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August 02, 2014 06:06

• "EcoWatch": Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko can be transferred to common-security colony

  The decision to place Evgeny Vitishko in a punishment cell is the first step to transfer the ecologist from the settlement colony to a common-security penal colony. This opinion was expressed by Vladimir Kimaev, a member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

August 02, 2014 05:08

• Torchlight marchers in Yerevan demand to cancel rise of electricity tariffs

  A torchlight march against increase of electricity tariffs was held in Yerevan, organized by the respective initiative group and attended by several dozen people.

August 02, 2014 04:10

• Musa Magomedov's relatives rally in Kizilyurt demanding his release

  On August 1, relatives of Musa Magomedov, a detained resident of the village of Nechaevka of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, held a spontaneous gathering, demanding to release the detainee.

August 02, 2014 02:58

• ICRF: casualties of shootout in KBR were members of armed underground

  Two persons, who on August 1 were killed during a shootout in the Terek District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), were involved in the armed underground. This was announced by officials from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

August 02, 2014 00:11

• Before his death, journalist Timur Kuashev received threats

  On August 1, journalist Timur Kuashev was found dead in a suburb of Nalchik. Earlier, he said that he had received threats from law enforcers and Internet users. He believed that the threats were related to his professional activities.

August 01, 2014 21:54

• Baku CoA leaves "Musavat" activist Faraj Kerimli in custody

  The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the complaint of Faraj Kerimli, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, lodged against his three-month-long arrest on charges of illegal possession and sale of drugs. This was announced by his advocate Nemat Kerimli.

August 01, 2014 20:12

• IRFS calls to impose sanctions on Azeri officials who violate human rights

  The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has called on the country's international partners to impose sanctions on those country's officials, who take part in harassing NGOs and civil society activists of Azerbaijan.

August 01, 2014 19:05

• Journalist Timur Kuashev found dead in KBR

  The Circassian activist and journalist Timur Kuashev who disappeared on July 31, was found dead on Friday, August 1, in a suburb of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

August 01, 2014 13:54

• APA: nine Azerbaijani soldiers lost in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone

  According to unofficial data, on July 31, in a shootout that burst out in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, eight soldiers of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were killed. Another soldier died on Friday from wounds.

August 01, 2014 12:43

• "Levada-Centre": events in Ukraine divert Russians' attention from Northern Caucasus

  The population of Russia is optimistic about the situation in Northern Caucasus, the polling data of the "Levada-Centre" indicates. Experts attribute this to the events in Ukraine. According to Lev Gudkov, the director of the "Levada-Centre", information about Northern Caucasus remains in the background and does not worry people.

August 01, 2014 12:36

• Relatives of Abdulnasyrov, slain in Stavropol Territory, state absence of answer to their demand to check power agents' actions

  Relatives of Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, who, according to the official version, was killed in a shootout with power agents in the Novoselitsa District, have not yet received any response from the prosecutor's office to their demand to check the legality of policemen's actions.

August 01, 2014 11:55

• Flat of rights defender Rasul Djafarov searched in Azerbaijan

  On July 31, Azerbaijani investigators conducted a search of the flat of Rasul Djafarov, a human rights activist and coordinator of the campaign "The Art for Democracy".

August 01, 2014 07:48

• "EcoWatch": convicted Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko placed into dungeon

  The Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who is serving his sentence in a colony-settlement in the Tambov Region, was placed into the punishment cell (dungeon), said the press service of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

August 01, 2014 03:32

• International human rights organizations demand release of Leyla Yunus arrested in Azerbaijan

  As proclaimed by a number of international human rights organizations and Azerbaijani oppositionists, Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) is one of the independent voices of the country, where authorities try to silence her through arrest and prosecution.

August 01, 2014 01:42

• Ilyas Temaev sentenced to eight months in prison in Dagestan

  The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has found the doctor Ilyas Temaev guilty of keeping marijuana without intent to sell and sentenced him to eight months in prison. The court took into account Temaev's term, spent in custody, and released him in the courtroom.

August 01, 2014 00:53

• Baku suspends indefinitely oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg"

  The indefinite suspension of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) is caused by the refusal of the state publishing house "Azerbaijan" to print the newspaper because of its debts. This decision is politically motivated, says the editorial board of the newspaper.

July 31, 2014 23:45

• Dagestan: trial of Abakarova, accused of possessing "suicide bomber's belt", postponed till August 18

  The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has postponed till August 18 the consideration of the case of Sabina Abakarova, a local resident, accused of illegal possession of firearms. The session was postponed because of the vacations of the policeman, who is in charge of storing the exhibits that the court had planned to investigate, said the advocate.

July 31, 2014 22:50

• Defence of Leyla Yunus insists on her release from custody

  In the opinion of law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan, Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), accused of treason, should be kept in custody, since she had tried to leave the country, evaded the investigation and may influence the witnesses.

July 31, 2014 21:44

• Authorities of Rostov Region report accommodation of over 40,000 Ukrainian refugees

  The Rostov Region has placed 42,669 people, who came from the Ukraine; a third of them are children, report the authorities. The Governor Vasily Golubev notes that the region has exhausted its capacities to accommodate Ukrainian refugees, but continues taking them.

July 31, 2014 20:18

• Azerbaijani soldier killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported about the murder of its serviceman on the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line.