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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.

May 25, 2011 21:00

• Norwegian Directorate of Immigration does not consider the situation in Chechnya dangerous

  The most wide-spread reason to refuse political asylum in Norway to residents of Chechnya is the use of general situation in the republic as an argument by the claimants without specifying the particular threats, Guri Norstrom, official of PR Department of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on May, 24.

May 25, 2011 20:00

• The court in Rostov region blocked access to Mavrodi's web-site

  Taganrog city court of Rostov region granted the motion of Public prosecutor's office by blocking access to the web-site where Sergey Mavrodi's information of his new project "MMM-2011" was posted, a representative of Public prosecutor's office of the region reported on May, 25.

May 25, 2011 19:00

• The Georgian sailors detained in India returned home

  The Georgian sailors who had been unable to leave India for almost two months have returned home from Turkey.

May 25, 2011 18:00

• Arrest of the oppositionists in Azerbaijan prolonged for two months

  On May, 24, Sabail district court of Baku decided to prolong the term of arrest of Arif Gajili, Head of Executive Committee of "Musavat" party, Tural Abbasli, Chairman of the youth branch of "Musavat", and Muhammed Medjidli, member of the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party (APFP).

May 24, 2011 23:30

• Sochi residents and ecologists tell European Parliament delegates about problems with Olympic construction

  On May 18, in the course of the roundtable with delegates of the European Parliament, activists of environmental and social initiatives of the city of Sochi spoke about the problems associated with the construction of Olympic objects.

May 24, 2011 23:10

• Public organizations of Chechnya join All-Russian People's Front

  The Association of Chechen Public and Cultural Associations of Russia and the Union of Chechen Student Youth have announced their accession to the All-Russian People's Front. The former includes the organizations registered in Moscow and other Russian regions; the latter unites students and postgraduates studying in Russia's major cities.

May 24, 2011 23:00

• Khachapuridze: demands of Georgian hunger-striking lawyers were ignored

  The Georgian lawyers, who stopped on May 21 their hunger strike in front of the Parliament of Georgia, claim that the authorities failed to satisfy any of their demands.

May 24, 2011 22:50

• ECtHR orders Russia to compensate two kidnappings in Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia should pay a fine of 122,724 euros for two lawsuits of Chechen residents.

May 24, 2011 22:40

• Bortnikov: FSB knows Dokku Umarov's whereabouts

  The location of the leader of the armed underground of North Caucasus Dokku Umarov is known to the Russia's secret services, Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB, has announced today.

May 24, 2011 22:30

• Witness in Politkovskaya's murder case disappears

  The citizen of the Republic of Belarus, who had earlier evidenced in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", has disappeared somewhere outside Russia.

May 24, 2011 22:00

• Oppositionists from Batumi joined the action of protest in Tbilisi

  On Tuesday night a group of oppositionists who arrived from Batumi joined the action of protest going on in Tbilisi, in front of the building of the Public TV.

May 24, 2011 21:00

• The prosecution appealed against the verdict to ex-Mayor of Georgievsk fined for bribery

  State prosecution disagreed with the judgment of Stavropol territorial court concerning ex-Mayor of Georgievsk Victor Gubanov fined for bribery. The public prosecutor appealed against the judgment insisting on imprisonment for the convict.

May 24, 2011 20:00

• A drug policeman in Volgograd condemned for drug traffic

  A verdict concerning Igor Chetvertukhin, senior operative officer of Uriupinsk Inter-regional department of Federal Service of Drug Control, came into effect. He was acknowledged guilty of an attempt of illegal drug traffic and abuse of authority.

May 24, 2011 19:00

• Two illegal pipelines for pumping inflammable lubricant materials to Ukraine found in Rostov region

  Two illegal pipelines for pumping inflammable lubricant materials from Russia to Ukraine were found in the city of Donetsk, Rostov region. Smugglers built a three kilometer long pipe under the earthroad between the settlements of Tsof and Shevyrev and fit out an area for pumping in one of the garages of Donetsk.

May 24, 2011 18:00

• Mortar shells found near a nuclear power plant in Armenia

  Two mortar shells were found in 800 meters distance from Metsamor nuclear power plant in a field neighbouring to the settlement of Akhnalich, Armavir district of Armenia.

May 23, 2011 23:30

• In The Hague, rights defenders to complain about non-investigated crimes in Georgia during the August 2008 conflict

  Today in The Hague, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) will publish a report on Georgia entitled "Unable or Unwilling?" In the opinion of the NHC, for various reasons the Georgian authorities are "braking" efficient inquiry of the crimes that fall into jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).