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April 20, 2011 23:00

• Caucasian residents and natives not to be recruited, said Chelyabinsk military commissar

  Nikolai Zakharov, Military Commissar of the Chelyabinsk Region, has stated that now the army will not draft residents and natives of the Caucasian republics who live in other regions of Russia; however, this information is not confirmed by the group of informational support of the Central Military District of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

April 20, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 11-17

  Provocative leaflets in Ingushetia forced law enforcers to strengthen; avalanche blocks communication between Russia and Georgia over "Verkhni Lars"; police disperses another protest action of opposition in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 11-17, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 20, 2011 22:40

• Moscow rights defenders demand from Russian president to stop kidnappings in Chechnya

  Human rights activists state systemic sabotage on the part of Chechen law enforcement bodies and inability of the Investigatory Committee to fulfil its immediate duties to investigate crimes in the republic, especially kidnappings. These are the topics of the ongoing press conference in Moscow.

April 20, 2011 22:20

• NAC: militants liquidated in the Caucasus wanted to launch news website and publish Wahhabi magazine

  The militants liquidated in a counterterrorist operation in Northern Caucasus had planned to make a film and publish a glossy magazine about terrorists' lifestyle. Also, layouts and maps, and various methodology-training literature on how to prepare terrorist acts were confiscated from them. This was reported by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

April 20, 2011 22:10

• One of attackers on Moscow tourists liquidated in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Azamat Sizhazhev, 26, one of those involved in the attack on Moscow tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed in the city of Baksan at rendering resistance. It was reported today by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

April 20, 2011 22:00

• Performers and accomplices of murders of Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov are abroad, ICRF reports

  As stated by Vassily Piskaryov, Deputy Head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), at his meeting with Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the performers of the murders of Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov and their accomplices are still hiding abroad; however, the ICRF is doing everything it can to catch the criminals.

April 20, 2011 21:00

• Ex-imam of a village mosque killed in Dagestan

  Last night unidentified people killed an ex-imam of a village mosque in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Alkhas Amirkhnov, Senior assistant of Head of republican Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation for media relations, reported.

April 20, 2011 20:00

• A commemoration meeting of Victor Popkov passed off in Moscow

  On Monday, April, 18, a meeting of commemoration of Victor Popkov, peacemaker, journalist and human rights activist, was held in the Museum and Public Center named after Andrey Sakharov.

April 20, 2011 19:00

• The dead body of the missing Ilez Gorchkhanov found in Ingushetia

  On April, 19, at 16:20, a young man's dead body was found not far from the stanitsa of Nesterovkaya, Sunzha district, at the border of Ingushetia with Chechnya, at the bed of the river of Assa. After the expertise he was identified as Ilez Gorchkhanov born in 1984 who according to his relatives was kidnapped on March, 21.

April 20, 2011 18:00

• Strasbourg Court obligated the Russian authorities to pay off a compensation to two women residents of Chechnya

  The court in Strasbourg imposed a compensation of 61 thousand euro on the authorities of Russia to pay off to the mother and wife of Khamzat Tushaev, resident of Chechnya who disappeared after being summoned for interrogation.

April 19, 2011 23:40

• Stavropol Territory: policeman blows himself up with grenade

  The death of a policeman, whose body was found today in an agricultural field in the Levokumsk District, Stavropol Territory, is being investigated.

April 19, 2011 23:10

• Film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya screened at festival in Switzerland

  The documentary "Barzakh" by the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus picturing the facts of torture and abductions in Chechnya was presented at the festival of documentaries named Vision du Reel, held in the Swiss city of Nyon.

April 19, 2011 23:00

• In Georgia a building collapses and kills a child

  In the Marneuli district of Georgia, in the Kvemo Kartli region, a wall of an abandoned building collapsed, killed a child and injured another one.

April 19, 2011 22:50

• In Baku, April 17 protesters punished with arrests and fines

  On April 18, in Azerbaijan, 6 participants of the opposition protest rally on April 17 in Baku were sentenced to administrative arrest; 9 persons were fined, and 8 oppositionists were warned and released.

April 19, 2011 22:30

• Constitutional Court of Georgia finds some provisions of the law on assemblies contradictory to legislation

  Several provisions of the law "On Assemblies and Manifestations" were found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Georgia. The lawsuit was initiated by four parties, the NGO "Youth organization of Georgian lawyers", local Ombudsman and several citizens of Georgia.

April 19, 2011 22:20

• In Krasnodar, jurymen pass guilty verdict to "black" realtors

  The jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has found the figurants of the criminal case on misappropriation of the rights of apartment residents of Sochi, two of whom were killed, guilty.

April 19, 2011 22:10

• At Markelov-and-Baburova's murder trial judge passes warning to defence advocate

  The court session on the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova began with the announcement by the chairing judge Alexander Zamashnyuk his decision to warn the lawyer Alexei Nikulochkin, an advocate for the defendant Evgenia Khasis.

April 19, 2011 22:00

• Villager from Ikha, Dagestan, claims his son was beaten at boarding school

  Abdulmuslim Aliev, a deaf-mute resident of the village of Ikha, Kazbek District of Dagestan, has lodged an application to the police that his son, a 6th form pupil, was beaten by a teacher of the Bavtugai boarding school. The school principal Nutsalkhan Akhmedov denies any guilt of his subordinate.

April 19, 2011 21:00

• In Armenia, oppositionist Samson Khachatryan sentenced conditionally

  Today, on April 19, the court in Yerevan sentenced Samson Khachatryan, an activist of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), twice European champion and five times champion of the USSR in boxing, was sentenced on charges of violent acts against state officials to one year of conditional imprisonment.

April 19, 2011 20:00

• The Georgian opposition held an action "Museum of Exposure"

  On April, 18, activists of Representative People's Assembly held an action of protest within the framework of a project "Museum of Exposure" near "Rustaveli" metro station in the center of Tbilisi. Information "on the present-day reality in Georgia" and appropriation of state property by officials was presented on special stands.