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May 10, 2011 23:10

• Lithuanian Court of Appeal releases Egle Kusaite, accused of preparing terror act in Russia

  Today, Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania, accused of preparing a terror act in Russia, was released from custody by the decision of the Court of Appeal of Lithuania, which found her arrest ungrounded. The decision is final and cannot be challenged; it says that Kusaite cannot be kept in custody, since the pre-trial investigation is over; and the case has been forwarded to the court.

May 10, 2011 23:00

• Searches of suspected terrorists in Astrakhan reveal FSB chevrons

  As reported by a law enforcement source of the Astrakhan Region, the suspects detained by special agents of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) and MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) at night on May 7 in Astrakhan had planned terror acts under the guise of security forces, which is evidenced by the things found on them. Meanwhile, so far, there are no officially confirmed evidences that the detainees had intended to commit terror acts in Astrakhan.

May 10, 2011 22:50

• In Azerbaijan, prosecutor asks two years in prison for Bakhtiyar Gadjiev

  Today, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha, which is trying the youth activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evasion from military service, listened to the speech of the state prosecutor. The prosecutor Alexei Abbasov asked the court to sentence Gadjiev to the maximum term envisioned by this article of the Criminal Code - imprisonment for 2 years.

May 10, 2011 22:40

• Dagestan: suicide bomber who blew himself up in central Makhachkala identified

  The Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Abdurashid Magomedov has reported today to Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who arrived in Dagestan today, that the suicide bomber who blew himself up in the centre of Makhachkala had been identified. Among his potential targets experts name the building of the Lenin ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, or the medical unit of the MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) employees.

May 10, 2011 22:30

• Armenian rights defenders support Thomas Hammarberg's report

  The report of Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights Council of Europe, published on May 9, is truly reflecting the situation in Armenia, and the rigorous assessments made therein could have been expected, say the Armenian rights defenders.

May 10, 2011 22:20

• Advocate of head of Chechnya moves new motions in case of head of the HRC "Memorial"

  Today, at a regular session of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow on the slander case initiated against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, Andrei Krasnenkov, legal representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has moved a number of new petitions.

May 10, 2011 22:10

• Kabardino-Balkaria: all supposed militants, liquidated in special operation, identified

  According to preliminary data, Nadezhda Petruchenya and Anatoly Ozrokov have been identified among the suspected militants, killed today in a special operation in Nalchik.

May 10, 2011 22:10

• Azerbaijan: five believers arrested for holding protests

  Protesters against the ban on hijabs in schools, held May 6 in Baku, have been sentenced to administrative arrests.

May 10, 2011 22:00

• Regions of SFD and NCFD, and countries of Southern Caucasus, celebrate Victory Day

  In the regions of Southern Russia and Transcaucasian countries the Victory Day was celebrated in various formats.

May 10, 2011 18:00

• 28 people were killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during a week

  During the week from April, 25, till May, 1, no less than 28 people were killed and minimum 18 wounded in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.

May 09, 2011 23:40

• OMON company deputy commander killed in Dagestan

  On May 8, in the village of Shamkhal, Kirov District of Makhachkala, an unidentified person made several pistol shots at Asvad Abdullaev, deputy commander of OMON (riot police) company No. 1 for the Republic of Dagestan (RD), who was at that moment in the yard of his house. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the RD.

May 09, 2011 23:30

• Huge batch of counterfeit alcohol confiscated in north of Chechnya

  In the plain Shelkovskoy District of the Chechen Republic the police detained a truck carrying more than a thousand bottles of alcohol. A source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya asserts that this is the largest of the recently detected batches of alcoholic beverages.

May 09, 2011 23:20

• Gagoshidze: Georgia may recognize "Circassian Genocide" before May 21

  The Georgian parliament may recognize the so-called "Genocide of the Circassian Nation" before May 21, since the Circassian issue has rather powerful lobby in Georgia, said Yulon Gagoshidze, Minister on the Matters of Georgian Diaspora.

May 09, 2011 23:10

• Author of the book about native of Chechnya convicted for terrorism dedicated it to Anna Politkovskaya

  The presentation of the book by Zoya Svetova "Innocent Is Found Guilty" about the scientist Igor Sutyagin, accused of espionage, and the Chechen girl Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism, was attended by about a hundred persons; half of them were journalists of Russian and foreign mass media. As it turned out later, some visitors could not get into the hall and waited outside hoping to get an autograph from the author of the book. According to Zoya Svetova, she dedicated her book to Anna Politkovskaya.

May 09, 2011 22:30

• Festive ceremonies are going on in Nagorno-Karabakh since May, 7

  A triple holiday is celebrated in Nagorno-Karabakh on May, 9: the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the 19th anniversary of creation of the Defense Army of Karabakh and the day of liberation of the town of Shushi.

May 09, 2011 22:20

• Operative search officers started search of missing people in South Osetia

  A search group of Peace-support mission named after General Lebed started search of those missing since the period of the Georgian-Osetian conflict of 1989-2008.

May 09, 2011 22:10

• A fortune-teller's family fired upon in Dagestan, two persons wounded

  Unidentified people committed an attempt at a woman fortune-teller and her husband in Sergokala district of Dagestan, both of them were hospitalized with grave gunshot wounding.

May 09, 2011 22:00

• Investigation in Dagestan does not rule out that the journalist of an Islamic newspaper was killed by mistake

  According to a preliminary version, Yahya Magomedov, journalist of an Islamic newspaper "As-Salam", might be killed by mistake: he might have been confused with his relative, a police officer, Alkhas Amirhanov, Senior Assistant Chief of Investigative Department of the Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan, reported.

May 09, 2011 21:00

• Militants who perished last week in Chechnya committed suicide rather than were liquidated in assault, eyewitnesses assert

  The two members of the armed underground, whose liquidation was reported on April 25 by the republic's authorities and power agents, blew themselves up after they ran out of ammunition, but not killed in the course of the special operation, said the head of one of the republic's public organizations (NGOs).

May 09, 2011 20:00

• Dagestan: rights defender who opposed environment pollution fined by "Rospotrebnadzor"

  The Inter-District Division of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) for Dagestan fined Murtazali Tagirov, head of public organization "Fighter for Justice" by 4500 roubles.