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November 02, 2009 21:00

• Experts mark Russia's crucial role in settling Karabakh conflict

  On November 2, Moscow hosted a roundtable dedicated to role of Russia in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and European experts took part in the event - ten analysts in total.

November 02, 2009 20:00

• Eyewitness of Maksharip Aushev's murder cannot testify yet

  The health condition of Tauzela Dzeitova, the main witness of Maksharip Aushev's murder, who received wounds, when Aushev's car was shelled in Nalchik, remains grave. This was stated by Shamil Kudaev, deputy chief physician of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Nalchik. The woman is still in resuscitation ward.

November 02, 2009 19:00

• South Ossetia to suppress broadcasting of Radio Liberty in its territory

  As stated by Georgiy Kabisov, Chairman of the State Committee for Information, Post and Mass Communications of South Ossetia, the broadcasting of Radio Liberty in the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia is illegal and a sort of an information provocation.

November 02, 2009 18:00

• President of Ingushetia: corrupt official should have chance of correction

  A year after the start of his presidency, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is still adhering to rather lenient punishments to his corrupt officials. However, according to his version, the courts are all the time trying to acquit those who should be really punished.

November 02, 2009 17:00

• Cars burnt down in plenty in Volgograd Region

  In October, over 20 cars burnt down in Volgograd. Militiamen believe that half of the cases were deliberate arsons. In this way the companies, which claim debts from their borrowers, punish them, the militia think.

November 02, 2009 16:00

• They tried to kill Isa Yamadaev again, his relatives assert

  Relatives of Isa Yamadaev, who got on November 1 in a serious road accident in a Moscow suburb, do not exclude that it could be an attempt on him. In their opinion, only his armoured car saved his life.

November 02, 2009 12:00

• Murad Salikhov kidnapped in Dagestan found dead

  Zagra Kazimagomedova, wife of Murad Salikhov, 24, who was kidnapped in the capital of Dagestan on October 29, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband was identified among the bodies in the Makhachkala morgue.

November 02, 2009 11:00

• In North Ossetia, group of citizens insists on closing "Electrozink"

  In North Ossetia, a group named "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" created in the social Internet-based network "Odnoklassniki.Ru" is not going to stop its activities and continues demanding to close the "Electrozink" factory, despite replacement of the enterprise bosses.

November 02, 2009 10:00

• Azerbaijani journalist receives Rafto Prize

  On November 1, in the Norwegian city of Bergen, Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Malakhat Nasibova was decorated with the prestigious Rafto International Award in the field of human rights for 2009.

November 02, 2009 09:00

• Drinking beer is forbidden at Sochi railway stations and airports

  Mayor of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov has banned sale and consumption of beer closer than 100 meters from entrances to railway stations, airports, sports objects and wholesale food markets. The statement came into force on October 27.

November 02, 2009 06:00

• Novorossisk human rights activists hold a picket on International Black Sea Day

  On October 31, human rights activists from Novorossisk held a picket dated to the Black Sea Day. The picket took place despite the ban of the city administration.

November 02, 2009 02:00

• In Dagestan, Imam of rural mosque assassinated

  Tinamagomed Ramazanov, 34, Imam of a rural mosque, was shot dead in the evening on November 1 by unidentified persons in Bavtugai village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan.

October 31, 2009 20:00

• MIA reports liquidation of Emir of flatland Chechnya

  Ali Khasanov, Emir of flatland Chechnya and close ally of Chechen militants' leader Doku Umarov, was killed in Grozny. According to Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov, President Ramzan Kadyrov took his personal part in the special operation.

October 31, 2009 19:00

• In Dagestan, Koran phrases appear on baby's body

  The phenomenon of the nine-month-old Ali Yakubov from the Dagestan village of Krasnooktiabrskoe, on whose body phrases from the Koran appear, are seriously discussed by local representatives of Muslim clergy and politicians. The house of the Yakubovs is visited by pilgrims who wish to see the wonderful child and touch him.

October 31, 2009 18:00

• Four suspected militants liquidated in Dagestan

  In a special operation held in the Sergokalin District of Dagestan four members of illegal armed formations were killed, as reported by the local ROVD.

October 31, 2009 16:00

• Karachai-Circassia sees high demand for winter rest in Dombai and Arkhyz

  Tourism was on decline in mid-season in Karachai-Circassia; however, demand for winter rest in Dombai and Arkhyz is already noticeable. Kazim Uzdenov, director general of the "Everest" travel company, told about it in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 31, 2009 15:13

• On November 7, Georgian opposition to hold protest actions in several places of Tbilisi

  On October 30, the Georgian opposition notified the Tbilisi Mayoralty about the protest actions planned for November 7. The organizers hope to invoke hundreds of participants.

October 31, 2009 13:00

• Five swine flu cases registered in Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, five swine flu patients (virus А/Н1N1) have been revealed, one of them was hospitalized, as reported by the Republic's branch of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision).

October 31, 2009 12:11

• Abkhazia commemorates victims of Stalin repressions

  Every year on October 30, Abkhazia marks the memory of Stalin's victims. According to historians, in 1930-1940s a thousand persons were repressed in Abkhazia, first of all, intellectuals and the political elite.

October 31, 2009 11:00

• Defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia appeals against his pre-trail custody

  Ketevan Bekauri, advocate of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has appealed against the two-month pre-trial custody of her trial.