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July 07, 2010 23:40

• Pamfilova hopes mutual trust and common goals of residents and authorities may alter the situation in North Caucasus

  The struggle for the minds and the hearts, for a common system of values which could embrace North Caucasus and integrate it in Russia is a big and serious topic which should be started with telling the truth, with a wish to understand one another, says Ella Pamfilova, head of the council under the Russian President on facilitating the development of the institutions of civil society and human rights, chair of presidium of the all-Russia public movement "Civil Dignity".

July 07, 2010 23:20

• Signatures of Krasnodar Krai residents in support of convicted Tsogoeva sent to RF President

  Collection of signatures continues in Krasnodar Krai in support of Elvina Tsogoeva, 36, resident of North Ossetia, who killed a 19-year-old young man, thinking that he had raped her three-year-old daughter. Part of signatures have been sent to the Russian President.

July 07, 2010 23:10

• A burnt car with human bodies found in Dagestan

  A burnt car was found with the bodies of, possibly, two persons in the outskirts of Dagestan capital during the night of July 7.

July 07, 2010 23:00

• Authorities in Grozny count more than 800 houses in an emergency state

  The Chechen authorities intend to address the federal center with a request to increase the quotas for implementing the program of pulling down old and repair houses, and building new ones. Within Grozny alone, 843 houses are recognized to be in the state of emergency and hazardous for living. Grozny residents express dissatisfaction with the quality of construction works and report that the repair performed is often a facelift.

July 07, 2010 22:00

• Editor of opposition newspaper in Georgia accuses authorities of persecution

  Nana Gagua who, together with her husband Malkhaz Gulashvili, is the owner and editor of the newspaper "Georgian Times" in Tbilisi, in her statement addressed to international organizations states that, due to opposition orientation of the newspaper, she, her husband and sons live under permanently extreme conditions.

July 07, 2010 21:00

• Maxim Gvindzhia insists Abkhazia is not occupied territory

  Maxim Gvindzhia, minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia, calls the statements by US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and representatives of Georgian authorities to the effect of occupation of Georgia by Russian troops as fantasy.

July 07, 2010 20:00

• Zalina Kairova says initiative group will continue to insist on closing down "Electrozinc"

  Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group ""Electrozinc" - what do we breath?", says that she and her supporters insist on implementing the court ruling on closing down the metallurgical works "Electrozinc" in Vladikavkaz, the North Ossetia capital, because its exhausts not only contaminate the atmosphere but also directly harm people's health.

July 07, 2010 19:00

• Democratic community indignant with new conviction of journalist Fatullaev

  In Azerbaijan, representatives of the regional and international democratic community condemn the court ruling with regard to journalist Einulla Fatullaev according to which he is given a new term of imprisonment.

July 07, 2010 18:00

• Head of HRC "Memorial" assumes trial on Chechen president's suit to take place in Autumn

  The trial on the criminal suit on slander of Chechen president will probably take place in Autumn this year, states chairman of HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov after the interrogation held on July 6.

July 06, 2010 23:50

• Day of Anger in Rostov-on-Don to be held despite absence of administration permission

  The action Day of Anger planned for July 7 in Rostov-on-Don is not going to be canceled because Vladimir Chub, the former governor of the region, refused material support and will be held despite the fact that the city authorities have failed to positively react to the notification about it. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sergei Reznik, independent journalist and one of the action organizers.

July 06, 2010 23:40

• Group of Balkars from Kabardino-Balkaria intends to go on hunger strike in Moscow

  A group of 12 Balkars from Kabardino-Balkaria intends to hold a hunger strike action in Moscow. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Muradin Rakhaev, the action organizer and former head of administration in the village of Bezengi.

July 06, 2010 23:30

• Khidriev involved in the case on derailing the "Neva Express" appeals against refusal to grant him conditional early relief

  Maksharip Khidriev, one of the persons involved in the case on derailing the "Neva Express" in 2007, born in Ingushetia, has appealed against the ruling of Valdai district court which refused to grant him conditional early relief (CER).

July 06, 2010 23:10

• Prosecutor's office cautions "Sanhedrin of Balkar Nation" against unsanctioned meeting

  On July 5, the public organization "Sanhedrin of Balkar Nation" was issued a caution signed by Nalchik prosecutor on the inadmissibility of holding an unsanctioned meeting. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Bakhautdin Etezov, deputy chairman of the SBN.

July 06, 2010 23:00

• Roscomnadzor intends to notify mass media on extremist comments by e-mail

  The Federal Service on Supervision in the Area of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communication (Roscomnadzor) is going to notify Internet media, in which it considers comments of the users as extremist, by e-mail and give them one day to eliminate them.

July 06, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on June 28 - July 4

  Beating of lawyers in Dagestan continues; the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh gets into focus of world community; another terror act committed by a suicide bomber in Chechnya, - look these and other events in the review of the week from June 28 to July 4, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 06, 2010 21:00

• Fatullaev's defense in Azerbaijan intends to appeal against journalist's sentence

  Isakhan Ashurov, the lawyer of Einulla Fatullaev, chief editor of the newspaper "Realniy Azerbaijan", who has been sentenced to a new term, calls the court today's ruling "illegal and unfair" and states that the verdict will be appealed against in the court of appeal.

July 06, 2010 20:00

• Human rights activist Oleg Orlov is laid charge

  Today, charges have been laid to Oleg Orlov, Board chairman of the human rights center "Memorial", on slandering Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov whom the human rights activist considers responsible for the murder in Grozny of Natalia Estemirova, employee of "Memorial", reports the HRC "Memorial".

July 06, 2010 19:00

• Court hearings on case of Vaan Khalafian's death put off till July 15

  The trial on the case of death of 24-year-old Vaan Khalafian, which started on July 6 in the general court of Kotaisk district, has been put off till July 15 because the lawyer of Khalafian's legal successor, his uncle Amik Khalafian, failed to attend.

July 06, 2010 18:00

• Son of well-known poet Adallo detained in Dagestan

  Today, Magomed, the son of a well-know poet and publicist Ali Adallo, has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his younger brother, thirteen-year-old Gamzat, who lives in Makhachkala, was detained by law enforcement officers on July 5 and is held at the temporary detention center of Botlikh district militia.

July 05, 2010 23:50

• Former head of Volgograd Central district gets seven years of prison for bribery

  Volgograd oblast court has passed a sentence to Alexander Novikov, former head of Volgograd Central district. He is convicted to seven years of imprisonment in a high-security colony.