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April 22, 2011 23:20

• Orlov: stability in Northern Caucasus is impossible without observance of human rights

  Respect for human rights and the rule of law in Northern Caucasus are prerequisites for ensuring peace and stability in the region, said Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", at a press conference on human rights in Chechnya.

April 22, 2011 23:10

• Chechnya gets ready to celebrate Orthodox Easter

  For celebrations of the Orthodox Easter, Chechnya expects arrival of plenty of its former residents. A special working group has been set up to cope with all the activities associated with this holiday.

April 22, 2011 23:10

• Presentation of a book about Chechen woman convicted on terrorism charges to take place in Moscow

  On April 27, the Moscow Cultural Centre "Pokrovskie Vorota" will host a book presentation, written by Zoya Svetova, a Russian human rights activist, a publicist and journalist, about the trials of the scientist Igor Sutyagin, convicted as a spy, and of the Chechen woman Zara Murtazalieva, convicted for terrorism.

April 22, 2011 23:00

• In Krasnodar, Prosecutor's Office accuses Mayoralty officials of fraud

  As reported by the press office of the Territorial Prosecutor's Office, several officials of the Krasnodar Mayoralty have repeatedly violated the law, while forming the budget, distributing and using the budgetary funds, placing orders on the purchase of goods, works and services for municipal needs, and in managing and disposing municipal property, including land resources.

April 22, 2011 23:00

• In Stavropol Territory, chief physician of hospital where child was raped is accused of negligence

  As reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the chief physician of the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, where a 9-year-old girl was raped, is accused of a failure to ensure the proper guarding of his hospital, which allowed the criminal to get into it.

April 22, 2011 22:50

• Armenia decides to re-investigate disorders of March 1, 2008

  The Special Investigatory Service (SIS) in charge of investigating the dispersal of the mass opposition rallies on March 1, 2008, has issued a statement urging people to help in investigating the events of those days. The service decided to revise the investigation of the "March 1" case.

April 22, 2011 22:30

• Dagestan: three Kidero villagers disappear after detention, rights defenders report

  In the village of Kidero, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, law enforcers conducted searches in the houses of Magomed Abdulkhalikov, Shakhban Magomedov and Magomed Magomedov and took the young men away to some unknown place. Currently, their whereabouts are unknown. On April 20, 2011, Mukhtar Kamaludinovich Zhabuev, a resident of the village, submitted a respective application to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

April 22, 2011 22:30

• Apsheronsk: all hospitalized children discharged, kindergarten head sacked

  Doctors have discharged all the pupils of kindergarten No. 7 of the city of Apsheronsk, Krasnodar Territory who were hospitalized with a suspected infectious disease, said an employee of the press service of the district administration. The kindergarten remains closed; its head was fired; and district doctors are visiting the homes and examine all the pre-school children who visited the kindergarten.

April 22, 2011 21:00

• Fifteen people injured as a result of a road accident in Chechnya

  Fifteen people got injured as a result of a collision of three cars. It has been the biggest road accident in the republic during the past several months.

April 22, 2011 20:00

• NAC: one of the gunmen killed in Chechnya was an emissary of "al-Qaeda" in Northern Caucasus

  National Anti-Terrorist Committee reports that one of the people killed during a special operation in Chechnya was an Arab hireling, chief emissary of "al-Qaeda" under the alias "Moganned". The other killed person was identified as resident of Grozny by name of Sultygov.

April 22, 2011 19:00

• Mayor's office of Yerevan authorized a procession and meeting of the opposition

  Mayor's office of Yerevan has allowed Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the National party, to hold a meeting and a procession. The meeting will start on May, 5, at 16:00, in an area neighbuoring to Matenadaran.

April 22, 2011 18:00

• The first North-Caucasian biannual exhibition will start working in Dagestan

  The exhibition project of modern art "North-Caucasian biannual" will be first opened in the town of Kaspiisk, Dagestan, today.

April 21, 2011 23:20

• Stavropol Territory: journalist beaten when filming rape report

  Yuri Ugryumov, a correspondent of the federal NTV Channel was beaten on April 20 in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, in the course of filming a report about a rape of a nine-year-old girl. The child was abducted by unidentified persons from the ENT ward of the district hospital of Budyonnovsk and raped.

April 21, 2011 23:00

• Moscow commemorates victims of Armenian genocide

  On April 20, the Big Hall of the Central House of Writers hosted a party in memory of victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. The event dedicated to the 96th anniversary of the tragic events in Turkey was held by the organization "Russian-Armenian Commonwealth" in cooperation with the Embassy of Armenia in Russia.

April 21, 2011 22:50

• Journalist detained in Rostov on suspicion of blackmail

  Margarita Efremova, a journalist of the newspaper "Yuzhny Federalny" (Southern Federal), was detained in one of Rostov cafes. She is suspected of extorting money from the administration head of the head of the ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Morozov District.

April 21, 2011 22:30

• Defendant faints at trial on Nalchik attack case

  Today, at the court session on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, one of the defendants, Azamat Akhkubekov, asked the court to ensure his safety in connection with his announced hunger strike, while the defendant Khabas Emkuzhev lost consciousness.

April 21, 2011 22:20

• Video from scene of crime presented at Stanislav Markelov's murder trial

  On April 20, the court, which considers the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, satisfied the petition of the state prosecution to show to the jury the video record of interrogation of the accused Nikita Tikhonov at the scene of the crime, filmed in November 2009 in Prechistenka Street.

April 21, 2011 22:10

• Chechnya abounds in recruits, local military commissariats report

  Officials from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) refute the data that residents of the Caucasus will not be drafted into the army. It also reported that the Chechen Republic has much more potential recruits to the army and military schools than required by the delivered quota.

April 21, 2011 22:00

• Lithuania: Egle Kusaite, accused of terrorism, arrested in the courtroom

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the Lithuanian journalist Thomas Chivas, who is monitoring the trial, that at the Regional Court of Vilnius, Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania, accused of preparing a terror act in Russia, was arrested.

April 21, 2011 21:00

• In Armenia, CER commission decides to release oppositionist

  The independent commission on conditional early relief (CER) has decided to satisfy the petition lodged by the advocate of the opposition activist Aram Baregamyan. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian National Congress (ANC).