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Million-year-old cave found in Adygeya

Million-year-old cave found in Adygeya

According to the Committee for Tourism and Resorts of Adygeya, activists of the Russian Geographical Society have found a new karst cave more than 1 million years old in the mountains ...

Taxi drivers checked in Adygea

Taxi drivers checked in Adygea

Today STSI of Adygea has completed the ‘‘Taxi" preventive operation. "The main purpose of the event was to increase the level of safety of passenger traffic and the prevention …

Drug den closed down in Adygeya

 The Maikop police have concluded investigations against a 28-year-old local for opening a drug den at his house, the Adygeya Interior Ministry reports.Several months ago, the police got information about a drug den at one of the houses in the city. It got regular visitors during before being closed. The police found numerous used syringes, utensils with drug leftovers, packages of medicaments used for ephedrine production. 

Adygeya starts mass anti-alcohol campaign

 The police of Adygeya say that 11,500 people have been punished in 10 months this year, exceeding the number of the same period of 2011 by 22%. About 5,000 people were punished for being drunk in public and 6,500 for drinking in public, Yuga.ru reports.72 under-aged children were caught drinking alcohol. Most homicides were committed after alcohol consumption, as stated by Gennady Berezin, Deputy Police Chief for Public Order of the Russian Interior Ministry in Adygeya, at a session of the inter-department commission for crime prevention.