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October 25, 2014 07:32

• In KBR, Lera Alkhasova, who represents Chernobyl liquidators at courts, repeatedly becomes suspect in fraud case

  Lera Alkhasova, a former employee of Ministry of Social Protection of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has been repeatedly suspected of committing a fraud with the compensations received by liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident who live in the republic, whose interests she had defended at litigations.

October 25, 2014 06:01

• Dagestani resident claims law enforcers break into apartment of his disabled parents and beat them

  Unidentified law enforcers have broken into the apartment of residents of Makhachkala, located in the Separatorny village. The law enforcers have demanded from the Makhachkala residents to report the whereabouts of their son Kamil Guliev.

October 25, 2014 04:59

• In Vremenny, law enforcers search for Amir of "Mountain Sector of Vilayat Dagestan"

  The settlement of Vremenny of the Untsukul District, where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) is underway, provides shelter up to five militants, including Magomed Suleimanov, the kadi of "Dagestan Vilayat" and the Amir "Mountain Sector of Dagestan Vilayat".

October 25, 2014 03:44

• Ramis Mirzakhanov, killed in Dagestan, had nothing to do with militants, his relatives assert

  Relatives of Ramis Mirzakhanov, a deputy of the Tabasaran District Assembly, who was shot dead in the village of Akka, assert that he had nothing to do with militants; he never supported the ideas of Wahhabism and refused to contact the relatives who had gone underground.

October 25, 2014 02:19

• Dagestan: DSPU students’ protest was no hunger strike, experts say

  The action held by students of the Dagestani State Pedagogical University (DSPU) against the intended merge of two departments, is not a true hunger strike, experts say.

October 25, 2014 00:51

• Two Dagestanis sentenced for plotting terror act at chemical weapons destruction plant

  Nurpashi Budaichiev and Kamil Batdalov, natives of Dagestan, are sentenced to 11 and 12.5 years of imprisonment on charges of plotting a terror act on a chemical weapons destruction plant "Maradykovsky" in the Kirov Region. Advocates of the convicts claim fabrication of the criminal case and announce their intention to challenge the court's decision at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

October 24, 2014 21:40

• Novocherkassk court postpones deadline for paying fine for Don Women Union by three months

  The Novocherkassk Magistrate Court of the Rostov Region has postponed by three months the payment by the Don Women Union of the fine imposed for their work without getting registered as a foreign agent.

October 24, 2014 19:10

• Arrested Azerbaijani rights defender Leyla Yunus nominated for Nobel Peace Award

  The Women-Human Rights Defenders’ International Coalition (WHRDIC) has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the rights defender Leyla Yunus from prison and put forward her candidacy for the 2015 Nobel Peace Award in 2015.

October 24, 2014 17:47

• ICRF indicts all detainees in Minvody fight case

  All the 26 detainees in the criminal case opened in connection of the fight in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), after which one person died, have seen their charges, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

October 24, 2014 15:34

• Chechnya: relatives of combatant in Syria hope for lenient sentence

  Chechnya has begun trying Said Mazhaev, a resident of Grozny, accused of involvement in warfare in Syria. After the first session, the court appointed the continuation for November 7. Mazhaev’s relatives expect that the court will take extenuating circumstances into account at sentencing.

October 24, 2014 15:16

• Verdict on massacre in Kuschevskaya upheld by Russia’s SC

  The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the sentence to the members of the so-called "Tsapok’s gang" from the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, sentenced to long terms in prison. The case against Sergey Tsapok himself was stopped because of his death.

October 24, 2014 12:59

• In Dagestan, DSPU students demand to announce the order on cancellation of department merge (+video)

  Students of the Dagestani State Pedagogical University (DSPU), who suspended their hunger strike, demanded from the Acting Rector of the university to present them, on October 27, with a copy of the order, according to which the merging of the engineering-pedagogical and technological-economic departments was cancelled.

October 24, 2014 12:35

• Policeman wounded in special operation in KBR

  In the Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where on Friday power agents carried out their special activities and killed a man who opened fire on them, a policeman was wounded.

October 24, 2014 12:10

• Two suspected militants killed in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, in the course of a special operation conducted in the Tlyaratin District, two suspected militants were killed, and one law enforcer was wounded.

October 24, 2014 09:19

• Moscow commemorates "Nord-Ost" victims on anniversary of hostage-taking

  An action dated to the anniversary of the capture by terrorists of the viewers of the musical "Nord-Ost" was held in Moscow with attendance of several hundred people.

October 24, 2014 07:01

• Developments in Mokha may trigger religious confrontation, Muslims and Georgian Ombudsman believe

  The Muslims living in the village of Mokha, Adigen District of Georgia, demand to stop construction works in the building, which was formerly a mosque, and return the appropriate status to the building.

October 24, 2014 04:14

• Advocate: power agents’ actions in Vremenny fail to meet CTO objectives

  As stated by Dagestani journalists, it is impossible to get to the settlement of Vremenny and check the locals’ information about the violations admitted by power agents. The lawyer Gadji Gadjiev said that household-by-household inspections are conducted for several times – even without the owners and witnesses.

October 24, 2014 01:29

• Court in Chechnya rejects all motions of Kutaev’s defence, advocate says

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya keeps rejecting all the petitions put forward by the defence during the consideration of the appeal against the verdict passed to Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, since the petitions reveal falsifications, said Pyotr Zaikin, Ruslan’s advocate.

October 23, 2014 15:43

• EP calls on Russia's MoJ to withdraw its claim on dissolution of "Memorial"

  MPs of the European Parliament (EP) have adopted a resolution calling on the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to withdraw from the Supreme Court its claim for dissolution of the Russian "Memorial".

October 23, 2014 15:19

• Azerbaijan saves oilers who fell into sea during accident at oil-extraction platform

  All the 12 oilers who fell into the sea as a result of the accident that occurred on Platform No. 441 of the Oil and Gas Extraction Department (OGED) "Narimanovneft" of the country’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) countries. Five of them needed medical help.