Mudslide destroys 20 houses in Kabardino-Balkaria July 22, 2010 14:00 In Bulungu village, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, a mudslide destroyed about 20 houses; two of them are not subject to restoration. Four heads of cattle were lost.
Azerbaijan demands to remove film about Karabakh away from French broadcasting July 22, 2010 13:00 The embassy of Azerbaijan in France has sent a protest letter to the German-French TV channel named ARTE because of broadcasting of the film "Haut Karabagh: Gomchassar", telling about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Power agents suspect Kazbek Tashuev of organizing the Baksan HPP terror act July 22, 2010 12:00 Law enforcement bodies believe that one of militants' leaders - Kazbek Tashuev - may stand behind the explosions at the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria triggered on July 21. This was stated by a source from power agencies of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District. According to his version, members of his grouping were recognized by the workers of the HPP.
Residents of Dzhaparidze village in Georgia ask authorities' protection against wolves July 22, 2010 10:00 Residents of Dzhaparidze village, Dedoplistskaroi District of Georgia, ask the authority to ensure protection of the village against wolves, which get into the yards of private households.
17 explosions were triggered in Kabardino-Balkaria during 50 days July 21, 2010 23:00 Operative agents of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) believe that they have established a potential organizer of the explosions at the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria committed on July 21. According to their data, this is one of militants' leaders, whose name is not disclosed in the interests of the investigation.
Prayer house destroyed in Pankissi Gorge, local residents assert July 21, 2010 22:00 As reported by villagers of Birkiani, located in the Pankissi Gorge of Georgia, a prayer house of local followers of traditional Islam was ruined there.
In Azerbaijan, journalists detained at the building of President's administration July 21, 2010 20:00 On Tuesday, July 20, four journalists were detained in Baku near the administration of the President of Azerbaijan, when they were covering the protest action of residents of the Sabirabad District, who suffered from floods.
Vladikavkaz residents lay an action against "Electrozinc" July 21, 2010 19:00 In the capital of North Ossetia the initiative group continues its judicial efforts to stop the "Electrozinc" factory. On July 19, a statement of claim was filed by residents of the sanitary zone around the factory, as reported by Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group named "Electrozinc - what do we breath in?"
Armenia: 257 victims of Stalin purges get loans to buy or repair their flats July 21, 2010 18:00 Under the governmental credit programme aimed at improvement of living conditions of the citizens who have the status of repressed persons, as of July 1, 2010, loans during the previous decade had been granted to 257 persons to the total sum of 972,659,730 drams.
Terror act in Baksan HPP committed in Kabardino-Balkaria July 21, 2010 17:00 At night on July 21, the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) was attacked. Having killed two securities, the terrorists entered the machine hall and seized HPP workers. Then, they planted and triggered two explosive devices.
Georgia announces February 25 to be Day of Soviet Occupation July 21, 2010 16:00 The Georgian parliamentary committee on foreign relations has initiated two statements, according to which August 23 will be announced to be the Memory Day of Totalitarian Regimes' Victims, and February 25 - the Day of Occupation.
In Azerbaijan, residents of flooded villages demand from authorities to accelerate restoration July 21, 2010 15:00 On July 20, some 100 residents of the flooded villages of the Sabirabad and Saatlin Districts of Azerbaijan came to the President's administration with a demand to speed up restoration of their houses and increase compensations for the damage caused by floods.
Two young men shot dead in Kizilyurt District of Dagestan July 21, 2010 14:00 Today at night in Kirovaul village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons shot two young men dead from their automatic firearms.
A one-year-old girl kidnapped in North Ossetia July 21, 2010 13:00 On July 19, at about 5:00 p.m. in Maiskoe village, Chakhkieva, Khadidzha Rustamovna, aged one year and three months, disappeared. According to eyewitnesses, the child was hastily taken away by another girl, aged about 6-8 years.
Teachers of Additional Education Centre in Astrakhan stop their hunger strike July 20, 2010 20:00 The teachers of the Astrakhan Regional "Centre of Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity", who demanded to cancel the order about reorganization of the "Centre of Children's Aesthetic Training", have stopped their hunger strike.
Georgian-Ossetian forum asks help in addressing problems faced by population of Georgia and South Ossetia July 20, 2010 19:00 The Dutch city of Leiden hosted a meeting of the participants of the Georgian-Ossetian Civil Forum, where an appeal was adopted to the parties of the Geneva Consultations, asking to help in solving the problems of the peaceful population of Georgia and South Ossetia.
Georgian opposition urges parliament to reject new Constitution July 20, 2010 18:00 Ten oppositional parties of Georgia have made a joint statement asking the parliament not to adopt the new version of the national Constitution. The signatories believe that the hasty consideration of the bill has only one aim - granting guarantees to Mikhail Saakashvili that he will continue ruling the country as prime minister after the end of his presidency.
Medvedev offers tougher sanctions for terrorism July 20, 2010 17:00 After the recent resonant terror acts committed in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev has brought in a bill to the State Duma on amending the Russia's Criminal Code.
Kabardino-Balkaria opens youth camp "Caucasus-2020" July 20, 2010 16:00 On July 19, the city of Nalchik hosted an opening ceremony of the youth tent camp "Caucasus-2020", located on the coast of the picturesque Kurortnoe Lake, where more than one thousand young men from all Russia - from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad - gathered.
Georgia: schoolbook about 2008 war with Russia presented July 20, 2010 15:00 In Tbilisi, a book was presented entitled "Russian Aggression in My Eyes", dedicated to the Russian-Georgian military conflict in August 2008.