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November 21, 2009 19:00

• Minasyan: militant speeches of Azerbaijani President threaten stability in Southern Caucasus

  As reported by Armen Minasyan, chair of the Yerevan-based "Democracy and Peace Centre", the statement of Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, about possible force solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a threat to regional stability.

November 21, 2009 18:00

• Mukhu Aliev in the lead to be the next President of Dagestan, experts believe

  Opinions differ in Dagestan as to the chances of the five candidates for presidency, approved on November 19.

November 21, 2009 17:00

• Armenian clergy accuses Georgia of indifference to Armenian relics

  In the context of the recent collapse of the Church Surb Gevorg in Tbilisi, erected in 1356, the Supreme See of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) has accused the authorities of Georgia of indifference to preservation of the Armenian relics located in this country.

November 21, 2009 12:00

• Major Dymovskiy decides not to meet Putin

  Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossisk, who had earlier asked Russian Premier Putin about a personal meeting in his video appeal, has given up his intention, now saying that his meeting with Putin will be an "offence to his honour."

November 21, 2009 11:00

• Students' photo contest summed up in Vladikavkaz

  The totals of the first ever city students' contest of photo works under the motto "Bright Prospects" have been summed up in the capital of North Ossetia.

November 21, 2009 10:00

• Politicians and experts discuss safety in Southern Caucasus at conference in Azerbaijan

  The development prospects and safety issues of Southern Caucasus as a whole and Azerbaijan in particular were the debate points at the international conference "Safety Challenges in Southern Caucasus: Realities and Prospects of Regional Cooperation" held on November 20 in Baku.

November 21, 2009 09:00

• Georgian MPs pass amnesty of drug addicts

  On November 20, the Georgian parliament unanimously (86 votes) adopted, at its plenary session, the Law "On Amnesty", which assumes to halve the punishment for the people imprisoned for drug using. The current legislation provides up to 10 years of imprisonment for drug using.

November 20, 2009 23:30

• In Novorossisk Port, Ukrainian seamen go on demanding their salary

  The crew members of the Greek tanker "Thelema Т", now in the roads (off-harbour) in the vicinity of the city of Novorossisk, Krasnodar Territory, continue to fight for their salary debts and refuse coming ashore. The employer company promises to square up with the Ukrainian seamen on November 26.

November 20, 2009 23:20

• Yerevan marks 20 years of signing the UN Convention "On Rights of the Child"

  In Yerevan, at the National Aesthetics Centre, within the plan of actions dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the date of signing the UN Convention on Children's Rights, a solemn opening of the exhibition of Swedish artist Ilon Vikland was held.

November 20, 2009 23:10

• Armenia starts month's campaign in defence of invalids' rights

  On the initiative of the Ministry of Labour and the National Commission on Invalids' Matters, from early December Armenia will start a month-long campaign aimed to attract the attention of the society to people with limited physical capabilities, with the main accent on defence of invalids' rights. This was reported by Jema Bagdasaryan, deputy minister for labour of work and social care.

November 20, 2009 23:00

• Head of Azerbaijani MIA accuses journalist of slander

  Ramil Usubov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, has submitted his private suit against Eyub Kerimov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Femida-007". The Minister asks to bring the journalist to criminal liability under the slander article, which assumes up to three years of imprisonment.

November 20, 2009 22:00

• Yamadaevs: great reward promised for murdering Isa

  The gunmen who are now hunting in Moscow for Isa Yamadaev - one of the three still alive brothers - were promised a generous reward. Isa's close relatives are sure of that and say that his appeal to Dmitri Medvedev was caused not so much by his fear for his own life, but by his desire to draw Russian President's attention to what really happens today in the Chechen Republic.

November 20, 2009 21:00

• Public board of the Ministry of Nationalities of North Ossetia sees social inequality as one of roots of extremism

  On November 19, the sitting of the public board under the Ministry of North Ossetia for Nationalities concluded that social problems and propaganda of violence in the Internet and mass media are among major reasons of extremism.

November 20, 2009 20:00

• Not only Dagestan natives are suspected of mass hazing in Baltic Fleet

  The Military Investigatory Department for the Baltic Fleet continues its investigation of numerous cases of non-statutory relations in the military unit deployed in the city of Pionerskiy, Kaliningrad region. According to the investigation, the group of sailors who hazed their comrades-in-arms, included, apart from natives of Dagestan, recruits from other Russian regions.

November 20, 2009 19:00

• Roginskiy calls EU to toughen criticism on Russia for breaking human rights

  On Thursday, November 20, the Reception Centre of Foreign Press in Paris hosted a press conference of Arseniy Roginskiy, a well-known Russian historian, human rights activist and chair of the board of the Society "Memorial". Mr Roginskiy answered a broad spectrum of questions asked by French journalists: about the work of human rights defenders and NGOs in Russia, about the confrontation with the authorities, about disputable history items and about many other things.

November 20, 2009 18:00

• Evkurov is ready to continue his dialogue with the opposition

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has stated that that he feels easy with the opposition and called oppositionists to work hardy towards creating new jobs.

November 19, 2009 23:50

• Georgian teenagers detained in South Ossetia will spend 2 months in custody

  The four Georgian teenagers detained in South Ossetia on charges of illegal crossing the border and storing explosives will stay behind bars for at least two months.

November 19, 2009 23:30

• Dagestan: head of Buinaksk administration reports detention of suspects of his son's kidnapping

  Mesterlyu Shakhbanov, head of the administration of the city of Buinaksk, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the first suspects had been detained in the context of kidnapping his son - Magomedshamil Shahbanov - on November 17. The detainees are kept in the Buinaksk GOVD (City Interior Department). The GOVD categorically refused to give any comments, while the MIA and Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan said that they had no information of this sort.

November 19, 2009 23:20

• Pilgrims of Dagestan get ready for protest actions

  Magomed Mutaelumov, a resident of Makhachkala, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that the pilgrims of Dagestan who failed to make their hadj because of the red tape with drawing their documents are preparing protest actions.

November 19, 2009 23:10

• Human rights activists ask EU to urge Russia to respect human rights

  Within the last year, Russia saw stronger pressure on those who defend human rights in Chechnya and in Northern Caucasus as a whole; therefore, the European Union should present "unambiguous demands to Russia to take particular steps towards stronger defence of human rights in Northern Caucasus." This is stated in the address of human rights activists to the government of Sweden, the chair-country of the EU, and the European Union as a whole, dated to the "Russia-EU" Summit in Stockholm.