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June 25, 2010 18:00

• President of Dagestan takes Sapiyat Magomedova's case under personal control

  Ombudsperson in Dagestan Ummupazil Omarova went to hospital to visit lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by employees of Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Department). According to Ms Omarova, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has ordered to bring those guilty persons to responsibility.

June 24, 2010 23:50

• In Rostov-on-Don, organizations "Young Europe" and "Rainbow Syndrome" complain of provocation

  The Rostov-based branch of the organization "Young Europe" and association "Rainbow Syndrome" deny their participation in appearance of the letter disseminated in Rostov-on-Don allegedly on behalf of the local LGBT-community (LGBT - lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites). Activists of these organizations assert their names and phone numbers were used by someone for forgery.

June 24, 2010 23:30

• Convict for attempt on Isa Yamadaev challenges his verdict

  The verdict of the Moscow Regional Court to Khavazhi Yusupov, a native of Chechnya, which sentenced him to 8.5 years of imprisonment for his attempt on businessman Isa Yamadaev - a brother of earlier assassinated ex-deputy of the Russian State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion "East" Sulim Yamadaev, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court of Russia.

June 24, 2010 23:20

• Georgian priest asks political shelter in South Ossetia

  On June 23, a churchman from Georgia addressed the authorities of South Ossetia with a request of political shelter.

June 24, 2010 23:10

• Advocate of defendants in Nalchik attack case complains of impossibility to defend them

  The today's session at the trial on the attack on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, started with an incident: lawyer Zalim Dzagashtov refused to present his bag for inspection at the entrance to the courtroom, left it at the securities, entered the room without documents and made a declaration about his impossibility to defend his clients.

June 24, 2010 23:00

• Armenia refutes information about could-be war in Karabakh

  Tigran Balayan, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has refuted the information disseminated by the Forum of the Armenian Societies of Europe (FASE), about an agreement reached between the USA and Russia about launching of a short-term war in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the aim to deploy Russian peacemakers in Kelbadzhar and American ones in Fizuli.

June 24, 2010 21:00

• Georgia accuses Abkhazia's MIA of murdering a Gali resident

  Vadim Gvindzhiya, head of the Gali ROVD (District Interior Division), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the charges of the Georgian party concerning the attack on the Andzhaparidze family in the village of Rep, Gali District of Abkhazia, are not legitimate.

June 24, 2010 20:00

• In Georgia, oppositionists accuse authorities of teachers' political discrimination

  Zurab Nogaideli, ex-prime minister of Georgia, now the leader of the oppositional political party "For Fair Georgia", accused today at a press conference the country leaders of mass "politically-motivated" lay-offs of teachers.

June 24, 2010 19:00

• Violations revealed in Don mines will not change situation for the better, trade-union leaders believe

  According to Alexander Lozychenko, deputy chair of the Gukov Territorial Committee of the Russian Independent Coal Industry Workers' Trade Union ("Rosugleprof"), most likely, the prosecutor's checks conducted in the mines in the Rostov Region will not result in any improvement of the situation. According to his story, the revealed violations are usual for the regional coal industry.

June 24, 2010 18:00

• Babushkin: torture problem is especially topical for prisoners from Northern Caucasus

  Andrei Babushkin, head of the Committee for Civil Rights and a member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said in the course of the roundtable on the medical aspect of torture applied in prisons and isolation facilities that his Committee receives many applications from North-Caucasian inmates complaining that their rights as prisoners are restrained, including on the basis of their religious affiliation.

June 23, 2010 23:50

• Makhov: many businessmen in KBR finance terrorists

  The criminality in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is under effect of the nationalist-extremist underground groupings, which use different methods but have one aim - destabilization of situation. This was stated today by Arthur Makhov, deputy public prosecutor of the republic at the sitting of the Public Chamber of the KBR.

June 23, 2010 23:30

• Dmitri Medvedev approves list of orders on Chechnya

  As reported today by the press service of the Kremlin, based on the outcomes of the meeting with Chechen leadership on June 14, 2010, President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has approved the list of his instructions (orders).

June 23, 2010 23:10

• Moskalenko: it is unsafe for Caucasians to address the ECtHR

  Lately, more than twenty applicants from Chechnya, whose cases were supported by the International Advocacy Support Centre, received compensations under decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported on June 22 by the head of the Centre Karina Moskalenko. In her opinion, justice in Russia faces huge obstacles.

June 23, 2010 23:10

• Dagestan militiamen say that beaten lawyer Magomedova was first to attack them

  The case of Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten in Khasavyurt, is considered by the investigatory division on especially important cases of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, which refuses to give any comments on the course of inquiry. According to the head of the Khasavyurt OVD (Interior Division) Shamil Temigereev, lawyer Magomedova attacked militiamen herself.

June 23, 2010 23:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, court cancels ban on rallies in Nalchik

  On June 22, the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) found illegal the decision of the antiterrorist commission at the administration of the capital of the republic of December 24, 2009, to introduce a temporary ban on rallies, pickets and other mass political actions in the territory of the city of Nalchik.

June 23, 2010 22:00

• MCC: suspects of murdering Ruslan Yamadaev refuse to plead guilty

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) held a closed preliminary hearing on the case on murdering in September 2009 of the ex-deputy of the State Duma, Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev.

June 23, 2010 21:00

• Militant can be named to be Estemirova's killer, a source reports

  A well-informed source in Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" that soon the recruiter of militants Alkhazur Bashaev, who was liquidated in November 2009, may be announced by the investigation to be the murderer of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", while the motive of her murder could possibly be found in the report of human rights activists, where Bashaev was mentioned. The employees of the HRC "Memorial" are afraid that this version may conceal real customers of the murder from responsibility.

June 23, 2010 20:00

• Picket against human rights violations in Chechnya is on in Strasbourg

  In front of the building of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, a protest action is held by members of the Chechen Diaspora in France against illegal actions of power agents in Chechnya.

June 23, 2010 19:00

• In Armenia, four policemen are accused of Vaan Khalafyan's death

  The case initiated on the death of Vaan Khalafyan, 24, has been transferred to the general jurisdiction court of the Kotaik Region. Four employees of the police saw their charges.

June 23, 2010 18:00

• Svetlana Zemskova: Kadyrov's claim to Orlov aims at restriction of freedom of speech

  The claims like the one filed by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov are not aimed at protecting one's good name, but attempt to restrict dissemination of information, as Svetlana Zemskova, a lawyer of the Fund in Defence of Glasnost, asserts.