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04:33, 1 June 2014
In Sochi, construction of the Olympic facilities led the house of the Kapustin family to the state unfit for living. This was stated by the Kapustin family members. However, despite the expertise, which supports the arguments of the family members, the court has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Kapustin family.
23:05, 31 May 2014
The Public Council and the authorities of Sochi have expressed their intention to create a gambling zone in the Imereti Valley with the aim to attract tourists into the city and load the facilities built for the recent Winter Olympics.
04:04, 30 May 2014
The Sochi authorities are obliged to ensure the supply of water to residents of the village of Akhshtyr, which is a part of the municipality. During five years, the Akhshtyr villagers are deprived of normal water supply. This opinion was expressed by human rights defenders, ecologists and lawyers, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".
18:08, 26 May 2014
On May 25, about 60 residents of the village of Akhshtyr held in Sochi a rally in the format of a meeting with Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the assistant to the State Duma Deputy Sergey Obukhov. The reason for the meeting was the absence of any official response of the authorities to multiple local residents' complaints about the absence of water supply and bad ecology.
04:47, 21 May 2014
The reception office of the network "Migration and Law" of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Sochi was addressed by more than 1500 migrant workers, whose rights had been violated. Human rights activists hope that the organizers of the Football World Cup, to be held in Russia in 2018, will take into account the lessons of the Olympics.
03:43, 18 May 2014
The noisy opening of the resort season says nothing about the city's preparedness for the arrival of tourists, said local residents questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The opening ceremony took place on May 17 in Sochi – concerts, festivities and other entertainment events lasted till late at night.
12:53, 1 May 2014
On April 30, Adnan Khuade, a member of the international movement "Patriots of Circassia", appealed to General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika with a request to control the investigation into the circumstances relating to the detention of Circassian activists on December 13, 2013.
08:22, 29 April 2014
The checks of the preparation process for the Winter Olympic Games in Russia revealed numerous violations of the law; 55 criminal cases were opened, says the report of Yury Chaika, the Russia's Public Prosecutor General, which has arrived in the Federation Council.
03:51, 26 April 2014
The tenants of the apartment block at No. 5a Akatsij Street, which was blocked as a result of the construction of the M-27 highway, have gone to court against inaction of the Sochi service of court marshals, which fails to enforce the ruling of the Adler District Court of September 25, 2013.
06:22, 23 April 2014
Persons, who have organized discharge of construction waste in the Tsanyk Creek in Sochi, will be brought to administrative and criminal responsibility. This was reported by the police. The protocol against persons guilty of breaking rules of improvement and sanitary maintenance was transferred to the administrative commission. This was reported by the Khosta administration.
13:47, 15 April 2014
In Sochi, court fines David Khakim with 20,000 roubles for solo picket in support of Evgeny Vitishko
Today, the Sochi Tsentralny District Court has recognized activist David Khakim guilty for holding a solo pickets near the building of the city administration on February 17.
20:15, 14 April 2014
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has partially upheld the complaint lodged by Otkhman Ayal, an ethnic Circassian and now a Syrian national, and reversed the decision to deport him, said a source from the local department of the Federal Migration Service (FMS).
18:55, 12 April 2014
The ecologist Evgeny Vitishko has failed to respond to the scheduled weekly call of human rights activists, said Evgenia Chirikova, the leader of the movements "Ecological Watch for Moscow Region" and "In Defence of Khimki Forest". Rights activists believe that Vitishko could be placed into a dungeon.
13:15, 9 April 2014
The Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of the Russian Federation acting jointly with its colleagues from other countries, including Georgia, has stopped the preparations of terror acts at Olympic facilities in Sochi, said the FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov.
13:10, 7 April 2014
As reported by Dmitry Chernyshenko, the Chair of the Organizing Committee (OC) "Sochi-2014", the Winter Olympic Games of 2014 brought about 5 billion roubles of operating profit.