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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).

April 21, 2011 20:00

• Head of Kabardino-Balkaria visits SIZO

  Yesterday in the evening, on April 20, Arsen Kanokov, head of Kabardino-Balkaria, visited the temporary detention facility (also known as SIZO - pre-trial prison) of the Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Federal Punishment Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation. The reason for the visit was in complaints of the figurants in the Nalchik attack case against toughening of their custody conditions, which was reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 21, 2011 19:00

• Actions in support of journalist Fatullaev passed off in Baku, Paris and London

  On April, 20, the fourth anniversary of imprisonment of Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, his colleagues and representatives of international journalists' organizations held actions of protest in Baku, Paris and London.

April 21, 2011 18:00

• Three people killed in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus during the week from April, 4, to April, 10

  During the week from April, 4, to April, 10, no less than three people were killed and minimum seven wounded in the smouldering armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of the calculation by "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 20, 2011 23:50

• In Azerbaijan, Gadjiev's advocates challenge the court

  The Nizami District court of the city of Gandzha, chaired by Judge Emin Akhundov, began hearings of the case of activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evading military service. The activist rejects the accusation; his supporters also believe that he is accused for political reasons, for his active civil position and his actions in social networks.

April 20, 2011 23:40

• Conference in Italy states necessity to develop contacts with Northern Caucasus

  As stated by Massimo Bonfatti, head of the public volunteer association "World in Motion", at the conference held in Italy, it is necessary to convey to journalists and public figures from different countries the present realities of Northern Caucasus, to tell the truth about the wars in Chechnya; we need readiness of people from different parties to stop military confrontation; and it is also necessary to disclose the default information about the Beslan tragedy.

April 20, 2011 23:20

• Chechnya: authorities demolish cemetery in Argun

  Residents of the city of Argun report that within the large-scale reconstruction and building of new objects the authorities intend to demolish part of the city cemetery. This causes hidden discontent among the people, although there were no open protest actions on this occasion in the city.

April 20, 2011 23:10

• NAC: Amanov liquidated in Makhachkala headed local militants and was Said Buryatskiy's associate

  Sabitbai (Sabitbi) Amanov, assassinated in Makhachkala, was an associate of Said Buryatskiy, militants' ideologist, who had been murdered earlier in Ingushetia; Amanov actually headed the Makhachkala subversive and terrorist grouping. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC). The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the district.

April 20, 2011 23:00

• Caucasian residents and natives not to be recruited, said Chelyabinsk military commissar

  Nikolai Zakharov, Military Commissar of the Chelyabinsk Region, has stated that now the army will not draft residents and natives of the Caucasian republics who live in other regions of Russia; however, this information is not confirmed by the group of informational support of the Central Military District of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

April 20, 2011 22:40

• Moscow rights defenders demand from Russian president to stop kidnappings in Chechnya

  Human rights activists state systemic sabotage on the part of Chechen law enforcement bodies and inability of the Investigatory Committee to fulfil its immediate duties to investigate crimes in the republic, especially kidnappings. These are the topics of the ongoing press conference in Moscow.

April 20, 2011 22:20

• NAC: militants liquidated in the Caucasus wanted to launch news website and publish Wahhabi magazine

  The militants liquidated in a counterterrorist operation in Northern Caucasus had planned to make a film and publish a glossy magazine about terrorists' lifestyle. Also, layouts and maps, and various methodology-training literature on how to prepare terrorist acts were confiscated from them. This was reported by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

April 20, 2011 22:10

• One of attackers on Moscow tourists liquidated in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Azamat Sizhazhev, 26, one of those involved in the attack on Moscow tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed in the city of Baksan at rendering resistance. It was reported today by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

April 20, 2011 22:00

• Performers and accomplices of murders of Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov are abroad, ICRF reports

  As stated by Vassily Piskaryov, Deputy Head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), at his meeting with Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the performers of the murders of Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov and their accomplices are still hiding abroad; however, the ICRF is doing everything it can to catch the criminals.

April 20, 2011 21:00

• Ex-imam of a village mosque killed in Dagestan

  Last night unidentified people killed an ex-imam of a village mosque in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Alkhas Amirkhnov, Senior assistant of Head of republican Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation for media relations, reported.

April 20, 2011 20:00

• A commemoration meeting of Victor Popkov passed off in Moscow

  On Monday, April, 18, a meeting of commemoration of Victor Popkov, peacemaker, journalist and human rights activist, was held in the Museum and Public Center named after Andrey Sakharov.

April 20, 2011 19:00

• The dead body of the missing Ilez Gorchkhanov found in Ingushetia

  On April, 19, at 16:20, a young man's dead body was found not far from the stanitsa of Nesterovkaya, Sunzha district, at the border of Ingushetia with Chechnya, at the bed of the river of Assa. After the expertise he was identified as Ilez Gorchkhanov born in 1984 who according to his relatives was kidnapped on March, 21.