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June 07, 2011 22:20

• Body of kidnapped resident of Dagestan found in Chechnya

  Shamil Omarov, a villager of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped by unidentified persons on May 28, was found dead in the city of Gudermes in the Chechen Republic.

June 07, 2011 22:10

• ECtHR fines Russia by 244,500 euros for disappearance of three Chechen residents

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has obliged Russia to pay a fine of 244,500 euros on three complaints lodged by Chechen residents.

June 07, 2011 22:00

• Dagestanis who studied in Syria return home because of riots

  Many residents of Dagestan, who studied Islam in Syria, were forced to return to Russia. According to some of them, they were not oppressed by local power agents.

June 07, 2011 20:00

• A picket in protection of animals and Ecologic Center passed off in the capital of Adygeia

  On June, 6, about 50 people held a picket in front of the Government of Adygeia in protection of animals demanding to build a garbage- processing plant and protesting against reorganization of the republican Ecologo-biological Center.

June 07, 2011 19:00

• The man who was declared killed during a special operation in Dagestan had been tortured before death, the victim's relative reports

  Jamaluddin Sharapuddinov who was declared killed during a special operation on May, 26, in the settlement of Chontaul, Dagestan, by National Anti-Terrorist Committee had been tortured to death, the victim's brother-in-law Abdula Ibragimov, resident of the settlement of Komsomolskoye, Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.

June 07, 2011 18:00

• Member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center Bakhrom Khamroev beaten up in Moscow

  On Monday, June, 6, an assault at member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center Bakhrom Khamroev was committed in Moscow. Khamroev was taken to hospital.

June 06, 2011 23:55

• Tbilisi presents film "Five Days in August" on Georgia's war with Russia

  The capital of Georgia has hosted a debut of the film by the American film director Renny Harlin "Five Days in August" about the war in South Ossetia in August 2008.

June 06, 2011 23:50

• International jury holds contest of literary works about war in Chechnya

  A number of public figures around the world have united to hold a literary contest on the topic of the Chechen War, where the contesters are not only residents of Chechnya and other Russian regions, but also foreigners. Out of the presented works, four have been selected for the final.

June 06, 2011 23:40

• Dzagurov: only one out of 18 detained Muslims released in North Ossetia

  Out of 18 Muslims, detained after assassination of the poet Shamil Dzhigkaev, not four but only one - Aslan Biragov - was detained, said Ibragim Dzagurov, Assistant Mufti of North Ossetia.

June 06, 2011 23:30

• Resident of Dagestan reports illegal detention and torture of his relatives

  Residents of the village of Pervokizlyarskoe, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, Saadula Magomedov and Abdurakhman Abusupyanov have been illegally detained and tortured by law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Rizvan Abusupyanov, their cousin.

June 06, 2011 23:20

• Ex-deputy from Astrakhan to appeal to ECtHR on criminal prosecution and beating in prison

  Igor Negerev, a former deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, convicted for an attempt to trip over a GIBDD (road police) inspector and accused of false denunciation of law enforcement bodies, has prepared a package of necessary documents for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), since he believes that both cases were fabricated. The Regional Investigatory Committee refuses to comment on the situation.

June 06, 2011 23:10

• Soldier complains of harassment in his unit deployed in Ingushetia

  A regular soldier Alexei Akhmitsafin, a native of the city of Nyazepetrovsk, Chelyabinsk Region, who is taking his service in Military Unit No. 386246 of Ingushetia, complains of hazing by older soldiers. According to his story, he may not survive the remaining month till his demobilization.

June 06, 2011 23:00

• Georgian authorities must conduct comprehensive inquiry into dispersal of rally on May 26, US Congressmen believe

  A complete investigation of the events on May 26, when in the capital of Georgia policemen dispersed the opposition rally of the "People's Assembly", "would enhance public confidence in the government and parliament," said Congressman David Dreyer, head of the US delegation, speaking at a briefing in the Georgian parliament.

June 06, 2011 22:50

• South Ossetia denies involvement in preparing terror act in Georgia

  Valery Pukhaev, head of the police of the Leningor (Akhalgori) District of South Ossetia, has categorically refuted the statement of the Georgia's MIA about his involvement in the attempt to blow up the NATO office in Tbilisi.

June 06, 2011 22:40

• In Astrakhan, 11 customs officers convicted for frauds with customs declarations as criminal grouping

  The court in the Astrakhan Region has sentenced 17 local residents, including 11 employees of the Krasnoyarsk customs post of the Astrakhan Customs, accused of contraband committed as an organized grouping, said the spokeswoman of the Regional Prosecutor's Office. Eight of them were awarded with real custody terms.

June 06, 2011 22:30

• Armenia: court partially satisfies claim of Kocharyan family against "Zhamanak"

  In Yerevan, the court, which considered the lawsuit lodged by the family members of ex-President Robert Kocharyan against the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Skizb Media Kentron", the founder of the opposition newspaper "Zhamanak" (Time), passed a verdict obliging the newspaper to pay 3 million drams (about 8000 US dollars) for libel and insult.

June 06, 2011 21:00

• The Supreme Court of Russia replaced the judicial board for hearing the case on appeals of those accused of Ruslan Yamadaev's murder

  Hearing the case on the appeals filed by the attorneys of Aslanbek Dadaev, Elimpashi Khatsuev and Timur Isaev started in the Supreme Court in Moscow.

June 06, 2011 20:00

• Charges against 14 out of 18 detainees in North Osetia brought after the murder of poet Jigkaev

  Four persons in North Osetia detained after the murder of poet Shamil Jigkaev were released. The investigation brought charges of storage of arms, drugs and extremist printed matter against the rest 14 detained, imam of the local Sunni mosque Kulat Ismailov among them.

June 06, 2011 19:00

• Actions of protest "Stop! Electrozinc!" passed off in Moscow and Vladikavkaz

  On June, 5, actions against the activities of North-Osetian plant "Electrozinc" which according to the participants, discharges a great amount of heavy metal into the atmosphere passed off in Moscow and Vladikavkaz. In Moscow a picket was held in Chistoprudny boulevard and there was a cycle race along the central streets of Vladikavkaz.

June 06, 2011 18:00

• Ex- major Yevseev amnestied in Chechnya

  Ex-militia major Mikhail Yevseev who had been accused of a number of grave crimes committed in the territory of Chechnya in 2004 will not be made criminally liable. Criminal proceedings against Yevseev were stopped in connection with formerly enacted amnesty.