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December 30, 2011 21:00

• MIA: Djioeva's supporters detained in Vladikavkaz to be brought to administrative responsibility

  In Vladikavkaz, the capital of South Ossetia, 27 persons were detained in the course of a protest action against earlier arrests of supporters of Alla Djioeva, a former presidential candidate. Some of the detainees have already been released, said Alla Akhbolova, the head of the press service of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

December 30, 2011 20:00

• Workers is Georgia held an action of protest

  The workers employed for construction of a hospital in Gurjaani held an action of protest demanding wage payment.

December 30, 2011 19:00

• An unauthorized action in protection of a public garden passed off in Anapa

  On December, 29, several hundred residents of Anapa came out in protection of the public garden named after Avanesov. During the unauthorized action the participants dismantled the building blocks set in the area of the garden.

December 30, 2011 18:00

• Relatives of the activist of "Public Chamber" movement arrested in Nakhichevan state that he has undergone torture

  Zeinal Bagirzade, Head of regional branch of "Civil movement for democracy "Public Chamber" arrested in Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic experiences health problems. The activist's relatives and colleagues consider that he underwent torture. Regional authorities produce no comments on this statement.

December 29, 2011 22:50

• Vladikavkaz residents complain to PCRF about emissions of "Electrozink"

  Residents of the capital of North Ossetia appealed to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (PCRF) with a complaint of resumption of harmful emissions into the atmosphere by the plant "Electrozink". The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) confirmed the facts of pollution of the environment in Vladikavkaz.

December 29, 2011 22:40

• Captain of Astrakhan ship found guilty of non-rendering help to passengers of "Bulgariya"

  The Kamskoe-Ustye District Court of Tatarstan has sentenced Yuri Tuchin, Captain of Astrakhan dry-cargo ship "Arbat", to a fine amounted to 130,000 roubles for failure to render assistance to people in distress in crash of the motor vessel "Bulgariya".

December 29, 2011 22:30

• Rostov Region hosts rally against election results

  In the city of Taganrog of the Rostov Region, about 500 representatives of branches of political parties and public movements held a rally against mass falsifications at the elections of deputies to the State Duma. This was reported by the press service of the Rostov Regional Branch of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

December 29, 2011 22:20

• North Ossetia: detention of suspect of blowing up Vladikavkaz marketplace extended

  The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, chaired by Judge Venera Daurova, extended the custody of detention of Issa Khashagulgov, a suspect in the case of the terror act at the central market in Vladikavkaz in September 2010, till March 24, 2012.

December 29, 2011 22:10

• Head of alternative parliament released in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, Idris Abadiev, Chairman of the alternative parliament, was released after detention by power agents from the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division).

December 29, 2011 22:00

• In Azerbaijan, court rejects CER for blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev

  Today, the Garadag District Court rejected conditional early relief (CER) from custody of the blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. This was decided by Court's Judge Rashad Mustafaev in the office of the head of Colony No. 14, where Bakhtiyar Gadjiev is serving his sentence.

December 29, 2011 21:10

• In Ingushetia, power agents join to searching kidnapped Ababukar Evloev and Isa Bulguchev

  Residents of Ingushetia Ababukar Evloev and Isa Bulguchev were kidnapped from the former's workplace, said Ababukar's brother Izrail Evloev, citing the eyewitnesses of the kidnapping. According to Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia, a criminal case was initiated on the disappearance of the young men; they are searched by the republic's power agencies.

December 29, 2011 21:00

• Dmitry Putenikhin released in Moscow

  The magistrate judge of the Tver Court of Moscow has released Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of "The Other Russia", who had splashed water in the face of Public Prosecutor Alexei Smirnov, who had represented the state prosecution at the trial of mass riots in Manege Square.

December 29, 2011 20:00

• Russia hosts actions in defence of political prisoners

  A meeting of the Russian State Duma Deputy from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party Ilya Ponomaryov with supporters of Sergey Udaltsov, the arrested coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front", took place in Moscow, in Pushkin Square within the all-Russian action in defence of political prisoners. Pickets on the topic were held also in other cities, in particular, in Sochi and Krasnodar.

December 29, 2011 19:00

• Court upholds fine of 30,000 roubles imposed on "Golos" for breaking the media law

  The Meschansky District Court of Moscow has rejected the cassation appeal lodged by the Association in Defence of Voters' Rights "Golos" (Vote), said Ramil Akhmetgaliev, a lawyer and analyst of the "Agora" Human Rights Association, who represented the interests of the "Golos".

December 29, 2011 18:00

• Healer and his wife assassinated in Dagestan

  The bodies of the couple with gunshot wounds were found today in the village of Pervomaiskoye, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. The murdered man was a folk healer, said the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

December 28, 2011 22:50

• 2012 budgets of NCFD regions approved with deficit

  In December, several regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have adopted draft budget laws. According to released information, none of the regions has adopted its budget with net surplus. The anticipated budget deficit will make from more than 5.2 billion roubles in the Stavropol Territory up to 66.3 million roubles in the Chechen Republic.

December 28, 2011 22:50

• Committee "Civil Assistance" launches project in defence of imprisoned residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia

  On Monday, December 26, the Committee "Civil Assistance" presented its new project "Protection of rights of residents of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia, serving their sentences in penitentiary institutions or kept under investigation in SIZOs (pre-trial prisons)".

December 28, 2011 22:40

• Young men from Chechnya not called up to Russian Army again

  Like in previous years, the autumn call-up in the Chechen Republic completed with medical examination of potential recruits and registration of young men above 18 years old in military records. Recruits from Chechnya were not called up to the Russian Army again.

December 28, 2011 21:30

• In Krasnodar, police suspects participant of oppositional rally of extremism

  In Krasnodar, power agencies examine Mikhail Lukashev, an activist of the Other Russia, arrested on December 24 after his participation in the rally "For Fair Elections", for his involvement in extremist activities. According to oppositionists, the examination was caused by the poster with the slogan reading: "Let riot arise".

December 28, 2011 21:20

• In South Ossetia, volunteers raise money for fellow countrymen convicted in Georgia

  Within the campaign "Stretch a helping hand", volunteers from Tskhinvali have raised 33,864 roubles for convicted citizens of South Ossetia kept in Georgian prisons.