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April 14, 2009 21:30

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to address Constitutional Court for legality of Criminal Code amendments

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has refused to satisfy the advocates' petitions on sending a request to the Constitutional Court of Russia on conformity of the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP), adopted by the State Duma and stipulating exclusion of cases having anti-state character from jurisdiction of juries, to Russian Constitution. The court decided that any citizen of the country, including advocates, may send such request to the Constitutional Court by his or her own.

April 14, 2009 21:00

• Local residents assert that the casualty of shelling in Ingushetia on April 12 was alcohol trader

  The reason of the attack on Abdullagun Aliev, 49, and his son Adam, 19, residents of Ekazhevo village of Nazran District, committed by unidentified persons on April 12 in their village could be their dealing with alcohol drinks, as local residents explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 14, 2009 20:00

• Adelkhanov: Georgian opposition has no plan of further actions

  On March 13, the opposition in Georgia declared a "tougher struggle"; however, it has no clear plan of further actions and no unified opinion about future strategy of confronting the authorities. This is the opinion of Emil Adelkhanov, deputy chairman of the Board of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development.

April 14, 2009 19:00

• Shtadler: young men in North Ossetia blew themselves by their own bomb

  The explosion, which happened on April 13 in Mizur village in North Ossetia, as a result of which one young man died and seven more wounded, was caused by an explosive made by the victims themselves, as Herman Shtadler, Public Prosecutor of North Ossetia, said to journalists today.

April 14, 2009 18:00

• MIA of South Ossetia: no political context in detention of "People's Party" activists

  The MIA of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO) asserts that detention of the members of "People's Party" on April 10 in the Party's office had nothing to do with their political activity. The letter of the MIA's press service that arrived to the "Caucasian Knot" office says that the neighbours living close to the Party's office asked law enforcers to make a check.

April 13, 2009 23:30

• In Armenia, Shant Arutyunyan will be transferred from psychiatric clinic of "Nubarashen" prison

  On April 14, one of the defendants in the "Case of Seven", political prisoner Shant Arutyunyan will be transferred from the psychiatric hospital "Nubarashen" to the corrective establishment named "Vardashen". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by human rights defender Mikael Danielyan, who confirmed the statements of Arutyunyan and his relatives about very poor conditions in "Nubarashen" hospital.

April 13, 2009 23:00

• In Chechnya, contract soldier kills his three colleagues

  On April 12, in the south of Chechnya, in the mountain Shatoy District, a contract soldier of the federal forces shot dead an officer and two soldiers, also on contract service, then, he tried to commit suicide. He was hospitalized in a grave condition.

April 13, 2009 22:40

• One-person picket held in Krasnodar demanding cancellation of curfew

  On April 11 in Krasnodar, opposite the building of the territorial administration, a one-person picket was held to cancel the curfew for minors in force in the Krasnodar Territory for more than 8 months.

April 13, 2009 22:00

• Apaev: forced migrants are returned from Ingushetia to Chechnya by deceit

  The process of bringing the forced migrants from Chechnya, who are temporarily living in the territory of Ingushetia, back to their homeland is carried out with violation of human rights. People are returned by deceit, blackmail and threats. This is the opinion of Aslambek Apaev, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) for Northern Caucasus and the head of the Committee in defence of forced migrants' rights.

April 13, 2009 22:00

• Kesaeva asks to explain why Beslan children should pay for lyceum

  Today, Ella Kesaeva, leader of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", sent an application to the Beslan tax service asking to explain why the tragedy victims were ordered to pay 13 percent of the cost of their children's training in a lyceum near Moscow.

April 13, 2009 21:00

• Four young men disappeared in Ingushetia

  In the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, four young men aged 20-25 disappeared in one day in unclear circumstances.

April 13, 2009 20:00

• Sakvarelidze: on April 11, Georgian authorities lost in "war of nerves"

  The expression - "war of nerves" - used by both parties of confrontation in Georgia is quite topical: at night on April 12, the authorities' nerves failed - the only explanation of night "pogroms" on the opposition. This was stated by independent expert Ramaz Sakvarelidze to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 13, 2009 19:00

• ICPO: woman from North Ossetia killed by inadvertence in Ingushetia

  The death of Lemka Batyrova, 54, a resident of Chermen village in North Ossetia, on April 7, when militiamen chased the persons suspected of hijacking a car, was caused by a gunshot wound in the breast area, and not by a road accident. This was reported by a source in the Investigatory Department (ID) of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia.

April 13, 2009 18:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, advocates want to appeal against cancellation of juries on "terrorist cases"

  The advocates who take part in the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, think that the law that cancels the trial by jury on certain articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation violates the rights of their clients and contradicts the Russian Constitution. In this context, they declared their intention to appeal against this law to the Constitutional Court of Russia. The prosecution finds the claims of the defence to be unreasonable.

April 11, 2009 23:57

• MoD of South Ossetia: Georgia shells Tskhinvali

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of South Ossetia has reported that today the city of Tskhinvali was shelled from the side of Georgia. There is no data about any victims.

April 11, 2009 21:00

• Olympic construction in Sochi lacks 3 billion roubles

  According to Valery Zhukov, head of Department of Highways of the Krasnodar Territory, Sochi still lacks 3 billion roubles to start building the traffic intersections, which are parts of the construction programme of Olympic objects and development of the city as a mountain-climate resort.

April 11, 2009 18:00

• Georgian opposition cancels protest actions on Palm Sunday

  Today in Georgia, leaders of the opposition held a meeting and decided to suspend their protest actions for tomorrow, April 12, the Palm Sunday. However, protest rallies will resume on Monday, April 13.

April 11, 2009 16:08

• Ship of Turkey's Naval Forces arrives to Georgia for exercises

  Today, a destroyer named "Kemalreis" of the Naval Forces of Turkey has dropped anchor in the port of Poti in Georgia for a three-day friendly visit. On April 12-13, it will take part in joint exercises of Georgian frontier guards and Turkish destroyer's crew members.

April 11, 2009 15:00

• New York to host rally against recognition of Armenians' genocide

  On April 25, the "Society of Young Turks" will hold a rally in New York under the motto "End of Armenian lie". The organizers have formulated its aim as informing the American public about disagreement with the fact of genocide against Armenians.

April 11, 2009 14:00

• Elderly woman from Georgia asks Russia's political asylum

  At the check point "Nizhni Zaramag", located on the border of Russia with South Ossetia, frontier guards of the Frontier Administration (FA) of Russian FSB for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania were addressed by a woman-citizen of Georgia, 72, a native of the Gori District, who applied for political asylum.