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22:00, 22 March 2013

Bus with election observers of Anapa Mayor stopped in Taganrog

Inspectors of the Taganrog GIBDD (traffic police) have detained a bus with 42 residents of the Rostov Region, who were on the way to Anapa as observers at the election of the mayor of the city, as Alexei Tsivenko, the coordinator of the project "Citizen Observer" told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

21:00, 22 March 2013

Magomedova: fate of missing resident Kaspiisk Murad Aliev remains unknown

The whereabouts of the missing resident of Kaspiisk Murad Aliev has not yet been established. According to Sapiyat Magomedova, the family lawyer, Aliev could be taken out of the IVS (temporary detention facility) in Kizilyurt.

20:00, 22 March 2013

Man with knife tried to enter the building of Armenian Parliament

Vrezh Galstyan, 25, a resident of the city of Masis, armed with a knife, tried to get into the National Assembly of Armenia. According to the General Public Prosecutor's Office, he had two previous convictions and was registered as a patient with a psychiatric disorder.

19:00, 22 March 2013

Indictment on case of scuffle at "Evropeisky" approved

The criminal case opened after a scuffle near the Shopping Centre "Evropeisky" in Moscow has been sent to the Moscow City Court (MCC), the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia reports.

18:00, 22 March 2013

Volgograd Regional Duma deputies sue city administration because of bad roads

On March 21, the deputies of the Volgograd Regional Duma Natalia Latyshevskaya and Sergey Popov turned on in the Central District Court of Volgograd with a claim against the department of urban maintenance of the city administration on their obligations of road repair and maintenance of pavements.

17:00, 22 March 2013

Makhachkala: house completely destroyed in special operation

Employees of law enforcement bodies have completely destroyed a private house in the township of Semender in the outskirts of Makhachkala, which is under the CTO regime since March 20, said a source from law enforcement bodies of the city.

16:00, 22 March 2013

Court in Stavropol drops the suit against ban on hijabs in schools

The Stavropol Territorial Court has dismissed the suit lodged by the lawyer Murad Musaev in protest against the decision of the Stavropol territorial government on introduction of the school uniform and ban on hijabs.

15:00, 22 March 2013

At the process Fuza Makhotlova versus MIA of KBR court appoints complex examination

At the consideration of the suit lodged by Fuza Makhotlova, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the KBR on protection of her honour and dignity and compensation of moral harm caused by an erroneous putting her on the wanted list as a suicide bomber, the court has granted the advocate's motion to appoint a complex forensic and psychological-psychiatric examination.

13:00, 22 March 2013

Ingush authorities allot 42 million roubles to rent housing for forced migrants from Chechnya

About 42 million roubles have been allotted in the budget of Ingushetia as compensations for rental of housing for displaced residents of Chechnya.

12:00, 22 March 2013

Six parties and one bloc run for membership in Board of Elders of Yerevan

The Central Election Committee (CEC) of Armenia has finished receiving applications for participation in the elections to the Board of Elders of Yerevan. The proportional lists have been filed by six parties and one political bloc.

Forced migrants Avdarkhan Cazdiev and his wife Luli Gazdieva (Esieva) with their dead daughter Madina, Kazakhstan, 1946. Photo from http://old.ingushetiyaru.org

11:00, 22 March 2013

Furkat Tishaev: compensation claims of residents of Kalmykia to ECtHR for years of repressions have no prospects

Plenty of Kalmykia residents are now receiving decisions of the Evropeisky Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) stating that their complaints to the refusal of Russian authorities to compensate the moral harm suffered by them in the years of repression are non-eligible for the court.

23:00, 21 March 2013

Residents of Kazbek District in Dagestan demand change of district power

Today, the village of Dylym – the centre of the Kazbek District of Dagestan – hosted a meeting of delegates from local villages, where demands for resignation of the head of the district Abdula Makhachev and dissolution of the local assembly of deputies were voiced out.

22:00, 21 March 2013

Georgian parliament adopts amendment to Constitution in the first reading

135 MPs have unanimously voted in support of the draft amendments to the Constitution of Georgia aimed at limiting the powers of the president. Thus, the bill was adopted in the first reading.

21:00, 21 March 2013

Dagestani resident complains about threats from relatives of suspects of raping his daughter

In Dagestan, Magomednabi Nazhmutdinov, a resident of Karabudakhkent, complains about threats received by him from relatives of the suspects who figure in the case on sexual abuse of his daughter.

20:00, 21 March 2013

Acting City Manager of Volgograd fined for bad roads

By results of the prosecutor's inspection, Vladimir Sobakar, the acting head of the administration of Volgograd, was fined by the State Road Inspectorate by 2000 roubles for the unsatisfactory state of road paving in the city.

19:00, 21 March 2013

Georgian border guards detain vessel with fish products from Abkhazia

The Turkish ship named "Aydar" with fish products was detained, on its way from Abkhazia, by Georgian border guards in the neutral area of the Black Sea.

18:00, 21 March 2013

AI treats four "Nida" activists arrested in Azerbaijan as "prisoners of conscience"

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the four young public activists of the "Nida" arrested in March. The young people are being persecuted for exercising their freedom of expression and assembly, the AI believes.

17:00, 21 March 2013

Soldier killed in conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh

Volodya Avakyan, a regular serviceman, has died of the wound received in the conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

15:00, 21 March 2013

Office of the "Memorial" in Moscow is inspected by prosecutors

A prosecutor's check is currently on in the office of the International Historical-Enlightenment, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society "Memorial".

Hearings at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of the attack on Nalchik. March 19, 2009. Photo by Ludmila Maratova for the "Caucasian Knot"

14:00, 21 March 2013

Court extends custody of 53 defendants in Nalchik attack case

Today, at the trial conducted by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of the attack on Nalchik, the court has announced the decision on extending the detention of 53 defendants.

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