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December 23, 2011 21:00

• An action of protest passed off near the Embassy of France in Baku

  An action of protest against adoption of a bill criminalizing denial of genocide of the Armenians by France passed off On December, 22, near the French Embassy in Baku. The action was organized by International Center of Diaspora and Azerbaijani Community of War Veterans.

December 23, 2011 20:00

• Journalist Tolmachev in Rostov region earlier exculpated on clause "Slander" arrested for accusation of extortion

  Alexander Tolmachev, Rostov journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Upolnomochen Zayavit" ("Empowered to State") and journal "Pro Rostov" ("About Rostov") was taken into custody in connection with the case on which he was accused of extortion. This preventive punishment was sanctioned on December, 22, by the court of Novocherkassk. On December, 20, district court recalled the sentence to the journalist on accusation of slander.

December 23, 2011 19:00

• The US congressmen called for President of Azerbaijan to release Aliev brothers, political prisoners

  Two co-chairmen of Legal Committee of the Congress of the USA Frank Wolf and James McGovern sent a message to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev calling to release political prisoners.

December 23, 2011 18:00

• Residents of the settlement of Nardaran, Azerbaijan, report arrests of believers

  In the settlement of Nardaran, Baku, believers are regularly arrested: at night policemen come, without any grounds put them into cars and drive them away to police departments, local residents report.

December 22, 2011 22:30

• Ulyanovsk: six football fans suspected of distributing anti-Caucasian leaflets

  Six residents of Ulyanovsk are suspected of inciting hatred based on ethnic grounds against players and fans of the "Anji" FC (Makhachkala). According to the prosecutor's office, fans of the "Volga" FC prepared and distributed leaflets with extremist content.

December 22, 2011 22:10

• POC: juveniles are pressed in Belorechenskaya Colony

  As reported by the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Krasnodar Territory, the employees of the Belorechenskaya Colony subject convicted juveniles to psychological pressure.

December 22, 2011 22:10

• First sitting of public inquiry commission into Khadjimurad Kamalov's murder held in Dagestan

  Members of the commission investigating the assassination of Khadjimurad Kamalov, the founder of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), demanded to reveal, for what purposes the funds allocated for support of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) went, and urged the federal authorities to finance the programme "Safe City".

December 22, 2011 22:00

• Nalchik attack trial extends defendants' custody by three months more

  At the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik, the court extended the detention period for 54 defendants for another three months. For three defendants Kazbek Budtuev, Zalim Ulimbashev, and Sergey Kaziev the pre-trial restrictions in the form of recognizance not to leave were remained unchanged. Besides, at the court session, the court listened to the testimonies of witnesses in the case.

December 22, 2011 21:50

• Volgograd Regional Court fines investigator by about one million roubles for bribe-taking

  The Volgograd Regional Court found the senior investigator of the district police division for bribery and ordered him to pay a large fine of 960,000 roubles, the Regional Court reports.

December 22, 2011 21:40

• Rally within All-Russian protest action against State Duma election violations held in Makhachkala

  Yesterday, on December 21, in Rodop Boulevard in Makhachkala, about 500 persons attended a rally, during which they planned to protest against the results of the election to the Russian State Duma and the arrests of civil activists.

December 22, 2011 21:30

• Brazilian city of Campinas officially recognizes Genocide of Armenians

  Demetrio Vilagra, Mayor of the Brazilian city of Campinas, has signed a resolution adopted by the city parliament on recognition zing the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. The city Mayoralty has officially informed the Armenian Embassy in Brazil about it.

December 22, 2011 21:30

• In Vladikavkaz, court returns case of journalist Maria Plieva to retrial

  The case against the journalist Maria Plieva should be directed to a new trial at the magistrate court. This decision was made today at the session of the Lenin District Court of Vladikavkaz.

December 22, 2011 21:20

• UFSIN employees in Volgograd Region held responsible for keeping VIP cells in colonies

  In the Volgograd Region, 15 officers of the regional Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") have been brought to "strict disciplinary responsibility" after VIP cells intended for crime bosses were found in Colony No. 12.

December 22, 2011 21:10

• Issa Khashagulgov's wife complains of ban to see her husband

  Pyatimat Khashagulgova, the wife of Issa Khashagulgov, who is suspected of involvement in the terror act committed in Vladikavkaz and is currently kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison), said that she was not allowed to meet her husband.

December 22, 2011 21:00

• Convicts in Rostov region became prize-winners of an international cinema festival

  Two documentaries devoted to the life of convicts in Rostov region became prize-winners of the First St. Petersburg international festival "Nadezhda" ("Hope"). The authors are convicts serving penalty in the colonies of the region.

December 22, 2011 19:00

• Eight workers in Timashevsk are on a hunger strike in protest against non-payment of wages

  A hunger strike of eight builders of a trimmers' team who were reconditioning neurology unit of Timashevsk district hospital is going on in the town of Timashevsk, Krasnodar region. The workers demand from "Yug-S" company to settle accounts with the team for the work they have done.

December 22, 2011 18:00

• The Senate of Mexico has adopted no resolution on the events in Khojaly, Armenian mass media report

  The Senate of Mexico has not adopted any resolutions in connection with the events in the town of Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh. This was explained by representatives of the Senate of Mexico with the addition that two closing paragraphs of the document expressing the opinion of one of the committees were read out at a plenary session of the Senate.

December 22, 2011 17:00

• A veteran of the war in Afghanistan in Rostov-on-Don went on an open-ended hunger strike near the building of Plenipotentiary mission in SFO

  Georgy Sadovich, veteran of the war in Afghanistan, came out on a single-person picket declaring a hunger strike near the building of the President's Plenipotentiary mission in Southern Federal Okrug (SFO). The picketer demands to provide him with dwelling which, according to him, is due to him by law.

December 21, 2011 22:40

• Azerbaijani MFA: Mexican Senate treats events in Khodjaly as genocide

  The upper house of the Parliament of Mexico recognized the tragic events that took place on February 25-26, 1992, in Khodjaly town of Nagorno-Karabakh as genocide. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

December 21, 2011 22:20

• Most violations at elections to State Duma detected in Moscow and Stavropol Territory, report of MIA and ICRF asserts

  In the course of the election campaign on elections of deputies to the Russian State Duma, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has identified more than two thousand violations, including 96 ones in the Stavropol Territory. Investigators conduct nine inspections in different regions of the country, including in the south of Russia, to investigate the complaints about falsification of voting results. According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), the voting results at 21 electoral precincts were cancelled due to violations.