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February 13, 2015 03:17

• Activists in Yerevan express concern about absence of reliable information on Gyumri murder case

  The official statements by the Armenian and Russian parties about the inquiry into the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri look not credible; while the public receives very little information about the case, said picketers in Yerevan.

February 13, 2015 01:30

• Public figures of Ingushetia and Dagestan support ban of "Fifty Shades of Grey"

  Public and religious leaders of Ingushetia and Dagestan support the decision of regional authorities to ban the screening of the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey", which contains plenty of sexual scenes. Some residents have disagreed; meanwhile, the KBR and the Stavropol Territory have held the first-run of the movie.

February 12, 2015 19:59

• Moscow court upholds ban to Dzhemilev to enter Russia

  The Basmanny Court of Moscow has rejected the claim of the Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev against the Russian Federal Migration Service, which had imposed a five-year ban on his entering Russia. The court also refused to grant the petition for a temporary lift of the ban to let him come to Russia to defend his interests.

February 12, 2015 17:58

• Bureaucrats call on Dagestani youth to boycott "Fifty Shades of Grey"

  The American movie that starts its screening today will not be shown in most of the republics of Northern Caucasus under the motive that it is contrary to Islamic values and citizens' mentality; besides, religious and public figures spoke against the movie.

February 12, 2015 17:48

• Yerevan: picketers demand to give Valery Permyakov out to Armenian law enforcers

  A group of Yerevan residents has held a picket in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia demanding the transfer Valery Permyakov, the Russian soldier, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family to local law enforcement bodies.

February 12, 2015 16:54

• Court finds resident of Dagestan guilty of participating in activities of "Hizb-ut-Tahrir"

  A Dagestani court has found Khabib Magomedov, a resident of Buynaksk, guilty of involvement in the "Hizb-ut-Tahrir", the organization banned in Russia and illegal circulation of ammunition.

February 12, 2015 13:58

• HRC "Memorial" reports detentions of young people in marketplace in Grozny

  On February 11, power agents were detaining young people in the marketplace in central Grozny, told Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported. Eyewitnesses associate these detentions with the incident in the village of Tsentaroy, where the wall of one of the buildings was decorated with the symbols of the "Islamic State".

February 12, 2015 11:44

• Suspected militant killed in KBR

  Last night, in the Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a man was killed, who opened fire on policemen in response to their demand to stop his car for inspection.

February 12, 2015 09:53

• Assembly of elders in Derbent urge Putin to check legality of criminal case against Yaraliev

  The participants of the emergency assembly of the Board of Elders of Derbent have appealed to Russian President and the heads of country's law enforcement bodies to check the legality of the criminal case against the city Mayor of Imam Yaraliev.

February 12, 2015 02:32

• Azerbaijani rights defender Emin Guseinov hides in Swiss Embassy

  The Azerbaijani rights defender Emin Guseinov, while fleeing the repression of country's authorities, since August 18, 2014, is forced to hide in the Swiss Embassy in Baku, says the Norwegian Foundation "Human Rights House" (HRH).

February 11, 2015 23:17

• KBR resident adjudges compensation for unlawful detention

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has obliged the Russia's Ministry of Finance to pay a compensation of 500,000 roubles to Anzor Koshiev for his illegal detention and criminal prosecution.

February 11, 2015 19:16

• Investigation into kidnapping of local in 2003 resumed in Chechnya

  The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has instructed the investigating authorities to resume the inquiry into the kidnapping in February 2003 of Idris Ulubaev, a resident of the village of Novye Atagi of the Shali District.

February 11, 2015 19:14

• Court session on Makoev's case in Nalchik rescheduled for February 18

  The session of the KBR's SC on the murder case of Alexei Makoev, shot dead in a special operation, has been rescheduled for February 18.

February 11, 2015 18:04

• Russia's SC postpones consideration of appeal on "EcoWatch" case until March 11

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has satisfied the petition lodged by Andrei Rudomakha, the head of "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), asking to postpone the commencement of the proceedings on liquidation of his organization.

February 11, 2015 16:57

• Advocate challenges decision to search oppositionist Khazbiev at the Ingush SC

  A complaint against the decision to put Magomed Khazbiev on the wanted list was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia by his advocate Khedy Ibrieva.

February 11, 2015 15:48

• Inspectors from Ukraine look for evidence of Russia's military aid to Ukrainian rebels in Rostov Region

  Ukrainian militaries will inspect, jointly with their Russian colleagues, one seventh part of the Rostov Region, planning to find evidence of Russia's military help to the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

February 11, 2015 15:38

• Advocate asks investigators to consider all versions of massacre of Avetisyan family in Gyumri

  Yerem Sarkisyan, the advocate for the successors of the Avetisyan family, the members of which were assassinated in Gyumri, has filed a petition on holding additional investigative steps in order to clarify all the circumstances of the crime and establish the true motive thereof.

February 11, 2015 15:20

• MCC rejects complaint of Airapetyan's defence against arrest extension

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left Levon Airapetyan, an entrepreneur and a notable member of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia, accused within the "Bashneft" case, under home arrest.

February 11, 2015 14:15

• Derbent Board of Elders states support of Imam Yaraliev

  In Derbent, the Lezgin Theatre is hosting an emergency session of the city Board of Elders. Its members have expressed support for the head of the city Imam Yaraliev and urged residents not to yield to provocations.

February 11, 2015 11:48

• Soldier lost in NKR is 22nd casualty of Karabakh conflict since start of 2015

  Against the background of the OSCE monitoring, whose mission has fixed no violations of the ceasefire in the conflict zone, and the demand of Azerbaijani political scientists to change the format of the mission, a soldier of the NKR's Defence Army was killed.