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October 04, 2011 12:00

• Participants of a picket against election in Rostov-on-Don called for the townsmen to strike themselves off electoral register

  On October, 3, an action against parliamentary election of December, 4, 2011, passed off during which representatives of oppositional movements of the city and region called the passers-by to go to territorial election committees and demand striking them off electoral register.

October 04, 2011 11:00

• A trial on the case of an act of terror started in Stavropol

  On October, 3, a trial against a twenty-one-years old native of Dagestan Cherkes Rustamov accused of committing an act of terror near a recreation center in Stavropol in May, 2010, before a concert of “Vainakh” pop group, started in Stavropol regional court.

October 04, 2011 10:00

• Facebook users are preparing an action of protest timed to Sarkozy’s visit

  A pressure group of Facebook social network is planning to organize an action of protest “We’ll make October, 7, the Day of Common Protest” near the building of the city Philharmonic Society in the center of Tbilisi parallel to a public speech of President of France Nicolas Sarkozy.

October 04, 2011 07:00

• Leader of the People’s party Roland Kelekhsaev beaten up in South Osetia

  In the afternoon of October, 3, presidential aspirant Roland Kelekhsaev, leader of the People’s party of South Osetia, was beaten up by unknown people. This was reported to the “Caucasian Knot” by Roland Kelekhsaev himself.

October 03, 2011 23:50

• This year, OMON of Kabardino-Balkaria confiscated 43 bombs and 200 kg of explosives

  In 2011, the fighters of OMON (riot police) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria confiscated nearly 200 kg of explosives and 43 various explosive devices. This was announced today by the MIA's press office.

October 03, 2011 23:30

• Two residents of Chechnya addressed Kadyrov during the "hotline" session and got computers

  On September 3, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov held a live TV dialogue with residents of the republic, during which a "hotline" telephone was on at the "Grozny" TV Channel. The session lasted for 3.5 hours; Mr Kadyrov answered to more than 100 questions; and it is already known that two residents who had addressed him received computers; one family was granted a car.

October 03, 2011 23:20

• Aslan Cherkesov questioned at trial on Sviridov's murder

  The Moscow City Court is considering the case on the mass brawl in Kronstadt Boulevard, where the football fan Yegor Sviridov was shot dead. The chief figurant Aslan Cherkesov has evidenced to the court in the presence of the jury.

October 03, 2011 23:10

• Kislovodsk deputy prosecutor suspected of bribery

  Today, employees of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia and the FSB Department for the Stavropol Territory have detained Vitaly Timofeev, First Deputy Public Prosecutor of the city of Kislovodsk red-handed with a bribe of 700,000 roubles. This was stated by the GPO's press service.

October 03, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 26 to October 2

  Sports and Cultural Festival "Caucasian Games" in Karachay-Cherkessia, which brought together representatives from all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District NCFD); start of a week-long round-the-clock protest action of Armenian opposition, demanding early elections; electoral battles with shooting and hunger strike in South Ossetia; Buddhist forum in Kalmykia, where participants ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to allow a pastoral visit of the Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama XIV to Russia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 26-October 2, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 03, 2011 23:00

• In central Yerevan, last years' fire victims live in tents amidst ruins

  In Yerevan, three out of the fourteen families affected by fire at night on November 25, 2010, at No. 23 Koryun Street, are still living in tents on the site of the fire. According to the victims, the Mayoralty has stopped giving them money to rent housing.

October 03, 2011 22:50

• Four oppositionists convicted in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, presided by Judge Familya Nasibova, has convicted four opposition activists arrested for participation in the rally on April 2.

October 03, 2011 22:40

• In Dagestan, special forces use electric shockers to disperse rally, eyewitnesses assert

  In the dispersal of participants in the anti-corruption rally in Dagestan, people were "forced" from the crowd, and "dragged by hands and feet to police UAZ vans," some of the detainees were subjected to electric shockers. This was reported by eyewitnesses.

October 03, 2011 22:20

• Armenia's ruling coalition refuses to resume dialogue with opposition

  In Armenia, the representatives of the ruling coalition adopted a negative decision on the opposition's proposal on the possibility of resuming the dialogue. The coalition believes the continuation of dialogue with the opposition is inefficient in context of illegal action held in Freedom Square. This was reported by Gagik Melikyan, a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.

October 03, 2011 22:10

• In Dagestan, all detained Novosasitli villagers are at large

  In Dagestan, Akhmed Saaduev, a detained resident of the village of Novosasitli, was released on recognizance not to leave. Earlier, two detainees were also set free.

October 03, 2011 22:00

• MCC upholds arrest of suspected Budanov's killer

  Today, the judicial division for criminal cases of the Moscow City Court (MCC) dismissed a complaint of Magomed Suleimanov's defence, challenging the lawfulness of his arrest. Magomed Suleimanov is accused of the murder of ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov.

October 03, 2011 21:00

• Flight clearance between Georgia and the Russian Federation prolonged till the end of the year

  Georgian air company "Georgian Airways" and Russian company "Siberia" (S7 Airlines) got flight clearance from aviation authorities of the Russian Federation and Georgia on prolongation of direct charter flights between Moscow and Tbilisi for three months, i.e. till the end of 2011.

October 03, 2011 20:00

• Arrests of Jambolat Tedeev's supporters going on in South Osetia

  A confrontation between representatives of the authorities and supporters of Jambolat Tedeev, Chief Trainer of freestyle wrestling combined team of the Russian Federation, who have gathered around his house is lasting for already the third day. In Tedeev's district electoral headquarters the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told that arrests of his supporters were going on.

October 03, 2011 19:00

• A policeman hospitalized after an explosion in Dagestan

  This morning an explosion happened in the highway Kaspyisk - Makhachkala, at the turn to the settlement of Turali, Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Dagestan reported. A policeman got injured as a result.

October 03, 2011 18:00

• Two policemen perished as a result of an explosion of a car in Dagestan

  An armored "Gazel" police car was blasted in Kizilyurt, Dagestan, with the help of another car. According to preliminary data, two members of power ministries perished and one was wounded and taken to hospital.

October 01, 2011 21:00

• Twenty-five supporters of presidential candidate Tedeev detained in Tskhinvali

  Near the house of the family of the oppositional candidate for presidency of South Ossetia, the head coach of the Russia freestyle wrestling national team Djambolat Tedeev, the confrontation of his supporters with OMON (riot police) fighters continues. 25 persons were detained, of them 20 were later arrested, the staff of the candidate's election office reports.