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April 07, 2010 23:10

• Denisova: I was deprived of opportunities to be engaged in human rights activities

  Anastasia Denisova, a human rights defender from Krasnodar and head of public organization "ETnIKA", whose criminal case was delivered from the court to the prosecutor's office for elimination of drawbacks, believes that the organizers of her criminal and judicial prosecution have hit their true target - deprived her of opportunities to work properly.

April 07, 2010 23:00

• Russian warrant officer Khripun gets refugee status in Georgia

  The Georgia's Ministry on Refugees' Matters and Accommodation has granted the refugee status to warrant officer Vitaly Khripun, a Russian frontier guard, who on December 21, 2009, deserted from his military unit deployed in Sinagur village in South Ossetia.

April 07, 2010 22:10

• Court finds arrest of figurant of 2009 explosion of "Neva-Express" train lawful

  The Moscow City Court has rejected the advocate's cassation complaint and upheld the arrest of Timur Kartoev, a defendant in the case dealing with the blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009. Kartoev was behind bars on March 4 by the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

April 07, 2010 22:00

• Twins from Dagestan are suspected of dispatching SMS messages on false mining of Moscow school

  Two natives of Dagestan, aged 27, are suspected of sending out false messages from a mobile phone about a prepared explosion of a school in the south of Moscow.

April 07, 2010 21:30

• Azerbaijani SC upholds verdict to woman who beat four men

  On April 7, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan, chaired by Ali Seifaliev, considered the cassation complaint lodged by Sayara Geidarova, who was earlier found guilty of beating four men. The supreme judicial instance of the country upheld the verdict of guilty.

April 07, 2010 21:00

• 75 victims of Moscow metro terror acts are still in hospital

  Today, medical establishments of Moscow are still treating 75 victims of the explosions triggered in Moscow metro stations on March 29.

April 07, 2010 20:00

• Russian State Duma drafts a bill on alienation of terrorists' property in favour of victims

  After the terror acts in Moscow and Kizlyar, the State Duma of the Russian Federation started development of the bill, which assumes compensation of damage to terror act victims, and found it necessary to properly organize the coverage by mass media of emergencies in Russia.

April 07, 2010 19:00

• Journalists who wrote about deportation Caucasian nations complain to ECtHR of persecutions by authorities

  The ladies-journalists from the Buryatia-based newspaper "Svobodnoye Slovo" (Free Word), accused of kindling enmity to Russian power agencies in their materials about the 1944 deportation of Caucasian nations, sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

April 07, 2010 18:00

• On the ninth day after tragedy, Moscow commemorates victims of metro terror acts

  At the Park Kultury station of Moscow metro, the information terminal in the centre of the vestibule became a sort of a monument, at the bottom of which we can see a heap of flowers, candles and photos of those whose lives stopped here, in a fatal trip on March 29. In the Lubyanka station, for several days in a row fresh flowers make a broad semicircle successively lay. Many people go in metro cars towards the places of the tragedy holding two or four roses or carnations in their hands.

April 07, 2010 00:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 29-April 4

  Terror acts of suicide-bombers in Moscow and Northern Caucasus cause tough reaction of the Kremlin and give rise to fears of Caucasian phobia outbreak; Mayor of capital of Kalmykia convicted conditionally, another person takes his place; court session on attack on Nalchik disrupted; Georgia releases several detainees, and South Ossetia agrees to Geneva discussions, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of March 29-April 4, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 06, 2010 23:40

• Azerbaijani court rejects claim of student dismissed for disclosing corruption

  On April 5, the Nasimin District Court of Baku refused to satisfy the claim lodged by Elmin Badalov, dismissed from his 4th year at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA), against the Academy bosses.

April 06, 2010 23:00

• Martynov: Jehovah's Witnesses are still oppressed in Russian regions

  Grigory Martynov also told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the recent operation of the FSB in Zalesovo village of the Altai Territory.

April 06, 2010 22:50

• In Krasnodar, members of extremist grouping "Pit Bull" sentenced to 6 years in prison

  On April 5, the Sovietskiy District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Vladislav Gmyrya and Pavel Vetrov, the organizer and one of the members of the extremist group named "Pit Bull" to 6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.

April 06, 2010 22:40

• Volgograd Region: Jehovah's Witnesses are searched and detained

  Two girls-believers were detained in the course of their religious service in the city of Novoanninskiy, Volgograd Region, and brought to the local OVD (Interior Division), where their personal things were confiscated; then, searches began in Jehovah's Witnesses' apartments with confiscation of property and money - searches were conducted without witnesses and protocols. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Grigory Martynov, representative of the press service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

April 06, 2010 22:30

• Opinions on the idea to punish parents for terrorists' crimes diverge

  After the terror acts in Moscow metro on March 29, the Russian society started discussing the idea of punishing terrorists' parents. Supporters of this idea believe that the family shall be responsible for the acts of its member, while opponents are sure that innocent persons shall not be punished.

April 06, 2010 22:00

• Investigation asserts that Lubyanka terror act was committed by Mariam Sharipova

  The explosion at the Lubyanka metro station on March 29 was triggered by Mariam Sharipova, born in 1982, a native of Dagestan and a wife of one of the leaders of Dagestan militants. This was reported by the Federal Operative Staff of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

April 06, 2010 20:00

• FIDH President urges to release Armenian political prisoners

  The crimes committed on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan should not remain unpunished; they should be solved, and political prisoners should be set free. This was stated today at a press conference by Souhayr Belhassen, President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), who added that her delegation came to Armenia not to hang awards.

April 06, 2010 19:00

• Investigation of Dymovskiy's criminal case stopped

  The criminal case, initiated by the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) against the former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy is stopped.

April 06, 2010 18:00

• Google removes video with Umarov's statement on Moscow terror acts

  Now, the video clip, where the leader of North-Caucasian militants Dokku Umarov reported about his involvement in the explosions in Moscow metro on March 29, is not available in the YouTube resource, since, according to Alla Zabrovskaya, PR director of the Google Russia, it was marked and deleted by moderators.

April 05, 2010 23:50

• Azerbaijan: Baku Mayoralty bans "Musavat" picket

  The picket planned by the oppositional "Musavat" Party on April 6 in front of the building of the executive authority of the city of Baku with a demand to ensure the freedom of assembly was reappointed to April 14. This was stated by Arif Gadjily, head of the central office of the "Musavat" Party.