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April 20, 2011 18:00

• Strasbourg Court obligated the Russian authorities to pay off a compensation to two women residents of Chechnya

  The court in Strasbourg imposed a compensation of 61 thousand euro on the authorities of Russia to pay off to the mother and wife of Khamzat Tushaev, resident of Chechnya who disappeared after being summoned for interrogation.

April 19, 2011 23:40

• Stavropol Territory: policeman blows himself up with grenade

  The death of a policeman, whose body was found today in an agricultural field in the Levokumsk District, Stavropol Territory, is being investigated.

April 19, 2011 23:10

• Film about kidnappings and torture in Chechnya screened at festival in Switzerland

  The documentary "Barzakh" by the Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravichyus picturing the facts of torture and abductions in Chechnya was presented at the festival of documentaries named Vision du Reel, held in the Swiss city of Nyon.

April 19, 2011 23:00

• In Georgia a building collapses and kills a child

  In the Marneuli district of Georgia, in the Kvemo Kartli region, a wall of an abandoned building collapsed, killed a child and injured another one.

April 19, 2011 22:50

• In Baku, April 17 protesters punished with arrests and fines

  On April 18, in Azerbaijan, 6 participants of the opposition protest rally on April 17 in Baku were sentenced to administrative arrest; 9 persons were fined, and 8 oppositionists were warned and released.

April 19, 2011 22:30

• Constitutional Court of Georgia finds some provisions of the law on assemblies contradictory to legislation

  Several provisions of the law "On Assemblies and Manifestations" were found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Georgia. The lawsuit was initiated by four parties, the NGO "Youth organization of Georgian lawyers", local Ombudsman and several citizens of Georgia.

April 19, 2011 22:20

• In Krasnodar, jurymen pass guilty verdict to "black" realtors

  The jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has found the figurants of the criminal case on misappropriation of the rights of apartment residents of Sochi, two of whom were killed, guilty.

April 19, 2011 22:10

• At Markelov-and-Baburova's murder trial judge passes warning to defence advocate

  The court session on the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova began with the announcement by the chairing judge Alexander Zamashnyuk his decision to warn the lawyer Alexei Nikulochkin, an advocate for the defendant Evgenia Khasis.

April 19, 2011 22:00

• Villager from Ikha, Dagestan, claims his son was beaten at boarding school

  Abdulmuslim Aliev, a deaf-mute resident of the village of Ikha, Kazbek District of Dagestan, has lodged an application to the police that his son, a 6th form pupil, was beaten by a teacher of the Bavtugai boarding school. The school principal Nutsalkhan Akhmedov denies any guilt of his subordinate.

April 19, 2011 21:00

• In Armenia, oppositionist Samson Khachatryan sentenced conditionally

  Today, on April 19, the court in Yerevan sentenced Samson Khachatryan, an activist of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), twice European champion and five times champion of the USSR in boxing, was sentenced on charges of violent acts against state officials to one year of conditional imprisonment.

April 19, 2011 20:00

• The Georgian opposition held an action "Museum of Exposure"

  On April, 18, activists of Representative People's Assembly held an action of protest within the framework of a project "Museum of Exposure" near "Rustaveli" metro station in the center of Tbilisi. Information "on the present-day reality in Georgia" and appropriation of state property by officials was presented on special stands.

April 19, 2011 19:00

• A cousin of the woman suicide bomber who exploded herself in the Moscow metro identified among the gunmen killed in Dagestan

  Magomed Adalaev, one of the gunmen killed on April, 18, during a special operation near the settlement of Tashkapur, Levashi district of Dagestan, turned out to be a cousin of Mariam Sharipova who exploded herself in "Lubianka" metro station of Moscow in March, 2010. A source in one of the power ministries reported that the special operation in Tashkapur had been planned based on the information received about a visit of Israpil Valijanov, one of the leaders of Dagestani underground, to the settlement.

April 19, 2011 18:00

• Drug testing will be organized at schools of Stavropol

  The authorities of Stavropol will allot about 250 thousand rubles on drug testing at schools of the city. Testing will be voluntary.

April 18, 2011 23:40

• Kadyrov to evidence by means of videoconference at his slander trial

  At today's court session on the criminal case on slander initiated against Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", Judge Karina Morozova from the judicial precinct No. 363 of the Moscow district of Khamovniki, has satisfied the petition lodged by Andrei Krasnenkov, representative of the suffered party, to conduct interrogation of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in the form of a videoconference on April 28.

April 18, 2011 23:30

• Another suspected militant identified in Dagestan

  As reported by the Information Centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), one of the suspected militants, liquidated today in the course of a special operation in Dagestan, was identified as Magomed Adalaev.

April 18, 2011 23:10

• The "Caucasian Knot" posts its readers' SMS-messages on its forum

  The Internet medium "Caucasian Knot" begins publishing SMS-messages received from its readers by means of its SMS-service, in a special section of its Forum.

April 18, 2011 23:00

• Unknown persons take documents away from Ingush MP Yusup Kostoev

  At about midday, at the exit from Magas, the service car of Yusup Kostoev, a Deputy of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia, was stopped. Three men armed with submachine guns, one of them in mask, without presenting themselves, asked Kostoev to show documents. Then they fled with the documents on his car.

April 18, 2011 22:50

• Native of Caucasus murdered by Moscow policeman had no knife, eyewitnesses assert

  In Moscow, an officer of one of special police units, after a traffic conflict, beat to death an elderly taxi driver, a native of Azerbaijan. Eyewitnesses of the incident state that the casualty had no knife, as had been earlier claimed by the policeman.

April 18, 2011 22:40

• Azerbaijani authorities expel three Swedish journalists

  The three Swedish journalists were detained in Baku on Sunday, April 17, when they watched the protest of the opposition. The Azerbaijani State Migration Service told them that they had violated the visa regime.

April 18, 2011 22:20

• Defendants in Nalchik attack case protest against removal of refrigerators and TV-sets from their cells

  Today, at the trial about the attack on Nalchik, undertaken on October 13, 2001, the defendant Azamat Akhkubekov announced a statement that a group of defendants was ready to go on hunger strike as of tomorrow in protest against removal by the SIZO administration of the refrigerators and TV-sets, which had been bought by inmates' relatives. The statement was signed by 24 defendants.