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June 08, 2011 23:40

• Investigators believe Rector Sadikov's fight against extremism in Islam was main reason of his murder

  The investigatory bodies have announced their main version of the murder of Maksud Sadikov, the Rector of the Makhachkala Institute of Theology, who was shot dead on June 7. It was, according to the investigators, in his professional and social activities, where he actively opposed radical Islamic groupings.

June 08, 2011 23:30

• Office of HRCCR Republic closed

  At present, the office of the Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic (HRCCR) in Grozny is not functioning; and its head Minkail Ezhiev is looking for a new premise for his organization. This was reported by Kheda Saratova, head of the "Objective" Information-Analytical Centre.

June 08, 2011 23:20

• Chechnya: power agents refuse to give Shamil Omarov's body to parents, relatives assert

  The OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Gudermes (Chechen Republic) refuses to give out the body of Shamil Omarov, a resident of Dagestan, without a certificate about the composition of his family and a document from the Investigatory Committee that he was not a militant, his father told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 08, 2011 22:40

• Second figurant in "Domodedovo" terror act arrested today by Moscow court

  The Basmanny Court of Moscow has ruled in absentia to arrest Rustam Altemirov, another suspect of committing the terrorist act in the "Domodedovo" Airport.

June 08, 2011 22:10

• Rights violations of defenders in Nalchik attack case stated at press conference of Public Chamber's Working Group

  Today, the press centre of the RIA "Novosti" in Moscow hosted a press conference of the Working Group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the Caucasus on the topic: "From Nalchik to Vladikavkaz: Brink Between Justice and Reality". Maxim Shevchenko, the head of the Working Group, treated the trial on the case of the attack on power agencies of Nalchik in 2005 as "unprecedented"; while the journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova spoke about human rights violations at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the figurants in this case are kept.

June 08, 2011 19:00

• Missing participants of the oppositional meeting in Georgia found in investigative isolation wards

  Participants of the "People's Assembly's" meeting of protest who had been considered missing after dispersal of the action on May, 26, were found in investigative isolation wards of Tbilisi, People's Defender of Georgia Georgi Tugushi declared.

June 08, 2011 18:00

• Maksud Sadykov became the twelfth religious figure killed in Northern Caucasus during these two years

  Maksud Sadykov, a public and religious figure well known in Dagestan, Chancellor of the Institute of Theology, was killed at the moment of firing at a car in Makhachkala. His nephew Zelimkhan Musaev perished together with him, Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan reported.

June 07, 2011 23:30

• During the week of May 23-29, 17 persons were lost in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of May 23-29, the glowing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 17 human lives; at least two more persons were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

June 07, 2011 23:20

• Defendants in Ruslan Yamadaev's murder case tell about threats at trial

  During the trial on the murder of Ruslan Yamadaev the defendants were exposed to pressure and received direct threats. This was stated by Aslanbek Dadaev, Elimpashi Khatsuev and Zaur Samkhanov, the latter's advocate, at the session, where their cassation appeals were considered.

June 07, 2011 23:10

• Chechen native lost at detention in Nice

  A native of Chechnya perished in Nice, while trying to escape from the police during an anti-terrorist operation, a source from the French police reports.

June 07, 2011 23:00

• Three persons killed in gunfire in Dagestan

  According to preliminary information, three persons were killed in Makhachkala, when a car was shelled by unidentified assailants. Among the casualties were the rector of one of Islamic Universities and his son, the press service of the Dagestani MIA reports.

June 07, 2011 22:20

• Body of kidnapped resident of Dagestan found in Chechnya

  Shamil Omarov, a villager of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped by unidentified persons on May 28, was found dead in the city of Gudermes in the Chechen Republic.

June 07, 2011 22:10

• ECtHR fines Russia by 244,500 euros for disappearance of three Chechen residents

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has obliged Russia to pay a fine of 244,500 euros on three complaints lodged by Chechen residents.

June 07, 2011 22:00

• Dagestanis who studied in Syria return home because of riots

  Many residents of Dagestan, who studied Islam in Syria, were forced to return to Russia. According to some of them, they were not oppressed by local power agents.

June 07, 2011 20:00

• A picket in protection of animals and Ecologic Center passed off in the capital of Adygeia

  On June, 6, about 50 people held a picket in front of the Government of Adygeia in protection of animals demanding to build a garbage- processing plant and protesting against reorganization of the republican Ecologo-biological Center.

June 07, 2011 19:00

• The man who was declared killed during a special operation in Dagestan had been tortured before death, the victim's relative reports

  Jamaluddin Sharapuddinov who was declared killed during a special operation on May, 26, in the settlement of Chontaul, Dagestan, by National Anti-Terrorist Committee had been tortured to death, the victim's brother-in-law Abdula Ibragimov, resident of the settlement of Komsomolskoye, Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.

June 07, 2011 18:00

• Member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center Bakhrom Khamroev beaten up in Moscow

  On Monday, June, 6, an assault at member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center Bakhrom Khamroev was committed in Moscow. Khamroev was taken to hospital.

June 06, 2011 23:55

• Tbilisi presents film "Five Days in August" on Georgia's war with Russia

  The capital of Georgia has hosted a debut of the film by the American film director Renny Harlin "Five Days in August" about the war in South Ossetia in August 2008.

June 06, 2011 23:50

• International jury holds contest of literary works about war in Chechnya

  A number of public figures around the world have united to hold a literary contest on the topic of the Chechen War, where the contesters are not only residents of Chechnya and other Russian regions, but also foreigners. Out of the presented works, four have been selected for the final.

June 06, 2011 23:40

• Dzagurov: only one out of 18 detained Muslims released in North Ossetia

  Out of 18 Muslims, detained after assassination of the poet Shamil Dzhigkaev, not four but only one - Aslan Biragov - was detained, said Ibragim Dzagurov, Assistant Mufti of North Ossetia.