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June 21, 2011 18:00

• Einullah Fatullaev called the Council of Europe to increase support to human rights in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner, visits Strasbourg at the invitation of the Council of Europe (CE). Within his visit, on June 20 he conducted a series of meetings in various structures of the Council of Europe.

June 21, 2011 17:00

• Maryam Sharipova's brother got political refugee status in Italy

  The Court of Trieste declared the decision of the Commission's on Political Asylum, which had rejected asylum for Anvar Sharipov, to be illegal due to insufficient and contradictory motivation, and provided a native of Dagestan with a political refugee status. Giorgio Kamai, the editor of the Media Centre Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, who watched over the detainee's fate from Italy, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 21, 2011 16:00

• Baku: anonymous leaflets against hijab ban in schools

  Authors of the leaflets, which are distributed anonymously at the entrances of apartment buildings in the capital of Azerbaijan, demand to abolish the practice of the ban on hijabs at schools, as it allegedly violates human rights.

June 21, 2011 15:00

• Astrakhan Region: 'injured child' checked drivers' response to road accident

  In the Astrakhan Region the GIBDD (road police) officers checked drivers' response by staging a road accident involving a child, and watched who of road users would stop seeing the bloodied boy and who would drive by.

June 21, 2011 14:30

• Judoist from Ingushetia wins gold at European Cup

  Zelimkhan Ozdoev from Ingushetia became the gold medallist in the European Cup competitions on judo, which took place in Slovenian city of Celei on June 19.

June 20, 2011 23:00

• Georgia: opposition demands Soso Dzhachvliani's early release

  The oppositional party "New Right-Wingers" demands early release of the stage director Soso Dzhachvliani, an activists of the "People's Assembly" of Georgia, who was detained on May 26 during dispersal of the protest rally in central Tbilisi.

June 20, 2011 22:00

• Afghanistan: eighth soldier from Georgia lost

  During a mission of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Khelmand province of Afghanistan soldier Gia Goguadze perished, reported the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia on June 20. He was already the eighth Georgian soldier lost in Afghanistan.

June 20, 2011 21:00

• Moscow: Yegor Sviridov's murder case in court

  The Moscow Prosecutor's Office confirmed the indictment in criminal case against Aslan Cherkesov, a 27-year-old native of the city of Nalchik, accused of killing Yegor Sviridov, a fan of Football Club (FC) "Spartak", and sent the materials to the Moscow City Court for consideration.

June 20, 2011 20:00

• "Forum of People's Unity of Abkhazia" nominates presidential candidate

  In Abkhazia, the oppositional Republican Party "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia", headed by Raul Khadjimba declared an intention to nominate its presidential candidate. Nomination will take place at the next congress of the organization.

June 20, 2011 19:00

• Chechnya: policeman accidentally kills man at wedding

  On June 19 in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny District of Chechnya, a policeman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) accidentally shot and killed a local resident, 21-year-old man.

June 20, 2011 18:00

• Car voyage "Sochi-Torino-Sochi" plans to learn European experience of waste management

  Six Sochi residents in three cars started today an automobile trip from Sochi around the European Olympic capitals. During the trip they intend not only to talk about preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also to get acquainted with the European experience of waste management.

June 20, 2011 17:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: bodies of WW II soldiers found

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, on Mount Elbrus, bodies of three soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) were found. Konstantin Shershov, an alpine skiing instructor, discovered the remains of the perished soldiers.

June 20, 2011 16:30

• HRC "Memorial": investigation into lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova's beating in Dagestan gave no results

  A year ago, on June 17, 2010, Sapiyat Magomedova, a lawyer of the Bar "Omarov A. S. and Partners" was beaten by militiamen at the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division) in Dagestan. As at June 17, 2011, in the case on Magomedova's beating there were no detainees and convicted, a preliminary investigation has not been finished yet.

June 20, 2011 16:00

• South Ossetia accuses EU mission of intelligence activities

  In the course of the trilateral meeting (Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia) within the Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents (MPRI), which was held on June 17 in the Georgian near-border village of Dhwani, the South Ossetian side focused attention on the "violations of the state border in Znaur District" and measures to prevent them.

June 20, 2011 15:00

• Defendants in Nalchik attack case to remain in custody for three months more

  Today the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has extended for another three months the detention of 56 defendants in the case on the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005. Kazbek Budtuev and Zalim Ulimbashev faced an extension of pre-trial restriction: recognizance not to leave.

June 20, 2011 14:00

• Vanuatu's new Prime Minister overturns previous government's recognition of Abkhazia

  Edward Natapei, the new Prime Minister of Vanuatu, stated that he overturns the government's decision to recognize independence of Abkhazia. Mr Natapei also requested Donald Kalpokas, the representative of Vanuatu at the United Nations, to start the process of establishing official relations with Georgia.

June 20, 2011 13:00

• South Ossetia: KGB confirms detention of ten Georgian citizens

  Georgian citizens were detained in South Ossetia for violation of the state border. Now the investigative activities are carried out, told the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 20, 2011 12:00

• Dagestan: two children injured during special operation

  On June 19 in the evening in Makhachkala a teenager and a child received tangential wounds in a shootout, while Shamil Paizullaev, who led the "Izberbash" grouping of militants, was killed, informed a source from the MIA of Dagestan.

June 18, 2011 23:00

• Russian State Duma approves protocol on extension of Russian military base in Armenia

  On June 17, the Russian State Duma ratified the protocol on extension of the 1995 bilateral agreement on the Russian military base deployed in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

June 18, 2011 22:00

• Batumi: from July on tourists will use public bicycles

  Starting July 1, the tourists visiting the capital of Adzharia will be able to use public bicycles. 150 of them have been already brought from France for this purpose.