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October 17, 2011 22:40

• Three persons, killed in car in Dagestan, identified

  Three people, who on October 16 were found shot in a car, were residents of the Sergokalin District of Dagestan. This was reported by the representative of the Investigatory Department of the Russian Investigatory Committee (IC) of the republic to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

October 17, 2011 22:20

• Human rights newspaper "Objective" launched in Chechnya

  The newspaper under the title "Objective" appeared in Chechnya. Kheda Saratova, the editor-in-chief and the public activist, hopes that the newspaper will be independent and become a tribune for people in Chechnya, from which they could appeal to the authorities for help. According to local experts, the release of the new medium with human rights orientation implies a tough stance on human rights protection.

October 17, 2011 22:20

• Police accuses kidnapped resident of Dagestan of hooliganism, his relatives assert

  In Dagestan, protocol on administrative violation - appearing in a public place while intoxicated - has been completed against Rustam Yakhyaev, who had been previously kidnapped and is now kept in the OVD (Interior Division) of the town of Izberbash. This was reported by his family members.

October 17, 2011 22:10

• US State Department hands over the prize, posthumously awarded to Ingush human rights defender, to his colleague

  On October 16, in Moscow, the annual award of the US State Department for human rights defending, which was awarded posthumously to Ingush human rights defender Maksharip Aushev, has been handed. The award was handed to a colleague of the human rights defender for further delivery to his relatives.

October 17, 2011 22:00

• Resident of Dagestan claims kidnapping of his father and his friend

  Today, Kurban Gafarov, a resident of the village of Druzhba of Kayakent District of Dagestan, was kidnapped by unidentified armed people in civilian clothes. This was reported by Ramadan Gafarov, the son of the kidnapped man. According to him, Garun Kurbanov, his father's friend, was driven away to some unknown destination together with Kurban Gafarov.

October 17, 2011 21:00

• New residential district for refugees opened in Poti

  Today, in the city of Poti in western Georgia, a new residential district of 32 buildings, built jointly with the European Union (EU) for internally displaced persons (IDPs), has been opened.

October 17, 2011 20:00

• In Chechnya, National Reconciliation Commission to be abolished

  The Chechen leadership has abolished the National Reconciliation Commission on, since it had been fulfilled its primary task - arrangement of blood feud conflicts.

October 17, 2011 20:00

• In Dagestan, burnt car, belonging to disappeared local resident, found

  The car belonging to Salman Abakarov, a 43-year-old resident of the city of Buinaksk, who disappeared on October 11, was found burnt out in one of the gorges of Karabudakhkent District. The driver himself was not found in the car. This was reported by Zarema Bagaudinova, a member of the organization "Human Rights Protection" in Buinaksk and Buinaksk District.

October 17, 2011 19:00

• Clean-up in Khutrakh village in Dagestan was punitive action, human rights activists assert

  The residents of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan have expressed their complaints to human rights activists against illegal actions of law enforcement and power agents who conducted a special operation in the village. This was announced by Svetlana Isaeva, Chair of the organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

October 17, 2011 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, number of oppositional hunger-strikers goes up

  Today, in Baku two opposition members joined the hunger strike kept by parents of persons convicted of participation in the protest action on April 2.

October 15, 2011 23:00

• Makhachkala: militants surrender under guarantees of adaptation commission

  The members of the armed underground Nariman Mirzamagomedov and Telman Gadjimustafaev, who were blocked in the capital of Dagestan, have surrendered under the guarantees of the commission under the president of the republic set up to help people who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities to adapt to peaceful life.

October 15, 2011 22:00

• Ivanishvili to appeal against deprivation of his Georgian citizenship and renounce his Russian citizenship

  As reported by Eka Beseliya, the advocate of the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, the special order of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili of citizenship deprivation will be challenged in the court, and Ivanishvili's French and Russian passports will be dismissed.

October 15, 2011 21:00

• Swank to transfer her fee received for concert in Grozny to charities

  The American actress and the two-times "Oscar" laureate Hilary Swank will transfer her part of the royalty, due to her for taking part in the gala concert in Grozny, to charitable organizations, her press secretary said on October 14.

October 15, 2011 20:00

• Group of KBR residents calls society not to remain indifferent to situation in the region

  A group of residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has appealed to the authorities and the public with an open letter entitled "Young Caucasians perish - both Muslims and policemen".

October 15, 2011 19:00

• In Nagorno-Karabakh, conscript arrested for death of serviceman

  On October 14, a conscript was detained in Nagorno-Karabakh within a criminal investigation into the death of first-class private Yurik Nersisyan, a regular soldier of the Defence Army of Karabakh.

October 15, 2011 18:00

• Azerbaijan gets interested in tourist cluster in Northern Caucasus

  The Azerbaijani government will send a delegation with businessmen to Dagestan to study the development projects of the North-Caucasian tourist cluster, in particular, the Caspian coast resorts and their investment opportunities.

October 15, 2011 17:00

• In Turkey, police releases Uvais Akhmadov

  The Istanbul police has released the former Chechen field commander Uvais Akhmadov on the fifth day after his arrest, having found no sufficient proofs of his involvement in the attempt on Shamsuddin Batukaev, the former head of the Sharia Court a self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

October 15, 2011 16:00

• Seventeen persons registered as presidential candidates in South Ossetia

  On October 14, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia registered Alan Pliev, Deputy Foreign Minister of South Ossetia, Eduard Gabaraev, the artillery commander of the local Ministry of Defence (MoD), Igor Alborov, Deputy Head of the MoD, and the local MP Inal Bazzaev as presidential candidates, making the total number of them equal to 17 persons.

October 15, 2011 15:00

• Grocery store blown up in Makhachkala

  Last night, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near the grocery store in the village of Shamkhal, Kirov District of the capital of Dagestan. No one was injured.

October 15, 2011 14:00

• E-daybooks to be introduced in schools of Georgia

  Starting November 1, schools of Georgia will introduce electronic daybooks, where parents will be able to control the academic progress of their children in the online mode, Dmitry Shashkin, the Georgian Minister of Education, announced on October 13.