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October 24, 2009 12:00

• In Armenia, police to switchover to European standards

  The police of Armenia will be reformed towards meeting the standards of the European Union. This was stated by the press service of the Council of National Security of Armenia.

October 24, 2009 10:00

• Authorities of Stavropol plan to make citizens' health the main topic of city policy

  The city of Stavropol has entered the fifth phase of the project of the World Health Organization (WHO) "Healthy Cities", which will last till 2013. The territorial capital was the only city of Russia to receive the corresponding accreditation in the European WHO network, which gives the right to continue participation in the project. This was announced by the press service of the city administration.

October 24, 2009 08:00

• Azerbaijan to have a new tea factory

  In the near future, a new tea factory will be launched in Lyankyaran. The enterprise, which occupies 1 hectare, is its final stage of commissioning, as reported by its director Mukhandis Dzhakhangirov.

October 23, 2009 23:55

• Human rights activists report new kidnappings and extrajudicial executions in Dagestan

  The HRC "Memorial", which continues its monitoring of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, was addressed by residents of Dagestan, who informed about two cases of such violations in Dagestan in relation to their relatives in October 2009, namely: kidnapping of Arslanbek Zakaev, a resident of Makhachkala, and extrajudicial execution of several persons in the Khasavyurt District.

October 23, 2009 23:50

• President attacker's car was stuffed with 200 kilos of plastic explosive and hexogen

  In Grozny, sapper units of the MIA and other law-enforcement departments have completed an operation of neutralizing a car stuffed with explosive, in which a terrorist-suicide bomber tried to make a terror act against President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and deputy of Russian State Duma Adam Delimkhanov.

October 23, 2009 23:40

• Armenian Ombudsman soon to present new report on last March 1 events

  Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan has prepared a new report on the events on March 1, 2008. The document deals with the litigations held against the people arrested on charges of organizing mass disorders.

October 23, 2009 23:20

• ICPO: over 41 million budget roubles stolen in Ingushetia

  The Investigatory Department for Ingushetia of the ICPO has initiated a criminal case on the fact of plundering budgetary funds of the republic's Ministry of Finance and Ingush branch of the Savings Bank.

October 23, 2009 23:10

• CEC head promises to order a wreath to requester of revision of elections in Chechnya

  Vladimir Churov, head of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Russia, said that he would not advise anybody to challenge the outcomes of the elections in the Urus-Martan district capital of Chechnya. According to his story, he would order a funeral wreath to the one who would dare to do it.

October 23, 2009 23:00

• Russia considers applications on political asylum from two Georgian journalists

  The Department for Information and Press of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said that it would consider the requests of two Georgian journalists on granting political asylum to them with account of the situation with the freedom of mass media in Georgia.

October 23, 2009 22:10

• Astrakhan hosts a non-sanctioned action of the opposition

  On October 22, the Astrakhan Regional Duma held an expanded sitting initiated by the faction of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" Party to discuss the situation in the city after election of the city Mayor. At the same time, in the Savushkina Street the opposition held their non-sanctioned action.

October 23, 2009 21:00

• Ideas raised in Internet on how to reform Russian law-enforcement bodies

  On October 21, a public campaign "For capital repairs of the militia" was launched in Russia with the aim to impel the federal authorities to seriously and immediately start radically reforming the country's law-enforcement bodies.

October 23, 2009 20:00

• Chechen power agents assert that people killed in Grozny prepared terror acts

  The two guys and two girls, liquidated on October 22 in the course of a special operation, held in the Oktiabrskiy District of Chechen capital, were hiding in the house, where a small facility for manufacturing explosives was organized. This was reported by local power agencies.

October 23, 2009 19:00

• In Adygea, convicts are accused of applying violence to colony staff

  A criminal case has been initiated in Adygea against four inmates of one of local corrective colonies accused of violent actions applied to employees of the establishment.

October 23, 2009 18:00

• Shop owner assassinated by unidentified persons in Ingushetia

  As reported by a source from the Investigatory Department for Ingushetia of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), on October 22 in the village of Plievo unidentified persons shot dead a lady who owned a small shop, where alcohol was sold.

October 22, 2009 23:40

• Gachechiladze: spring and summer protest actions of Georgian opposition had been planned by Saakashvili

  The broadly covered rallies of the opposition held during spring and summer in Georgia, had been pre-planned well in advance by the government of the republic with the aim to "let off steam" of negative energy of the population and show everybody that the opposition is impotent. This is the opinion of Georgiy Gachechiladze, leader of the Party of "Greens" of Georgia.

October 22, 2009 23:30

• Oreshkin: statements on recognition of independence of Chechnya and Ingushetia will be made in future

  In the opinion of the political scientist Dmitri Oreshkin, the statement, disseminated just a couple of hours ago that "the Confederation of Nations of the Caucasus has recognized independence of Chechnya and Ingushetia," will not be the last of this sort in the course of the events taking place now in Northern Caucasus.

October 22, 2009 23:20

• Sakharov's Prize awarded to three "Memorial" human rights advocates for "freedom of thought"

  Russian human rights activists Liudmila Alekseeva, Sergey Kovalyov and Oleg Orlov, representing the Human Rights Society "Memorial", were awarded by the European Parliament the prize named after Andrei Sakharov for the "freedom of thought". This news was announced by Jerzy Buzek, Chairman of the European Parliament, at today's session in Strasbourg.

October 22, 2009 23:10

• Novorossisk court denies MUE director's claim against NCHR

  The result of today's session on the claim lodged by Sergey Novikov, director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Information-Analytical Centre" (MUE "IAC"), against the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights (NCHR) on defence of his honour, dignity and business reputation was refusal of the court to consider the case because of clarification of circumstances and Mr Novikov's confession about his deal with the local prosecutor's office. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the NCHR.

October 22, 2009 23:00

• "Children's curfew" introduced in North Ossetia

  Today in North Ossetia, local MPs have passed a bill "On Measures to Protect Children's Morals and Health", which in fact introduces a "curfew" for children and teenagers of this republic.

October 22, 2009 22:10

• Kadyrov: four suicide bombers liquidated in special operation, a militiaman was lost

  Four militants-suicide bombers who "planned to commit a series of terror acts by blowing themselves up" were killed today during a special operation in the Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny, as reported by President Ramzan Kadyrov. His Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports that one militiaman was lost.