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May 27, 2011 18:00

• Gachechiladze: there are more victims of dispersal of the meeting than officially reported

  One of the leaders of the "Georgian Party" Levan Gachechiladze is sure that there were much more victims of the dispersal of the oppositionists' meeting in Tbilisi than it was officially reported.

May 26, 2011 23:30

• Rostov-on-Don to hold flash mob on smoking-quitting day

  On May 31 - the Day of Smoking-Quitting - activists of the "Young Guard" will appear in gas masks and offer all the wishing volunteers to give blood samples for determination of the level of carbon monoxide (CO) in the organism.

May 26, 2011 23:10

• In Rostov-on-Don, court obliges city administration to sanction "Strategy-31" rally

  The Pervomaiskiy District Court has ordered the city administration of Rostov-on-Don to sanction the "Strategy-31" action in defence of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which stipulates the freedom of assembly, in those months as the applicants will indicate. According to the organizer of this rally Pavel Nagibin, the court has consistently recognized the unlawfulness of the refusal by the city administration to sanction the "Strategy-31" rallies on October 31, 2010, and January 31 this year.

May 26, 2011 23:00

• States ready to pay USD 5M for information on Dokku Umarov's whereabouts

  The United States, which had earlier put Dokku Umarov, leader of "Imarat Kavkaz", on the list of international terrorists, are ready to pay remuneration of five million US dollars for information about his whereabouts, says the joint Russian-American declaration on combating terrorism.

May 26, 2011 22:40

• Armenian Parliament supports amnesty

  The Armenian National Assembly has approved the draft law "On Amnesty", initiated by the President of the country Serzh Sargsyan, when 91 MPs voted for it, and one MP abstained. The amnesty was announced in connection with the 20th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Armenia to be marked on September 21.

May 26, 2011 22:30

• HRW and RWB condemn Georgian authorities for dispersing oppositional rally

  The international organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Reporters Without Borders (RWB) have treated the force used by Georgian police to disperse the demonstration in Tbilisi as excessive and disproportionate.

May 26, 2011 22:20

• Journalist Einullah Fatullaev pardoned in Azerbaijan

  Today Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev signed an order today to pardon 89 prisoners; among those pardoned is Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief and founder of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Daily Azerbaijan.

May 26, 2011 22:10

• Consideration of Dudko's case to continue on June 1

  As ruled by Judge Natalia Larina, the trial of blogger Alexei Dudko would continue at the Taganka District Court in Moscow on June 1.

May 26, 2011 22:00

• Georgian police detained Burjanadze's fellow-fighters for accusation of the loss of two people

  Two members of ex-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze's "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" were detained by Georgian police for accusation of actions which resulted in the death of people.

May 26, 2011 21:00

• Charges brought against 90 participants of the action in front of the Georgian Parliament

  After last night's dispersal of the action of "People's Assembly" in front of the Parliament in Tbilisi which turned into an unauthorized one, charges were brought against 90 people, Head of Informational and Analytic Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia Shota Utiashvili reported.

May 26, 2011 20:00

• The "Georgian Party": Levan Gachechiladze is safe and sound

  Supporters of Levan Gachechiladze, leader of the "Georgian Party", whose location was unknown after yesterday's dispersal of the unauthorized action in Tbilisi by riot squad announced that he was safe and sound and was in a safe place together with his son at the moment.

May 26, 2011 19:00

• The Ministry of Interior Affairs: 36 gunmen killed in Kabardino-Balkaria since the beginning of the year

  The personnel of law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed 36 participants of paramilitary groups and their accomplices, Sergey Vasiliev, Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic, reported at a session of the Parliament of KBR today.

May 26, 2011 18:00

• Eight people wounded in a skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan in St. Petersburg

  A skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan occurred at night of May, 22, not far from a cafe in the 8th Line of Vasilievsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg, eight people got wounded. According to law enforcement bodies, the incident was a result of shoot-outs.

May 25, 2011 23:10

• Tbilisi: application on oppositional rally expires at midnight

  The protest rally of the "People's Assembly", which demands President Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation, continues at the Parliament in Tbilisi, despite the information that at midnight, after the rally application expires, it may be dispersed by the police.

May 25, 2011 23:00

• Dagestan: detainee's advocate cannot meet his client

  On May 6 in the morning, Hadji Murat Khalitov, a resident of the village of Serebryakovskaya, Kizlyar District, was detained. His advocate Murad Magomedov said that since May 17 he was not able to contact his client; and he fears that the detainee is tortured. The investigator in charge of Khalitov's case told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the suspect was kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city of Kizlyar.

May 25, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 16 to 22 May

  Protest actions of the opposition movement "People's Assembly" in Georgia; recognition by Georgian Parliament of Circassian genocide committed by Russian Empire; visit of Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, to Northern Caucasus; events within the European Action "Museum Night", - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 16-22, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 25, 2011 22:50

• Residents of Ingushetia tell about oppressions in Pyatigorsk SIZO

  Detainees kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Pyatigorsk are oppressed based on their ethnicity and religion. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by relatives of the residents of Ingushetia kept there.

May 25, 2011 22:40

• AI's report concentrates on elimination of Five-Day War consequences

  The 2010 report of the Amnesty International (AI) on Georgia for 2010 emphasizes the consequences of the military conflict in August 2008; violations of the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs); actions of the police and security bodies; and violation of children's rights in refugees villages. The report was prepared within the general annual report on human rights situation in the world and was disseminated on May 12.

May 25, 2011 22:10

• Azerbaijan: Baku resident goes on hunger strike

  Gurban Aliev, a resident of the city of Baku, went on a hunger strike in front of the State Committee for State Property Management (SCSPM) of Azerbaijan. He demands to restore his ownership rights.

May 25, 2011 22:00

• Azerbaijan: oppositionist faces new charges

  Elnur Israfilov, an arrested participant of the rally on April 2 in Azerbaijan, was presented another accusation, this time of "intentional destruction or damage of other people's property." This was reported by his advocate Yalcin Imanov.