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22:40, 19 October 2011
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled to collect from the Russian authorities 11,000 euros in favour of Gennady Shuvalov, a 38-year-old ex-policeman from Volgograd, who was sentenced in 2006 for selling drug and who complained of having been beaten at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). This is reported by the press service of the ECtHR.
22:30, 19 October 2011
Athletes from Karachay-Cherkessia have won three gold and one bronze medals in the World Championship for Wrestling on Belts, which took place on October 12-16 in Bishkek.
22:10, 19 October 2011
A 16-year-old schoolgirl from Ingushetia was convicted by the court in Chechnya for assistance to participants of the armed underground. The underage girl was sentenced to imprisonment to be served in a juvenile correctional facility.
22:00, 19 October 2011
The number of victims of poisoning at the canteen of the Makhachkala Airport has reached 40 people. All of them were preliminary diagnosed with 'food poisoning'. Some of the victims are in grave condition, the Department of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) of Dagestan.
20:00, 19 October 2011
Today, Armenian ecologists held a picket in front of the residence of the President of Armenia; they urged to save Lake Sevan. The rally was organized at the initiative of the organization "Ecolur".
19:00, 19 October 2011
The Chechen law enforcement authorities investigate two deaths of teenagers in Gudermes, the second largest city in the republic. According to the investigators, the children committed suicide; the preliminary cause was poor living conditions in single-parent families.
18:00, 19 October 2011
Today, in Rostov-on-Don, the North-Caucasian District Military Court (NCDMC) convicted a soldier of a military unit of the Southern Military District and his mother of espionage for Georgia and sentenced them to 10 and 8 years of imprisonment.
23:40, 18 October 2011
In the city of Grozny, a 25-year-old Ramzan Dadaev, a native of Chechnya, who suffers from mental disorders, has disappeared. This was reported by his relatives in the open letter, published by the "Caucasian Knot" under the news "Resident of Dagestan claims kidnapping of his father and his friend".
23:20, 18 October 2011
In Azerbaijan, the customs officers of the airport of Nakhichevan town confiscated luggage belonging to Elmar Abbasov, the regional correspondent of the "Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety" (IRFS) of Azerbaijan. This occurred during Abbasov's return from Istanbul.
23:10, 18 October 2011
In Armenia, the ecological organizations express their concern about the fate of the most abundant Trchkan Falls situated on the border of Shirak and Lori Regions. The ecologists demand that the Ministry of Nature Protection should stop the construction of a small hydroelectric power plant (HPP) there.
23:00, 18 October 2011
15 Ingush policemen, involved in the attack on Dagestani fans, were dismissed. This was reported by Nizami Kaziev, Acting Prime Minister of Dagestan.
22:50, 18 October 2011
The Prosecutor's Office of the town of Karachaevsk initiated a criminal case on the fact of misappropriation of budgetary funds against Sapar Laipanov, ex-Mayor of the town, and against Vladimir Solovyov, ex-Deputy Chairman of the City Legislative Assembly.
22:40, 18 October 2011
On October 17, in Rostov-on-Don, eight activists of the oppositional movements "Left-Wing Front" and "People's Freedom Party" once again held a picket for cancellation of the illegal, according to their opinion, parliamentary election appointed on December 4. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Vladislav Ryazantsev, the organizer of the rally.
22:30, 18 October 2011
On October 17, the management of the German public legal TV Channel "MDR" disseminated a statement in which it stated that the performance of the "MDR" ballet dancers at the concert in the city of Grozny had damaged the reputation of the entire ballet company and TV Channel in general.
22:20, 18 October 2011
On October 17, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) accepted to consideration the complaint of Suren Gazaryan and Dmitry Shevchenko, the members of the Board of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", who had been detained in February near the alleged summer residence of Alexander Tkachov, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory.