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October 20, 2014 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 13-19

  Public hearing at the ECtHR on human rights violations in the case on the terror act in Beslan in September 2007; changes in executive power of Volgograd Region; conviction of "Million Mask March" protesters in Yerevan; pardoning in Azerbaijan that affected four political prisoners; search for organizers of terror act in Chechnya; heavy rains in the Krasnodar Territory that caused flooding of some resort cities, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 13-19, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 20, 2014 08:29

• Prior to his disappearance in 2012, Khasan Zalikhanov, killed in Nalchik, was a policeman

  Khasan Zalikhanov, who was killed in a firefight in Nalchik on October 18, used to be a policeman prior to his disappearance in 2012. The law enforcement bodies associate his disappearance with the fact that he joined the armed underground.

October 20, 2014 03:42

• Residents of Vremenny complain to Ramazan Abdulatipov about law enforcers' actions

  On October 19, in Dagestan, residents of the village of Vremenny of the Untsukul District sent an appeal to Dagestani leader Ramazan Abdulatipov, asking to pay attention to their situation and to form a commission to verify the facts of human rights violations committed by law enforcers in the area of the counterterrorist operation (CTO).

October 19, 2014 19:45

• ICRF: killed Aliskhanov was plotting attempt on policemen on eve of to terror act in Grozny

  Aslan Aliskhanov, killed in Chechnya, had an intention to blow up policemen the day before the terror act, which he committed in Grozny on October 5. This was reported by Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

October 18, 2014 23:57

• DPS unit shelled in Nalchik: two killed and one wounded

  Tonight in Nalchik, when trying to inspect a car, a unit of the road-and-post service (known as DPS) was attacked, resulting in two lost and one wounded policemen; one of the attackers was killed by return fire, said a source from law enforcement bodies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

October 18, 2014 17:46

• MIA reports killing of organizer of terror act in Grozny

  Aslan Aliskhanov, a militant and the organizer of the explosion in Grozny on October 5, had been shot dead today during a special operation in the Chechen capital, said the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

October 18, 2014 12:22

• Relatives of Elshan Salikhov, killed in Derbent, deny his involvement in militants' activities

  According to family members of Elshan Salikhov, killed during the special operation in Derbent, the victim was not a member of the armed underground and had no problems with the police.

October 18, 2014 11:44

• Shamil Gazaliev from Chechnya suspected of involvement in warfare in Syria

  Shamil Gazaliev, a resident of Grozny, who was regarded missing since the summer of 2014, is in Syria, taking part in the war for the anti-governmental forces, said the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya. In case of his homecoming, Gazaliev will be detained.

October 18, 2014 11:15

• Gimry resident reports detention of three suspected militants in Vremenny

  Today, a resident of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, has reported that three suspected members of the armed underground, blocked in the settlement of Vremenny by power agents on October 15, were detained and taken away from the settlement. The police has not been confirmed this information yet.

October 18, 2014 07:37

• Volgograd: residents of Srednaya Akhtuba picket against expanded clay factories

  A picket demanding from the supervisory bodies to suspend the work expanded clay factories in the settlement of Srednaya Akhtuba until they are reorganized and create a sanitary protection zone in the settlement was held in Volgograd.

October 18, 2014 04:21

• Grozny law enforcers search for two suspected suicide bombers, a police source reports

  On October 15, in the Lenin District of Grozny, law enforcers checked passports in connection with the search for suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), who, according to the operative information, might be hiding in one of the districts of the city.

October 18, 2014 02:01

• In Krasnodar, "Solidarity" activist stabbed because of his anti-Putin inscription

  In the Krasnodar Territory, Viktor Chirikov, an activist of the movement "Solidarity", was attacked and got a stab wound because of the inscription he made on the rear window of his car. The activist did not go to the police, he believes it has no sense, since his former complains about attacks did not bring any results.

October 18, 2014 01:05

• Armenia: organizer of "Million Mask March" sentenced to six years of imprisonment

  In Yerevan, the court of first instance of the administrative districts of Kentron-Nork-Marash has sentenced Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, who organized the "Million Mask March", to six years of imprisonment. The other defendants were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment.

October 18, 2014 01:02

• In Budyonnovsk, head of Committee of Soldiers' Mothers detained after search in NGO's office

  On October 17, the law enforcement bodies conducted a search in the office of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Mothers from Kuma River Area" in Budyonnovsk and the Budyonnovsk District of the Stavropol Territory. Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the 73-year-old head of the NGO, is detained for charge of fraud, the website of the project "RealArmy" reports.

October 17, 2014 21:57

• 23 believers taken to police after namaz in Makhachkala

  Today, after namaz (evening prayer) law enforcers have detained and took to the police 23 parishioners of the Salafi mosque in Makhachkala. All the detainees were registered and released, the congregation reported later.

October 17, 2014 20:04

• Four persons from the list of political prisoners pardoned in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has signed a decree to pardon 84 people, including four persons earlier recognized as political prisoners. In his comment on the presidential decree Elshan Gasanov, the head of the Centre for Monitoring Political Prisoners, expressed his regret that the pardoning had failed to solve the problem of political prisoners.

October 17, 2014 17:27

• In Dagestan, Patimat Nasibova's sister was held by police for an hour

  Today, Saiganat Nasibova, a sister of Patimat Nasibova, accused of helping militants, was detained by the police. An hour later, she was released from the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division), said Elena Denisenko, the advocate for Patimat Nasibova.

October 17, 2014 15:43

• Woman from Chechnya sentenced to over 9 years in prison for beating her stepdaughter

  Today, in Chechnya, the Oktiabrsky District Court of Grozny has found Marina Baisultanova, a local resident, guilty of brutal beating her four-year-old stepdaughter and sentenced her to 9 years and 2 months of imprisonment in a general-security colony.

October 17, 2014 15:26

• "EcoWatch" members report improvement of Vitishko's relations with colony bosses

  Evgeny Vitishko, a convicted ecologist from Krasnodar, has no claims to top managers of the colony-settlement, where he serves his term, said Dmitry Gutov and Elena Shmakova, members of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), who have visited the ecologist.

October 17, 2014 13:47

• Experts are skeptical about allegations on JAMWA's involvement in explosion in Grozny

  The allegations of involvement of the Islamist grouping of JAMWA (Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar) in the explosion in Grozny on October 5 cause doubts, because of the source of the information. This opinion was expressed by Akhmet Yarlykapov, researcher from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, and Alexei Malashenko from the Moscow Carnegie Centre.