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November 07, 2014 18:06

• Makhachkala hunger-strikers interrogated by prosecutors

  Employees of the Prosecutor's Office have visited the hunger-strikers who demand resignation of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov. During the interrogation of the protesters, much attention was paid to the persons of the organizers of the action.

November 07, 2014 17:59

• Prosecutors announce 13-million-rouble embezzlement in Dagestani Ministry of Agriculture

  According to the Dagestani Region Prosecutor's Office, an audit conducted at the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs revealed a theft of more than 13 million roubles.

November 07, 2014 15:14

• Five parishioners of the mosque in Hungarian Fighters Street detained in Makhachkala

  Today, after namaz (the Friday prayer) in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, policemen detained five parishioners of the mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street, where earlier a conflict burst out of believers with law enforcers, the edition named "Chernovik" writes, citing eyewitnesses. The reasons for the detention of believers are not reported.

November 07, 2014 15:08

• Soldier's mothers go to court to demand information from MoD about soldiers wounded in Ukraine

  The organization named "Soldiers' Mothers of Saint Petersburg" has filed a lawsuit demanding to invalidate the refusal of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide information about hospitalization of soldiers wounded in the warfare in the territory of Ukraine.

November 07, 2014 14:31

• One of four policemen wounded by explosion in KBR is in grave condition

  In the course of a special operation in the settlement of Chegem-2 (Chegem Vtoroi) in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) special division fighters have been injured by shrapnel in the blast of an improvised explosive device (IED), a law enforcement source of the republic has reported today. The health condition of one of them is grave; while the killed suspected militant has been identified.

November 07, 2014 12:38

• In Nakhichevan, PFPA activists report disappearance of one of them

  In the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), Yashar Bagirsoy, the head of the regional branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), reports about disappearance of Khidjran Gasymov, a local activist of the opposition organization. Bagirsoy believes that Gasymov was detained by law enforcement bodies; however, according to his story, the police did not confirm this information.

November 06, 2014 22:56

• Two Dagestani policemen to stand trial on charges of extorting bribe from suspects

  The case against two operative agents of the Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) of the MIA of Dagestan, accused of a fraud through abuse of office, has been sent to the court.

November 06, 2014 22:12

• Lawyer and his friend arrested in Dagestan on suspicion of sexual assault and extortion

  A Dagestani lawyer and his friend are suspected of sexual assault, robbery, extortion of 2 million roubles, and arms trafficking. At investigators' request the court put them into custody.

November 06, 2014 21:50

• Azerbaijan: Alaif Gasanov, Leyla Yunus' advocate, sentenced to public works

  The Yasamal District Court of Baku has finished considering the lawsuit filed in the order of private accusation by Nuriya Guseinova, a former cellmate of the rights defender Leyla Yunus, against the latter's advocate Alaif Gasanov.

November 06, 2014 20:35

• Social network users criticize "Caucasian March" held in Moscow

  Most of the users of social networks questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have treated negatively the "Caucasian March", held in Moscow on the National Unity Day, calling it "unnatural" and treating the participation in it of Caucasian natives as humiliating.

November 06, 2014 19:19

• Resignations in Georgia will have foreign-policy implications, political experts believe

  The resignation of Irakli Alasaniya from the post of Minister of Defence and his announcement about the withdrawal of his party "Free Democrats" from the ruling coalition have resulted of the attempts to correct the country's pro-Western course, Georgian political analysts believe.

November 06, 2014 18:29

• Makhachkala: power agents hold check prior to reopen "Happy Baby" Centre

  The Makhachkala babysitting "Happy Child" Centre, which was suspended by law enforcers, was reopened on Thursday. Earlier, power agents made another check of the centre, saying they did not receive information about the permit to reopen the preschool facility.

November 06, 2014 12:35

• Law enforcers search apartment of mother of rights defender Gulnara Akhundova in Baku

  On Thursday, in Baku, the apartment of Djavakhir Akhundova, the mother of rights activist Gulnara Akhundova, who is now living abroad, was searched.

November 06, 2014 09:27

• In Nazran, policemen search for the man who opened fire at fuelling station

  Ingush policemen are conduction their operative activities aimed to find and detain the man who had opened fire in the city of Nazran.

November 06, 2014 07:46

• Hunger strikers in Makhachkala intend to continue until their demands are fulfilled

  The hunger strike of public activists who demand resignation of Ramazan Abdulatipov continues in Makhachkala. The protesters intend to go on until their demands are satisfied.

November 06, 2014 05:23

• Female rights defender from Makhachkala claims harassment by power agents

  The human rights activist Albina Magomedova states that power agents broke into her household in Makhachkala; and that she fears for her life and lives of her relatives.

November 05, 2014 19:30

• Arrest of figurant of the case of mosque riots appealed against in Makhachkala

  The advocate of Rasul Magomedkadiev, accused of riots outside a mosque in Makhachkala has appealed against the arrest of his client. The detainee’s wife has stated a violation of his rights by law enforcers.

November 05, 2014 18:29

• Azerbaijan: advocate Khalid Bagirov removed from defending Leyla Yunus

  The lawyer Khalid Bagirov has been removed from defending the rights of the arrested rights defender Leyla Yunus. This investigator's decision is aimed at weakening her defence, said the lawyer.

November 05, 2014 18:11

• Georgia's NATO representative resigns

  Levan Dolidze, the Georgia's representative at the NATO, resigns in the context of the events around surrounding the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

November 05, 2014 15:31

• In Sukhumi, participants of "Kunaki" Festival call Wild Division an example of Caucasians' integration into Russia

  The participants of the Eighth Festival of Documentary Films and Author's TV Programmes of Northern Caucasus "Kunaki" (Friends), which is held in Abkhazia, have discussed at a roundtable the participation of natives of Northern and Southern Caucasus in World War I as soldiers of the so-called "Wild Division".