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December 28, 2011 21:10

• On December 19-25, armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away six lives

  At least six people were killed and one injured over the past week, on December 19-25, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other public sources.

December 28, 2011 21:00

• Air company "YUTAir" made its first flight from Moscow to Ingushetia

  Yesterday, December, 27, a "Boeing" aircraft of "YUTAir" company with 116 passengers on board landed in "Magas" airport. It was the first regular flight en-route Moscow (Vnukovo) - Ingushetia - Moscow (Vnukovo).

December 28, 2011 20:00

• Armenia will cancel daylight-saving time regime change in summer and winter and change its time zone

  The time regime used in Armenia is out of keeping with its geographical position and time zone, Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan told the journalists on December, 27. He also promised that Armenia would cancel daylight-saving time regime change in summer and in winter.

December 28, 2011 19:00

• IODHRA reports pressure on human rights activists in Azerbaijan

  Obstacles in the activities of NGOs and the work of human rights activists who bear pressure were discovered in 2011 in Azerbaijan, annual report of International Observatory for Defense of Human Rights Activists runs.

December 28, 2011 18:00

• The relatives of two young people in Ingushetia report their disappearance

  Relatives of Abubakar Musaevcih Yevloev and Isa Ruslanovich Bulguchev, residents of Ingushetia, reports their disappearance in the afternoon of December, 26. In their opinion, the young men were kidnapped.

December 27, 2011 22:50

• Dagestani SC considers rights defender's complaint against head of Republic's IC and General Prosecutor

  On December 26, in Makhachkala, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan considered the complaint of the human rights defender Nasrudin Rasulov, the lawyer of the public organization "Fighter for Justice", against Savrulin, the head of the Investigatory Committee in the Republic of Dagestan, and Nazarov, the Republic's Public Prosecutor.

December 27, 2011 22:40

• Magomed Mutsolgov: decrease in number of murders in Ingushetia is partly due to authorities' efforts

  According to the annual monitoring of human rights and freedoms in the territory of Ingushetia, conducted by the organization "MASHR", in 2011, the number of murders in the republic in comparison with previous year decreased twofold from 160 murders in 2010 down to 80 in 2011. According to human rights defenders, that fact is partly connected to efforts of the regional authorities.

December 27, 2011 22:30

• Another supporter of Djioeva detained in Vladikavkaz

  Today, Genry Kachmazov, the administrator of the website "Uasamonga" and another activist of the North-Ossetian election office of Alla Djioeva, the ex-candidate for the presidency of South Ossetia, was arrested in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by Elina Marzoeva, a staff member of the headquarters.

December 27, 2011 22:30

• In Dagestan, detainee complaints of refusal of medical examination after torture

  Gabibula Shakhbanov, a resident of Kaspiisk, detained in Dagestan, is not allowed to meet his second lawyer at the temporary detention facility (IVS), where he is being kept; transfers for him are not accepted, and the detainee, who claimed beatings by power agents, is not allowed to undergo a medical examination. This was reported by Murad Magomedov, the Gabibula Shakhbanov's lawyer.

December 27, 2011 22:20

• ICRF: Nadezhda Gogoleva, Astrakhan school Principal, suspected of excess of power

  Representatives of the Chamber of Control and Accounts suspect Nadezhda Gogoleva, Principal of the school No. 74, of excess of power. The inspection of the school revealed a number of violations in financial and economic issues. This was reported by the press service of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Soviet District of the city of Astrakhan.

December 27, 2011 22:20

• Head of NGO "Psou" reports attempt of her detention after rally in Sochi

  At the railway station "Goryachy Klyuch" (Hot Spring), two men in police uniform tried to get Natalia Kalinovskaya, Chair of the Territorial Public Self-Administration "Psou", off the train. According to Natalia Kalinovskaya, it may be related to her speech on the rally held on December 24 against falsification of the elections to the State Duma.

December 27, 2011 22:10

• Ramzan Kadyrov decorated with "Golden Brush"

  Laureates of the award "Golden Brush-2011" have been announced in Russia; it is given for most unreasonable budget expenditures. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov became one of the award winners. The reason for awarding was the fact that this spring, the state procurement website placed information on buying expensive cars of foreign brands for the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

December 27, 2011 22:00

• Court sentences Andrei Bykov to 20 years of imprisonment for participation in massacre in Kuschevskaya

  The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Andrei Bykov, one of the persons, accused of participation in massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, to 20 years of imprisonment.

December 27, 2011 21:10

• Azerbaijani businessman from Sheki, who tried to kill himself, complains of pressure

  The entrepreneur Alovsat Mutallimov from the city of Sheki in northern Azerbaijan, who tried to set himself on fire on December 15 in protest against violation of his rights, continues to experience pressure. This was reported by Irada Javadova, the chair of the NGO "Public Association for Human Rights Education".

December 27, 2011 21:00

• Sochi: after house demolition, large family moves to garage in cemetery

  The large family of Revenko from Sochi is forced to live in a garage in the cemetery after demolition of their house, which was done to break the ground for building a road junction.

December 27, 2011 20:10

• The court in Georgia partially granted the lawsuit of those injured during dispersal of a meeting of journalists

  City court of Tbilisi partially granted the lawsuit of the persons injured during dispersal of an oppositional meeting of journalists and obliged the Ministry of Interior Affairs to undo harm to them.

December 27, 2011 20:00

• The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia: policemen accidentally killed a driver who refused to stop

  Tonight members of power ministries attempted to stop a car of a sixty-year-old resident of Ingushetia Ruslan Ozdoev near one of the supplementary posts set at the entrance of the town of Karabulak. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic state that the man disobeyed their demand and was unintentionally killed during persecution and firing at the tyres by one of the bullets which supposedly ricocheted from a bumper.

December 27, 2011 19:00

• A citizen of Georgia who was pulled into a turbine of "Su-25" perished in Azerbaijan

  On December, 26, technician from Georgia Yury Kulachkov perished in one of the military units of Azerbaijan. According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, he was pulled into a working turbine of an attack aircraft "Su-25".

December 27, 2011 18:00

• A warrant officer shot down a soldier in Azerbaijan

  Soldier of Inner Troops of Azerbaijan Kyanan Namazov was shot down by warrant officer of the military unit Hikmet Azizov. According to preliminary data, the shot was accidental.

December 27, 2011 17:00

• An activist of "Public Chamber" movement arrested in Nakhichevan

  On December, 26, Zeinal Bagirzade, Head of regional branch of civil movement for democracy "Public Chamber", was arrested for a term of three months for accusation of forgery of documents in Nakhichevan autonomous republic (NAR). This was the judgment of Nakhichevan city court.