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22:20, 10 June 2010

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.

22:10, 10 June 2010

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.

19:00, 10 June 2010

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.

18:00, 10 June 2010

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.

23:40, 9 June 2010

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".

23:10, 9 June 2010

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.

23:00, 9 June 2010

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.

22:00, 9 June 2010

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".

21:00, 9 June 2010

Fourteen protesters detained in Dagestan

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, today in the Kizlyar District of this republic, where an action was held with a demand to accelerate clearing-out of the fate of local resident Ahmednabi Nazhmutdinov, who disappeared on May 30, a militiaman was wounded and several protesters were detained.

20:00, 9 June 2010

Grozny residents tell about unknown persons' "hunting" for girls without headscarves

On June 5, the capital of Chechnya saw several incidents, when unidentified persons in camouflage and masks were shooting paintballs from passing cars at the girls who were in the streets without headscarves. Eyewitnesses say that one of the attacked girls was even hospitalized with a heavy trauma.

19:00, 9 June 2010

In Astrakhan, teachers of the centre of additional education are on hunger strike

Eleven teachers of the Astrakhan regional state educational establishment of additional education "Centre of Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity" have gone to a hunger strike. They protest against possible closure of free-of-charge circles for Astrakhan teenagers.

18:00, 9 June 2010

In Azerbaijan, journalist Fatullaev stops his hunger strike in hope for soon release

Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has stopped his hunger strike announced on June 2 after he learnt that the President of the country knows about the decision of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about his release.

23:40, 8 June 2010

Defendants, figuring in Ingushetia attack case of 2004, file complaints to the ECtHR

The trial goes on at the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the attack committed on the Republic of Ingushetia at night of June 22, 2004. Two out of twelve defendants have lodged complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) claiming violation of their rights and application of torture. New complaints are pending.

23:20, 8 June 2010

Search of Nazhmudinov, who disappeared in Dagestan, is strenuous, law enforcers assert

Today, in the administration of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, local bosses met the relatives of Ahmednabi Nazhmudinov, a native of the village of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District, who is considered missing since last week. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Zagir Musaev, who was at the meeting.

23:00, 8 June 2010

Mudslides in North Ossetia kill three persons

In North Ossetia, powerful mudslides forced the Mairamadag River to overflow the banks. Traditionally, on weekends plenty of people come to have their rest there; and as reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two girls and a man were drowned in the river.

22:50, 8 June 2010

Student Patiev, detained on May 28 in Ingushetia saw no charges yet

Aslan Patiev, a native of Ingushetia and a student of a Stavropol higher school, who was detained in Magas more than a fortnight ago, has not been presented any indictment yet. Now, Patiev is kept in the local SIZO (pre-trial prison). Several days ago the state defender, appointed to him by the investigation, was replaced by advocate Evsei Osinovskiy, who was hired by Patiev's parents.

22:20, 8 June 2010

In South Ossetia, not all residents are happy with new mobile telephone codes

Users in South Ossetia were switched to new codes of mobile telephony. The "old" network "Megaphone Kavkaz" (code 928) is in roaming - after June 1 in the territory of South Ossetia, while all the incoming and outgoing calls will cost 9 roubles per minute of conversation. Now the communication services are provided by the local operator - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Ostelecom".

Chechnya, Grozny. December, 2001. Photo by www.chechnyafree.ru

21:00, 8 June 2010

Gannushkina: they plan to accrue compensations to residents of Chechnya by July

On June 7, the Russian Ministry of Regional Development held a meeting on compensations for lost houses in Chechnya. According to Svetlana Gannushkina, leader of the NGO "Civil assistance", the officials told that they would be able to calculate the value of the project by July only and asked for a delay.

20:00, 8 June 2010

Kabardino-Balkaria: unidentified bandits attack liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses

Today, at 4 a.m., two unidentified persons opened a window and got into the building for religious meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses located in the town of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria.

19:00, 8 June 2010

Magistrate judge shot dead in Dagestan

Today at night, Abdurakhman Gamzatov, a magistrate judge of the Untsukul District, Dagestan, was shot dead, the on duty unit of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) reports.

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