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January 24, 2015 23:10

• Builder of Olympic facilities asks Sochi City Council to support cheated workers

  Nikolai Belugin, a pensioner, has asked the members of the Sochi City Council to organize a charity event with the aim to collect funds to help the builders of Olympic facilities, who have failed to receive their wages at the companies that belonged to one of the council members.

January 24, 2015 21:27

• Solo picket against hostilities in Ukraine held in Volgograd

  Today in Volgograd, Boris Stikhin, a member of the International Union of Anarchists, has held a solo picket against the warfare in Eastern Ukraine.

January 24, 2015 18:01

• Demand to extradite Permyakov to Armenian law enforcement bodies signed by 8000

  Since January 23, 8000 people have signed the demand to give the Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is accused of massacring the Avetisyan family, out to law enforcement bodies of Armenia.

January 24, 2015 16:47

• Armenia's MoD states liquidation of subversive group on border with Azerbaijan

  An Azerbaijani subversive group was almost completely liquidated while trying to attack military positions of the Armenian armed forces in the pre-border Tavush Region, Artsrun Ovannisyan, the spokesman of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD), has stated today, adding that the Armenian party suffered no losses.

January 24, 2015 13:00

• Five pupils of rehabilitation centre disappear in Rostov-on-Don

  Policemen in Rostov-on-Don are searching for five missing pupils of the social rehabilitation centre.

January 24, 2015 12:21

• Advocate of Yuri Vazagashvili demands removal of investigators in his son's death case

  Gigi Mosiashvili, the defender of the deceased Yuri Vazagashvili, has moved a demand to replace the investigators in the case of the earlier killed Zurab Vazagashvili.

January 24, 2015 11:05

• Teen wounded in Chechnya from policeman's pistol

  Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are investigating the incident with a wound in the head of an 11-year-old boy in the city of Argun. The boy was shot from a pistol belonging to a policeman.

January 24, 2015 05:08

• CoA finds former head of Georgia's Military Police guilty of torture

  On January 23, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal (CoA) found Megis Kardava, the ex-head of the Department of Military Police of the Georgia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) guilty of sexual assault and torture of the officer Sergo Tetradze and sentenced him in absentia to 9 years in prison.

January 24, 2015 01:59

• Journalistic community perplexed with verdict to Reznik

  On January 23, participants of the press conference at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow discussed the guilty verdict passed to the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. The speakers said that the guilty verdict to the journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik caused their bewilderment.

January 23, 2015 17:22

• Dagestani authorities report 20,000-strong nationwide mawlid

  Today, the Makhachkala Juma-Mosque has hosted the all-republic's mawlid condemning the caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. The participants have treated the publication of caricatures as a provocation aimed at strengthening anti-Muslim sentiments.

January 23, 2015 16:43

• Two Armenian soldiers perished in Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone

  Today, two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia perished on the border with Azerbaijan, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. One Armenian soldier was heavily wounded.

January 23, 2015 14:15

• At press conference in Moscow, Reznik's defence states violation of his rights

  The defence of the Rostov journalist Sergey Reznik, who was convicted on charges of false denunciation and insulting the authorities, has stated a violation of his right to the freedom of expression and promised to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

January 23, 2015 14:14

• Psychiatric examination appointed to Valery Permyakov, accused of massacring family in Gyumri

  According to a source close to the inquiry into the killing of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the accused Russian soldier Valery Permyakov will undergo a psychological and psychiatric examination.

January 23, 2015 13:54

• Policeman suspected of abuse of office in Nevinnomyssk

  In the city of Nevinnomyssk, policemen became figurants in the case about beating up a local resident. They are charged with abuse of power.

January 23, 2015 10:29

• Armenian investigators publish video of Permyakov's interrogation

  On January 22, the press service of the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia reported about another interrogation of the Russian military Valery Permyakov, accused of assassinating seven persons. The IC has released a video footage of the interrogation; it can be found on the YouTube.

January 23, 2015 05:59

• Annual message of Dagestani leader failed to respond to acute problems of republic's life, experts assert

  The annual message of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov to the Dagestani National Assembly was controversial and left a lot of questions unanswered, said the experts, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 23, 2015 05:14

• Head of "Astrakhan Russians" movement released under recognizance not to leave

  Igor Stenin, the head of the "Astrakhan Russians" movement, who was detained by FSB agents on charges of inciting extremism, has been released under recognizance not to leave.

January 23, 2015 04:54

• George Soros urges Azerbaijani authorities to ease pressure on civil society

  George Soros, the founder and the chairman of the "Open Society" Foundation, has called on President Ilham Aliev to ease the pressure on civil society and to remove barriers to activities of registered charities.

January 23, 2015 02:50

• CMR director Arapova criticizes court decision in Reznik's case

  The Centre for Media Rights (CMR) will assist in appealing against the verdict passed to the Rostov journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik, said Galina Arapova, the director of the Centre.

January 22, 2015 23:24

• Relatives of Alikhan Tochiev, killed in Nalchik, report he was kidnapped before special operation

  A native of Ingushetia Alikhan Tochiev, who was killed in Nalchik, was kidnapped two days before the special operation in the city; and his body had traces of torture, said his relatives. They deny the authorities' version about Alikhan's links with militants from Syria and do not believe that he was killed in the armed clash.