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Georgian wineries wait for excise stamps to start exports to Russia
The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has not yet provided the Georgian wine companies, who have successfully passed inspections, with the excise stamps required for trading their alcoholic beverages in Russia. According to Levan Davitashvili, the head of the Georgian National Agency for Vine and Wine (Samtrest), the excise stamps are the only obstacle for wineries to start exports of Georgian wines to Russia.
May 22 2013, 20:59; CK correspondent
Chitaya: shipments of "Borjomi" to Russia to scale up
| A test batch of mineral water "Borjomi" has passed the customs control, Olga Chitaya, a representative of the company "IDS Borjomi Russia", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. |
May 20 2013, 23:00
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 13-19
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Start of hearing in Rostov-on-Don of the case of Ali Taziev, a leader of North-Caucasian militants; trial of officials in connection with flood in Krymsk; death in Afghanistan of three Georgian servicemen and actions in defence and against sexual minorities in Tbilisi; self-explosion of a suspected militant in Ingushetia; pupils in Chechnya get poisoned with some unknown substance, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of May 13-19, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot.
Chechnya, Georgia, Ingushetia, Krasnodar region, North-Caucasian Federal District, Rostov region, Russia, South Caucasus, South Federal District
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May 16 2013, 20:00; CK correspondent
North Ossetia: two men suspected of kidnappings detained
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In North Ossetia, policemen have detained two local residents who are suspected of kidnappings for ransom, the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.
North Ossetia - Alania, North-Caucasian Federal District, Russia
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May 16 2013, 18:00; CK correspondent
Svetlana Bobrova assert: residents of Uryupinsk, Voronezh Region, opponents of nickel extraction, were beaten
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Residents of the Volgograd Region, who oppose mining nickel in the Novokhopyorsk District of the Voronezh Region, were beaten by staff members of the private security company (PSC) "Patrol". This was reported by Svetlana Bobrova, Spokesperson of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). Representatives of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) claimed disorderly conduct of the persons protesting against mining of nickel.
Krasnodar region, North-Caucasian Federal District, Russia
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May 16 2013, 17:00
"CBS News": prior to his detention, Johar Tsarnaev left message about motives of terror act in Boston
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On a wall of the barge, where Johar Tsarnaev, a native of Chechnya, accused of committing the terror act during the Boston Marathon, was hiding from the police, an inscription was found, in which he called the terror act a revenge for the US military actions in the Middle East. This was reported today by John Miller, a special correspondent for the "CBS News" TV Channel, a former FBI agent.
Chechnya, North-Caucasian Federal District, Russia
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May 15 2013, 19:00
"Le Monde": Gerard Depardieu to play role of Akhmat Kadyrov in film about restoration of Grozny
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Actor Gerard Depardieu is preparing to play the role of Akhmat Kadyrov, the first Chechen president, in the film "Father's Heart". The next film, involving Gerard Depardieu, will also be shot in Grozny, and the French actor will play a role of gangster in that film. This was reported by the French newspaper "Le Monde".
Chechnya, North-Caucasian Federal District, Russia
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May 14 2013, 18:00
In USA, Worcester police ask authorities to repay expenses for guarding Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body
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The Police Department of the city of Worcester has stated that the state is to repay the expenses in the amount of 47,171 US dollars for the protection of the funeral home "Graham, Putnam and Mahoney", where the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of committing the terror act in Boston, was stored.
Chechnya, Dagestan, North-Caucasian Federal District, Russia
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May 13 2013, 22:30
Eleven natives of Northern Caucasus detained in Moscow
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In the park of the December Uprising in the Presnya District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, 11 natives of Northern Caucasus were detained. The police suspect them of robbery.
North Caucasus, North-Caucasian Federal District, Russia
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May 13 2013, 22:10
Interpol treats Russia's request to seek Targamadze as political
| The Interpol has stopped searching for the Georgian MP Givi Targamadze, who had been put on the international wanted list by the Russian MIA, by regarding the request of the Russian party as politically motivated. As of May 12, Targamadze is still being wanted in Russia. |
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NGO Documents
- Statement of Cherkessian organizations on a disastrous situation of Cherkessian diaspora in Syria
- Statement of International “Memorial” association: Russia is returning to its customary tragic reality
- "We demand to stop the anti-Dagestani hysteria in mass media!" Statement of the Dagestani Republic's Committee by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF)
- Open appeal of Russian human rights organizations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- About "Law on Foreign Agents". Statement of "International Memorial"
- "Be persistent and compete in endurance". Statement of the Council of Muftis of Russia
- Statement of members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on refusal to register observers at parliamentary elections in Georgia
- Statement of the Movement "Georgia's Vote for Fair Elections" in protest against inability to vote at parliamentary elections in Georgia
