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22:10, 24 February 2010
More than a month ago, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced another broad-scale special operation against members of the armed underground. The operation zone covers all the mountainous and a number of foothill areas of the republic; however, no serious results in the war on militants have been reported yet.
20:00, 24 February 2010
Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of the Republic of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, asserts that he personally knows three out of five attackers. He told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he "knows exactly who and why attacked him."
19:00, 24 February 2010
Today, the sitting of the presidium of the National Assembly of Dagestan made a decision to put approval of Magomed Abdullaev, nominated by President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov to the post of the chairman of the government, on the agenda of the forthcoming session.
18:00, 24 February 2010
The latest innovations in the legislation of Azerbaijan concerning the work of mass media and NGOs were criticized on February 23 at the roundtable held in the Norwegian House of Human Rights in Baku. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that debates were run by activists of the civil society of Azerbaijan, members of international organizations and foreign human rights defenders.
10:00, 24 February 2010
Visit of delegation of the Human Rights Group of UK Parliament to Chechnya; recall by Ramzan Kadyrov of his claim against journalists and human rights defenders; conflict of ecologists with the agency in charge of preparing Sochi to Olympiad-2014; new strategic agreements of Russia with Abkhazia; explosions in Ingushetia; and inauguration of President of Dagestan, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of February 15-21, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:50, 23 February 2010
Grigol Vashadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, has submitted to the embassy of Switzerland, which is representing Russia's interests in Tbilisi, documents confirming his refusal from Russian citizenship.
23:40, 23 February 2010
A criminal case has been opened in Karachai-Circassia on the fact of desecration by unidentified persons of the national sight - Karachai Boulder.
23:30, 23 February 2010
On February 22, Mayor of Vladikavkaz Sergey Dzantiev and officials of the Russian Power Agency discussed a programme draft for saving energy and improving the power efficiency in the capital of North Ossetia. Implementation of its first-order measures will demand about 270 million roubles from the local budget.
23:10, 23 February 2010
A source in law enforcement bodies has reported that Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, was beaten by unknown persons in the territory of a fuelling station in Nazran. Meanwhile, Mr Akhilgov himself denies the fact.
23:00, 23 February 2010
On February 23, the OSCE Mission held a scheduled monitoring in the contact line of armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Askeran direction.
22:50, 23 February 2010
Today, the government of Georgia calculates the damage caused to the country by the hurricane wind that fell on Eastern Georgia on February 22. The exact estimates of the damage will be known by the evening.
22:40, 23 February 2010
Today, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of the newly-formed North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) came to North Ossetia with a working visit. He plans to discuss social and economic issues with the leaders of North Ossetia and visit cultural and educational entities in Vladikavkaz.
22:20, 23 February 2010
The reason has been found why so many residents of the city of Semikarakorsk, Rostov Region, had to go to the central district hospital: pollution of the potable water delivered by the local water line. Now, five persons are still in hospital, 72 more are at home under doctors' supervision.
21:00, 23 February 2010
The Arbitration Court of Paris has appointed on March 22 the next stage of consideration of the case dealing with disconnection by the French TV operator Eutelsat of the Georgian Russian-language TV channel "Caucasian One", where the parties will present their final arguments.
20:20, 23 February 2010
The humanitarian organization International Medical Corpse (IMC) expands the domain of minor business projects in Chechnya. Marking the high level of TB morbidity and other diseases, the activists of the IMC believe that employment of the population will help to combat diseases. This was told by Semyon Rasin, director of the Russian branch of the IMC.