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March 24, 2007 23:47

• Chechnya: search of the militants who disappeared after fighting militaries

  Chechen authorities continue searching the militants who managed to disappear yesterday after armed collision with the servicemen of the Ministry of Defence.

March 24, 2007 23:37

• Mukhu Aliev has discussed economic situation in Dagestan with Russian president

  On March 23, Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, met Mukhu Aliev, president of Dagestan, in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence to discuss the economic situation in Dagestan.

March 24, 2007 22:48

• Ingushetia boils over kidnapping of the 78-years old president's relative

  The kidnapping of Ingush president Murat Zyazikov's close relative accomplished yesterday in the Barsuki Municipal District of Nazran has provoked a broad public resonance and indignation among the authorities and public of the Republic.

March 24, 2007 22:35

• Russia's MFA gives positive echo to MCC co-chairs' meeting in Istanbul

  "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation is positively estimating the outcomes of the meeting of the co-chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) in Istanbul and welcomes the readiness of the parties to go on with the negotiations on settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict within the MCC format," runs the Russian MFA's statement.

March 23, 2007 23:57

• FSB branch head: extremism liquidated in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  After liquidation of Vakhtang Aliev's grouping in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, many adherents of extremism "have sobered up, and the armed terrorist underground has come to naught."

March 23, 2007 23:55

• Joint monitoring group left for Kodor Gorge

  General Sergey Chaban, Commander of the of the CIS Collective Peacemaking Forces (CIS CPMFs) in the Georgian conflict zone, has confirmed the information about the visit today of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge of the Joint Group instructed to reveal the facts of violations of the Moscow Agreement on Ceasefire and Separation of Troops dated May 14, 1994.

March 23, 2007 23:46

• Zyazikov's uncle kidnapped in Ingushetia

  Today, at about midday, in Ingushetia, near his house, when coming out of the mosque, Ursukhan Zyazikov, uncle of the president of the Republic, was kidnapped in the village of Barsuki.

March 23, 2007 22:23

• "Reporters without Borders" call the USA to draw attention to media freedom in Azerbaijan

  Robert Menar, Secretary General of the international human rights organization "Reporters without Borders," has called the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to draw attention of her colleague Elmar Mamedyarov to a heavy situation in the area of freedoms of speech and mass media in Azerbaijan.

March 23, 2007 22:15

• Leader of Chechen separatists killed in Dagestan

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has informed today that Ruslan Bashaev, commander of an illegal armed formation of the Central Front of Chechnya, was killed today in the town of Khasavyurt.

March 22, 2007 23:01

• Public prosecutor demands from 2.5 to 5 years of prison for instigators of fight in Kondopoga

  Debates of the parties have taken place in the City Court of Kondopoga on Sergey Mozgalyov and Yuri Pliev's criminal case; these defendants were the instigators of the fight at the "Chaika" (Seagull) restaurant.

March 22, 2007 22:46

• Chechnya: TAC residents are forced out of their housing

  On March 19, a commission comprising representatives of the administration of Leninskiy District and employees of the Leninskiy "ROVD" (Interior Department) arrived to the Temporary Accommodation Centre (TAC) located in Malgobek Street of the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.

March 22, 2007 22:36

• Azerbaijan offered EU to buy gas round about Russia

  Azerbaijan has offered European Union a sort of an "energy friendship" through bypassing Russia: to purchase gas directly in Turkmenia, not from "Gazprom," and to transport it through the these-days commissioned South Caucasian gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and the perspective trans-Caspian one.

March 22, 2007 22:24

• Joint group will continue investigation of Kodor Gorge incident

  A joint investigatory group will conduct an additional investigation into the incident in the upper section of the Kodor Gorge connected with the shelling on the night of March 12.

March 22, 2007 22:03

• Collision of Cossacks with Chechen "OMON" in Stavropol Territory

  In the morning of March 21, the workers of the "Peresvet" Private Security Company (PSC) who are the Cossacks of the Mineralovodskiy Unit of the Tersk Army arrived to the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) to take guard of the building of the local sewing factory.

March 21, 2007 22:59

• Kadyrov rejects sovereignty for Chechnya

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has declared that the issue of signing a powers delimitative treaty between Russia and Chechnya is no longer actual.

March 21, 2007 22:39

• Abkhazian opposition accuses authorities of using administrative resources

  Former opposition candidates to parliament deputies - Emma Hodzha, Vitaly Gabniya, Almasbei Kchach, Daur Achugba and Marina Bartsyts - are going to lodge complaints to the Supreme Court of Abkhazia.

March 21, 2007 22:37

• Charges on the criminal case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train presented

  The jurymen have passed an accusatory verdict on the criminal case related to blowing up of the Grozny-Moscow train committed on June 12, 2005.

March 21, 2007 22:33

• Nagorny Karabakh gets ready to elect president

  The "Artsakh" Democratic Party that has a majority in the Parliament of Nagorny Karabakh has started consultations on nominating or supporting a candidate to the position of the president.

March 21, 2007 22:30

• Clashes of Kazakhs with Chechnya natives in Kazakhstan

  On March 20, it became known about mass collisions between natives of Chechnya and Kazakhs that burst out in Kazakhstan.

March 20, 2007 23:27

• Public prosecutor demands life sentence for an attempt on the head of the Dagestan Pension Fund

  At the process on the case on the attempt committed on Amuchi Amutinov, former vice-premier of the Republic and head of the Dagestan branch of the Russian Pension Fund, the public prosecutor has demanded the court to sentence brothers Magomed and Gazimagomed Gairbekov to life imprisonment.