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June 14, 2017 19:37

• Gaitukaev's funeral in Chechnya attended by about a thousand

  Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who was convicted for the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and died in a Vologda colony, was buried into the cemetery of Achkhoy-Martan village, his relatives have reported. In Achkhoy-Martan, they do not believe that Gaitukaev was the organizer of Politkovskaya's murder, said a local woman.

June 14, 2017 18:54

• Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Faramazoglu sentenced to seven years in prison

  In Baku, the court has found journalist Fikret Faramazoglu guilty of extortion. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment with the prohibition to be engaged in journalistic activities for two years after his release. He himself claimed being tortured after his arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

June 14, 2017 18:04

• Organizer of anticorruption rally detained in Makhachkala

  Nurmagomed Gazimagomedov has claimed that he was detained in the Makhachkala Park named after the 50th anniversary of October, where he planned to read out his appeal to the Russian President.

June 14, 2017 17:58

• Punishment of Samedov, leader of Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, toughened

  Movsum Samedov has been transferred to the Gobustan closed prison for three years, said his advocate Yalchin Imanov.

June 14, 2017 17:14

• Dagestani resident disappears after his detention by law enforcers, his relatives claim

  In the Dagestani village of Chervlyonnye Buruny, law enforcers detained Rashid Abdurakhmanov, and his whereabouts is unknown. This was reported by his family members. According to them, Rashid Abdurakhmanov disappeared on the eve of the Nogai People's Congress.

June 14, 2017 15:43

• Relatives of Ramazan Djalaldinov ask Vladimir Putin to return him home

  Family members of Ramazan Djalaldinov, who complained against actions of Chechen officials, asked the Russian President to help him return home.

June 14, 2017 14:55

• Azerbaijani border guards refuse to give checkpoint video to Mukhtarly's defence

  The Azerbaijani State Border Service has rejected the defence's request to study the details of Afghan Mukhtarly's detention on the Georgian border. According to the defence, this indicates the authorities' unwillingness to consider the journalist's version of his kidnapping in Tbilisi.

June 14, 2017 13:13

• Whereabouts of men wounded in shootout in Ingushetia remains unknown

  Officials from the Investigating Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) have stated that they are not aware of an investigation into an assassination attempt on two relatives of suspected militant Magomed Bekbuzarov. The condition and whereabouts of the wounded men are also unknown.

June 14, 2017 12:18

• Participants of Nogai People's Congress report about land conflict in Dagestan

  Today, the Nogai People's Congress has been opened in the village of Terekli-Mekteb. It has gathered about 6000 delegates from different regions of the Russian Federation. Participants of the Congress believe that the federal centre can help to solve the land conflict in the Nogai District of Dagestan.

June 14, 2017 10:33

• Investigator fails to specify charge in publicist Rizvan Ibragimov's case

  On June 13, at the trial in the Rizvan Ibragimov's case, the court questioned an investigator in charge for the case against the publicist accused of extremism. The witness could not clarify the essence of the charge.

June 14, 2017 10:10

• Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office rejects version of Afghan Mukhtarly's detention in Tbilisi

  The General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan has rejected the allegations that journalist Afghan Mukhtarly was detained in Tbilisi with involvement of the Georgian law enforcers. According to the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office, the journalist was detained at the border of the countries.

June 14, 2017 04:39

• Lom-Ali Gaitukaev's closest relatives to become his successors at ECtHR

  Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who died in a penal colony in the Vologda Region and who was sentenced in the case of the Anna Politkovskaya's murder, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about violations committed during the trial in his case.

June 14, 2017 04:08

• Defence claims biased court's attitude towards defendants in Zhirair Sefilyan's case

  The trial in the case against Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the Armenian movement "100th anniversary without regime", and six other defendants has been started in a tense situation.

June 14, 2017 03:10

• Volgograd house collapse is eighth since 2011

  For almost six and a half years, Volgograd saw eight collapses of apartment houses. Three of them were results of gas explosions. In total, as a result of these accidents, since January 2011, 12 persons were killed and 26 others were injured.

June 14, 2017 02:26

• In Yeisk, supporter of Alexei Navalny arrested for 10 days

  By a court decision, Alexander Safronov, one of the participants in the action held by supporters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was detained in the city of Yeisk, was arrested for 10 days.

June 14, 2017 00:25

• Rights defenders: opponents of "Terek" FC's renaming to "Akhmat" too scared to report their contacts

  The proposal of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to hold an explanatory conversation with opponents of renaming the "Terek" FC to the "Akhmat" FC sounds like a threat. This opinion was expressed by Igor Kalyapin. At present, there will be most likely no critics to the renaming of the "Terek" FC, as well as no gays, in the republic, Alexander Cherkasov believes.

June 13, 2017 20:23

• CTO legal regime cancelled in two districts of Dagestan

  Law enforcers have completed special operations in six villages of the Buynaksk and Karabudakhkent Districts of Dagestan, reports the operational headquarters for Dagestan of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

June 13, 2017 20:02

• Stavropol police reports no detained Navalny's supporters

  None of the participants of the rally held on June 12 was brought to Stavropol police stations, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). However, eyewitnesses said that policemen took away two persons from the venue of the rally.

June 13, 2017 19:33

• About 5000 servicemen participate in Azerbaijani-Turkish exercises in NAR

  The Azerbaijani-Turkish exercises in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) are large-scale and indicated deepening of the two countries' military cooperation, military experts said.

June 13, 2017 19:29

• Zhalaudi Geriev celebrates his birthday behind bars

  Today, Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who is serving his sentence after the pronouncement of the verdict by the Chechen court, is celebrating his 24-year birthday behind bars. The "Caucasian Knot" treats the case against Zhalaudi Geriev as being fabricated and hopes for his release.