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February 01, 2010 23:00

• Tskhinvali has usual schedule of water supply

  The water supply to the capital of South Ossetia, which was interrupted on January 30 because of the break of the "Edis-Tskhinvali" water line, was repaired today in the morning. The usual supply schedule was restored.

February 01, 2010 22:10

• Cassation on bribe verdict in case of first explosion of "Neva-Express" train postponed

  On January 26, the Novgorod Regional Court postponed consideration of the cassation, lodged by advocate Magomed Razakov and his client in the case on blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007 Salambek Dzakhkiev, sentenced to two years of imprisonment for an attempt to bribe the inspector.

February 01, 2010 22:00

• Chechnya: power agent lost, two wounded as truck falls in abyss

  One person was lost also two more heavily wounded in the Nozhay-Yurt District of Chechnya, when an "Ural" truck with power agents inside fell down from the precipice.

February 01, 2010 21:00

• Russia and South Ossetia sign visa-free regime, Georgia protests

  Russia and South Ossetia have entered an agreement on visa-free trips of their citizens, which allows cross the border on both sides by domestic passports of Russia and South Ossetia. The document was signed by Sergey Lavrov and Murat Dzhioev, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia and South Ossetia. Tbilisi treats this Moscow's step as cynical and illegal.

February 01, 2010 20:00

• Militiaman puts a pistol to his head in Chechnya

  A Chechen militiaman has fatally wounded himself from his service pistol. The Chechen MIA finds the suicide version unrealistic.

February 01, 2010 19:00

• Drivers of fixed-route taxis still on strike in Dagestan

  Today in Makhachkala, drivers of fixed-route taxis have not come to work. Meanwhile, Ferzullah Kakhrimanov, deputy head pf the administration of the capital of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the negotiations held yesterday in the afternoon resulted in an agreement to stop the strike.

February 01, 2010 18:00

• Six persons wounded by explosion in Nazran

  Under update information, the triggered grenade launcher, found in a children's playground in the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, injured four OMON (special militia) fighters, an inspector and a local resident.

January 30, 2010 23:00

• First Russia's legal casino launched in Krasnodar Territory

  In the evening on Saturday, January 30, in the Krasnodar Territory, in the Southern Gambling Zone "Azov-City", a solemn opening ceremony of the first in Russia legal gambling institution - the "Oracle" Casino - took place.

January 30, 2010 21:00

• Maksharip Aushev's relative assassinated in Ingushetia

  Tonight in Ingushetia, unidentified persons shot dead a Nazran local resident named Dobriev, a relative of the Ingush human rights activist Maksharip Aushev, assassinated last October. Dobriev died in place from received wounds.

January 30, 2010 19:00

• Office of Norwegian Council on refugees closed in Pankisi Gorge

  The Norwegian Council on Refugees' Matters has closed its office in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, where refugees from Chechnya live. According to the refugees, the new head of the Council demanded to close the office.

January 30, 2010 17:00

• Pyatigorsk will have a monument of unity of Caucasian nations

  Valery Gaevskiy, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, made an offer to the famous sculptor Zurab Tsereteli to erect a monument of unity of the Caucasian nations in Pyatigorsk, the capital of the newly formed North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

January 30, 2010 16:00

• Melkonyan: Armenian community of Istanbul at risk of losing its identity

  The number of Armenian schools in Istanbul continues to go down; the basic problem of the community is to preserve the language. This was stated to journalists by turcologist Ruben Melkonyan, deputy dean of the department of oriental studies of the Yerevan State University.

January 30, 2010 14:00

• Residents of Kalmykia: militiamen and doctors are most corrupted

  Residents of Kalmykia think, and social polls support their conclusions, that STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) employees, militiamen, and workers of medical and educational establishments are most corrupted in their republic. It was declared on January 28 by Prime Minister Vladimir Sengleev at the government's sitting.

January 30, 2010 13:00

• Moscow is concerned about demolition of WWII Memorial

  Moscow is worried with another "fact of disrespect by the authorities of Georgia of the memory of soldiers who perished in the Great Patriotic War." This was stated by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Russian of Foreign Affairs.

January 30, 2010 12:00

• Circassian Congress finds Creeping Crosses in Adygea to be a provocation

  The erection of Orthodox Creeping Crosses in Adygea causes dissatisfaction among the Circassian community of the republic. Murat Berzegov, head of the Circassian Congress, treats the erection of crosses as provocation; while the "Adyge Khasse" asks the President of the republic to interfere with the situation. In the turn, representatives of the Orthodox Church are indignant with the facts of damaging the crosses and believe it to be desecration of relics.

January 30, 2010 11:00

• About 4000 citizens of Georgia pending deportation in Poland

  In the nearest months some four thousand citizens of Georgia will be sent away from Poland. Georgian officials admit that their fellow citizens has mostly crossed the Belarusian-Polish border illegally; and then addressed Polish authorities for political asylum.

January 30, 2010 10:00

• Armenia celebrates the blessing day of all beloveds

  On January 30, the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the St Sargis Day - the patron of all people in love. All the churches named after this Saint held celebratory liturgies.

January 29, 2010 23:50

• Medvedev demands to drop corruption in Northern Caucasus

  President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev hopes that already this year the "extraordinary high" level of corruption in Northern Caucasus will be lowered. He made such statement on January 28 at the enlarged sitting of the board of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau).

January 29, 2010 23:45

• Ukraintsev: case against Dymovskiy is a revenge of his bosses

  Nikolai Ukraintsev, advocate of former militia major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, believes that the criminal case initiated against his client is an act of revenge undertaken by his former bosses. His other advocate - Sergey Gubar - notes that the searches now conducted in Dymovskiy's house have the aim "to dig out something serious", as the today's indictment is "very weak". The Novorossisk UVD (Interior Department) refutes these statements.

January 29, 2010 23:40

• In Georgia, political scientist convicted as Russia's spy

  Today, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced political scientist Vakhtang Maisaya to 20 years of imprisonment for espionage in favour of Russia.