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Restoration works are underway in Pyatigorsk in the place of terror act
In the morning on August 21, teams of workers started restoration works in the place of the terror act committed in central Pyatigorsk.
Aug 23 2010, 19:29
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on August 16-22
| Thirty persons suffered in terror act in the resort city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory; terrorist-suicide bomber blows himself up in North-Ossetian-Ingush border, kills a militiaman and wounds three more persons; armed underground of Northern Caucasus loses several of its notable leaders, – look these and other news items in the review of the main events in the Caucasus on August 16-22, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot". |
Aug 20 2010, 16:00
19 victims of explosion in Pyatigorsk are still in hospitals
| As of August 20, 19 victims of the terror act committed in Pyatigorsk are still treated in hospitals of the Stavropol Territory and Moscow. |
Aug 19 2010, 16:00; CK correspondent
Compensations are paid out to victims of Pyatigorsk terror act
| Today, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Stavropol Territory has started payments from the regional budget of lump sum compensations to victims of the terror act in Pyatigorsk. The regional treasury has allotted 835,000 roubles for the purpose, while 7.4 million roubles more will arrive from the federal budget. |
Aug 18 2010, 17:00
Resident of Chechnya is the main suspect of organizing explosion in Pyatigorsk
| The investigation has established the main suspect in the case about the explosion in central Pyatigorsk. As reported by local law enforcement bodies, this is Alexander Kim, 42, a native of Chechnya. |
Aug 18 2010, 11:00
18 victims of Pyatigorsk explosion are still in hospitals
| Today at 9:52 a.m., a special aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies took off from the airport of the Caucasian Mineral Waters to take four heavily injured victims of the Pyatigorsk explosions for treatment to Moscow. |
Aug 17 2010, 20:00; CK correspondent
Explosion in central Pyatigorsk injures 30 persons
| Today at 4:15 p.m. Moscow time in the centre of the resort city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, a car stuffed with explosive was blown up. 30 persons were injured; three of them are in resuscitation, their condition is grave. |
Aug 13 2010, 10:00
In Stavropol Territory, six persons convicted for hooliganism based on national hatred
| The Stepnov District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced six local residents accused of an attempt to expel a Dagestan family from the village, hooligan actions and beating people. |
Aug 05 2010, 18:10
Ex-mayor of Kislovodsk is suspected of official misconduct
| As reported by the Investigatory Department of Russia's ICPO for the Stavropol Territory, inspectors have initiated a criminal case against Sergey Demidenko, former mayor of the city of Kislovodsk, who is suspected of service abuse. |
Aug 02 2010, 23:10
Militiamen suspected of bribe-taking in Stavropol Territory
| Head of the investigatory department at the OVD for Kislovodsk and his subordinate are suspected of taking a bribe. Under the version of the investigation, the officials received a large bribe from four GIBDD (STSI) employees for hiding their crimes. |
Stavropol region: Interview
- Frank Judd: "Situation in Chechnya affects not only locals, but the global community as a whole"
- Interview with Tom de Waal "I look optimistically at the problem of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations, since societies change and people become more open for possible changes"
- Interview with Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
Stavropol region: NGO Documents
- Statement by NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer: "Detention of Article 31 Rally Participants Raises Human Right Concerns"
- Statement of Lira Kozaeva - Tskhovrebova
- Appeal to the parties to the Geneva talks
- Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) Report, Chechnya Fact-Finding Mission
- Russian Federation: Mr. Oleg Orlov charged with criminal offence

