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August 19, 2009 23:20

• Over 200 violations revealed in children's summer camps of Volgograd Region

  In the first two summer months, over two hundred violations of hygienic standards and fire prevention regulations have been revealed in children's summer camps of the Volgograd Region.

August 19, 2009 23:10

• Death of editor-in-chief of "Tolyshi Sado" will strike the image of Azerbaijani authorities, local human rights activists believe

  Today, Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), who died yesterday in the prison hospital, was buried in his native village of Archivan, Astarin District, in the south of Azerbaijan. Human rights activists believe that Mamedov's death will strike the image of Azerbaijani authorities.

August 19, 2009 23:00

• Frankfurter Rundschau: situation in Caucasus is a threat to Sochi Olympiad

  The German edition Frankfurter Rundschau asserts that in the context of the hard criminal situation today in Northern Caucasus the Kremlin should think over the idea to transfer the Winter Olympiad-2014 somewhere behind the Urals.

August 19, 2009 22:00

• PACE officials: Azerbaijani authorities failed to listen to appeals to release Novruzali Mamedov

  Andres Herkel (Estonia) and Evgenia Zhivkova (Bulgaria), co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) for Azerbaijan, are depressed with the fact of the failure of Azerbaijani authorities of Azerbaijan to listen to the appeals to release Novruzali Mamedov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", who died on August 17. They have also expressed their regret for the loss of Mr Mamedov's scientific heritage.

August 19, 2009 22:00

• List of casualties of Nazran terror act has now 25 persons

  As reported by Ruslan Tsechoev, deputy chairman of the government of Ingushetia, who gave the latest data, the terror act at the building of the GOVD in Nazran 25 persons were lost.

August 19, 2009 21:00

• Participant of events witnesses at the trial on militants' attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

  At the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, Murat Abazov, an amnestied participant of the attack and now a witness of the prosecution, gave his evidence.

August 19, 2009 19:00

• In Dagestan, relatives of missing persons are rallying

  Today, relatives of Emirali Magomedov, 34, who is considered missing since August 17, have rallied in front of the building of the Derbent City ROVD (District Militia Division) to express their protest.

August 19, 2009 18:00

• Decision to resume work of "Memorial" in Chechnya will be made in September

  In early September it will be known, whether the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" will resume its activities in the territory of the Chechen Republic. This human rights organization suspended its operations in Chechnya after kidnapping and murder on July 15 of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the "Memorial".

August 19, 2009 17:00

• In Krasnodar Territory, ecologists block construction of Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway

  Today, a group of activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus from Sochi, Krasnodar, Maikop and Nizhni Novgorod have started their radical action to defend the law at construction of the combined highway Adler-Krasnaya Polyana.

August 18, 2009 23:50

• Opposition gives up the idea to hold congress of Ingush people

  Magomed Khazbiev, leader of the Ingush opposition, said that since President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has resumed performing his duties, there is no reason to hold the congress.

August 18, 2009 23:40

• EU condemns terror act in Ingushetia

  The European Union (EU) has condemned the act of terrorism accomplished on August 17 in Nazran (Ingushetia), as a result of which 20 persons were lost and 138 more suffered. This statement was made by Sweden, current chair of the EU.

August 18, 2009 23:30

• Azerbaijani special agencies reveal those who voted for Armenia at "Eurovision-2009"

  The Ministry for National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan is now identifying the persons, who gave their votes for the participants from Armenia at the musical competition "Eurovision-2009".

August 18, 2009 23:20

• In Dagestan, renowned lawyer is accused of insulting inspectors from prosecutor's office

  In Dagestan, a criminal case has been opened against the well-known lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, accused by inspectors of the Prosecutor's Office of Khasavyurt of insulting them with swear words.

August 18, 2009 23:10

• In Volgograd Region, attackers on Gipsy camp sentenced to 4.5-11 years of imprisonment

  On August 17, 2009, in the Volgograd Region, the court sentenced a group of eight persons who attacked a Gipsy camp in April 2006 in the city of Volzhskiy. Two persons were killed in that attack. The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for the terms from 4.5 to 11 years.

August 18, 2009 23:00

• Explosion in Dagestan wounds four persons

  In Dagestan, today at 10:05 a.m., near the city marketplace in Kizilyurt, a bomb was triggered. As a result of the explosion four persons, two of them being militiamen, were wounded.

August 18, 2009 22:10

• Chechnya's MIA: Kalinichenko family was executed as revenge for identifying a militant

  The law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic now know the name of a suspected killer of five persons in Pervomaiskoe village, Grozny District, committed at night of August 17. Probably, he was an acquaintance of one of the members of Kalinichenko family. This was stated by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the MIA. According to his story, a briefing on the suspected gunman has already been disseminated among all the law enforcement units.

August 18, 2009 22:00

• After terror act in Ingushetia, fates of several persons remain unknown

  In Ingushetia, ruins after the explosion on August 17 in Nazran are still cleared away. Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush Information Agency "Maximum", said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the fate of several persons remains unknown.

August 18, 2009 21:00

• Amirov: maintaining safety in capital of Dagestan faces problems

  Today, at the sitting of the antiterrorist commission of Makhachkala, chaired by City Mayor Said Amirov, officials gave their estimates of the current operative situation in the context of recent frequent attacks on militia posts and encroachments on law enforcers. According to the Mayor, the situation is hard.

August 18, 2009 20:00

• International human rights activists to send their observers to bloggers' trial in Azerbaijan

  A number of well-known international human rights organizations have decided to send their representatives to Azerbaijan to the forthcoming litigation against young bloggers and activists Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

August 18, 2009 19:00

• Sochi ecologists plan to stop deforestation at construction of Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway

  The Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus is going to stop felling at the construction of the combined highway Adler-Krasnaya Polyana (Red Meadow). Andrei Rudomakha, coordinator of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus said that now ecologists plan to lodge applications to law enforcement bodies. Then the "greens" want to stop the tree felling, which is underway there, according to ecology activists, with their own bodies.