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23:40, 11 August 2009
The mining of the territory of South Ossetia during last year's August events was chaotic; the Russian party has no mine field maps; therefore, demining will take a lot of time. This was stated by General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
23:30, 11 August 2009
Arman Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Zhamanak" (Time), who was released from custody before term on August 4 because of his poor health, in the next few days will go for treatment abroad.
23:20, 11 August 2009
The car, from which unknown criminals shot dead Abdulmalik Ahmedilov, editor-in-chief of the "Sogratl" newspaper in Dagestan, was noticed by eyewitnesses for several days near the house of the journalist, as they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
23:00, 11 August 2009
Abkhazia has closed its border with Georgia running on the Inguri River; now the crossing is only possible over the main Inguri bridge with a special permit. This was announced today in the course of another five-lateral meeting on prevention and investigation of Abkhazian-Georgian border incidents by Ruslan Kishmariya, head of the Abkhazian delegation and plenipotentiary envoy of Abkhazian President in the Gali District.
22:30, 11 August 2009
Today in the afternoon, journalists were removed from the courtroom, where the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria is considering the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.
22:10, 11 August 2009
On August 9, a local resident aged 16 was kidnapped by unknown persons in the Shali District of Chechnya. At night on August 10, he was found assassinated.
22:00, 11 August 2009
After the amnesty, 21 political prisoners are still in custody in Armenia. The greatest bewilderment in human rights activists is aroused by holding behind bars of a French citizen Sarkis Atspanyan, a veteran of the Karabakh War. This was emphasized at a press conference on August 11 by Vardan Arutyunyan, a member of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners' Rights.
21:00, 11 August 2009
The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed its serious concern of the murder in Chechnya of two activists of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation".
20:00, 11 August 2009
The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) does not believe that Russia is ever capable to open the murder in Chechnya of the leader of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation" Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov.
19:00, 11 August 2009
President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that, according to the authorities, the husband of the murdered Chechen human rights defender Zarema Sadulayeva, had earlier been a member of illegal armed formations (IAFs), which could be the motive of the double murder.
18:00, 11 August 2009
The kidnapping of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, leaders of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation", who were found murdered today, was staged as an official detention by power agencies. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
23:40, 10 August 2009
The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh has found Alexander Chalenko, 22, guilty of causing heavy health damage to a native of Armenia and sentenced him to 4 years and 10 months of imprisonment.
23:30, 10 August 2009
Prime Minister Rashid Gaisanov, acting President of Ingushetia, believes that the opposition is "heating up" the situation around the actions of the Chechen militia in their republic. He thinks that there is no pressure from Chechnya.
23:10, 10 August 2009
Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was discharged from the Vishnevskiy Surgery Institute, where he took his treatment after the attempt on June 22. In a week, he plans to get back to work.
23:00, 10 August 2009
Resignation of Government and appointment of new Prime Minister in South Ossetia; closing of Georgian-South-Ossetian border; first anniversary of 2008 August War in Transcaucasia and related Russia's and Georgia's loud statements on the occasion; start of dialogue between the authorities and opposition in Georgia; new details about the attempt on Isa Yamadaev, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of August 3-9 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".