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June 09, 2010 22:00

• Action demanding release of detained Orthodox radicals held in Georgia

  A number of youth organizations, which held their protest action on June 8 in Tbilisi under the motto "I'm also Orthodox - arrest me", demanded to release the detained members of the "National Orthodox Movement".

June 09, 2010 21:00

• Fourteen protesters detained in Dagestan

  According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, today in the Kizlyar District of this republic, where an action was held with a demand to accelerate clearing-out of the fate of local resident Ahmednabi Nazhmutdinov, who disappeared on May 30, a militiaman was wounded and several protesters were detained.

June 09, 2010 20:00

• Grozny residents tell about unknown persons' "hunting" for girls without headscarves

  On June 5, the capital of Chechnya saw several incidents, when unidentified persons in camouflage and masks were shooting paintballs from passing cars at the girls who were in the streets without headscarves. Eyewitnesses say that one of the attacked girls was even hospitalized with a heavy trauma.

June 09, 2010 19:00

• In Astrakhan, teachers of the centre of additional education are on hunger strike

  Eleven teachers of the Astrakhan regional state educational establishment of additional education "Centre of Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity" have gone to a hunger strike. They protest against possible closure of free-of-charge circles for Astrakhan teenagers.

June 09, 2010 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, journalist Fatullaev stops his hunger strike in hope for soon release

  Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has stopped his hunger strike announced on June 2 after he learnt that the President of the country knows about the decision of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about his release.

June 08, 2010 23:40

• Defendants, figuring in Ingushetia attack case of 2004, file complaints to the ECtHR

  The trial goes on at the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the attack committed on the Republic of Ingushetia at night of June 22, 2004. Two out of twelve defendants have lodged complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) claiming violation of their rights and application of torture. New complaints are pending.

June 08, 2010 23:20

• Search of Nazhmudinov, who disappeared in Dagestan, is strenuous, law enforcers assert

  Today, in the administration of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, local bosses met the relatives of Ahmednabi Nazhmudinov, a native of the village of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District, who is considered missing since last week. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Zagir Musaev, who was at the meeting.

June 08, 2010 23:00

• Mudslides in North Ossetia kill three persons

  In North Ossetia, powerful mudslides forced the Mairamadag River to overflow the banks. Traditionally, on weekends plenty of people come to have their rest there; and as reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two girls and a man were drowned in the river.

June 08, 2010 22:50

• Student Patiev, detained on May 28 in Ingushetia saw no charges yet

  Aslan Patiev, a native of Ingushetia and a student of a Stavropol higher school, who was detained in Magas more than a fortnight ago, has not been presented any indictment yet. Now, Patiev is kept in the local SIZO (pre-trial prison). Several days ago the state defender, appointed to him by the investigation, was replaced by advocate Evsei Osinovskiy, who was hired by Patiev's parents.

June 08, 2010 22:20

• In South Ossetia, not all residents are happy with new mobile telephone codes

  Users in South Ossetia were switched to new codes of mobile telephony. The "old" network "Megaphone Kavkaz" (code 928) is in roaming - after June 1 in the territory of South Ossetia, while all the incoming and outgoing calls will cost 9 roubles per minute of conversation. Now the communication services are provided by the local operator - the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Ostelecom".

June 08, 2010 21:00

• Gannushkina: they plan to accrue compensations to residents of Chechnya by July

  On June 7, the Russian Ministry of Regional Development held a meeting on compensations for lost houses in Chechnya. According to Svetlana Gannushkina, leader of the NGO "Civil assistance", the officials told that they would be able to calculate the value of the project by July only and asked for a delay.

June 08, 2010 20:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: unidentified bandits attack liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses

  Today, at 4 a.m., two unidentified persons opened a window and got into the building for religious meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses located in the town of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria.

June 08, 2010 19:00

• Magistrate judge shot dead in Dagestan

  Today at night, Abdurakhman Gamzatov, a magistrate judge of the Untsukul District, Dagestan, was shot dead, the on duty unit of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) reports.

June 08, 2010 18:00

• Rights defenders plan to challenge at the Constitutional Court the law on extremism in the context of ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog

  As stated by the participants of the press conference convoked because of the address of Jehovah's Witnesses to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the prohibition of this religious community in the city of Taganrog, any persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia is inadmissible. The believers do not exclude an accelerated consideration of their complaint in Strasbourg, while human rights activists prepare their complaint on the law on extremism to the Constitutional Court.

June 07, 2010 23:50

• Four persons wounded by explosion in Dagestan capital

  Today in Makhachkala an explosive device was triggered in Akushinsky Avenue near the Tsumadin wholesale marketplace: four civilians suffered.

June 07, 2010 23:30

• In Ingushetia, criminals shot dead two locals

  Today in Nazran unidentified criminals shelled a car with a local resident inside. The driver died in place. Also near the city's marketplace another person was shot dead.

June 07, 2010 23:20

• "First Caucasian" TV Channel to decide on broadcasting continuation after judgement on satellite access

  The "First Caucasian" TV Channel has announced its reorganization, reduced the number of programmes and changed the news schedule. According to Georgi Chanturiya, Director General of the Public Television and Radio Broadcasting of Georgia, the decision to go on with the channel will be made depending on the decision of the court in Paris about access to the satellite.

June 07, 2010 23:00

• Defence hopes for conditional sentence to hacker Saaev

  No additional circumstances have been revealed in the new case initiated against Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, accused of complicity to members of the armed underground. This is the opinion of his advocate Viserhadji Ibragimov, who hopes for a conditional sentence to his client.

June 07, 2010 22:00

• Calamity leaves 50,000 without electricity in Chechnya

  The strongest downpour last night and today in the morning in Chechnya stopped electric power supplies to several dwelling settlements. Currently, repair teams try to restore them.

June 07, 2010 21:00

• Journalist Elman Malyev arrested in Azerbaijan

  On June 6, a well-known Azerbaijani journalist Elman Malyev was arrested and handed over to the inquiry, as reported today by the Central Police Department (CPD) of the city of Baku.