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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

April 26, 2010 20:00

  • Dispersal of non-sanctioned picket of the "Freedom" Block in front of the Icheri-Shekher metro station near Baku Mayor's Office, April 26, 2010. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" Baku police denies detention of oppositional picketers

    Razu Nurullayev, deputy chairman of the Party of the People's Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA), reports detention of about 80 persons during today's picket organized in Baku by oppositionists from the block "Freedom". He noted that the detainees were brought to the Sabail District police stations. However, according to Kyamil Velishev, deputy head of the police department of this district, there were no detainees.

April 26, 2010 19:00

  • Kidnapped resident of Ingushetia is at large

    On April 25, Khizar Bokov, a resident of Karabulak (Ingushetia), who was taken away from his house by power agents on April 21 to some unknown place, was let off home. Under unofficial data, all this time he was kept at Division 6 for counteracting extremism of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

April 24, 2010 21:00

  • Turkish flag. Photo by http://foto.turkey-info.ru Protest rally in Armenia burns down Turkish flag

    In Yerevan, in the evening on April 23, the "Dashnaktsutyun" Party held a rally that ended with a mourning torch march to the memorial to Armenians' genocide victims, which attracted several thousands of participants. They held posters "No to Armenian-Turkish Protocols!"

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  • Woman from Ingushetia: advocate is not admitted to her son

    Fatima Bokova, a resident of Karabulak, reports that under unofficial information her son Khizar in kept in Division 6 of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department), in charge of counteracting extremism. Earlier, the woman had informed human rights activist that on April 21 he was kidnapped by power agents from their house.

April 24, 2010 12:00

  • Yerevan does not expect tough Ankara's response to frozen ratification of Protocols

    The political elite of Turkey is still in search of answer to the decision of Armenia to stop the process of ratification of Armenian-Turkish Protocols. Hardly the Ankara's answer to this decision will be tough, believes Ruben Melkonyan, a well-known turcologist and deputy dean of the department of oriental studies of the Yerevan State University.

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April 23, 2010 23:30

  • Zuckerman: DDoS-attacks are easy in Internet, every website should get ready

    Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at the Berkman Centre "Internet and Society" of the Law Department at Harvard and founder of the non-commercial organization "Geekcorps" and hosting company "Tripod", notes that it is often very difficult, and at times even impossible to define, who has organizes a hacker's attack - the government, amateurs upon a govt's sanction, or certain hostile persons. Therefore, one should be properly ready in advance how to counteract them.

April 23, 2010 23:00

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  • Karachai-Circassia introduces "children's curfew"

    At their session on April 22, the MPs of Karachai-Circassia passed in the final reading the law "On Measures to Prevent Neglect of and Offences by Minors in the Karachai-Circassian Republic", which restricts minors' stay in public places.

April 23, 2010 21:00

  • WOAT anxious about life of hacker Saaev who threatened Kadyrov

    The International Secretariat of the World Organization Against Torture (WOAT) has addressed Russian leadership with a request to interfere with the situation with Albert Saaev, who was convicted in Moscow for hacking the official websites of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, and was taken away to Grozny.

April 23, 2010 20:00

  • Beslan victims dissatisfied with investigation progress

    In the opinion of Susanna Dudieva, head of the "Beslan Mothers" Association of Terror Act Victims, the investigation of the terror act in Beslan was deliberately "braked" and will be further protracted. Discontent with the course of investigation was also voiced by Ella Kesaeva, leader of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan". Alexander Khalin, head of the investigatory group, does not agree with them.

April 23, 2010 19:00

  • New human rights organization to start in Dagestan

    As reported today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Svetlana Isaeva, head of the NGO "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", Gyulnara Rustamova, one of the activists of the NGO, has left it aiming to create a new human rights entity.

April 23, 2010 19:00

  • Woman from Ingushetia states kidnapping of her son

    In Ingushetia, Ms Bokova, F. M., a resident of Karabulak accuses power agents of kidnapping on April 21 of her son Bokov, Khizar Batredinovich, born in 1986, right from their house. The woman has addressed human rights entities and organizations asking to help in searching her son.

April 23, 2010 18:00

  • Russia's MFA rejects Dalai Lama's visit to Kalmykian Buddhists

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia has again rejected the entry visa to Dalai Lama XIV, spiritual leader of Buddhists. This was reported by Shadzhin Lama (Supreme Lama) of Kalmykia Talo Tulku Rinpoche at his regular quarterly press conference for republic's mass media. Buddhists had earlier stated that they would perceive such refusal as violation of their rights.

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