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September 02, 2014 21:17

• Kakabadse: TB patients added hunger-strikers in Kutaisi prison

  As reported by Nana Kakabadze, the head of the NGO "Political Prisoners for Human Rights", several convicted tuberculosis (TB) patients were transferred from Ksani Colony to Kutaisi Prison, where inmates are holding a hunger strike. In the opinion of Nana Kakabadze, this transfer of inmates was done illegally.

September 02, 2014 20:46

• Politkovskaya Award of 2014 will go to Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov

  It was decided to give the 2014 "Kamerton" (Tuning-Fork) Award named after Anna Politkovskaya posthumously to the journalists Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov, who perished in Ukraine, said Nadezhda Azhgikhina, the Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia.

September 02, 2014 19:44

• Rights defender Nasibov denied version of Nakhichevan MIA about his beating

  The rights defender Ilgar Nasibov, who was beaten up in Nakhichevan, has returned home after a medical examination in Turkey. By his perception, he is successfully recovering from received traumas. He treated the version of law enforcers that the cause of his beating was an everyday domestic conflict as a lie.

September 02, 2014 15:05

• Volgograd Region: anti-nickel activists blame "Edinaya Rossiya" for illegal agitation

  Activists of the anti-nickel movement from the city of Uryupinsk, Volgograd Region, report an illegal campaigning of the members of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party; and try to withdraw Ella Chermashentseva, the party's nominee, from the elections to the City Duma of Uryupinsk.

September 02, 2014 15:02

• Irganai villagers do not let their children to school, demanding to meet Dagestani leadership

  On September 1 and 2, school lessons were disrupted in the village of Irganai, Untsukul District of Dagestan. Parents would not let their children to school, demanding a meeting with the republic's leadership to discuss the situation with non-payment of compensations for flooded land.

September 02, 2014 11:43

• "Levada-Centre": 64% of Russian citizens believe authorities did their best to rescue hostages in Beslan

  Over 10 years from the date when militants had seized the Beslan School No. 1, the proportion of people, who believe that the Russian authorities and law enforcers did everything possible to rescue the hostages, has increased from 52% to 64%, states the "Levada-Centre" following the results of the public questioning. Number of respondents who treated measures taken by the authorities as insufficient decreased to 24%.

September 02, 2014 10:00

• In Krasnodar, activist Darya Polyudova arrested on suspicion of extremism

  In Krasnodar, Darya Polyudova, an activist of the "ROT-Front", the United Communist Party of Novorossiysk, one of the organizers of the failed "March for Kuban Federalization", who had been earlier detained on charges of disorderly conduct, has been arrested on suspicion of extremism.

September 02, 2014 05:25

• In Rostov Region, schools welcome 7000 children of Ukrainian immigrants

  On September 1, more than seven thousand children of Ukrainian immigrants started training at schools of all 55 municipalities of the Rostov Region, the press service of the Rostov regional government reports.

September 02, 2014 02:42

• Knowledge Day in NCFD: regions face shortage of schools

  On the Knowledge Day, the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has opened new schools and other educational institutions. However, the regions of the NCFD claim the large number of pupils and the shortage of places for them.

September 02, 2014 01:07

• Sapiyat Magomedova complains to Dagestani ID about delays in investigation into case of her beating

  On September 1, in Dagestan, advocate Sapiyat Magomedova filed a complaint to the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), stating that the investigation into the case of her beating by policemen was intentionally delayed. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sapiyat Magomedova herself.

September 02, 2014 00:21

• Dagestani authorities claim lack of federal funds to pay compensation to Mekhelta villagers

  Till present, the federal budget allocated no funds for compensation payments to residents of the village of Mekhelta of the Gumbet District of Dagestan affected by the torrential rains, stated the response of the Dagestani authorities to a complaint filed by two local residents. However, the letter from the Russian Ministry of Regional Development contradicts the information of the Dagestani authorities, advocate Sapiyat Magomedova believes.

September 01, 2014 23:26

• Zarema Khadjirokova accused of fraud goes on hunger strike in Maikop

  Today, at the session of the Maikop City Court, Zarema Khadjirokova, the former chief accountant of the Maikop State Technological University, accused of fraud, has announced a hunger strike. She demands to transfer her trial to a different region.

September 01, 2014 17:14

• Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan bans Namazov's leaving the country

  In Azerbaijan, Abulfat Namazov, a video and photo journalist of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was not allowed to leave the country. On August 31, he was stopped from going to the United States on a journalism programme.

September 01, 2014 14:48

• Dudieva: on October 14, ECtHR to start considering complaint of Beslan victims

  On October 14, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will begin considering the complaint lodged by victims of the terror act in Beslan School No. 1, said Susanna Dudieva, the Chair of the Public Committee "Mothers of Beslan". According to her story, today, on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, the limitation time for bringing those responsible to justice expires; however, no objective investigation has ever been carried out.

September 01, 2014 11:50

• During week of August 25-31, 2014, 3 persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of August 25-31, 2014, at least 3 persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded persons were reported. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources. According to the law enforcement bodies, all killed persons were suspected members of the armed underground in Dagestan.

September 01, 2014 11:42

• Moscow opens art project about Beslan victims

  The art project of Yekaterinburg painters named "Beslan", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 terror act in North Ossetia, was opened on September 1 inMoscow and will last in the Marat Gelman's Gallery at the Winery till the evening of September 5. Besides, within the public campaign "Remember Beslan!", by the anniversary of the tragedy, activist published brochures containing the data of the independent investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy.

September 01, 2014 10:12

• Beslan marks tenth anniversary of terror act

  Today, the town of Beslan has started a three-day mourning event to mark the tenth anniversary of the terror act committed on September 1, 2004. More than 3000 people came to the yard of the School No. 1 to commemorate the victims of the terror act.

September 01, 2014 09:50

• Residents of Chechnya express their concern over growth of prices for meat and dairy products

  In Chechnya, the markets raise prices for some food products. According to the Chechen Department of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), over the recent week, prices for meat, sausages and dairy products rose by 5-20 percent. Local residents have expressed their concern about the above price growth, and they are afraid of food shortages.

September 01, 2014 09:16

• NAC: militants' summer camps found in vicinity of two Ingush villages

  Summer camps of the armed underground and a hideout with ammunition were found near two villages of the Nazran District of Ingushetia, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

September 01, 2014 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 25-31

  Reports of involvement of Russian militaries, including soldiers from southern regions of the country, in combat operations in the territory of Ukraine; recognition of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh by the US State of California; abolition of the direct election of the Makhachkala Mayor and withdrawal of the banking license of the Dagestani "Mesed" Bank; several false reports on bombs in public places of Stavropol, Volgograd, and Rostov-on-Don; music festival "KaZantip" in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 25-31, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".