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North Ossetia starts mourning actions dated to September 2004 terror act

People began coming to School No. 1 in Beslan since early in the morning; and before the first ring at 9:15 a.m. over 2500 persons gathered in the school yard. Taimuraz Mamsurov, head of North Ossetia, Larissa Khabitsova, chair of the parliament, Nikolai Khlyntsov, chairman of the government, and many republic's officials came to commemorate the victims.

North Osetia - Alania, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society

Sep 01 2010, 23:50; CK correspondent

"First Ring" in Chechen schools is held under strengthened security

Today, the schools of Chechnya started their new school year with the "First Ring". On the eve, all the general educational establishments and adjacent territories were inspected, and round-the-clock securities were deployed.

Chechnya, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society

Sep 01 2010, 23:30; CK correspondent

Coordination board of Balkar organizations starts preparing Congress of Balkar People

On August 31, the coordination board (CB) of Balkar NGOs made a decision to convoke a congress for deciding on the issue of self-determination of the Balkar people. Bakhaudin Etezov was unanimously elected to be the chairman of the organizing committee of the congress. The organizing committee includes all the CB members and will invite experts - Balkar historians, economists and lawyers.

Kabardino-Balkaria, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Politics

Hunger-strikers in the Manezh Square demanding protection to political rights of the Balkar people. Moscow, July 2010. Photo by www.balkaria.info
Sep 01 2010, 23:00

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 23-29

Reappointment of President of Kabardino-Balkaria; reconciliation of the clans of Chechen President and the Yamadaevs; heat of pre-election situation in Dagestan; violation of refugees' rights in Georgia, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 23-29, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Abkhazia, South Caucasus, Georgia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Politics, Human rights

Sep 01 2010, 23:00; CK correspondent

Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev killed in Kabardino-Balkaria reject his involvement in IAFs

Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev, who was killed on August 27 in the course of a special operation in Nalchik, disagree with the official version about his involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and are convinced that Aslan became an occasional victim of the operation.

Kabardino-Balkaria, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Incidents, Crime

Sep 01 2010, 22:20; CK correspondent

In Abkhazia, investigation into beating of "Abaza" board chairman is fruitless

The preliminary investigation in underway on the fact of beating of Mussa Takushinov, chairman of the board of the public organization of Abasins of the Karachai-Circassian Republic named "Abaza". The criminal case was initiated under the article of deliberate causing of medium-gravity harm to one's health by a group of persons out of hooligan intentions."

Karachaevo-Cherkesia, Abkhazia, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Crime

Sep 01 2010, 20:00; CK correspondent

Leonid Roshal is ready to treat the boy beaten by power agents in Dagestan in his clinic

Doctor Leonid Roshal, Director of the Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology, said that his hospital is ready to take Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, beaten by militiamen in Dagestan, for further treatment. The case about beating the teenager is under supervision of President of Dagestan, the republic's government has reported.

Dagestan, Russia, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Human rights, Crime

Makhmud Ahmedov, beaten by militiamen, in a Makhachkala hospital, July 27, 2010. Photo by Zakir Magomedov
Sep 01 2010, 18:00

Court awards 30,000 roubles of compensation to resident of Chechnya for inspector's actions

On August 31, the judicial panel on civil cases of the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision of the Leninskiy District Court of Grozny of May 15, 2010, on awarding compensation to local resident Muslim Kulaev of the moral harm caused to him by actions of the inspector of the inter-district investigatory division (IDID) at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic.

Chechnya, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Human rights, Crime

Aug 31 2010, 23:30

"Strategy-31" activists detained in Rostov

As reported by Valentina Tolkachova, an activist of the "Solidarity" Movement, participants of the action "Strategy-31" were detained in Rostov-on-Don.

South Federal District, Krasnodar region, Rostov region, Dagestan, Russia, North-Caucasian Federal District > Society, Human rights

Aug 31 2010, 23:20

Bomb planted in garbage blows up in Sergokalin District of Dagestan and wounds people

In the evening on August 30, a self-made explosive device was triggered in a suburb of Verkhneye Makhargi village, Sergokalin District, which was placed in a heap of garbage. This was reported by a source in the local MIA.

Dagestan, North-Caucasian Federal District > Incidents, Crime

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