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June 21, 2010 23:50

• Released defendant in Nalchik attack case is not allowed to contact journalists

  Kazbek Budtuev, a defendant in the Nalchik attack case, whose custody was replaced today by home arrest, can communicate only with his mother and advocate. The court ruling especially emphasizes that Kazbek Budtuev has no right to communicate with journalists and make statements.

June 21, 2010 23:40

• Suspects of trafficking in humans detained in Northern Caucasus

  In the end of last week at the same time in several cities of the Caucasian Mineral Waters and Kabardino-Balkaria a special operation was conducted, as a result of which seven members of the inter-regional criminal grouping were detained as suspects ed of trafficking in humans. This was reported today by the MIA's Central Administration for the Southern Federal District (SFD).

June 21, 2010 23:30

• Corriere Della Sera apologizes to Chechen employee of the HRC "Memorial"

  Andrea Nikastro, a journalist of the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, has explained the fact of distortion of the words of Doku Itslaev, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya, by the deficit of time he had for the publication.

June 21, 2010 23:20

• Sochi residents protest against alternate Kurortny Avenue

  On June 20 residents of city-resort Sochi held a number of rallies and pickets in defence of municipal streets against construction of federal highways; most of them are planned right under tenants' windows and assume cutting away a lot of greenery.

June 21, 2010 23:10

• Karabulak OVD forces doctors to discharge kidnapped Chitigov, his relatives assert

  As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", where on June 18 Zukhra Chitigova, Zelimkhan's mother, addressed her repeated written application, her son is still under guard in Karabulak hospital.

June 21, 2010 23:00

• Sunday Times' photographer: Sharipova who blew her up in Moscow did not look like a committed terrorist

  Video clips have been published, in which, supposedly, the natives of Dagestan Janet Abdurakhmanova and Maryam Sharipova - suicide bombers on March 29 in Moscow metro, justified the motives of their actions.

June 21, 2010 22:00

• Residents of Chechnya report about persecution of militants' relatives

  Residents of Chechnya report about a failed attempt of power agents to detain in the plain Naur District of the republic of two young men - brothers of participants of the armed underground - and threats to their parents with a demand to bring their runaway sons to law enforcement bodies.

June 21, 2010 21:00

• One criminal case against suspect of Markelov's murder stopped

  As reported by Alexei Baranovskiy, coordinator of the organization named "Russian Verdict", in relation to Nikita Tikhonov, accused of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov, the criminal prosecution on another murder case - of anti-fascist Alexander Ryukhin in 2006 - was stopped for absence crime attributes.

June 21, 2010 20:00

• In Georgia, defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia files complaint to ECtHR

  Advocate Keti Bekauri, who is defending the interests of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, said that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should put pressure on the authorities of the country.

June 21, 2010 19:00

• Kadyrov rejects pre-judicial reconciliation with Orlov

  Andrei Krasnenkov, lawyer of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that he had offered Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", to discuss reconciliation of the parties, but received no answer.

June 21, 2010 18:00

• Figurant of "Neva-Express" train explosion in 2007 has its term increased

  The Novgorod Regional Court made a partial addition of two verdicts passed to Salambek Dzakhkiev, a resident of Ingushetia and a figurant in the case about blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007, and increased his total term of imprisonment by six months.

June 19, 2010 17:00

• Azerbaijanis of Karabakh are against building Russian Orthodox church in Stepanakert

  On June 18, Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, saw a solemn ceremony of laying the first stone into the foundation of the Orthodox temple of Madonna Holy Protection and Holy Cross Day. The Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh is against construction of an Orthodox church "in occupied Azerbaijani territories" and is going to protest.

June 19, 2010 16:00

• Baku police again disperse "Azadlyg" rally

  In the capital of Azerbaijan, policemen have again dispersed a protest action of the oppositional block "Azadlyg" (Freedom), which was held with a demand of the freedom of assembly and democratic character of the forthcoming elections.

June 19, 2010 15:00

• Lawyer Magomedova, beaten by militiamen, transferred to Makhachkala

  The health condition of lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by employees of the GOVD (City Interior Department) of Khasavyurt, remains grave. Her relatives, who feared that she would lack qualified medical help while in Khasavyurt, insisted on her transfer to the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Makhachkala.

June 19, 2010 14:00

• Khloponin: Northern Caucasus has no barriers to investors

  Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), believes that the situation with safety in the Caucasus has already been "reversed", while the authorities are able to remove the administrative barriers, which hamper to implement investment projects.

June 19, 2010 12:00

• Two districts of Georgia damaged by rains

  Because of continuing torrential rains in high-mountainous Mestia District of Georgia, rivers have overflowed the banks; 17 automobile bridges were destroyed; and about 10 km of motorways are out of operation. The nature also damaged the Tsalendzhikh District.

June 19, 2010 11:00

• Airport in Grozny starts international flights

  The Chechen airline "Grozny-Avia" starts regular international flights. The first aircraft will take off from Chechnya to Turkey on June 20.

June 19, 2010 10:00

• Court leaves figurant in "Neva-Express" train explosion case behind bars

  On June 18, the Moscow City Court made a decision to leave Tatarkhan Kartoev, a native of Ingushetia, one of the persons accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in November 2009, in custody.

June 19, 2010 09:00

• Ancient settlements found in Olympic construction zone in Sochi

  In the Imereti Lowland of Sochi, where 2014 Winter Olympiad objects are being erected, archaeologists found several ancient settlements dated back to the 4th-5th centuries BC.

June 19, 2010 08:00

• Rights defenders file complaint to ECtHR against Russia and Georgia

  On June 18, the Georgian human rights organization "Priority of Human Rights" sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg against the governments of Russia and Georgia in the context of breaching the Minsk Convention in the course of warfare in August 2008.