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October 22, 2010 18:00

• Margieva asks human rights activists to step in political prisoners' fates in South Osetia

  On October, 21, Fatima Margieva, human rights activist from South Osetia, appealed to Russian and international human rights organizations asking them to "help settlement of the situation around the National party of RSO and interfere with the fates of the political prisoners".

October 21, 2010 23:40

• Activation of Chechen underground may lead to new violence outbreak in the country, observers say

  The attack on the building of the Chechen Parliament in Grozny on October 19 and the militants' attack committed in the end of August this year on Tsentoroi - the family village of the Chechen President - indicate serious changes in tactics and strategy of the Chechen underground, some local experts believe. In their opinion, activation of the underground may lead to a new outbreak of violence in the country.

October 21, 2010 23:30

• Observation mission of OSCE/ODIHR gives first assessment of election campaign in Azerbaijan

  The forthcoming elections to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan are prepared in the environment characterized by lack of dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition, runs the primary report released today by the Observation Mission of the Office for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the status of the pre-election situation in Azerbaijan.

October 21, 2010 23:20

• Rights activists list Caucasians as group with highest risk of rights violations

  Moscow hosts a scientific-practical conference "European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR): Outcomes and Prospects". Among other issues, lawyers, human rights and NGO activists raised the issue of protecting natives of the Caucasus in Moscow and other Russian cities, where they get into the most vulnerable group of population.

October 21, 2010 23:10

• Resident of Yaroslavl claims rejection of his right to protection because of nationality

  Yuri Petrosyan, a resident of the city of Yaroslavl, asks Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to help in fair investigation of the incident, in which he and his son-in-law, a Chechen by nationality, received gunshot wounds.

October 21, 2010 23:00

• Four locals found in a mine in Kabardino-Balkaria in special operation

  In the city of Tyrnyauz, where a special operation to search militants is conducted, four local residents were found in one of the mines: they were gathering scrap metal there.

October 21, 2010 22:50

• Count of flood victims in Krasnodar Territory reaches 16

  As reported by the head of the investigatory division for the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, his employees found the body of 16th casualty of the flood.

October 21, 2010 22:50

• Two persons disappear in Ingushetia

  In the evening on October 20, on their way back home from the Republic of Dagestan, two residents of Ingushetia - Khutiev, Mohamed Aslanbekovich, and Khashagulgov, Aslan Yakhyaevich (a nephew of Issa Khashagulgov, earlier arrested on suspicion of committing the terror act in Vladikavkaz). According to relatives of the missing persons, Mohamed and Aslan are employees of the Ministry of Construction of Ingushetia.

October 21, 2010 22:40

• Twelve persons dancing lezginka in the street arrested in Stavropol

  Twelve men who danced lezginka in the streets and verbally abused passers-by, received ten days in jail for breaking public order, said Victoria Baigulova, head of the press service of the Stavropol administration.

October 21, 2010 22:40

• Three men disappear in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On October 18, three residents of Elborus, workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Ropeways of Elborus" Asker Tavkeshev, Mohamed Alchagirov and Anatoly Mammeev left their homes in Kabardino-Balkaria and disappeared.

October 21, 2010 22:30

• Defendants in Nalchik attack case ask to summon ex-Interior Minister

  Today, at the trial on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), defendant Azamat Akhkubekov filed a motion to summon Khachim Shogenov, former Minister of Internal Affairs, as a witness.

October 21, 2010 19:00

• Ex-chief of investigation unit of Department of Interior Affairs detained in Stavropol district for suspicion of bribetaking

  Roman Tolstikov, ex-chief of investigation unit of Department of Interior Affairs was detained in Stavropol for suspicion of an attempt of taking a bribe of one million rubles.

October 21, 2010 18:00

• Five people injured during the act of terror in Vladikavkaz are still in Moscow hospitals

  Five people injured during the act of terror in the capital of North Osetia on September, 9, are still staying in Moscow hospitals. This news came from the Permanent Mission of the republic under the President of the Russian Federation.

October 20, 2010 23:50

• Twelve suicide explosions in 10 months in Northern Caucasus

  From the start of 2010, the Northern Caucasus saw 10 attacks committed by 12 suicide bombers, in which 49 persons were lost, apart from the bombers, and 308 persons more suffered. Two more such terror acts, according to law enforcers, were prevented.

October 20, 2010 23:40

• Two persons killed in special operation in Dagestan

  In the course of a special operation conducted in the wooded area in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, two suspected militants were liquidated, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

October 20, 2010 23:30

• CTO regime introduced in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The city of Tyrnyauz of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

October 20, 2010 23:20

• South Ossetia: roundtable discusses the law on teenagers

  The roundtable held on October 19 considered the idea of the law on the rights and duties of adolescents. It is planned that an entire chapter in it will be on parents and inadmissibility of breaking children's rights.

October 20, 2010 23:20

• Former MP assassinated in Dagestan

  Businessman Marat Ramazanov, a former deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan, was murdered tonight in Makhachkala, said the press service of the local MIA.

October 20, 2010 23:10

• Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers" is over in Sochi

  The resort city of Sochi has closed the Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers", dedicated to life of people with disabilities. The jury marked a total of 13 films in different categories. Prizes were granted to filmmakers from Germany, USA, Sweden, Great Britain, France and Russia.

October 20, 2010 23:00

• Rights defenders tell CE Secretary about human rights violations in Armenia

  Human rights activists from Armenia sent a letter to Torbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), whose visit to Armenia will take place in the coming days. In the letter members of several public organizations draw Mr Jagland's attention to systematic human rights violations in their country.