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April 30, 2010 21:00

• Missing Chechen resident found in Ingushetia

  The Chechen resident who disappeared 15 years ago has been found in Ingushetia. Murad Soltamuradov disappeared in 1995 when he was six-years-old. In early 90's, his relatives resided in the town of Argun, while Murad was brought up at Grozno boarding school. The missing person was found thanks to the surviving archives of the registry offices and the efforts of Argun internal affairs department officers.

April 30, 2010 20:00

• Georgian opposition blocks Tbilisi center with demand to release political prisoners

  Today, a number leading opposition organizations and NGOs of Georgia blocked the traffic along part of Rustaveli avenue for half-an-hour and then traffic on the adjoining Freedom Square in Tbilisi for an hour. In this way, the opposition demanded the release of all political prisoners.

April 30, 2010 19:00

• Ingushetia residents report kidnapping of Zelimkhan Chighitov

  A resident of the town of Karabulak, Ingushetia, claims kidnapping of Zelimkhan Chighitov, her 20-year-old son. According to Zukhra Chighitova, Zelimkhan was kidnapped by law enforcement officers on April 27.

April 30, 2010 18:00

• Timoshenko claims the business of Piter Vins, founder of Sakharov Foundation Prize, captured in Russia

  Pressure on Peter Vins, founder of the Sakharov Foundation Prize "For Journalism as a Deed" continues - at the moment, his business is captured in Russia, states Boris Timoshenko, secretary of the Prize, head of the monitoring service of the Foundation for Protecting Glasnost.

April 30, 2010 04:00

• Four out of six kidnapped residents of Dagestan released

  Mukhtar and Magomedrasul Magomedaliyevs, residents of the village of Novy Kostek, Khasaviurt district in Dagestan, kidnapped on April 29, have returned home, reports their father Bagavdin Magomedaliyev. The whereabouts of the third kidnapped son of Magomedaliyev remains unknown.

April 29, 2010 23:50

• Farmers in Astrakhan oblast accused of using slave labor

  The investigation of a criminal case has been completed in Astrakhan against Alexander Larin, director of the private company "Lastra", his son Kirill Larin and driver Khagani Akhundov, who are accused of using slave labor of 16 residents of Uzbekistan.

April 29, 2010 23:00

• Chief of colony suggests Fatullayev could have been planted drugs in prison

  Representatives of the management of colony No 12 in Azerbaijan who acted as witnesses during the trial of previously convicted journalist Einulla Fatullayev, accused of keeping drugs, made statements which, according to the defense lawyers, fully proves the innocence of the defendant.

April 29, 2010 22:20

• Yuri Chaika claims 83% of terrorist acts in Russia in 2009 were committed in North Caucasus

  Officers of the law enforcement agencies in North Caucasus have no special training, they are corrupt, while unresolved crimes are often attributed to killed militants - such conclusions are contained in the report of Yuri Chaika, RF Prosecutor General, on law and order in Russia in 2009, which he delivered to the Federation Council on April 28.

April 29, 2010 21:00

• Kadyrov accuses "Memorial" of exaggerating the number of kidnappings in Chechnya

  The annual number of kidnappings in Chechnya, cited by the Human Rights Center "Memorial", does not correspond to reality, states Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, but promises to check the information of the human rights activists if they provide him with a list of victims of kidnappings.

April 29, 2010 19:00

• Power authorities do not doubt the involvement of Rabadanov, killed in Dagestan, in metro terrorist acts

  The law enforcement agencies have obtained a confirmation of the data on the involvement of Akhmet Rabadanov, resident of the village of Novy Kostek killed in Dagestan, in the terrorist acts in the Moscow metro on March 29.

April 29, 2010 18:00

• The number of people who suffered from explosion in Dagestan grows to 17

  The explosion of a suicide bomber near the traffic militia post in Kazbek district of Dagestan has resulted in two casualties, 17 people have been wounded, scores of cars damaged. These are the corrected data of the Investigation Committee under the RF prosecutor's office.

April 28, 2010 23:20

• Austrian prosecutor's office considers Ramzan Kadyrov involved in the murder of Umar Israilov

  The Austrian state board on protecting the constitution and fighting terrorism (LVT) has recognized Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov responsible for the organization of kidnapping and murder of his former body-guard Umar Israilov, runs the agency report made public by the Vienna prosecutor's office on April 27.

April 28, 2010 23:00

• Dagestan resident claims power authorities planted weapons in the house of his killed relative

  The weapons found in the house of Akhmed Rabadanov, killed on April 26 and subsequently announced militant, were planted by militiamen, claims Rabadangadzhi Rabadanov, uncle of the diseased, resident of the village of Novy Kostek, Khasaviurt district, Dagestan, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 28, 2010 22:00

• Lawyers of convicted bloggers in Azerbaijan appeal against the ruling of the court of appeal

  A cassation appeal has been filed at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan against the ruling of Baku court of appeal of March 10 which upheld the ruling convicting young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadzhizade who had already been sent to prison.

April 28, 2010 20:00

• Policemen suspected of involvement in the death of a 24-year-old youth arrested in Armenia

  Ashot Arutiunian, chief of Charentsavan criminal investigation department, and police detective Moris Airapetian, suspected of involvement in the death of Vaan Khalafian who died on April 13, have been arrested in Armenia.

April 28, 2010 19:00

• Supporters of chief editor of "Mestnaya" newspaper, beaten in Sochi, claim the attack politically motivated

  The public in Sochi is very concerned about the attack on Arkadi Lander, chief editor of the "Mestnaya" newspaper which took place on April 26. Some supporters of the victim, who do not trust the investigation, have involved private investigators, former militia officers, into the search for the crime organizers and executors. The Sochi communists' leader and part of Lander's colleagues claim his beating to be politically motivated.

April 28, 2010 18:00

• Human rights activists urge Lithuanian authorities to allow Gatayevs, Chechen residents, communication with their adopted children

  An international group of human rights activists has addressed an open letter to the Lithuanian authorities in protest against their refusal to permit further free communication for Khadizhat and Malik Gatayevs with their adopted children from Chechnya. The letter has been sent to Daliya Gribauskaite, president of Lithuania, chair of the committee on human rights in the Lithuanian parliament and the Lithuanian commissioner on the rights of children.

April 27, 2010 23:30

• Family of "Imedi" report victim plans to sue TV Channel

  The family of Gayoz Odishelidze, 51, who died after watching the hoaxed "Imedi" TV report about the "Russian invasion", is going to apply to the Chief Prosecutor's Office urging to start inquiry into the accident.

April 27, 2010 23:00

• British experts confirm authenticity of "Imedi" director's telephone conversation

  The audio record of the telephone conversation of Giorgi Arveladze, Director General of the "Imedi" TV Company, with his deputy Eka Tsamalashvili, which was disseminated two days after the scandalous report about invasion of Russian troops into Georgia, is authentical, British experts have stated.

April 27, 2010 22:00

• Editor-in-chief of local newspaper heavily beaten in Sochi

  On Monday, April 26, at 3:00 p.m., in the entrance of No. 34 in the Pirogova Street in Sochi, an attack was committed on Arkadi Lander, editor-in-chief of the Sochi-based newspaper "Mestnaya" (Local); he was severely beaten. The journalist is sure that it was an attempt to kill him because of his professional activities.