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March 01, 2012 22:10

• Unrests in Northern Azerbaijan step down; journalist was wounded

  The situation in the city of Guba in the north of Azerbaijan has normalized after release of all the people detained during spontaneous protest actions. In the course of the riots, Abderrashad Vagif-oglu, a reporter of the Internet TV "Objective TV", was wounded in his head by a stone.

March 01, 2012 22:00

• Murad Yandiev, disappeared "Mashr" employee, was found at Nazran GOVD

  Murad Yandiev, the accountant of the human rights organization "Mashr", whose disappearance was reported today by his colleagues, has been detained and is kept at the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran.

March 01, 2012 21:40

• In Dagestan, resident of Mutsalaul village claims her son was kidnapped by armed men

  Today in the morning, Abdurakhman Djakaev, a resident of the village of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, was taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage. This was reported by his mother Patimat Djakaeva. The Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) said that they had no such a detainee.

March 01, 2012 21:20

• Dagestani woman claims disappearance of her husband

  Today, Rashidat Khalidova, a resident of the village of Chontaul, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, has reported disappearance of her husband Akav Khalidov, 28.

March 01, 2012 21:10

• In Cherkessk, ex-deputy police boss detained on suspicion of beating man to death

  Ruslan Rakhaev, ex-Deputy Police Chief and former head of the criminal and investigation unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Cherkessk, who was searched on suspicion of beating an arrested man to death, was detained by law enforcers. This was reported by the MIA of Karachay-Cherkessia.

March 01, 2012 21:00

• In Lermontov, hunger-strikers announce continuation of their protest action

  The number of participants of the protest action in the form of hunger strike in the city of Lermontov of the Stavropol Territory has already reached 38 persons. According to them, they do not intend to stop their protest action. Yuri Turygin, Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory, established in the city a temporary reception of the Prosecutor's Office.

March 01, 2012 20:00

• The police in Azerbaijan dispersed an action of protest near the building of district executive authority in Guba

  The police dispersed the participants of an action in front of the building of executive authority in Guba district of Azerbaijan. The number of detainees makes about 200. However, disturbances are going on. The protesters burned down the house of Rauf Khabibov, Head of executive authority, and demand release of those detained.

March 01, 2012 19:00

• No one got injured in an explosion of the house belonging to mother of a missing resident of Gimry

  The woman owner of a house in the settlement of Gimry, Dagestan, exploded by unidentified people this morning is safe but the building got a considerable damage, the "Caucasian Knot" referring to local residents reports.

March 01, 2012 18:00

• A member of human rights center "MASHR" disappeared in Ingushetia

  In the evening of February, 29, resident of the town of Karabulak Murad Yandiev, member of human rights center "MASHR", disappeared in Ingushetia, representatives of the organization report.

February 29, 2012 23:30

• Armenian Parliament votes against cancellation of majoritarian election system

  The Armenian Parliament by a majority vote rejected a draft law to introduce a 100-percent proportional election system.

February 29, 2012 23:10

• In Sochi, ecologists and defrauded real estate investors attend picket sanctioned by Mayoralty

  Today, in Sochi, from midday till 6:00 p.m. the square near the city administration hosted a picket against the current government policy, violations of civil rights and election law. The protest action was attended by about 50 persons.

February 29, 2012 22:00

• ECtHR rules that Russia pays compensations to relatives of Abdullah Edilov and Movsar Khamzatov

  On February 28, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia should pay 134,000 euros to relatives of two young men, one of whom was kidnapped and another one was killed in Chechnya.

February 29, 2012 21:30

• In Dagestan, local residents unblock Highway "Kavkaz"

  In Dagestan, the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" near the village of Manas, which was blocked today by more than 500 persons, was opened. They demanded that the law enforcement agencies should solve the murder of their villager.

February 29, 2012 21:10

• Case on Chechen resident's beating by OMON fighters re-opened

  Today, the Interregional Public Organization "Committee against Torture" reported on re-opening of the criminal case on the beating of Alikhan Akhmedov by Chechen OMON (riot police) fighters.

February 29, 2012 21:00

• Wife of man suspected of involvement in explosion of building in Astrakhan denies his guilt

  Viktor Chlenov could not open gas valves and blow up the nine-storey building in Astrakhan, since he was bedridden. This was stated by his wife Valentina Chlenova. According to her, the blowing up of the building was a fault of workers from the gas service, who two weeks prior to the explosion replaced the gas equipment in their apartment. The woman is going to prove that her husband is innocent.

February 29, 2012 20:00

• The number of people on a hunger strike in the town of Lermontov came to 22

  During the past 24 hours four people joined the participants of an action of protest in form of a hunger strike in the town of Lermontov, Stavropol region. So, 22 persons are taking part in the hunger strike at the moment, two of them are in hospital. According to head of the region Valery Gaevsky, the protesters are using coercive methods to achieve their goal which will be estimated by law enforcement bodies respectively.

February 29, 2012 20:00

• Georgian authorities to provide indigent citizens vouchers for professional training

  Starting from March 20, in Georgia, socially vulnerable persons will receive vouchers for 1000 laris (about 606 US dollars) for education at professional training centres or vocational colleges. This was announced today by Nika Gilauri, Georgian Prime Minister, at the government meeting.

February 29, 2012 19:00

• "Commersant": among possible paymasters of Politkovskaya's murder Pavluchenkov designated Zakaev and Berezovsky

  Dmitry Pavluchenkov, ex-Chief of Operative-search department of Chief Directorate of Interior Affairs of Moscow, who entered into collaboration with the investigation evidenced that Ahmed Zakaev and Boris Berezovsky could have been paymasters of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", "Commersant" newspaper reports today. Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) neither confirmed nor disproved this information.

February 29, 2012 19:00

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria sentences attackers on Baksan HPP to 14 years of imprisonment

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria announced the verdict for the two persons involved in the attack on the Baksan hydroelectric power plant (HPP). A 28-year-old Murat Shogenov and a 25-year-old Timur Shebzukhov were sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment to be served in a high security colony and to restriction of freedom for a term of 1 year.

February 29, 2012 18:00

• An action of protest passed off in Georgia during Saakashvili's speech in the Parliament

  Reading out annual message of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili to the supreme legislative body of the country was accompanied by an action of protest near the walls of the Parliament.