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December 26, 2014 22:37

• POC members not admitted to Ekazhevo resident detained after shooting at wedding party

  Policemen did not allow the members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Ingushetia to visit the specialized ward Ingush Republic's Clinical Hospital (IRCH), which is keeping Magomed Aushev, who was detained after shooting at a wedding party, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported. Earlier, Aushev's relatives said that he had been beaten and tortured after detention.

December 26, 2014 20:08

• Five people picket in Volgograd in support of opposition leader Navalny

  Today, in Volgograd, in the Alley of Heroes, the regional branch of the "Progress Party" has held a picket in support of Alexei Navalny. Out of the applied 30 persons, just five have actually appeared.

December 26, 2014 19:47

• Azerbaijani GPO seals up Baku office of Radio Liberty (+video)

  Today, employees of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan have sealed up the Baku office of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty after it was searched. The top managers of the Corporation "Radio Liberty/Free Europe" have treated the search as an attack on the freedom of speech.

December 26, 2014 17:33

• Azerbaijan completes preliminary investigation into case of rights defender Intigam Aliev

  A preliminary investigation into the case of Intigam Aliev, the head of the NGO "Legal Education Society", is over in Azerbaijan. After the defence studies the indictment, the case will be sent to the court, said Fakhraddin Mekhtiev, Aliev's advocate.

December 26, 2014 15:02

• Stavropol Territory: Magomed Aliev, suspected of recruiting militants, transferred to prison hospital

  Magomed Aliev, a student of a Stavropol higher school, accused of promoting terrorism, has been placed into the hospital of the high security colony No. 3, located in the village of Krasnokumskoe, Georgievskiy District of the Stavropol Territory, the lawyer Olga Kamilova told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

December 26, 2014 11:30

• Condition of policeman wounded in special operation in Chechnya is stable

  The special agent of the Chechen MIA, wounded in the special operation in the Sunzha District, is in the hospital; his health condition is stable. The counterterrorist operation regime in the district is still in force, said a law enforcement source.

December 26, 2014 10:02

• Resident of Kizlyar fined for his comment in social networks

  A fine of 50,000 roubles was imposed on a resident of the city of Kizlyar for his comment posted in a social network, which was found extremist by the court. According to the prosecution, the man called for "the destruction by an explosion of a large number of people and the President of Russia."

December 26, 2014 07:14

• Citizen of Georgia lost in Syrian warfare

  A citizen of Georgia, Israpil Chatiashvili, has perished at the war in Syria. The circumstances of Chatiashvili's death are unknown.

December 26, 2014 04:21

• Decision to extend arrest of natives of Chechnya Tsatsaev and Kautarov was made without due reason, defence says

  The advocates of the natives of Chechnya Timirlan Tsatsaev and Aslan Kautarov, accused of assaulting a Moscow policeman, said they would appeal against the court's ruling to extend the detention of their clients. According to advocates, until now, investigators have not checked the defendants' alibi.

December 26, 2014 01:28

• Demerchyan's defence complains against verdict of Sochi court

  Alexander Boichenko, an advocate of the builder Mardiros Demerchyan has filed an appeal complaint against the verdict of the Adler District Court, which found his client guilty of false denunciation.

December 26, 2014 00:01

• Sister of Azerbaijani prisoners states he was tortured to death

  Elshad Babaev, who was serving his term in a colony near Baku, died as a result of torture; and his body has numerous injuries, said his sister. The Penitentiary Service refutes this information; however, Elchin Bekhbudov, the head of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture, said that the colony, where Babaev died, is known for its extremely harsh custody conditions.

December 25, 2014 17:57

• Car of attackers on house of head of Psedakh village found in Ingushetia

  The suspects of committing a robbery of the house of Khalid Tsechoev, the head of the Ingush village of Psedakh are being established, but the police have already found the car, which they used to escape from the venue. During the robbery over 1.4 million roubles were stolen, Tsechoev told himself.

December 25, 2014 17:16

• Chechen MIA petitions to make CaT respondent in suit against Murad Amriev

  At the session on the lawsuit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic to the athlete Murad Amriev, who stated that he had been kidnapped and tortured by the police in Grozny, The MIA's spokesman petitioned to attract the Committee against Torture as a respondent.

December 25, 2014 14:59

• Novolak District: protesters suspend their hunger strike

  After the meeting with Gadji Aidiev, the head of the administration of the Novolak District of Dagestan, on December 24, the hunger-strikers, who demand to solve their land problem, decided to suspend their protest action.

December 25, 2014 13:25

• Suspected militant killed and policeman wounded during CTO in Chechnya

  Today in the morning, in the Sunzha District of Chechnya, an unidentified person opened fire at policemen: a special-force agent was wounded. The attacker was shot dead by response fire and was pre-identified as a member of the Makhauri grouping. The district was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

December 25, 2014 12:41

• Court reduces by one year prison term of Astrakhan ex-Mayor Stolyarov

  Today, the Astrakhan Regional Court has reduced the prison term of the temporarily dismissed Astrakhan Mayor Mikhail Stolyarov, convicted of bribery, from 10 to 9 years.

December 25, 2014 11:27

• Journalists begin returning to restored House of Press in Grozny

  Today, Grozny reopens the House of Press, which was damaged during the special operation against militants on December 4. Journalists of "Molodyozhnaya Smena" (Youth Generation) have already returned to their offices in the building; the remaining tenants plan to do in the coming days, said a source from the Grozny administration. The marketplace "Berkat" has partially resumed its work.

December 25, 2014 09:55

• Passports are checked again in Chechen capital

  Residents of the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny have reported that in the evening on December 24 law enforcers checked their passports. A source from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that the checks are of preventive pre-holiday character. Meanwhile, residents of Grozny fear of a new militants' attack.

December 25, 2014 08:08

• Sochi ski resorts raise prices for New Year holidays by more than a third

  For the period of the New Year holidays, the alpine resorts of the Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi have increased the cost of ski passes by an average of 30-40%. The press service of the ski resort "Roza Khutor", which will open its slopes on December 26, has attributed their higher prices to a large inflow of tourists.

December 25, 2014 06:12

• US Attorney Office is against postponing Tsarnaev's trial

  The Attorney Office of the United States has disagreed with the petition lodged by the advocates of the ethnic Chechen Johar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing the terror act at the Boston Marathon, to postpone the trial until September 2015.