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21:00, 16 October 2009

Nobody suffered from explosion in Ingushetia

According to the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the explosion that happened today in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, nobody suffered. Earlier it was reported that several persons had suffered.

Dagestan, Derbent. Photo by www.derbent.ru

20:00, 16 October 2009

Head of CEC of Dagestan: election in Derbent passed under the law

Magomed Dibirov, chairman of the central electoral commission (CEC) of Dagestan, said today that the elections in Derbent and other municipal formations of the republic have been recognized valid, and no violations have been registered.

19:00, 16 October 2009

Moscow: native of Chechnya is tried on suspicion of terrorism

The FSB has reported that is has solved the terror acts committed in 1999 in "Intourist" Hotel and "Okhotny Ryad" Shopping Centre. According to the investigation, the crimes had been ordered by Shamil Basaev. Now, the Moscow City Court holds a trial of the suspects of these crimes.

18:00, 16 October 2009

Karastelyov: voluntary patrols on enforcement of "children's law" are fiction

In Novorossisk, appointment of "voluntary patrolmen" for making raids to reveal minors during the curfew reminds the Soviet system of allotments and actually turns into fiction, creating more inconveniences for patrolman appointed from among state employees than restricting in any way children's and teenagers' stay in the street during in dark hours. This is the opinion of Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk committee on Human Rights (NCHR).

23:30, 15 October 2009

In Rostov Region, criminal case opened against militiaman who knocked pedestrians down

The investigatory bodies for the Rostov Region of the ICPO of Russia have initiated a criminal case against deputy head of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Oryol District, Rostov Region, suspected of breaking traffic rules, which entailed death by imprudence of two persons.

The "Druzhba" Children's Camp. Photo by www.restsochi.com

23:10, 15 October 2009

Krasnodar court rejects cassation of victims in Sochi OMON case

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the decision of the Lazarevskoe District Court of Sochi on compensation to the citizens who had suffered from the actions of Sochi OMON (Special-Purpose Militia) fighters in the territory of the "Druzhba" Children's Camp.

23:00, 15 October 2009

Azerbaijan: advocate demands reconsideration of Zakhid's case

Elchin Sadygov, advocate of Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Azadlyg", who is serving his term in Azerbaijan, has addressed the Supreme Court of his country with a petition on reconsideration of his client's case in the context of the recent arrest of Sevgilada Gulieva, 34, on whose complaint Zakhidov was sentenced to four years of imprisonment.

Krasnodar. Photo by http://ru.wikipedia.org

22:00, 15 October 2009

Computers confiscated from human rights activist during search

On Monday, October 12, the room, rented by Anastasia Denisova, a member of Coordination Board of the Youth Human Rights Movement, head of the organization "ETnIKA", active member of the "GROZA" (Thunderstorm) Movement and employee of the HRC "Memorial", was searched.

21:20, 15 October 2009

Christian Democrats of Georgia: "Patriot's Act" is legalization of special agencies' lawlessness

Georgian MP Giya Tortladze has moved an initiative to adopt the "Patriot's Act". The document assumes to expand the rights of Georgian special agencies, organization of monitoring of air, sea and overland freights, financial transfers and borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and reinforcement of the emigration control.

21:00, 15 October 2009

Kadyrov challenges sums of compensation under his claim against HRC "Memorial"

Ramzan Kadyrov's advocate has appealed against the decision of the Tver Court of Moscow to partially satisfy Kadyrov's claim against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial".

Dagestan, Derbent. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

20:00, 15 October 2009

Biyakai Magomedov: Kaziakhmedov remains Mayor of Derbent

The ban of the Derbent City Court on summing up the Mayor election totals because of numerous violations will not result in losing this post by Felix Kaziakhmedov, as lawyer Biyakai Magomedov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Moscow, Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park. Rally in memory of assassinated human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova. The inscription on the placard says: "Politkovskaya, Markelov, Estemirova. Who's next?" July 16, 2009. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"

19:00, 15 October 2009

Three months after Natalia Estemirova's murder, culprits are still at large

Today is three months after the day, when Natalia Estemirova, a well-known Chechen human rights defender and employee of the Grozny office of the HRC "Memorial", was kidnapped in Chechnya and then found murdered in Ingushetia. Until now, the investigation is unaware either of the murderers or the customers of this crime.

Murat Zyazikov. Photo by www.ingushetia.org

18:00, 15 October 2009

Driver of REN TV film crew was beaten by relative of former Ingush President

Threats began to reach journalists of REN TV after the group started videoing, within their film about Ingushetia, the house of the family of Murat Zyazikov, former President of the republic in Barsuki village. One of the journalists - Leonid Kanfer, who has already returned to Moscow, told about it.

23:50, 14 October 2009

Bill "On Defamation" brought into Azerbaijani parliament

The law draft "On Defamation", assuming cancellation of criminal punishment for slander, has been registered by the Secretariat of the National Assembly (NA) of Azerbaijan.

23:40, 14 October 2009

Court appoints linguistic examination of Igor Averkiev's article about the Caucasus

On October 13, the Leninskiy Court of Perm made a decision to suspend proceedings on the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory to recognize the article about the Caucasus, written by Igor Averkiev, Chairman of the Perm Civil Chamber, to be an extremist one.

23:20, 14 October 2009

"Memorial" files cassation on court ruling on Chechen President's claim

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which had partially satisfied the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Centre Oleg Orlov.

23:00, 14 October 2009

Korovin: journalists' non-admission to elections in Astrakhan was illegal

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Igor Korovin, chairman of the Astrakhan regional electoral commission, that journalists were not admitted to polling stations in the Astrakhan Region because the workers of local commissions were against "strangers' eyes."

22:10, 14 October 2009

Isa Yamadaev: Sulim needs urgent surgery

Marina Volodina, deputy head of the press service of REN TV, reports, with reference to Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, that Sulim needs an urgent surgery.

22:00, 14 October 2009

REN TV film crew leaves Ingushetia because of threats

The film crew of the REN TV Channel, which was subjected to threats in Ingushetia, managed to safely leave the republic owing to the help of the units of President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and oppositionist Maksharip Aushev.

21:10, 14 October 2009

Khabarovsk Territory: suicide of soldier from Volgograd Region investigated

The spokesman of the Khabarovsk Garrison Court reports about arrest of a serviceman suspected of non-statutory relations, which entailed a suicide on October 10 of a recruit from the Volgograd Region.

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