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00:17, 26 December 2013
On December 25, a number of Russian cities, including Novosibirsk, Moscow, Krasnodar, Sochi, and Voronezh, hosted actions rallies in support of Evgeny Vitishko, a Kuban activist and ecologist, who was sentenced in the case of the "Tkachov's summer cottage".
20:12, 25 December 2013
Nelly Modenova, a resident of Nalchik, has filed a lawsuit to the city court demanding from the Ministry of Finance to compensate the damage she suffered on April 6, 2012, when her apartment was burnt during a special operation, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has informed today.
19:18, 25 December 2013
The names of the men who were killed today in Buynaksk in a shootout with the police are known, said the spokesman for the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). They were members of the "Buynaksk" grouping, said the press service of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
17:53, 25 December 2013
Today, four activists, by changing each other, held solo pickets in support of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko. The poster, which the picketers passed over to each other, read: "Freedom to Evgeny Vitishko!" and bore the five Olympic Rings decorated with barbed wire.
12:21, 25 December 2013
Sergey Khadjikurbanov, one of the defendants in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", was transferred to a special regime module of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) "Matrosskaya Tishina" (Sailor's Silence) in Moscow. This was reported by his advocate Alexei Mikhalchik.
03:21, 25 December 2013
26-year-old Khamzat Aldiev, a resident of Ingushetia, who has been earlier affected by the amnesty, is suspected of attacking law enforcers. The court pronounced a pre-trial restriction measure to Khamzat Aldiev as detention in custody till February 22. At present, he is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Grozny. This was reported by his advocate.
23:45, 24 December 2013
At the trial conducted by the Adler District Court of Sochi on the charge of a policeman Sergey Kuznetsov of abuse of office and beating Pavel Solovyov, a builder of the Olympic facilities, the witnesses have confirmed that they had seen the policeman beating the victim, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
20:44, 24 December 2013
Today, in the village of Psykhurey, Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, a woman folk healer was killed, said the spokesman of the Republic's Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).
14:09, 24 December 2013
In 2013, the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan sent to the court 38 criminal cases of frauds with the maternity capital, says the website of the Office. According to prosecutors, the women forged documents about the birth of their children in order to receive state certificates giving the right to receive maternity capital.
13:34, 24 December 2013
The lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who is defending the interests of the suffered party in the murder case of Gamzatovs in Kizlyar, states another attempt to influence the witnesses and the Gamzatov family. This time, she said, pressure is exerted by the gas company, which has stopped supplying gas to their house and the shopping centre "Planet Lux".
13:06, 24 December 2013
Mansur Adjigisiev, a resident of the village of Kangly, Mineralovodsky District of the Stavropol Territory, detained on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms and treated under arrest at the city hospital of Georgievsk, needs a qualified care of gastroenterologists; however, law enforcers deny his transfer to a specialized clinic. This was stated by his wife Sofia Adjigisieva, who has turned to human rights defenders.
03:34, 24 December 2013
On December 23, the Soviet Court of Makhachkala granted the lawsuit filed by Khabib Budaikhanov, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, whose verdict was cancelled five years after announcement, and ruled to compensate his moral harm in the amount of 250,000 roubles.
03:04, 24 December 2013
During 2013, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan took a number of repressive actions, which heightened the tensions and increased the level of discontent from the part of strictly practicing Muslims. These actions included mass detentions of Muslims for document check, taking their DNA assays, check and closing Muslim cafes, kindergartens, schools, and restricting access to mosques. The "Caucasian Knot" acquaints its readers with the chronicle of events.
00:37, 24 December 2013
On December 22, about forty persons, including public figures, human rights defenders and intellectuals, came to the library named after Dostoevsky in Moscow to meet the authors of the book "Nobody But Me" dedicated to the deceased advocate Stanislav Markelov.
14:45, 23 December 2013
The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has reported today that Sultanat Krymova, a local resident, was sentenced by the Kaspiisk City Court to two years of colony-settlement for possessing the so-called "suicide bomber's (shahid's) belt".