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November 27, 2008 12:21

• Five of six women killed in Chechnya identified

  The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have established the persons of five young women, whose bodies were found on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of the Republic. One killed woman is not identified yet. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from a source in the Republic's law enforcement bodies.

November 27, 2008 11:53

• In Abkhazia, kidnappers release an elderly resident of Gali District

  Today, Goneri Badzagua, 70, a resident of the village of Nabakevi, Gali District of Abkhazia, who was kidnapped on November 22, was set free. Under preliminary information, the kidnappers extorted money from Mr Badzagua.

November 27, 2008 11:51

• "Ossetian Jama'at" claims responsible for killing Vladikavkaz Mayor

  An organization named "Ossetian Jama'at Kataib al Khoul" has proclaimed itself to execute the murder of Vitaly Karaev, Mayor of the city of Vladikavkaz. A respective statement appeared in one of Chechen separatists' websites.

November 27, 2008 11:44

• Beslan terror act victims refuse to leave court building

  About 60 residents of Beslan refuse to leave the building of the Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz until the chair at the trial meets them. The reason is in the permanent postponement of the court sessions. Today's one has also failed.

November 27, 2008 11:38

• Musaev: big political boss is a figure in Politkovskaya's case

  Yesterday, on November 26, ahead of the sitting of the Moscow Regional Military Court, where the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya is now considered, Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the defendants, had stated that some big Russian politician is a figurant in the case.

November 26, 2008 14:28

• Armenian opposition insists on sending the audio record of March 1 events to examination

  The Armenian National Congress (ANC) possesses an audio record from the place of tragic events on March 1 in Yerevan. According to some evidences, one can hear in the record not only machine-gun shots, but also fire from other weapons. In the opinion of the opposition of Armenia, the record should be sent to audio examination.

November 26, 2008 14:25

• Sokiryanskaya: Russian soldiers in South Ossetia are in rigour

  Russian soldiers, whom human rights activists met in their visit to the Leningor District of South Ossetia, complained of heavy conditions of their service. For a long time they had to sleep in entrenchments under clear sky and sometimes even to starve. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial".

November 26, 2008 14:20

• Kitsmarishvili: for four years Saakashvili wished to drag Georgia into war

  Today, ex-ambassador of Georgia Erosi Kitsmarishvili has re-confirmed his assertions made earlier. As he said, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili had long lusted and strived for war.

November 26, 2008 14:16

• Adygea: facts of logging in the territory of World Natural Heritage are checked by law enforcers

  Not only ecologists, but also law enforcement bodies have registered the facts of forest felling in the territory of the object of the World Natural Heritage (WNH) "Western Caucasus" in Adygea. In the next few days, criminal cases will be initiated on these facts.

November 26, 2008 14:14

• Same judge will run Anna Politkovskaya's murder case

  Today Evgeniy Zubov, Judge of the Moscow Regional Military Court, has refused to self-disqualify from the process on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

November 26, 2008 14:08

• Former advocate of ex-senator from Kalmykia Chakhmakhchyan applies against Russia to the European court

  Boris Kuznetsov, former advocate of Levon Chakhmakhchyan, ex-senator from Kalmykia, who was convicted to nine years of deprivation of freedom, has filed a claim against Russia to Strasbourg to the European Court for Human Rights.

November 26, 2008 13:15

• Sokiryanskaya: residents of Georgian villages in South Ossetia feel extremely unsafe

  On November 21, 2008, Russian human rights activists made a visit to the Leningor District of South Ossetia bordering on Georgia. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a representative of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who took part in the visit, told the "Caucasian Knot" in her interview about the distress of the villagers in the District.

November 25, 2008 13:50

• Azerbaijani politicians: Ukraine excessively politicizes Holodomor topic

  The topic of Holodomor (also known as Famine-1933) in Ukraine is being excessively politicized, however, the position of Ukrainian President on the issue deserves understanding, Azerbaijani politicians and political scientists believe.

November 25, 2008 13:47

• US congressmen urge Azerbaijani President not to stop Voice of America

  On November 24, Elsie Hastings and Benjamin Cardin, co-chairs of the US Congress Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, sent a letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev with expression of their concern with the plans to stop in 2009 access of foreign radio companies, in particular Voice of America and Radio Liberty, to the frequencies controlled by the country's government.

November 25, 2008 13:42

• Ex-ambassador of Georgia: Georgian invasion to Abkhazia was prepared in April-May

  Back in April 2008 the Georgian leadership was preparing the warfare in Abkhazia, having invited trainers from Israel; this was announced today by Erosi Kitsmarishvili, former ambassador of Georgia to Russia, at a sitting of the ad hoc parliamentary commission, which was set up for studying the August crisis in the Caucasus.

November 25, 2008 13:38

• Well-known oppositionist approved as Vice-Premier of Ingushetia

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has signed appointment decrees to various top positions in the Republic. Thus, Magomed-Sali Aushev, a well-known oppositional politician of Ingushetia, has been approved as the Deputy Chairman of the Government (Vice-Premier).

November 25, 2008 13:36

• Trial of Anna Politkovskaya's murder case is again made open

  The litigation on the case on the murder of the "Novaya Gazeta" correspondent Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the open regime. The board of jurymen has reiterated their statement that they do not object to run the trial in the open regime. The state prosecution has supported the jurymen's statement. As a result, Judge Zubov made a respective decision, the "New Gazeta" reports.

November 25, 2008 13:30

• Fight in Moscow with participation of Caucasian natives

  In Moscow, at about midnight, a fight burst out between the natives from the Caucasus and those from Central Asia, in which some 15 persons took part. About ten persons suffered, and four were knifed.

November 25, 2008 13:25

• HRC "Memorial": in Dagestan, armed conflicts are religion-motivated

  Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has stated in the press conference in Moscow on November 24, dated to one year anniversary of the murder of Dagestan human rights activist and oppositional politician Farid Babaev, that armed conflicts in Dagestan have religious character.

November 25, 2008 13:20

• In Kalmykia, authorities notice municipal hunger-strikers

  After the "Caucasian Knot" published a news item about the protest action of municipal workers in the Iki-Burul District of Kalmykia, they were visited by representatives of various media and power bodies. The hunger-strikers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.