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August 11, 2009 23:40

• Nogovitsyn: demining of South Ossetia will last long

  The mining of the territory of South Ossetia during last year's August events was chaotic; the Russian party has no mine field maps; therefore, demining will take a lot of time. This was stated by General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

August 11, 2009 23:30

• Early relieved editor-in-chief of "Zhamanak" will go abroad to get his treatment

  Arman Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Zhamanak" (Time), who was released from custody before term on August 4 because of his poor health, in the next few days will go for treatment abroad.

August 11, 2009 23:20

• Killers of Dagestanian journalist shadowed him for several days, eyewitnesses say

  The car, from which unknown criminals shot dead Abdulmalik Ahmedilov, editor-in-chief of the "Sogratl" newspaper in Dagestan, was noticed by eyewitnesses for several days near the house of the journalist, as they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 11, 2009 23:00

• Abkhazia closes its border with Georgia on Inguri River

  Abkhazia has closed its border with Georgia running on the Inguri River; now the crossing is only possible over the main Inguri bridge with a special permit. This was announced today in the course of another five-lateral meeting on prevention and investigation of Abkhazian-Georgian border incidents by Ruslan Kishmariya, head of the Abkhazian delegation and plenipotentiary envoy of Abkhazian President in the Gali District.

August 11, 2009 22:30

• Journalists twice removed from courtroom at Nalchik attack trial

  Today in the afternoon, journalists were removed from the courtroom, where the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria is considering the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

August 11, 2009 22:10

• Kidnapped teenager found murdered in Chechnya

  On August 9, a local resident aged 16 was kidnapped by unknown persons in the Shali District of Chechnya. At night on August 10, he was found assassinated.

August 11, 2009 22:00

• In Armenia, human rights activists try to release imprisoned oppositionists

  After the amnesty, 21 political prisoners are still in custody in Armenia. The greatest bewilderment in human rights activists is aroused by holding behind bars of a French citizen Sarkis Atspanyan, a veteran of the Karabakh War. This was emphasized at a press conference on August 11 by Vardan Arutyunyan, a member of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners' Rights.

August 11, 2009 21:00

• Human Rights Watch calls the murder of two human rights activists a monstrous crime

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed its serious concern of the murder in Chechnya of two activists of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation".

August 11, 2009 20:00

• Amnesty International has no hope that the murder of Sadulayeva and her husband in Chechnya will ever be opened

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) does not believe that Russia is ever capable to open the murder in Chechnya of the leader of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation" Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov.

August 11, 2009 19:00

• President of Chechnya imputes Sadulayeva's murder to blood feud

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that, according to the authorities, the husband of the murdered Chechen human rights defender Zarema Sadulayeva, had earlier been a member of illegal armed formations (IAFs), which could be the motive of the double murder.

August 11, 2009 18:00

• Cherkasov: Sadulayeva and Dzhabrailov were assassinated to intimidate others

  The kidnapping of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, leaders of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation", who were found murdered today, was staged as an official detention by power agencies. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

August 10, 2009 23:40

• Voronezh resident convicted for attacking Armenian native

  The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh has found Alexander Chalenko, 22, guilty of causing heavy health damage to a native of Armenia and sentenced him to 4 years and 10 months of imprisonment.

August 10, 2009 23:30

• Acting President of Ingushetia: opposition heats up tension around actions of Chechen power agents

  Prime Minister Rashid Gaisanov, acting President of Ingushetia, believes that the opposition is "heating up" the situation around the actions of the Chechen militia in their republic. He thinks that there is no pressure from Chechnya.

August 10, 2009 23:10

• President of Ingushetia is discharged from hospital and promises to toughen his struggle against militants

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was discharged from the Vishnevskiy Surgery Institute, where he took his treatment after the attempt on June 22. In a week, he plans to get back to work.

August 10, 2009 23:00

• Representative of СЕ's Secretary General in Azerbaijan visits "Tolyshi Sado" editor-in-chief in prison

  Last Friday, August 7, Veronica Kotek, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE) in Azerbaijan, visited Novruzali Mamedov, a linguist, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) in the hospital of the Penitentiary System.

August 10, 2009 22:10

• Militiaman wounded by a mine explosion in Chechen mountains

  An employee of the MIA of Chechnya has received a heavy wound as a result of explosion of a trip wire mine in the high-mountainous Nozhay-Yurt District of the republic, as reported by the law enforcement bodies of the republic. The victim was hospitalized.

August 10, 2009 22:00

• In Azerbaijan, arrested bloggers refuse from evidencing

  On August 10, Judge of the Sabail District Court of Baku Nuraddin Bagirov rejected the claim of bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade against the MIA and the State Office of Public Prosecutor of Azerbaijan.

August 10, 2009 21:00

• In Ingushetia, another owner of alcohol-selling shop shot dead

  Today, at about 5:30 p.m., in Verkhnie Achaluki village, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, near his house No. 61 in the Bekova Street, Kureish Evloev, whose shop was selling alcohol, was shot dead from a sub-machine gun. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Vakha Chapanov, head of the "Maximum" Information Agency in Ingushetia.

August 10, 2009 20:00

• In Ingushetia, local residents report torture and extrajudicial execution of Khautiev brothers

  Relatives of Mussa and Adam Khautiev, who, according to the official statement of the Department of the Federal Security Bureau (DFSB) of Russia for Ingushetia, were killed on August 6 as a result of a special operation in Kantyshevo village, Nazran District, and residents of this village told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in fact employees of power agencies had committed an extrajudicial execution.

August 10, 2009 19:00

• Chechen human rights defenders state kidnapping of two local NGO activists

  Human rights defenders of Chechnya have stated kidnapping of two activists of the local NGO named "Save the Generation" - the NGO leader Zarema Sadulaeva and her husband.