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October 09, 2014 15:01

• Volgograd mothers of large families demand meeting Governor for second week

  Starting from September 30, in Volgograd, mothers of large families keep standing in front of the building of the government of the Volgograd Region and demand a meeting with the Governor. Officials from the regional government have stated that they do their best to solve problems of mothers of large families.

October 09, 2014 14:04

• Number of victims of shootout at Kizlyar marketplace reaches eight persons

  In the Dagestani city of Kizlyar, a mass fight was followed by a shootout at the central marketplace. As a result, one person was killed and seven others were injured.

October 09, 2014 13:09

• Dagestan: Vremenny residents claim officials went to blocked settlement without them

  On Thursday, 30 residents of the settlement of Vremenny of the Untsukul District of Dagestan gathered in front of the building of the Gimry village administration with a plan to enter their home village. However, it became clear that law enforcers and officials from the district and village administrations left for the settlement of Vremenny without the local residents.

October 09, 2014 13:08

• Relatives of Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid report his house was searched

  Relatives of Islamic preacher Abu Khalid Nadir, who was detained in the capital of Dagestan on suspicion of arms trafficking, reported in a search conducted in his household. Besides, law enforcers also carried out a search in the office of the website "Salyaf.ru", which posted video records of the lectures given by the Islamic preacher.

October 09, 2014 12:32

• Yuri Kokov elected head of the KBR

  On Thursday, October 9, 2014, the Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), unanimously voted for the candidacy of Yuri Kokov, who was nominated for the presidency of the KBR. On the same day, Kokov took the office.

October 09, 2014 08:59

• "Don Women" needs 6000 roubles to pay fine for refusal to get registered as "foreign agent"

  The regional public organization "The Union of 'Don Women'" is to collect an additional amount of about 6000 roubles to pay the fine imposed by the decision of the Novocherkassk City Court for operation of the public association without being registered as a "foreign agent".

October 08, 2014 22:32

• NGO IREX stops its activities in Azerbaijan

  The American NGO IREX (Council for International Researches and Exchanges) has announced the termination of its activities in Azerbaijan, which was launched back in 1998, and the closure of its office in Baku.

October 08, 2014 21:50

• Advocate Shaisipova: Vitishko will be transferred to general-security colony for three reprimands

  In the Tambov Region, Evgeny Vitishko, a convicted ecologist from Krasnodar, will be transferred from his colony-settlement to a general-security colony for his admitted violations of the regime, said his advocate Valentina Shaisipova.

October 08, 2014 21:03

• Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid who disappeared in Makhachkala found at police station

  A well-known Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid (Nadir Medetov), the kidnapping of whom was announced by his relatives on Wednesday, was found at the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala. His relatives assert that firearms were planted on him.

October 08, 2014 19:48

• Grozny residents claim being forced to take part in march on Putin's birthday (+video)

  On October 7, the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Grozny hosted a mass march, which, according to the authorities, was attended by about 100,000 people. Civil servants, teachers and students of educational institutions claim they were forced to take part in the event.

October 08, 2014 17:49

• Andrei Rudomakha reports on possible transfer of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko to common-security penal colony

  Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko sentenced in the case of damage to the fence around the so-called "Governor Tkachov's summer cottage" is being prepared for the transfer from a penal settlement-colony to a common-security penal colony. This was announced by Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

October 08, 2014 17:25

• Persons killed in Psykhurei village in KBR were strangers, local residents assert

  In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), residents of the village of Psykhurei, Baksan District, have held a gathering and declared the inadmissibility of desecration of the local cemetery, where two suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were killed.

October 08, 2014 15:19

• In Dagestan, residents of Vremenny claim violation of their rights by law enforcers

  Residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, where a large-scale special operation is underway, report that almost all civilians left the village. The villagers complain that law enforcers do not allow them to make video records of what is happening in the village and take their mobile phones away.

October 08, 2014 13:53

• Dagestan: Deputy Minister discloses policeman who shot Eradil Asanov dead

  At a rally held in the village of Terekli-Mekteb of the Nogai District of Dagestan, Akhmed Bataliev, the Deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, has made public a name of the policeman, who shot and killed Eradil Asanov and promised to carry out the investigation into the incident.

October 08, 2014 12:09

• NAC: men killed at police checkpoint in Dagestan took part in murders of religious leaders

  Three suspected members of an illegal armed formation (IAF), who were shot dead by policemen at a checkpoint of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) near the village of Khebda of the Shamil District of Dagestan, were involved in the assassinations of prominent religious figures Sirazhutdin Khuriksky and Shamil Badaviev.

October 08, 2014 01:12

• Conflict in Minvody was caused by problems in Stavropol Territory, experts assert

  The incident in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), where a man died after a mass fight at the hospital and where his death was followed by mass protests, was the result of the complex problems in the Stavropol Territory. Meanwhile, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe the conflict should not be divided into interethnic and domestic sides.

October 07, 2014 17:50

• Moscow: AI's protesters demand to find customers of Politkovskaya's murder

  In Moscow, a memorial ceremony took place near the building of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". It was organized by the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI); its participants demanded to find those who had ordered the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

October 07, 2014 16:37

• Orota villagers in Dagestan feel no problems from CTO regime

  In the villages of Kharakhi and Orota of the Khunzakh District of Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced, a source from the enforcement bodies reports. Residents of the village of Orota state they have no problems associated with the regime.

October 07, 2014 15:56

• In Azerbaijan, leader of Islamic Party Movsum Samedov faces tightening of prison regime

  In Azerbaijan, Movsum Samedov, the convicted leader of the Islamic Party, faces a threat of tightening of detention regime. The administration of the penal colony No. 12, where Movsum Samedov was transferred, has submitted to the court a request to place him in the Gobustan closed prison for the term of three years.

October 07, 2014 15:12

• HRC "Memorial": relatives of kidnapped Ramazanov receive no law enforcers' answer

  Till present, Zarkipli Ramazanov, who disappeared on September 16, has not yet been found. His family members have filed to the leader of Dagestan and the law enforcement bodies a complaint about his kidnapping; however, they did not receive any response neither from the administration of the Dagestani leader nor from the law enforcement bodies.