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21:00, 19 May 2010
Dmitry Medvedev intends to consider the possibility of eliminating unnecessary checkpoints in the North Caucasus, a Public Chamber member Maxim Shevchenko stated, following today's meeting of the Presidential council on civil society institutions.
20:00, 19 May 2010
Today in the Kremlin, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with the activists from non-governmental organizations. During this meeting, Medvedev backed out of a creation of the council of elders in the North Caucasus and specified the problems of his particular concern in the region. At the meeting, the human rights activists, who were engaged in monitoring of human rights violations in the region, presented their reports - previously posted in the "Caucasian Knot", voicing criticism of the government actions in the North Caucasus.
18:00, 19 May 2010
Lyubov Tsechoeva, a resident of the Plievo Municipal District of Nazran, told about illegal actions of power agents against her family.
23:30, 18 May 2010
Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan started considering the criminal case on the murder of Magomedgadji Abashilov, Director of the State Radio and Television Company (SRTC) "Dagestan", committed on March 21, 2008, in Makhachkala, with interrogating the victims and prosecution's witness. The trial is held with participation of a board of jurymen.
23:00, 18 May 2010
Not everybody in the republic supports the recent appeal of the Russian MIA Department for Ingushetia urging to apply extreme measures to those drivers whose cars have excessively tinted windows.
22:40, 18 May 2010
Leaflets appeared in the territory of Makhachkala and other Dagestan cities containing threats to alcohol and drug dealers, fortune tellers, and owners of gambling halls and saunas.
22:10, 18 May 2010
Georgian lawyers have addressed the Prosecutor's Office asking to open a criminal case against the policemen, had not allowed the protesting lawyers to set up their tents in front of the Parliament building. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from lawyer Vakhtang Gagnidze, one of the protesters.
21:30, 18 May 2010
In Volgograd, the parents of Sasha Kolokoltsev who was killed last June, was officially informed by the investigative bodies that crime components were not found in the actions of former prosecutor Elena Ivanova, who knocked down their son by her car. The expertise conclusions are conflicting though.
21:00, 18 May 2010
In Georgia, torrential rains, hail and hurricane caused great damage in Kvarelsky and Gurjaani districts, in particular, villages of Balgodzhian, Tsitskanaantseri, Eniseli and Vazisubani. The elements destroyed about 30% of the harvest, vineyards and spring crops.
20:00, 18 May 2010
Co-chair of Pravozaschita NGO Gulnara Rustamova has informed today that families of the local residents Akhmed Akhmedov and Karib Vagabov, who were abducted on 8 May in Derbent, approached her with information about the detainees being assaulted.
19:00, 18 May 2010
In Azerbaijan, despite certain progress in the freedom of access to information, the situation remains unsatisfactory, said Khaled Agaliev, project coordinator of the Institute of Media Rights (IMR) on May 17, when presenting the progress report on the situation in Azerbaijan with the freedom of information.
18:00, 18 May 2010
In the end of last week, a meeting was held in Grozny dedicated to the outcomes of the work of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the first four months of this year. Minister Ruslan Alkhanov stated that relatives of the members of the armed underground are accomplices of their crimes; therefore, they should bear the same responsibility as militants.
23:50, 17 May 2010
The dispersal of the peaceful action of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) Block and administrative arrests of its participants are rough violations of citizens' constitutional rights and freedoms. This opinion was expressed by Alesker Mamedli, an independent lawyer and an expert of the American NGO "IREX Pro Media", in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, when he made his comments on the arrest of the participants of the protest action held by the "Azadlyg" Block in Baku on May 15.
23:40, 17 May 2010
The NGO named "Residents of South Ossetia Against Genocide" will consider the claims submitted by residents of South Ossetia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the August war of 2008 against Georgia and rejected by the Court. For almost 18 months this organization deals with similar complaints against Georgia in the Hague Court.
23:20, 17 May 2010
On May 15, Evgeniy Zakharov, a member of the initiative group in defence of the city-resort Sochi, held a picket in the Plane-Tree Alley in defence of the general-use green zone located near the "Philately" shop. From 3 to 6 p.m. he stood there with posters calling to protect the city-resort from developers and statements to stop the town-planning terrorism. As of May 15, the initiative group collected 4000 subscriptions demanding to remove the fence near the "Philately" and stop "destruction of the resort by illegal commercial constructions."