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April 16, 2009 21:10

• Chechnya celebrates CTO cancellation with rally and concert

  The capital of Chechnya is hosting a rally and a concert dedicated to Moscow's decision to lift the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Republic's territory that had existed there for nine years.

April 16, 2009 20:30

• Panuashvili: attacks on oppositionists in Georgia become a trend

  These days in Tbilisi, attacks on activists of the opposition have become more frequent, as Soso Panuashvili, expert of the Tbilisi branch of the organization named "Human Rights", who is holding everyday monitoring of civil disobedience actions of the opposition, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2009 20:00

• Resident of Dagestan states that he was kidnapped and beaten by strangers

  Ali Aliev, born in 1984, a resident of Leninkent village in a suburb of Makhachkala, asserts that he was kidnapped and beaten by law enforcers. The incident happened in the daytime a week ago in the presence of plenty of witnesses, as he himself said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2009 19:00

• In Ingushetia, unidentified person kills a local woman

  In the evening on April 15 in Nazran (Ingushetia), under unclear circumstances a young woman was murdered, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Investigatory Division (ID) of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia.

April 16, 2009 18:00

• European Court starts considering Georgia-versus-Russia claim

  Today, the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has held its first session on the claim lodged by Georgia and charging Russia with regular violation of the rights of Georgian migrants, when they were deported from Russia in 2006-2007.

April 15, 2009 23:40

• Singer-oppositionist beaten in Georgia

  On April 14, in the capital of Georgia, popular local singer Zurab Mandzhavidze, who took part in the actions of the opposition, was beaten.

April 15, 2009 23:30

• In Armenia, court sanctions arrest of former policeman Tadevosyan

  The court of general jurisdiction of the capital community Kentron-Nork-Marash, under presidency of Judge Gagik Khandanyan, has satisfied the police's petition to arrest former policeman Ashot Tadevosyan, detained on April 10 in the Northern Avenue. He is accused under Articles 136 and 316.1 of the Criminal Codes: "Insult of a policeman" and "Rendering resistance to power representative".

April 15, 2009 23:10

• Application on violated rights of Smbat Aivazyan, activist of Armenian opposition, sent to Strasbourg

  On April 14, Lusine Saakyan, advocate of oppositional activist Smbat Aivazyan, who was convicted under Article 316 of the Criminal Code of Armenia ("Resistance to power representative"), filed her application to the European Court on Human Rights on violation of the client's rights.

April 15, 2009 23:00

• Prosecution in the case on attack on Nalchik: militants planned to create Islamic state

  Now, at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the state prosecutor is announcing the indictment as presented to the defendants. The basic leitmotif of the document - the defendants tried to dethrone the Russia's existing state order and create an Islamic state.

April 15, 2009 22:10

• Abkhazian MFA indignant with Vollebekk's accusations of oppressing national minorities

  The statement of Knuth Vollebekk, Supreme Commissioner of the OSCE on national minorities (dated April 14, 2009), in which he accused Abkhazia of forced passportization, recruiting to army and restriction of teaching in the Georgian language, was groundless and engaged, as spoken in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia.

April 15, 2009 22:00

• Dagestan court finds non-admission of advocate to detainee in the special operation illegal

  On April 14, Federal Judge of the Kirov District of the city of Makhachkala Yaguzar Magomedov found illegitimate the actions of the employees of the IVS (temporary custody facility) at the ROVD of Makhachkala who did not admit advocate Abakar Aliev to his client Ahmed Aliev, detained in the course of a special operation, referring to the order of Rasul Gazimagomedov, head of the GUVD, about special regime.

April 15, 2009 20:00

• Medvedev: Russian laws on NCOs need amendment

  The legislation on the activities of non-commercial non-governmental organizations (NCOs and NGOs) needs to be permanently amended and improved, as stated today by President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev at the sitting of the Board under Russian President for promoting development of civil society institutes and human rights.

April 15, 2009 19:00

• In Armenia, journalist of "А1+" asserts that he was not beaten by policemen but occasionally fell down

  David Dzhalalyan, a correspondent of the Internet edition named "А1+", who suffered in clashes with policemen in the Northern Avenue of Yerevan, has refused from his earlier statement that he was beaten by policemen. According to Mr Dzhalalyan's application kept at the Kentron police station, he was not beaten by policemen, but occasionally fell down on his back and received bruises.

April 15, 2009 18:00

• In Baku, woman-hunger-striker is hospitalized

  Today, at 2:50 p.m. an ambulance brought Sayara Geidarova, earlier accused of beating four males at a time on April 1, 2005, and now announcing another hunger strike, to Baku-based Efendiev Hospital No. 2. Geidarova's condition is estimated as grave.

April 14, 2009 23:40

• Nemtsov: Sochi Olympiad is a catastrophic threat for the city

  The Olympiad in Sochi can bring a catastrophe to this city; it should be either decentralized or rejected - this is the conclusion of the report published yesterday, on April 13, by Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, and economist Vladimir Milov.

April 14, 2009 23:00

• Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya: contract soldier killed his colleagues for nationalist enmity

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source in the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya that one of the reasons of incident, during which on April 12 a soldier of the Federal Forces deployed in Chechnya shot dead three of his comrades could be nationality-based aversions among militaries.

April 14, 2009 22:40

• In Armenia, advocate of detained oppositionist accuses police of violence

  On April 13, in Armenia, Givi Ovannisyan, advocate of Ashot Tadevosyan, a former law enforcer, who was detained for "insulting a policeman" and "resisting a power representative", told journalists that violence was used to his client. Now Tadevosyan, according to his advocate, needs a medical examination.

April 14, 2009 22:00

• Armed deserter detained in Chechnya

  A contract soldier Irkit Res-Tarochin, who deserted from a subdivision of the Internal Troops of Russia's MIA deployed in the Martan District of Chechnya, was detained in the evening yesterday, on April 13.

April 14, 2009 21:30

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to address Constitutional Court for legality of Criminal Code amendments

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has refused to satisfy the advocates' petitions on sending a request to the Constitutional Court of Russia on conformity of the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP), adopted by the State Duma and stipulating exclusion of cases having anti-state character from jurisdiction of juries, to Russian Constitution. The court decided that any citizen of the country, including advocates, may send such request to the Constitutional Court by his or her own.

April 14, 2009 21:00

• Local residents assert that the casualty of shelling in Ingushetia on April 12 was alcohol trader

  The reason of the attack on Abdullagun Aliev, 49, and his son Adam, 19, residents of Ekazhevo village of Nazran District, committed by unidentified persons on April 12 in their village could be their dealing with alcohol drinks, as local residents explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.