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November 22, 2014 18:40

• In Armenia, advocates of participants of "Millions Mask March" appeal against conviction

  The defence of Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of "Tsegakron" Party, and of other figurants in the "Millions Mask March" case has appealed against the conviction, demanding to cancel the verdict of the first instance court and acquit the activists.

November 22, 2014 18:11

• Azerbaijan: Mirkadyrov's custody extended by 5 months

  The detention of the Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, accused of treason, was extended already after the official expiration of his arrest, which is a violation of the law, his advocates assert.

November 22, 2014 17:37

• Guards and brother of Chechen representative in Ukraine arrested in Moscow

  Two bodyguards and a brother of Ramzan Tsitsulaev, the representative of the leader of the Chechen Republic in Ukraine, have been arrested by the Khamovniki Court in Moscow for two months on suspicion of using violence to state officials.

November 22, 2014 17:00

• In Azerbaijan, Leyla Yunus' advocates state sharp deterioration in her health due to malnutrition

  In Azerbaijan, the health of Leyla Yunus, who is kept in Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1, has sharply deteriorated. Because of chronic malnutrition, she has an aggravation of her diabetes, said her advocates.

November 22, 2014 15:29

• Tbilisi: farewell ceremony with Bendukidze ends with minute of silence

  The farewell ceremony with Kakha Bendukidze, the former Georgian Minister of Economy, is over in Tbilisi; and the funeral procession has departed to the Kukia Cemetery. At the end of the ceremony a letter of Georgian ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili was read out, saying that "the country is again on the brink of ruining."

November 22, 2014 12:31

• Azerbaijani MoD refutes statements about special operation conducted in helicopter crash site

  The statements that the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) are engaged in a special operation in the area, where the Mi-24 military helicopter was downed, are untrue, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

November 21, 2014 23:47

• Residents of Akatsij Street in Sochi complain that they are evicted

  Lyudmila Savelieva, a resident of Sochi, who was evicted, with his family, from No. 5/1 in Akatsij Street without providing any other housing, reports that court marshals demand from her to abandon the barn, which was adapting for residence in the place of the demolished house.

November 21, 2014 21:58

• Fast stop of "Khimprom" in Volgograd can lead to disaster, ecologists are warning

  A hasty closure of the "Khimprom" Factory threatens with environmental problems to Volgograd, including a complete loss of control over the equipment and full pipelines for pumping chemically polluted wastewater. This was stated in the memorandum of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia.

November 21, 2014 21:37

• NKR's Defence Army denies any attitude to death of Azerbaijani soldier

  The Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has nothing to do with the death of the Azerbaijani soldier on the frontline, said Senor Asratyan, the press secretary of the Defence Army.

November 21, 2014 17:18

• CTO regime lifted in Derbent

  As reported by the spokesman of the operative headquarter for the region, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced on Friday night in the territory of Derbent, Dagestan, has been cancelled.

November 21, 2014 17:01

• In Nalchik, seven persons detained at liquidation of gambling club

  In the course of an operation aimed to liquidate an underground gambling club in the city of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) arrested seven men who, according to policemen, hampered their actions and behaved aggressively.

November 21, 2014 16:03

• Son of Rafig Dashdamirli, PFPA activist, arrested in Azerbaijan for alleged drug trafficking

  Senan Dashdamirli, a son of Rafig Dashdamirli, the head of the organizational division of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested in Baku on charges of illegal drug dealing. The young man and his father have rejected the accusation, saying that it was politically motivated.

November 21, 2014 15:04

• Russia's Cabinet of Ministers approves alliance treaty with Abkhazia

  The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Russian-Abkhaz treaty was in process since this August. On October 13, a draft document entitled "On Cooperation and Integration" drafted by the Russian party was delivered to the Abkhaz counterpart, which said that it should be corrected.

November 21, 2014 15:00

• In Makhachkala, Tarki residents decide to settle conflict within their community

  The conflict of the leaders of community councils of Tarki villages with supporters of Nabiyula Karachaev that burst out during a meeting in Makhachkala Mayoralty will be settled within the Tarki Jamaat, Gamzat Khangishiev, a public figure of Karaman, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

November 21, 2014 14:12

• Azerbaijan: Ilgar Mamedov transferred to colony medical unit

  Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), who is serving his prison term in Colony No. 2, was placed into the medical unit of the colony. His colleagues and advocate are concerned about his state of health and the lack of official information about the reasons thereof.

November 21, 2014 13:01

• NAC: militant killed in Derbent was wanted for organizing bombings in Dagestan

  As reported by the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), as a result of a special operation conducted in Derbent, Velibeg Veliev, the leader of Suleiman-Stalsky militant grouping, who had been on the wanted list on suspicion of exploding policemen's cars, was killed.

November 21, 2014 07:36

• Chechen authorities save power through mass power disconnections, residents assert

  Residents of the city of Grozny and two districts of Chechnya – the Shali and Vedeno Districts – complain about systematic large-scale power outages. Energy officials explain them by emergencies, while residents associate them with the authorities' desire to save power resources.

November 21, 2014 05:56

• Nalchik has no conditions for disabled, activists of "Accessible Environment" assert

  Nalchik is not equipped for wheelchair invalids, state members of the NGO "Republic Is Common Cause" after holding an action "Accessible Environment", during which they tried to drive along city streets in their wheelchairs.

November 20, 2014 22:33

• KBR's SC rejects compensation claim of 55 Chernobyl accident liquidators

  55 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), received a refusal of the republic's Supreme Court (SC) to pay them compensations as assigned by the courts of the first instance.

November 20, 2014 21:27

• NKR states that Azerbaijan is constantly shelling the area of helicopter crash

  As reported by the Ministry of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the venue of the recent crash of the Mi-24 helicopter is under constant fire of Azerbaijani militaries; therefore, the Karabakh party cannot get there and find out the fate of three members of the crew.