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September 09, 2010 19:00

• HRC "Memorial": Chechen power agents use militants' relatives as "live shield"

  Residents of Chechnya report that relatives of the young men, who went to the forest to join militants, are persecuted by local power agents. Human rights activist note that it happens under the initiative of Chechen leadership, since President Ramzan Kadyrov has openly stated that militants' relatives shall respond for their actions.

September 09, 2010 18:00

• Dagestan's SC rejects claim to close "Chernovik"

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Republic of Dagestan (RD) has completed considering the civil case opened under the claim lodged by the territorial department of the "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Mass Communications) and RD's Prosecutor's Office against the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Freedom of Speech" with a demand to close the local weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint).

September 08, 2010 23:30

• Federal judge assassinated in Kabardino-Balkaria

  At night on September 8, in Baksanyonok village, Baksan District, unidentified persons shot dead Federal Judge Dzhulber Bykov.

September 08, 2010 23:10

• South Ossetia restricts stay of children in public places at night

  As reported by Elza Dzhioeva, head of the department for additional education of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), children and teenagers are forbidden to stay at night in public places without their parents.

September 08, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of the week of August 30-September 5

  Natural fires in the Volgograd Region capture dwelling settlements, taking eight human lives and leaving about a thousand persons without roof over their head; Russia and other countries hold mourning actions on the sixth anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; suicide bomber commits a terror act in Buinaksk killing five and wounding thirty persons, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 30-September 5, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 08, 2010 23:00

• In Armenia, court rejects AANM's claim against ban of rally in Freedom Square

  On September 7, the Administrative Court of Armenia has rejected the claim lodged by the Armenian All-National Movement (AANM) - a unit of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) - with a demand to nullify the decision of the plenipotentiary of the mayoralty of Yerevan of September 1 to ban the rally of the opposition, which was to be held on September 17 in Freedom Square.

September 08, 2010 22:40

• In Georgia, defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia accuses police of falsifying detention protocol

  The defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia, who was sentenced to 9.5 years of imprisonment for a murder attempt, brings a claim against the patrol police challenging the legality of the detention procedure.

September 08, 2010 22:20

• Semneby meets Azerbaijani refugees, oppositionists and authorities in Baku

  The situation around Karabakh settlement and the parliamentary elections forthcoming on November 7 in Azerbaijan were the main topics during the meetings held by Peter Semneby, EU's Special Representative for Southern Caucasus, during his visit to Baku on September 5-7.

September 08, 2010 22:10

• After April 2011, Chechen leader will be named "Head of the Republic"

  According to Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of Chechen parliament, the post of the president of Chechnya will be officially renamed only next April, after expiry of Ramzan Kadyrov's term.

September 08, 2010 22:10

• Rostov court satisfies petitions of head of "Young Europe" challenging decisions of prosecutor's office

  On September 7, the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don held its first session on the case contesting the legitimacy of the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region, which had announced a warning to Konstantin Baranov, head of the regional branch of the public organization "Young Europe", about inadmissibility of extremist activity.

September 08, 2010 22:00

• Rostov-on-Don: militia studies circumstances of attack on local residents

  Rostov-on-Don has seen attacks of a grouping of young men, who hid their faces in medical masks on city residents. Unidentified youngsters are beating those who drink alcohol in the streets.

September 08, 2010 21:00

• Official from Krasnodar Territory convicted for bribery in Moscow

  Today, the Moscow City Court has sentenced Sergey Tulinov, ex-head of the Yeisk District, Krasnodar Territory, found guilty of taking a bribe of 3 million roubles, to 7.5 years of high security colony. His defence believes the arguments of the prosecution unpersuasive.

September 08, 2010 21:00

• Ilyumzhinov wants to stay in Kalmykia after retirement

  After leaving the post of the head of Kalmykia, which he has been occupying for 17 years, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov plans to get engaged in social-charitable projects and preparation of Dalai Lama's visit to the republic, he said today at a press conference.

September 08, 2010 20:00

• North Ossetia starts a project aimed to defend consumers' rights

  Today at 2:00 p.m., the project named "People's Control" was presented in Vladikavkaz, launched under the initiative of the North-Ossetian regional branch of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party.

September 08, 2010 19:00

• Dagestan: lawyer who suffered from ensign of drug control agency wants to sue him

  Gyulnara Bammatova, a lawyer from the "Kavkaz" Bar, who was hospitalized as a result of actions of the employee of the local drug control department, who presented himself as "Magomed Magomedovich Magomedov", is going to sue him, despite the offer of reconciliation that she received.

September 08, 2010 18:00

• Human rights defenders discuss situation in Russia with DoS delegation

  Russian human rights defenders had a meeting with William Burns, undersecretary of the US Department of State (DoS), and Michael MсFaul, adviser of the US president. Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", said that "criticism on the topic of human rights was one of the central issues" of the meeting.

September 07, 2010 23:30

• Suicide bomber who committed terror act near Buinaksk identified

  Experts managed to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber, who committed the terror act on September 5 in the "Dalni" training range near Buinaksk in Dagestan. According to the MIA of Dagestan, it was Zamir Terekbaev, 26, a native of Andrei-Kurgan village, Neftekum District of the Stavropol Territory.

September 07, 2010 23:30

• Arrested director of Russian building company goes on hunger strike in South Ossetia

  Svetlana Osipova, director general of the construction Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Astereya", who is kept in Tskhinvali prison, on September 2, went on hunger strike in protest against the charges presented by South-Ossetian authorities.

September 07, 2010 23:00

• Khloponin presents NCFD's development strategy till 2025 to Russian government

  The development strategy of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) till 2025 was presented by Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the District, for approval to Russian Premier Vladimir Putin during the meeting to Sochi on September 6.

September 07, 2010 22:20

• Working group of Russia's Public Chamber: situation in Dagestan is close to critical

  Recent events in Dagestan show that the situation in the republic is getting out of control, runs the official statement of the working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for development of public dialogue and institutes of civil society in the Caucasus, passed on September 6.