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November 19, 2009 23:00

• Film about Anna Politkovskaya presented in France

  On November 18, a documentary "Letter to Anna", dedicated to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, made on the basis of conversations of director Eric Bergkraut with Politkovskaya in 2003-2004, was presented.

November 19, 2009 22:00

• Volgograd Region: militiamen are accused of planting drugs on suspects

  In the city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region, militia major, captain and lieutenant were detained on suspicion of trying to plant drugs and money on the woman-figurant of a criminal case.

November 19, 2009 21:00

• Several hazing criminal cases opened in Baltic Fleet against servicemen from Dagestan

  In the Kaliningrad Region, a prosecutor's check has established that a group of sailors recruited from Dagestan had repeatedly hazed their younger colleagues recruited to the Baltic Fleet in spring of 2009.

November 19, 2009 20:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's mother plans to go on with her hunger strike till her son's liberation

  Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia, mother of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, is going to continue her hunger strike until her son is released. The detainee's supporters demand an objective investigation.

November 19, 2009 19:00

• Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh to raise money for restoration of Shusha

  On November 26, in Los Angeles, under the initiative of the All-Armenian Foundation "Ayastan" another charitable telethon event will be held. The funds raised in the course of it will go to restoration and development of the city of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh. Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh will also traditionally take part in the action.

November 19, 2009 18:00

• Beslan victims establish new social movement "For Status of Terror Act Victims"

  In North Ossetia, on November 18, the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" founded a new social movement "For Status of Terror Act Victims", where the aim is to enforce legalization of the status of terror act victims. This was reported by Ella Kesaeva, head of the "Voice of Beslan".

November 19, 2009 17:00

• "Caucasian Knot" presents project "Maps of Peaceful Caucasus"

  The "Caucasian Knot" is placing its content into the information layers on Yandex.Maps to provide more opportunities to Runet visitors for getting acquainted with unique places in the Caucasus and pieces of its history embodied in tales and legends. With this aim the project "Maps of Peaceful Caucasus" has been created, which allows making a fascinating on-line journey over the region.

November 18, 2009 23:50

• IRFS calls EU to influence official Baku in context of human rights

  On November 17 in Brussels, in the course of the Forum on Civil Society of the countries-participants of the programme initiated by the European Union (EU) under the name of "Eastern Partnership", Emin Guseinov, Director of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), delivered applications related to the freedom of speech and press in Azerbaijan to the EU leaders.

November 18, 2009 23:20

• In Sochi, employee of prosecutor's office supports Major Dymovskiy

  On November 17, Captain Alexander Popkov, a valid worker of the military prosecutor's office from Sochi, placed his video appeal in the Internet, in which he confirmed earlier statements of Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy.

November 18, 2009 23:00

• Native of Ingushetia detained in Egypt is suspected of links with Wahhabites

  Ibragim Mankiev, a native of Ingushetia, who was kidnapped in Egypt, was in fact detained by local special agencies as a suspect of links with Wahhabites.

November 18, 2009 22:20

• Mirian Patarkatsishvili: members of the commission studying circumstances of death of ex-president of Georgia are threatened

  An unidentified person is threatening to apply physical violence to the members of the interim parliamentary commission that was set up for studying the circumstances of the death of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, should the commission goes on with their work. This was stated by Mirian Patarkatsishvili, a member of the political movement "Freedom", at a special press conference held on November 17.

November 18, 2009 22:00

• AI starts campaigning in defence of convicted Azerbaijan bloggers

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign in support of the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan to imprisonment on charges of hooliganism.

November 18, 2009 21:00

• Azerbaijani authorities worry of condition of historical monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh

  As reported by Intigam Gumbatov, press secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan, in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, a great damage to the country's cultural heritage was caused by the occupation of the territory of Azerbaijan.

November 18, 2009 20:00

• Earlier kidnapped Magomedshamil Shakhbanov released in Dagestan

  The son of the head of administration of the city of Buinaksk Magomedshamil Shakhbanov, who was kidnapped on November 17, is now at large. Five suspects of the crime are detained. This was reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

November 18, 2009 19:00

• HRW: Europe should call Moscow to reforming human rights sphere

  European leaders should use the November 18-19 Stockholm Summit to voice out their concern of deteriorated situation with human rights in Russia and call Moscow to its actual improvement. This was stated by the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, which noted that lately in Russia at least five civil activists were killed, and others faced pressure.

November 18, 2009 18:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: terror act at Aushiger HPP prevented

  Today, the United Information Centre (UIC) of the law enforcement bodies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reported about prevention of a terror act at the Aushiger Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) located in the Cherek District of the republic.

November 17, 2009 23:50

• Azerbaijan: tenants of would-be demolished house threaten to commit a mass suicide

  Residents of an apartment house at the central Baku have stated that they are ready to commit a mass suicide with the aim to prevent demolition of their house.

November 17, 2009 23:50

• Chochiev: Georgia gets ready for another aggression

  The funds allocated by the USA for building houses for refugees from the Leningorsk District of South Ossetia, have been spent to build a military base. This was stated by Boris Chochiev, plenipotentiary envoy of President of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement.

November 17, 2009 23:00

• Dagestan commemorates victims of 1996 Kaspiisk terror act

  The city of Kaspiisk (Dagestan) has held a mourning rally in memory of victims of the terror act, committed in the city on November 16, 1996. On that day a multi-storey apartment house was blown up, where frontier guards and their families lived. In total, 68 persons were lost.

November 17, 2009 23:00

• In Rostov, pensioners-miners protest against cancellation of privileges

  On November 16 in Rostov-on-Don over thirty pensioners-miners held a picket against cancellation of privileges. The former miners of the city of Zverevo were not allowed to hold their protest action at the building of the administration and told that the square was prepared for the New Year fair.