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June 11, 2010 22:00

• Chechen women tell Spanish paper about "hunting" for women without headscarves

  Lately, the capital of Chechnya saw almost two dozens attacks made from paintball rifles on girls without headscarves. One of the victims of these attacks lost her eye as a result of a paintball shot. According to human rights activists, local militiamen may be involved in the attacks.

June 11, 2010 21:00

• Leaflets calling girls to wear headscarves appeared in Gudermes

  In Chechnya, in the city of Gudermes, leaflets appeared on posts near the city bus station and in the vicinity of the marketplace calling Chechen girls to wear headscarves, eyewitnesses report.

June 11, 2010 20:00

• Relatives of Egle Kusaite believe that she confessed of terrorism under pressure

  Today at a press conference, relatives of Egle Kusaite, a native of Klaipeda, said that her confession about intention to commit a terror act in Chechnya was "drawn out" of the girl by means of psychological and physical violence.

June 11, 2010 19:00

• Doctors fear for life of Tsechoev detained in Ingushetia

  Movlat Tsechoev, uncle of brothers Adam and Beslan Tsechoev, who were detained on June 8 in Sagopshi village (Ingushetia), is sure of their non-involvement in the terror act in Sagopshi. Movlat told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the events that preceded detention and about a spontaneous rally in front of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Malgobek.

June 11, 2010 18:00

• ECtHR finds Russia involved in two disappearances in Chechnya

  The federal agents who took away in 2002 brothers Magomed-Salekh and Magomed-Ali Ilyasov failed to present their IDs, behaved rudely and aggressively and threatened their family members. This was reported by their mother Zhugurkhan Ilyasovа, who was defined as victim by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

June 10, 2010 23:50

• In Georgia, leader of Orthodox radicals sentenced in absentia

  The Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia and sentenced in absentia Malkhaz Gulashvili, President of the media holding "Georgian Times" and leader of the Georgian public organization "National Orthodox Movement", and his son David Gulashvili to two months of pre-trial custody.

June 10, 2010 23:40

• Grozny: unidentified persons continue "marking" girls without headscarves

  From early June, unidentified persons are driving in central Grozny in cars with tinted glasses and shoot from paintball rifles (the so-called "markers") at the girls who go along the street with uncovered heads. This is reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

June 10, 2010 23:30

• In Dagestan, seven detained protesters are still in the ROVD

  Eight out of fifteen detained participants of the protest action (dispersed by the militia) with demand to clear out the fate of Ahmednabi Nazhmutdinov, a resident of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District, who disappeared on May 30, have been set free.

June 10, 2010 23:00

• Vladikavkaz residents demand to stop "Electrozink"

  Residents of the capital of North Ossetia continue holding pickets with a demand to close the "Electrozink" factory. Another protest action held on June 9 had only nine participants, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

June 10, 2010 22:50

• After 1988, MIA's Internal Troops lost about 12,000 servicemen in Northern Caucasus

  During 22 years of presence in Northern Caucasus, the Internal Troops (IT) of the MIA (MIA) lost 2984 persons as casualties and 9000 more as wounded soldiers. This was stated by Army General Nikolai Rogozhkin, IT Commander-in-Chief, when he spoke to the Operative-Purpose Independent Division.

June 10, 2010 22:40

• Suspect of May 26 explosion released in Stavropol

  In Stavropol, lawyer Evsei Osinovskiy, who is defending Aslan Patiev, a native of Ingushetia and a suspect of committing an explosion in central city on May 26, said that his client is at large: the inquiry has no claims against him.

June 10, 2010 22:30

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay 70,000 euros to Jehova's Witnesses

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has passed a decision in favour of the religious organization of Jehova's Witnesses in Russia on the case about liquidation of its community in Moscow in March 2004, and obliged the authorities of the Russian Federation to pay 70,000 euros to the applicants.

June 10, 2010 22:20

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay 430,000 euros for kidnapping Chechen residents by Russian power agents

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has fined Russia by 430,000 euros for kidnapping eight residents of Chechnya in 2001, 2002 and 2005.

June 10, 2010 22:10

• MCC rejects claim of ex-head of "Azerbaijanis of Russia" against Zhirinovsky

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) has refused to regard the data published in the book by Vladimir Zhirinovsky "LDPR. Last March to the South" as doubtful or discrediting the Azerbaijanis.

June 10, 2010 19:00

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria insists that doctor was guilty of his son's death

  Timbora Kutogov, a resident of the city of Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria, is trying for two years to punish the doctor, for whose guilt, in father's opinion, his son of 13 had died. Today, by the decision of the public prosecutor, exhumation of the child's body was appointed.

June 10, 2010 18:00

• Doctors confirm traumas in Tsechoev detained in Ingushetia

  In Malgobek, physicians have confirmed that in the evening on June 8 an ambulance was called to the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) to render emergency aid to detainee Beslan Tsechoev. This was reported by Magomed Khazbiev, head of the organization "Fair Ingushetia" who yesterday visited the GUVD of Malgobek.

June 09, 2010 23:40

• Armenian GPO offers to cut Pashinyan's term

  On June 8, Vardan Avetisyan, head of the department for supervising application of punishments and other compulsion measures of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia, addressed his written petition to the head of the corrective establishment (CE) "Nubarashen" asking to recalculate the remaining term of imprisonment of Nikol Pashinyan, editor of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak".

June 09, 2010 23:10

• In Dagestan, journalists complain to Prosecutor's Office against authorities' reticence

  The refusal of the head of the department of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Federal Consumer Supervision Service) for Dagestan Eleonora Omarieva to provide journalists with the data on the quality of potable water is a violation of citizens' rights to receive information. This was stated by Natalia Krainova, chief editor of the local weekly "Novoe Delo" (New Business), who addressed her letter to Andrei Nazarov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan.

June 09, 2010 23:00

• In Ingushetia, detained Tsechoev brothers are tortured by militia, their relatives assert

  In Ingushetia, relatives of Adam and Beslan Tsechoev, who were detained in Sagopshi village on June 8 on suspicion of organizing the explosion in Malgobek, assert that the brothers are tortured by the militia.

June 09, 2010 22:00

• Action demanding release of detained Orthodox radicals held in Georgia

  A number of youth organizations, which held their protest action on June 8 in Tbilisi under the motto "I'm also Orthodox - arrest me", demanded to release the detained members of the "National Orthodox Movement".