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September 29, 2014 10:14

• Minvody residents demand to investigate beating up of hospital patient

  On September 28, the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody) hosted a protest action, during which the protestors demanded to conduct a fair investigation into the fact of beating of a man at the Central District Hospital of the city. The protestors were informed by the local deputy police chief that two-thirds of the total number of the fighters had been detained.

September 29, 2014 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 22-28

  Hurricane in Southern Russia, flooding hundreds of houses of local residents and killing several people; inauguration of new President of Abkhazia; conviction of key witness in one of cases against dismissed Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 22-28, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 28, 2014 23:45

• Southern Russia protests against mining nickel near Khopyor River

  Today, the cities of the South Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Federation have held actions of nationwide solidarity for the preservation of the Central Black Earth Economic Region and against the decision on mining of nickel in the Khopyor River area.

September 28, 2014 09:35

• Murmansk resident reports to police about spending 18 years in slavery in Dagestan

  On September 26, in the Volgograd Region, policemen removed a 43-year-old man without any ID from the bus route "Makhachkala-Moscow". The detainee claims that he spent the past 18 years in slavery in Dagestan, where his passport was taken away from him. After the man gave his explanations to law enforcers, they released him, and he went to Moscow by hitchhiking. This was reported by the volunteer organization "Alternative".

September 28, 2014 06:48

• "Rosfinmonitoring" puts three Krasnodar activists on terrorists and extremists list

  The "Rosfinmonitoring" (the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring) has included Krasnodar oppositionists Darya Polyudova, Vyacheslav Martynov and Pyotr Lyubchenkov, who intended to hold a protest action against the Russia's policy towards Ukraine, in the official list of terrorists and extremists.

September 28, 2014 05:49

• Sochi residents claim violation of their rights builders of high-rise structure

  On September 27, about 50 residents of buildings located in Park and Constitution Streets in Sochi held one more gathering with the demand to stop the construction of high-rise buildings in their residential area.

September 28, 2014 03:11

• In Volgograd, 250 people rally in support of Ukrainians

  On September 27, in Volgograd, a mourning action in memory of the dead residents of Donbas was held in front of the reserve museum "Stalingrad Battle". Participants of the mourning event called "Donetsk: innocent victims" demanded to conduct an international investigation into the killings of civilians in Ukraine, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

September 27, 2014 20:42

• Situation in Ukraine acquires traits of Southern Caucasus conflicts, experts believe

  The participants of the hearings held in Yerevan "Possible Impact of Ukrainian Crisis on Southern Caucasus" stated that the development in Ukraine acquire traits of conflicts in Southern Caucasus.

September 27, 2014 19:15

• CTO regime introduced at border of Kazbek and Gumbet Districts of Dagestan

  In Dagestan, on Saturday, the legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) was introduced in connection with searches of suspected militants at the junction of the Gumbet and Kazbek Districts, said the Operative Headquarters of the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) in Dagestan.

September 27, 2014 17:06

• MfE forces in Northern Caucasus are at high alert because of threat of heavy rains and mudslides

  The units of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) are brought to the high alert state, because of the risk of showers and mudslides in Northern Caucasus, said the MfE.

September 27, 2014 15:41

• KBR's SC finds Biaslan Djaboev's belonging to militants unproved

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has found Biaslan Djaboev, who was killed in February 2012, innocent under the incriminated article of "participation in illegal armed formation (IAF)". Under all other indictment points brought against Djaboev, he was found guilty killed, said the advocate Tatiana Psomiadi.

September 27, 2014 10:41

• Relatives of kidnapped Kizilyurt resident cannot find him for the second day

  As of Saturday morning, the whereabouts of Sakhratula Magomedov, a resident of Kizilyurt, who was kidnapped in the evening on September 25, has not been established, said Aisha Selimkhanova, an employee of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

September 27, 2014 09:13

• ECtHR starts communication with Russian authorities on case of "Chernobyl" liquidator

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has sent a request to Russian authorities concerning the case of a participant of the liquidation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident from the KBR.

September 27, 2014 06:38

• Obama's criticism of Azerbaijan may be followed by sanctions, civil society activists suppose

  The criticism of Azerbaijani authorities, voiced out by President Barack Obama in connection with obstacles to NGOs' activities may tell positively on solution of existing problems, NGO activists hope. At the same time, the official Baku has rejected the criticism from Washington.

September 27, 2014 03:29

• Sochi residents oppose build-up of river bank

  On September 24-26, residents of the micro-district KSM in Sochi held three rallies, attended by some 200 people, who spoke against the build-up of the water-protection zone on the left bank of the Sochi River.

September 26, 2014 20:07

• Kizilyurt hosts protest demanding to establish whereabouts of kidnapped local

  Relatives of Sakhratulla Magomedov, who assert that he was kidnapped on September 25 by unidentified persons, have gathered at the Inter-District OVD (Interior Division) in the city of Kizilyurt.

September 26, 2014 19:49

• UN HRC adopts resolution on journalists' safety

  A resolution calling to ensure the safety of journalists and media workers has been adopted by the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations (UN). The human rights organization "Article 19", which gave advice on the resolution, has again urged Russia to resume the investigation into the murder of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev.

September 26, 2014 17:48

• Experts: agricultural development in Southern Russia needs changes in credit policy

  Agrarians of Northern Caucasus and regions of Southern and Russia are ready to increase their production output, should the credit policy be changed, small businesses supported, protective tariffs introduced and fuel-and-oil prices reduced. Otherwise, all the talks about import substitution will remain in the field of the political PR, said the debaters of the "Caucasian Knot".

September 26, 2014 17:47

• Policeman wounded in Makhachkala police is in satisfactory condition

  The policeman, who was wounded in his leg in an armed clash with a suspected militant Alil Gadjiramazanov in Makhachkala, feels satisfactorily. The casualty was involved in the armed underground, the resources supporting North-Caucasian militants have confirmed.

September 26, 2014 15:47

• Candidates for KBR leader nominate their supposed senators

  Each of the three candidates for the post of the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has proposed three candidates for the membership of the Council of Federation (the so-called "Senate") of Russia, Tatiana Egorova, the Speaker of the Republic's Parliament, said today.