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July 10, 2010 20:00

• Balkars are on hunger strike in Moscow

  Representatives of the Balkar nation are on hunger strike in central Moscow for the fourth day already - since July 7. They protest against actions of the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria, who, in their opinion, discriminate their nation in the republic.

July 10, 2010 19:00

• Rally in defence of organizers of "Taboo Art" exhibition held in Moscow

  In Chistye Prudy in Moscow, a rally in defence of Andrei Yerofeev and Yuri Samodurov, organizers of the exhibition "Taboo Art" took place. Artists and human rights defenders came to the action organized by the movement "Solidarity".

July 10, 2010 18:00

• AI calls to dismiss charges from "Taboo Art" organizers

  The Human rights organization "The Amnesty International" (AI) calls to dismiss all the charges from Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev, organizers of the exhibition "Taboo Art-2006", suspected of "insulting the feelings of believers and kindling of religious hostility." This is stated in the AI's special statement on the occasion.

July 09, 2010 23:50

• Khloponin: NCFD starts first phase of development strategy

  In the course of the first stage of implementing the development strategy of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), which is already underway, the earlier drafted and approved federal target programmes will be realized. As reported on July 8 in the city of Essentuki by Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of President of Russia in the NCFD, the government had allocated 75 billion roubles for this purpose.

July 09, 2010 23:30

• Capital of Armenia is partially cut off from Internet

  Yesterday in the evening, on July 8, the most part of Yerevan lost its access to the Internet. Armenian providers blame Georgian specialists.

July 09, 2010 23:10

• Ingush Muftiyat makes buy-out price of blood feud 10 times higher

  Following the request of the republic's residents and clergy, the Muftiyat of Ingushetia has increased the buy-out sum of blood feud by 10 times, and the bride-price - by more than 3 times. This was reported by the Mufti of the Republic Isa-Hadji Khamkhoev.

July 09, 2010 23:00

• Picket against raider's capture in Krasnodar Territory held in Moscow

  On July 9, 2010, a picket against raider's capture in the Krasnodar Territory of the agricultural enterprise - Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Zaporozhskoe" - was held opposite the central entrance to the building of the Investigatory Committee at the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation (ICPO). None of its officials went out to meet the protesters.

July 09, 2010 22:00

• Alaudin Dudko's custody extended

  Blogger Alaudin Dudko, known under the nick of ingushetiya_ru, was transferred from the isolation facility of the Butyrka prison to the Lefortovo similar facility. The judicial session, where decision on his freedom restriction measure was made, ruled to leave him behind bars for three more months, while the investigation on his case continues.

July 09, 2010 22:00

• Gamsakhurdia's advocate rejects her client's accusation of bribery

  Lawyer Keti Bekauri, who is defending the interests of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has treated the new charge presented to her client as "provocation".

July 09, 2010 20:00

• Ingushetia residents complain of power agents' actions

  Two residents of Ingushetia - Rakhman Imazhev from the city of Nazran and Anzor Mamilov from the city of Nazran - sent their complaints against the actions of power agents, which they believe to be illegal, to Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and human rights organizations.

July 09, 2010 19:00

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria states that militiamen forced him to self-incriminate

  Karalbi Karamizov, a resident of Chegem-2 village, Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has addressed the local human rights centre with a complaint against the actions of the militia. He asserts that militiamen forced him to defame himself and other innocent people.

July 09, 2010 18:00

• HRC "Memorial" may wind up in Chechnya

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" may close up its branch in the Chechen Republic. This was stated by Chairman of the Board Oleg Orlov in the context of recent statements made by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov on the work of human rights defenders.

July 08, 2010 23:10

• Five persons lost in road accidents in Grozny for a week, 60 - all over Chechnya this year

  A huge road accident with casualties happened on July 7 in the Lenin District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. An employee of the MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) is among the casualties. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the MIA that in several recent road accidents in the republic's highways killed two more persons, including a two-month-old baby, and wounded at least seven more.

July 08, 2010 23:00

• Heads of children's camps dismissed in Stavropol Territory

  In the Stavropol Territory, the prosecutor's office has dismissed, for the period of service investigation, director of the camp "Kolosok" and the head of the daytime camp "Ulybka"; on July 7 a child from the latter camp got drowned in a water basin in the territory of "Kolosok".

July 08, 2010 22:30

• 14 children got poisoned in camp near Astrakhan

  The Investigatory Department for the Astrakhan Region of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office) has initiated a criminal case on the fact of a mass poisoning of children, who took their rest in the camp "Young Railwayman", located in the Privolzhskiy District of the Region, the press service of the Department reports.

July 08, 2010 22:10

• Ramzan Kadyrov promises to amnesty Chechen militants again

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has called the members of the armed underground to surrender and promised to amnesty them. Kadyrov made this unexpected statement on July 7 during his meeting with the leaders of the Republic's power agencies.

July 08, 2010 22:00

• Association of rights defenders of Dagestan calls Magomedov to control power agents

  The participants of the conference, where a decision was passed to establish a new human rights organization in Dagestan, adopted an open letter to President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov, listing the measures, which, in the opinion of the authors of the document, should promote cardinal changes of the situation in the republic in the sphere of human rights and return people's trust in the authorities.

July 08, 2010 21:00

• HRC "Memorial" reports about Kadyrov's threats

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" regards the words pronounced on July 3 by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in his interview to the "Grozny" TV Channel as a direct and obvious threat addressed to the Centre. Mr Kadyrov named the people involved in the "Memorial" as enemies of the people, enemies of the law and enemies of the state.

July 08, 2010 20:00

• Rights defendants state absence of answers to key questions on Estemirova's murder

  Today, the Independent Press Centre has hosted a press conference: "Investigation of Natalia Estemirova's murder: questions to investigation."

July 08, 2010 19:00

• Azerbaijani youth activists hold protest actions

  Today in Baku several youth organizations of Azerbaijan have held a protest action dated to the first anniversary of the arrest of the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.