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February 15, 2012 12:00

• Jehovah's Witnesses report 197 cases of violation of their rights in SFO and NCFO after prohibition of the community in Rostov region

  From December, 8, 2009, when the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation liquidated the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and prohibited the activities of believers of this confession in two more districts of Rostov region, till the end of 2001, 197 cases of violation of the rights of this religious organization took place in the South of Russia. This was told to the “Caucasian Knot” in the Management Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

February 15, 2012 11:00

• A break was announced in the trial on Novikov’s case in the court of Krasnodar

  On February, 14, the third trial in Krasnodar regional court passed off during which the question of taking Dmitry Novikov, retired judge of Khosta district of Sochi, into custody. A break in the trial was announced till February, 16.

February 15, 2012 10:00

• Sailors from Astrakhan went on a hunger strike in the sea port of Vladivostok because of unpaid wages

  The crew of the Russian vessel “Rustika” standing in the sea-port of Vladivostok went on a hunger strike because of a two-month backpay. The arrears of wages makes 50 thousand dollars. 11 members of “Rustika” crew are taking part in the hunger strike. The vessel is standing near the mooring of “Dalzavod”.

February 14, 2012 23:50

• Kurman Ismailov: being twenty years in Islam, I know the origin of this pressure

  Kurman Ismailov, Deputy Mufti of the Stavropol Territory, who was killed on February 13 in Pyatigorsk, in 2011, was detained by power agents on suspicion of possessing explosives. Kurman Ismailov was released without charges, he was supported by well-known human rights defenders and members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation; however, after his detention and release, he stated that he did not feel safe and expected "the second act of that play, the final one."

February 14, 2012 23:20

• Issa Khashagulgov's defence to challenge investigators' actions

  The lawyers intend to challenge actions of the head of the investigatory group against Issa Khashagulgov, a native of Ingushetia. Besides, Batyrbek Akhilgov and Rosa Alieva stated that they could not meet their client.

February 14, 2012 23:10

• Agranovskiy: media campaign against Arakcheev is consequence of putting him on the list of political prisoners

  Putting Sergey Arakcheev on the list of political prisoners has provoked an information campaign against him in mass media, said the lawyer Dmitry Agranovskiy during a press conference on resonant cases against former militaries convicted for criminal offences.

February 14, 2012 23:10

• MCC quashes decision to release Rasul Mirzaev on bail

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) has cancelled the decision of the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow to release Rasul Mirzaev, the world sambo champion, accused of manslaughter of the 19-year-old Ivan Agafonov, on bail of 100,000 roubles.

February 14, 2012 23:10

• In Volgograd, drug police major sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment for drug dealing

  On February 13, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd sentenced Alexander Savelyev, Chief of the Operational Service Division of the Department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (UFSKN) in the Volgograd Region, to 9 years of imprisonment in high security colony for sale of narcotics.

February 14, 2012 23:00

• Capital of Georgia hosts action in support of homeless people

  An action of public solidarity "Let's save each other!" assuming to help homeless people during the cold season, is held in Tbilisi by the Media Union "Objective".

February 14, 2012 22:50

• Four persons, including a child, get poisoned by gas in Makhachkala

  Today, in the capital of Dagestan, four persons, including a child of four, got poisoned to death by carbon monoxide.

February 14, 2012 22:50

• 16 persons suffer in an explosion in a cafe in Volgograd

  An explosion and subsequent fire in the cafe named "Bellagio" in Volgograd have injured 16 persons. According to preliminary data, a gas bottle has exploded, said the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Volgograd Region.

February 14, 2012 22:40

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria disappears in Ingushetia

  A resident of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has reported about disappearance in this republic of his brother Amirkhan Gadaborshev, who lives in Kabardino-Balkaria.

February 14, 2012 22:30

• An action of additional fertilizing of the pelicans freezing in the Caspian sea passed off in Makhachkala

  On February, 13, experts of the Ministry of Nature protection together with activists of non-governmental movements held an ecologic action on additional fertilizing of about 500 individuals of Dalmatian pelicans who had flown in a non-frozen area of the sea coast in Makhachkala.

February 14, 2012 22:20

• Public prosecutor's office of Moscow appealed against release of Rasul Mirzaev on bail

  Public prosecutor's office of Moscow appealed against the judgment of Zamoskvoretsky court of releasing on bail the twenty-five-years-old World champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old student Ivan Agafonov died, Prosecutor General's of Russia reported.

February 14, 2012 22:10

• Djioeva intends to bring the authorities of South Ossetia to account for the storm of her election staff

  Ex-candidate for presidency of South Ossetia Alla Djioeva issued a statement in which she asks personally Vadim Brovtsev acting as President of the republic to explain the reasons for the storm of her election staff on February, 9. The statement also runs that Djioeva is going to bring all those guilty of the assault at her staff to account, including a possible appeal to the European Court.

February 14, 2012 21:00

• A woman wounded during shooting in a store in Rostov region

  The police of the town of Kamensk-Shakhtisky, Rostov region, are carrying out search of an armed man who opened fire in a store and wounded a shop assistant.

February 14, 2012 20:00

• One person perished and three got wounded as a result of an explosion

  On February, 13, a resident of Sochi perished and three more persons got injured as a result of explosion of an unidentified object.

February 14, 2012 19:00

• A serviceman perished in Azerbaijan

  On February, 13, lance sergeant of National Army Kyamran Djoshgun oglu Gajiev perished in a military unit of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

February 14, 2012 18:00

• Three policemen perished in a special operation in Chechnya

  Three policemen perished and six got wounded in a battle at the administrative border between Chechnya and Dagestan on February, 13.

February 13, 2012 23:50

• Martynov: ex-Chairman of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog signs recognizance not to leave

  Nikolai Trotsyuk, ex-Chairman of the religious community Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog (Rostov Region), liquidated in 2009 in accordance with the Rostov Regional Court decision, signed a recognizance not to leave. This was told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Grigory Martynov, the representative of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.