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September 01, 2011 20:00

• BCA dismisses appeal on Gadjiev's lawsuit against GPO of Azerbaijan

  Today, at its session chaired by Judge Gail Mamedov the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) dismissed the appeal complaint lodged on the lawsuit of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, a youth activist, serving his prison term, against the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan.

September 01, 2011 19:00

• Protest rally against non-combat losses in army held in Armenia

  Today, a large protest rally was held near the building of the Armenian Government, where protesters expressed their indignation about the increasing number of non-combat losses in the Armenian Army. Parents of the soldiers, who perished in the peacetime and rights defenders demanded fair investigations into soldiers' deaths.

September 01, 2011 18:00

• In Chechnya, power agents accuse Umarov and Gakaev of organizing recent terror acts

  According to Chechen power bodies, the triple terror act involving militants-suicide bombers, committed in the city of Grozny at night on Tuesday, August 30, was organized by Dokku Umarov, the leader of the North-Caucasian armed underground, and Muslim Gakaev, one of field commanders.

August 31, 2011 23:00

• Saratov court finds recruits from Northern Caucasus guilty of hazing

  The Saratov Garrison Court has found regular soldiers enlisted from North Ossetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria guilty of abusing their fellow-servicemen and sentenced each of them to three years in prison; however, they refused to plead guilty and have already appealed against the verdict.

August 31, 2011 22:00

• In 2011, 63 persons perished in Moscow and Northern Caucasus from suicide bombers

  As a result of 12 self-explosions committed by suicide bombers in 2011 in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and in Moscow, the last three of which were triggered in Grozny on August 30, 63 persons were killed and more than 224 wounded. These are the figures of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data of own correspondents of the edition and information from open sources.

August 31, 2011 21:00

• Dagestan: power-engineering college to train ex-militants after adaptation commission

  On September 1, the city of Kaspiisk will solemnly open a new power-engineering college, where places will be reserved for the persons who have undergone the commission for adaptation of militants to peaceful life, said the managers of the new institution.

August 31, 2011 20:00

• Head coach of "Anji" Gadji Gadjiev disqualified for four matches

  Today, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) has passed a number of decisions on the outcomes of the events that took place on August 21 in the football match "Anji"-"Dynamo". Gadji Gadjiev, the head coach of the "Anji" FC from Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, was disqualified for four matches.

August 31, 2011 19:00

• International Prize "Witnesses of Peace" to be given to Shakman Akbulatov

  This year the Prize "Witnesses of Peace", established by the Italian city of Ovada, will be awarded to human rights activist from Chechnya Shakman Akbulatov.

August 31, 2011 18:00

• Baku holds protest against draining Lake Urmia in Iran

  Today, about 50 activists of different youth organizations of Azerbaijan held a picket near the Iranian Embassy in Baku with a demand to save Lake Urmia from ecological catastrophe.

August 31, 2011 17:00

• Session on Magmadovs' case rescheduled for September 5

  The consideration of the criminal case initiated against the natives of Chechnya Apti and Aishat Magmadov, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs), has been postponed until September 5, because Egle Kusaite's evidences have not arrived to the Moscow Regional Court.

August 31, 2011 16:00

• Death toll of Grozny explosions reaches nine

  As reported today by Rashid Nurgaliev, Russian Interior Minister, at his meeting with the heads of his subdivisions in the North-Caucasian Federal District, the triple terror act committed in the Lenin District of Grozny killed 9 persons.

August 31, 2011 15:00

• Agafonov's family asks state protection; Mirzaev's girlfriend complains of threats

  The family of Ivan Agafonov, 19, who died from a punch of Rasul Mirzaev, a native of Dagestan and world champion in mixed martial arts, asked investigators for protection. The athlete's advocate Igor Dergachov argues that Rasul Mirzaev's girlfriend is threatened; and "there are grounds to believe that witnesses may occur under pressure."

August 31, 2011 14:00

• Kabardino-Balkarian participants of Youth Forum "Mashuk-2011" win ten grants

  Ten projects submitted by participants from the city of Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkaria, to the contest within the Youth Forum "Mashuk-2011", which was held in July in Pyatigorsk, received grants.

August 31, 2011 13:00

• Ex-adviser of Prime Minister of Armenia, accused of paedophilia, denies violent acts

  After a month break, the closed trial of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, ex-adviser of Armenian Prime Minister, accused of paedophilia, was resumed. The defendant denies commission of any violent sexual acts and asserts that he had sexual intercourses with children with their consent.

August 31, 2011 12:00

• The parents of a teenager who disappeared in Dagestan ask him to return home through the Committee for adaptation of gunmen

  On August, 28, the Presidential Committee for adaptation of gunmen of the Republic of Dagestan organized a meeting between representatives of mass media and the family of a young man who disappeared 2,5 months before. His relatives consider it most probable that he has “gone to the forest” and recorded a video message for him asking him to return home.

August 31, 2011 11:12

• The number of victims of two explosions in Grozny has come to eight people

  According to the latest data, eight people perished as a result of two explosions which happened on August, 30, in Grozny and no less that 16 persons got wounded.

August 31, 2011 11:00

• A note of local officials’ corruption found in a car of a policeman who shot himself down in Krasnodar region

  The death of a police major, Chief of Soviet settlement police department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Novokubansky district, is under investigation in Krasnodar region. The investigators initiated a criminal case on the fact of incitement of the policeman to a suicide. A note of the officials’ corruption was found in his car. This was reported by regional Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation.

August 31, 2011 08:00

• Amnesty announced in Nagorno-Karabakh

  On August, 30, deputies of the People’s Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh adopted a decision of announcing amnesty in honour of the 20-th anniversary of declaration of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is already the sixth amnesty in Nagorno-Karabakh for the period of 20 years. About 20 per cent convicts will be released on the amnesty.

August 30, 2011 23:58

• Four persons killed by suicide bomber in Grozny

  In Grozny, at night on August 30 a supposed suicide bomber blew him up at a detention attempt. As a result, the blast killed four people and wounded other five, said a source from the republic's law enforcement bodies.

August 30, 2011 22:00

• Nineteen houses of Jehovah's Witnesses searched in Taganrog

  In the Rostov Region, after August 25, operative groups of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) searched the houses of 19 Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported by Gregory Martynov from the press service of the Administrative Centre of this religious organization.