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December 21, 2009 22:20

• Activists of "Left-Wing Front" burn Saakashvili portrait in front of Georgia's embassy

  In Moscow, in the context of the explosion of the "Memorial of Glory" in Kutaisi, activists of the "Left-Wing Front" held a non-sanctioned protest action near the embassy of Georgia to Russia. None of the protesters was detained.

December 21, 2009 22:10

• Suspected culprit of blowing up "Monument of Glory" arrested

  In Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court has ruled to put Avtandil Darsavelidze, technical director of the "Sakpetkmretsvi" company, suspected in the case about the explosion of the "Monument of Glory" in Kutaisi, to two-month pre-trial custody.

December 21, 2009 22:00

• Georgian experts and authorities differ in treating Abkhazian election

  The government of Georgia and the community of experts differ in estimating the presidential election held in Abkhazia on December 12. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia made a statement, calling the presidential election in Abkhazia "a farce".

December 21, 2009 21:00

• In Dagestan capital, DSPU protests against building up the park

  In Makhachkala, a rally was organized by teachers and students of the Dagestan State Polytechnic University (DSPU) against illegal construction launched in the park zone adjacent to the university. Unknown businessmen fell down old trees and during one night laid the basement of a supermarket in the territory of the largest city park.

December 21, 2009 20:00

• MIA of Nakhichevan accuses beaten civil society activists

  Two civil society activists - Ilgar Nasibov and Vafadar Eivazov - were summoned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR, Azerbaijan) in the context of attack on them on December 15.

December 21, 2009 19:00

• In Moscow, Natalia Estemirova posthumously awarded for courage

  The Moscow House of Journalists hosted a ceremony of awarding the first premium of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) in the area of human rights defence for 2009. Natalia Estemirova, a human rights defender and employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was posthumously awarded "for the courage demonstrated in defence of human rights."

December 21, 2009 18:00

• Sochi: divers pump out fuel and oil from sunken ship "Aras-1"

  Despite the continuing storm, divers continue pumping fuel from the sunken part of the dry-cargo ship "Aras-1", shipwrecked inshore Sochi.

December 19, 2009 22:00

• Kalinovskaya states pressure after her speech at Sochi rally

  After the residents of the Imereti Lowland, whose houses happened to get into the zone of Olympic construction, took an active part in a rally in Sochi, Natalia Kalinovskaya, chair of the local self-government partnership named "Psou", felt pressure from the authorities.

December 19, 2009 21:00

• Georgia: two persons lost at blowing up "Glory Memorial"

  During dismantling the "Glory Memorial" in Kutaisi, Nino Dzhincharadze, a girl of 8, and her mother were killed by explosion.

December 19, 2009 19:00

• Mussa Khidriev: there are proofs that persons accused of blowing up "Neva-Express" train in 2007 are innocent

  Mussa Khidriev, brother of defendant Maksharip Khidriev, accused of organizing the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train in 2007, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he has weighty proofs of his brother's innocence.

December 19, 2009 18:10

• South Ossetia gives three convicted citizens of Georgia out to Georgian party

  President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has signed a decree on pardoning three convicted citizens of Georgia. 15 minutes after the document was signed, in the frontier zone, three convicted Georgian minors - Levan Khmiadashvili, Victor Buchukuri and Georgiy Archvadze - were handed over to the Georgian party.

December 19, 2009 18:00

• Dagestan resident complains of persecution for his relationship with murdered nephew

  Ahmed Ismailov, a resident of Petrakovskiy settlement, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, states that militiamen are persecuting him because he is a relative of Magomed Ismailov, 18, who was found murdered on November 26.

December 19, 2009 16:00

• "Ayastan" Foundation and authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh restore Shusha

  The programme of urban redevelopment and construction of the city water supply system is launched in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh. The project and cost-estimate works are underway, and in 2-2.5 months a construction tender will be held. This was announced on December 16 by Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the All-Armenian Foundation "Ayastan".

December 19, 2009 13:00

• Pilgrim detained in Sochi is suspected of murdering Bostanov

  Salamat Gandaev, a pilgrim from Karachai-Circassia, who was detained by law enforcement bodies in the city of Sochi, is suspected of murdering Ismail-Hadji Bostanov, Rector of the Islamic Institute.

December 19, 2009 11:00

• Mussa Aushev: car with Dzhanievs blew up not from gas bottle

  According to Mussa Aushev, brother of the Ingush human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, assassinated in October, the version that the car with the Dzhaniev family - Maksharip's relatives, which blew up on December 16, suffered from a gas bottle explosion, is inconsistent. He refers to eyewitnesses who assert that the gas bottle blew up after the first explosion.

December 19, 2009 10:00

• A hundred new complaints submitted to European Court from Chechnya this year

  In 2009, about one hundred new complaints were lodged from Chechnya to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). They have to do mainly with detentions and disappearances of applicants' relatives. This was explained by Anatoly Kovler, Judge of the European Court from the Russian Federation.

December 19, 2009 09:00

• Pilgrims from Kabardino-Balkaria are happy with organization of hadj

  The pilgrims, who made their hadj to the sacred places in Saudi Arabia, have returned to Kabardino-Balkaria. Amerbi Gegraev, head of the group, which went to Mecca by bus, said that the hadj was held at a high level, practically without any problems.

December 19, 2009 08:00

• Armenia has 90,000 poor people more

  Along with the economic recession, Armenia sees a significant growth of poverty. The count of poor population in the country has increased by 90,000 persons, or by 3 percent as compared with last year. This was reported to journalists by Aristomene Varudakis, representative of the World Bank in Armenia.

December 19, 2009 04:00

• Mukhu Aliev: 150 militants liquidated this year in Dagestan

  As reported by President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev on December 17 in Makhachkala at the sitting dated to the Day of Security Services, marked on December 20, from the start of 2009 in Dagestan 150 militants were liquidated, including 5 foreign mercenaries. 108 members of the armed underground and their helpers were detained.

December 18, 2009 23:50

• Ecologists of "Live Utrish" fight for preservation of "Abraus" nature reserve in Krasnodar Territory

  The interregional public ecological organization "Live Utrish" sees no sense in the All-Russian protest action, planned on December 26-27, in defence of the "Bolshoi Utrish" nature reserve, announced by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus. This was stated by Marina Korovina, coordinator of the "Live Utrish". According to her version, now the organization is worried with the state of affairs in another nature reserve - "Abraus".