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April 12, 2007 22:45

• Mufti of Adygea is against repatriates' participation in religious activity

  "Adygeis-repatriates should not be religion servants in Adygea and take post if imams, Nurbij Emizh, Mufti of Adygea and Krasnodar Territory, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. In his words, "they are of different mentality."

April 12, 2007 22:00

• In Volgograd Region they judge skinheads who attacked Gipsies

  On April 10, 2007, the Volgograd Regional Court started a trial on the attack committed on April 13, 2006, by skinheads on a Gipsy settlement and the murder of two persons in the vicinity of the city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region.

April 11, 2007 23:30

• Head of Dagestan asks media to resist Wahhabism

  Today, on April 11, a session of Dagestan Antiterrorist Commission has discussed the role of mass media in ideological counteracting terrorism.

April 11, 2007 23:20

• IDPs demand privileges in Nagorny Karabakh

  The village of Nor Maraga, Martakert District, Nagorny Karabakh, hosted a roundtable organized by the NGO of Nagorny Karabakh refugees.

April 11, 2007 23:10

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of blocking Transcaucasian Highway

  Today, Transcaucasian Highway traffic was temporarily blocked in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone, where Georgian power agencies are controlling the Highway section in the vicinity of the villages of the Tskhinval District of South Ossetia.

April 11, 2007 22:40

• Premier of Georgia reports his plan of settling Abkhazian conflict to the UN

  On April 10, Georgia's Premier Zurab Nogaideli took part in the closed session of the UN Security Council on discussing the situation around Georgian-Abkhazian settlement. Mr. Nogaideli acquainted the members of the Council with the main points of Georgian settlement plan.

April 11, 2007 22:21

• North-Ossetian "UBOP" rejects charges of kidnapping Ingushetian residents

  Investigative actions are now undertaken in relation to Aladdin Malsagov, an earlier detained resident of the Republic of Ingushetia.

April 10, 2007 23:26

• Meeting of MFA heads of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria: the outcomes

  In the course of the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, Transdniestria and South Ossetia, held today in Sukhumi, no documents have been signed.

April 10, 2007 23:19

• "Voice of Beslan" asks to account for the opinion of the Moslems who suffered in the terror act

  Emma Tagaeva-Betrozova, Chair of the "Voice of Beslan" North-Ossetian NGO of the terror act victims, is calling "to take into account the opinions of the Moslems who suffered in Beslan tragedy."

April 10, 2007 23:14

• Tver: natives of Chechnya sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment

  Today, the Tver Regional Court has condemned two Chechnya natives to 13 years in jail each.

April 10, 2007 22:52

• Blasters of Grozny-Moscow train sentenced to 18 and 19 years in jail

  The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced the criminals who exploded in 2005 summer the Grozny-Moscow train to 18 an 19 years of deprivation of freedom, a Court's source reported. According to the Court representative, both defendants were found guilty under all the incriminated Articles of the Criminal Code (CC) of Russia.

April 10, 2007 22:00

• MFA of Russia: States treat Abkhazia unequally with Georgia

  The US Department of State has in fact hampered the unofficial meeting of the Abkhazian representative with the members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the eve of negotiations aimed to coordinate the text of a new resolution on Georgian-Abkhazian settlement.

April 09, 2007 23:44

• Abkhazia refutes robbery of UN mission

  The Galskiy District Office of the UN Mission to Abkhazia was not exposed to any plunders, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was informed today by Vadim Mysnik, Public Relations Officer of the Mission of UN Military Observers.

April 09, 2007 23:40

• Investigation of criminal case against Centre "T" employees suspended in Kabardino-Balkaria

  It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" from the sources at the Office of Public Prosecutor of the city of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, that the criminal case against Centre "T" under Article "Abuse of Office Powers with Use of Violence and Special Means" was suspended, since the personalities of the offenders had not been identified.

April 09, 2007 23:35

• US Department of State: Azerbaijan gives no care to human rights

  The US Department of State has disseminated a report on the situation with human rights and democracy in the world entitled "Support of Human Rights and Democracy in 2006." The report states that restrictions of mass media rights and prosecution of journalists took place in many countries, including Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Balkans.

April 09, 2007 22:19

• Politkovskaya's son asks life imprisonment for his mother's killers

  Ilya, journalist Anna Politkovskaya's son thinks that his mother's assassins deserve life imprisonment.

April 09, 2007 22:13

• Search of Moscow banker's relatives lost in Chechnya was fruitless

  So far, the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have failed to identify the whereabouts of the brothers of Abubakar Arsamakov, president of the Moscow Industrial Bank, and a man who accompanied them, who all disappeared two months ago.

April 08, 2007 12:19

• "Reporters without Borders" see no progress in investigating Politkovskaya's murder

  The international organization "Reporters without Borders" has expressed its discontent with the course of investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

April 07, 2007 22:40

• UN mission plundered in Abkhazia

  Today morning, an attack was made on the UN mission in the Galskiy District of Abkhazia.

April 07, 2007 22:20

• Militiamen's rally against corruption in MIA to be held in Dagestan

  On April 8, militiamen intend to hold a meeting in the central square of Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, in protest against corruption in law enforcement bodies.