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13:45, 3 June 2013

Defenders of landing stage beaten in Volgograd Region

On June 1, at about 2:30 a.m., the tent camp at the landing stage in the Volgograd Region was attacked by unidentified persons, who arrived in cars, beat the defenders of the building and burned down the camp.

13:26, 3 June 2013

3000 people gathered in support of Soltan Semyonov in Karachaevsk

On June 1, the city of Karachaevsk hosted a rally in support of its mayor Soltan Semyonov. Initially, an event to mark the Children's Day had been planned in the square in front of the city administration; however, it turned into a spontaneous rally in support of the mayor.

10:47, 3 June 2013

Ingush authorities and graduates refute reports on violent searches before USE in Troitskaya

The government of Ingushetia, the school staff and school graduates refute the information disseminated in social networks that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ingushetia Musa Chiliev personally searched graduates, in order to find cribs, prior to the Unified State Examination (USE) in the village of Troitskaya.

00:57, 3 June 2013

Speaker of Makhachkala City Assembly states the Mayor is innocent; head of trade union of entrepreneurs believes Amirov's arrest was correct

In the opinion of Magomed Magomedrasulov, the chairman of the Makhachkala City Assembly, the Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov is not guilty of the incriminated crimes. Amirov was detained on June 1 on suspicion of organizing a murder of an employee of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan.

22:50, 31 May 2013

Socially vulnerable Tbilisi residents demand housing

On May 30, in front of the Mayoralty of Tbilisi, vulnerable citizens held their protest, demanding to solve their housing problems. In response, a Mayoralty official said that the state has no money to fix the problem immediately.

The ANK protest in front of the Hotel "Marriott". Yerevan, May 31, 2013. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

22:40, 31 May 2013

Zurabyan: international community has no interest in human rights in Armenia

As stated by Levon Zurabyan, the head of the parliamentary faction of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), during a protest action in Yerevan, the international community is more interested in Armenia's geopolitical problems, rather than in the democratic situation in the country, while the activities of "foreign missionaries" cannot be considered satisfactory.

22:30, 31 May 2013

Alagir hosts rally against construction of cement plant

About three hundred residents of North Ossetia have staged a rally against the construction of a cement plant in Alagir. The protesters adopted a resolution that demands to cancel all the legal acts, allowing the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) to build the plant.

22:20, 31 May 2013

Ilgar Mamedov, leader of "ReAl", placed in dungeon in Azerbaijan

On May 30, Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" ("ReAl"), who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), was placed into a dungeon, said advocate Khalid Bagirov. According to his story, the defence was not informed about it.

22:10, 31 May 2013

President of Georgia is suspected of spending budget for cosmetic procedures

The Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is suspected of paying - from the state budget for his rejuvenation injections of Botox - a total of 11,400 US dollars - and bought a picture worth about 6000 pounds sterling; this data from the expense reports of the State Security Special Service SSSS was presented by Irina Imerlishvili, an MP from the ruling coalition "Georgian Dream".

Nikolai Yarst. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

22:00, 31 May 2013

Yarst: charges of illegal drug possession in Sochi has to do with my professional activities

As stated by Nikolai Yarst, a journalist and a freelance reporter of the "Public Television of Russia" (PTR), his criminal prosecution initiated by the UVD (Interior Department) of Sochi and the charges of illegal possession and transportation of drugs are the result of his professional activities. He also stressed that the drugs had been planted on him.

From left to right: Aina Abdulkadyrova and Layuza Gaidarbekova. Photo from 05.mvd.ru

21:00, 31 May 2013

Dagestani police are still searching for two missing Buynaksk students

The whereabouts of the two female students of the Buynaksk Teachers' College, who disappeared on May 17, is still unknown. A criminal case on their disappearance is not yet instituted, as the law enforcement bodies have no information that the girl had been abducted or detained, said the MIA of Dagestan.

Aslan Ismajlov. Photo: Azadliq Radiosu (RFE/RL), azadliq.org

20:00, 31 May 2013

Ismajlov: Deputy Interior Ministry promised to punish investigators who threatened me

Vilayat Eivazov, the deputy head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, met the lawyer Aslan Ismajlov, who had reported threats and physical pressure from investigators. He promised to study the situation and punish those guilty, the lawyer himself said today. In the opinion of Orkhan Mansurzade from the press service of the MIA, none of the investigators had ever beaten Ismajlov; he just wants to attract attention.

19:00, 31 May 2013

Azerbaijan: ex-GPP complains of threats

Ali Omarov, the former General Public Prosecutor (GPP) of Azerbaijan, has stated today that he had received threats from a man, who introduced himself as a police officer. His statement will be investigated by law enforcement bodies, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

18:00, 31 May 2013

Soldier commits suicide in Azerbaijan

An additional service soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, who was taking his service at the military unit in Shamkira, has committed suicide, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Participants of the protest hunger strike Olga Cheburakova, Ekaterina Romashkina, Tatiana Sviridova, Yulia Yamnova, Irina Kharkova with a poster: "Country's Future Belongs to Children!" Volgograd, May 31, 2013. Photo by Tatiana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"

17:00, 31 May 2013

Volgograd: nine mothers go on three-day hunger strike for children's rights

Nine mothers have announced a three-day hunger strike in Volgograd, trying to attract attention of local authorities to the problem of shortage of places in kindergartens, rehabilitation of children with disabilities, the need to reopen dairy kitchens and increase salaries of preschool educators.

16:00, 31 May 2013

Defenders of unloading dock attacked in Volgograd, eyewitness reports

In the evening on May 30, four unidentified men attacked the defenders of the unloading dock, located in the Volgograd Region, a blogger Alexei Ulyanov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

22:30, 30 May 2013

In Dagestan, court rejects lawyer Kadiev's claim for moral compensation

Today, the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala has rejected the claim lodged by the lawyer Rasul Kadiev in demand of compensation for his moral harm caused by the abolition of direct elections. The lawyer said that he would appeal against the rejection.

22:20, 30 May 2013

Prosecution asks up to 7.5 years in prison for protesters against ban on hijabs in Baku

The Nariman District Court of Baku is finalizing the trial of six believers, who were arrested last October for taking part in the action against the ban on wearing hijabs in schools.

22:10, 30 May 2013

Washington Post: Ibragim Todashev, shot dead by FBI agent, was unarmed

Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya and an acquaintance of Tamerlan and Johar Tsarnaev, suspects of committing the Boston terror act, who was shot dead by an FBI agent during an interrogation in Florida, was not armed, The Washington Post writes.

22:00, 30 May 2013

ICRF: in Krasnodar Territory drunken policeman knocked down a man with a child

On May 28, in the Tbilisi District of the Krasnodar Territory, a policeman knocked down a 27-year-old man with a child of 9, who were on the road shoulder. The injured persons were taken to hospital with multiple injuries of varying gravity.

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