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20:00, 10 June 2009
Alik Le, leader of the public organization "Union of Imereti Residents", believes that previous "Olympstroy" bosses tried solving their problems separately from the interests of Sochi residents. According to his story, Taimuraz Bolloev, the new head of this state corporation, has no time for getting into his mission - he should start acting, and his first step should be to start dialogue with the population.
18:00, 10 June 2009
Suspects of today morning's murder of Aza Gazgireyeva, Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia, are established, as reported by President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov.
23:40, 9 June 2009
On June 8, several dozens of Georgian journalists and members of NGOs held a protest action at the building of the National Commission for Communications with a demand to ensure the freedom of mass media.
23:30, 9 June 2009
Yuri Budanov, who served his term for murdering a Chechen girl, and released in the end of 2008, was interrogated as a suspect under a new criminal case. The ex-colonel is suspected of involvement to murdering three residents of Chechnya.
23:00, 9 June 2009
The Islamic armed underground groupings of Dagestan are a serious danger; and the state should fight them; however even a greater danger is in the clannish lifestyle traditional for the republic, when groups of clans fight for power. This is the topic of the statement made by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the context of the recent murder in Makhachkala of Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan.
22:30, 9 June 2009
Today in Ingushetia, on the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway, in the area of municipal district Gamurdievo of the city of Nazran, unidentified persons shelled a column of sappers from grenade launchers. A soldier was slightly wounded.
22:00, 9 June 2009
So far, there is no reliable data confirming the death of Doku Umarov, leader of Chechen separatists, who declared himself in 2007 to be the commander of Caucasian mujahads. However, observers do not exclude that the authorities plan to announce Umarov's liquidation by the forthcoming holidays. According to Aslambek Apaev, an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, if Umarov was really killed, the fact will be disclosed only by June 12, the Day of Russia.
21:00, 9 June 2009
Relatives of the brothers Isa and Musa Yamadaev, who were summoned by investigatory bodies to the North-Ossetian city of Mozdok for interrogation on the case about disappearance of one of the soldiers of the recently disbanded special-purpose GRU battalion "Vostok", are afraid for their life.
20:10, 9 June 2009
The health condition of Arshaluist Akopyan, a representative of the Helsinki Association, who is now in custody in Armenia, is currently normal; he was already visited by advocate Gayane Khachatryan. Mikael Danielyan, human rights activist and chairman of the Helsinki Association told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.
19:00, 9 June 2009
Jean-Francois Juliar, secretary general of the international organization in defence of the press "Reporters without Borders" (RwB) has sent messages to Ali Gasanov, head of the political division of President's Administration, and Nushiravan Magerramli, chairman of the National Television and Radio Board (NTRB), expressing his concern of the statements proposing to set up control over the Internet space of Azerbaijan.
18:00, 9 June 2009
The judicial session due today on the criminal case on attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, was cancelled because of absence of advocate Magomed Abubakarov, who left for Chechnya to take part in some other trial. His clients refused to be tried without him.
23:10, 8 June 2009
Today, the Mayoralty of Makhachkala hosted a regular sitting of the city's antiterrorist commission, which brought together activists, workers of power agencies, intellectuals, mass media and leaders of official confessions. In the course of the sitting, the participants criticised the work of militia.
23:00, 8 June 2009
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has signed an order to nullify his Decree of October 23, 2008, which stipulated setting up and formation order of the fact-finding group about clashes of the opposition with the police on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan.
22:00, 8 June 2009
The murder of Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, can have something to do with the presidential election to be held in February 2010. According to some sources, Mr Magomedtagirov could be considered as a candidate for President of Dagestan, should the Kremlin decide to bank on a "strong hand" in the republic.
22:00, 8 June 2009
Advocates of the NGO named "Priority of Human Rights" have sent a complaint of the citizens, who suffered in the course of dispersal of a protest action in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007, to the European Court on Human Rights.