servicemen’s mentality in Chechnya will be analyzed with the help of the computer

  Since 2012 mental health of the people doing military service in Chechnya will be estimated with the help of the computer.

January 04, 2012 10:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia: 34 victims of armed conflict in 2011

  In 2011, at least 34 persons fell victim of armed conflict in Karachay-Cherkessia, of whom 22 persons were killed and 12 more injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

January 04, 2012 08:00

• Preparation for hajj-2012 started in Dagestan

  Reception of requests from the people who wish to make a hajj for free or on charitable quotas allotted by Foundation of Suleiman Kerimov, member of Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation, started in Dagestan since January, 1. Within the framework of this charitable program poor Moslems from different regions of Northern Caucasus annually go on a hajj.

January 03, 2012 23:00

• Syrian Circassians again ask Russian authorities to accept them at their historical homeland

  A new appeal from 76 Circassians living in Syria with a request to help them to move to their historical homeland has been sent to the leadership of Russia and authorities of Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.

January 03, 2012 22:00

• In the week from December 26 to January 1, armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took six human lives

  At least six persons were lost and four more wounded over the past week, that is, from December 26 to January 1, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 03, 2012 21:00

• Stavropol: officials of local "MinPrirody" fight against construction of villas in state reserve "Russkiy Les"

  The Stavropol Regional Court is considering a number of complaints lodged by Yuri Gridnev, the head of the local "MinPrirody" (Ministry of Natural Resources), against alienation of land plots in the territory of the state reserve "Russkiy Les" (Russian Forest), located near the city of Stavropol in the vicinity of the village of Grushevoy.