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September 24, 2011 11:00

• Tbilisi hosts another solidarity action with "Hercules" metallurgists

  On September 23, in front of the UN Office in Tbilisi, the United Trade Unions of Georgia held a rally of solidarity with the detained workers of the "Hercules" Steel Works, located in Kutaisi.

September 24, 2011 10:00

• Ingushetia resumes investigation into Maksharip Aushev's murder

  A group of investigators from the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), engaged in investigating the murder of human rights defender Maksharip Aushev, has visited Ingushetia. On September 23, they conducted investigatory actions in the city of Nazran, where Mr Aushev had lived and worked.

September 23, 2011 23:30

• Rostov Prosecutor's Office fines people guilty of poisoning children in Veshenskaya

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region has imposed fines from 1 to 10 thousand roubles on the persons guilty of poisoning schoolchildren in the village of Veshenskaya.

September 23, 2011 23:10

• Sochi: "Olympstroy" employee suspected of large-scale fraud

  Investigators suspect the employee of the State Corporation (SC) "Olympstroy", who took part in concluding of an unlawful agreement on compensation for the property, alienated with the aim of preparation of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, of a large-scale fraud.

September 23, 2011 23:00

• Astrakhan sailors are starving in the port of Rostov-on-Don

  The crew of the ship "Antlia" is suffering at the port of Rostov-on-Don because of problems of the ship-owner.

September 23, 2011 22:20

• Pacific state of Tuvalu recognizes independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

  During its visits to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the delegation of Tuvalu signed joint declaration on establishing diplomatic relations with these two countries.

September 23, 2011 22:10

• In Rostov-on-Don, defendants in "Urvan Jamaat" case present their last plea

  Today, at the session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court, the defendants figuring in the case of the so-called "Urman Jamaat" asked the judges to pass a fair decision.

September 23, 2011 22:10

• Representatives of Maksharip Aushev's relatives may address OSCE and UN on his murder

  The lawyer Mussa Pliev has announced today that the official representatives of the relatives of the assassinated Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev will ask the prosecutor's office to supervise the further investigation into his murder, so that it was brought to an end. Should the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) fail to move forward with the investigation of the murder, they intend to appeal to international organizations.

September 23, 2011 22:00

• PACE official treats refugees' living conditions in Ingushetia as unsatisfactory

  Today, a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has visited Ingushetia and treated the living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as unsatisfactory.

September 23, 2011 21:00

• About a thousand attend rally in Dagestan

  Today in Makhachkala, the Rhodope Boulevard housed a sanctioned rally. About a thousand residents of Dagestan came to voice their protest against the actions of the head of the Akhvakh District Ismail Magomedsharipov.

September 23, 2011 20:00

• MIA of Dagestan: assassinated Colonel Murtuzaliev received threats

  Magomed Murtuzaliev, Deputy Head of the Department of the FSIN (Russian Federal Correction Service), had repeatedly received threats, said a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

September 23, 2011 19:00

• Armenian opposition calls for revolution

  The Armenian National Congress (ANC) has decided to change the current ruling regime, Nikol Pashinyan, an oppositional activist and editor-in-chief of the "Armenian Time" newspaper, said today at a rally. He called the audience to revolution.

September 23, 2011 18:00

• Astrakhan Mayor fires principal Gogoleva

  Nadezhda Gogoleva, Director of School No. 74 and a member of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) was dismissed today in Astrakhan without any explanations.

September 22, 2011 23:00

• ECtHR holds hearing on eligibility of Georgia's lawsuit against Russia

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg held a public hearing on the lawsuit of Georgia to the Russian Federation on the results of the war in South Ossetia in August 2008.

September 22, 2011 22:30

• Protest action held at building of CoE mission in Tbilisi

  On September 21 the activists of the Resistance Movement and several NGOs held a rally at the Council of Europe (CoE) mission in Tbilisi.

September 22, 2011 22:20

• Azerbaijani Diaspora in Germany holds protest action in Stuttgart

  Representative of Azerbaijani Diaspora in Germany held a picket in the city of Stuttgart to protest against the concert "The 20th Anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."

September 22, 2011 22:10

• Khashiev: Chechen refugees not to be evicted from Ingushetia

  Families residing in the territory of Promzhilbaza (industrial dwelling centre) in the town of Karabulak, will not be evicted. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Isa Khashiev, Deputy Chief of Russia's Federal Migration Service of the Republic of Ingushetia, who on September 21 within the committee visited refugees' temporarily accommodation centres (TACs).

September 22, 2011 22:00

• Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria extends arrest of defendants in Nalchik attack case

  Today, at the hearings on the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the court prolonged the detention of 55 defendants for another three months. The court also questioned four victims on the incident of the attack on the border guard unit in Nalchik.

September 22, 2011 21:00

• Chechnya solves embezzlement of 113 million roubles of militaries' bonuses

  The Chief Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has revealed the embezzlement of 113 million roubles of budget funds allocated to reward soldiers for taking part in counterterrorism operations in the mountainous part of Chechnya.

September 22, 2011 20:00

• Dagestan: case on Sapiyat Magomedova's beating by power agents returned from court to prosecutor's office

  Today, Judge Ibragim Tashanov of the Khasavyurt City Court of the Republic of Dagestan pronounced the return of the criminal case initiated against the police officers of the OVD (Interior Division) of Khasavyurt, who were accused of beating lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova on June 17, 2010, to the prosecutor's office. Now the accused power agents can again become the defendants, in case the acquittal of Sapiyat Magomedova on the criminal case, which was initiated against herself, is pronounced.