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July 25, 2014 04:42

• Advocate: Batyr Pukhaev, hunger-striking in Tskhinvali IVS, rejects hospitalization

  The South-Ossetian businessman Batyr Pukhaev is on the tenth day of his hunger strike held at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of the city of Tskhinvali. He refused from hospitalization offered by medics, his advocate Marina Kochieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 25, 2014 02:28

• Dagestani power agents spread false version of Asoltan Amaev's death, relatives assert

  In Dagestan, relatives of the local Asoltan Amaev, who was found on July 23 blown up in his car, question the official version of the reason for his death. "Why don't law enforcers want to see the obvious: Asoltan was killed, and the rest was just a staging," one of the relatives claims.

July 24, 2014 23:54

• MIA of KChR: one of suspects of killing MP Kunizhev is ready to surrender

  As reported today by Kazimir Botashev, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Karachay-Cherkessia, the boxing coach Psabyda Evgamukov, who had been put, together with his son, on the federal wanted list on suspicion of murdering the Republic's MP Mukhamed Kunizhev, has expressed his intention to surrender to law enforcement authorities.

July 24, 2014 22:30

• Russia's MFA: placement of OSCE observers at two border checkpoints in Rostov Region agreed

  Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be placed at the checkpoints "Donetsk" and "Gukovo" in the Rostov Region on the border with Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has reported today.

July 24, 2014 21:51

• Two wounded Ukrainian servicemen hospitalized today in Rostov Region

  Today, two wounded Ukrainian soldiers were hospitalized in the town of Gukovo, Rostov Region, said Vasily Malaev, the spokesman for the Regional Frontier Department of the Russia's FSB. Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region has expressed hope that Kiev will compensate for the financial costs of their treatment.

July 24, 2014 18:44

• Azerbaijani Centre to Resist Repressions calls to boycott European Games-2015 in Baku

  The Centre to Resist Repressions (CRR) created under the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) has launched a campaign for the boycott of the European Games to be held in 2015 in Baku. Leyla Yunus, the Director of the IPD, has sent corresponding appeals to the European Olympic Committee and the office of the European Olympic Committee in the European Union.

July 24, 2014 13:30

• "Musavat" activist Kerimli was detained on suspicion of drug possession, Azerbaijani MIA asserts

  Faraj Kerimli, 29, the deputy chairman of the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, detained on July 23 in Azerbaijan, is suspected of illegal drug possession, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan.

July 24, 2014 07:19

• Georgian ensemble "Sukhishvili" cancels its concert in Russia

  The Folk Dance Ensemble of Georgia "Sukhishvili" has cancelled its concert in Saint Petersburg in connection with the events in Ukraine, Nino Sukhishvili, the head of the ensemble, said on July 23.

July 24, 2014 05:35

• Doctors in Grozny decide not to drive the beaten girl out of coma

  The health condition of the 4-year-old girl beaten in Grozny and hospitalized in Children's Hospital No. 2 of the capital of Chechnya remains grave, said Ruslan Ganaev, the chief physician of the hospital. Cases, when stepparents apply violence to their foster children periodically occur in the republic, locals report.

July 24, 2014 05:11

• Relatives of Almaz Abdulnasyrov, killed in Stavropol Territory, asks prosecutors to check police's actions

  In the Stavropol Territory, relatives of Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the Neftekumsk District, who, according to the official version, was killed in a shootout with power agents in the Novoselitskoe District, ask the Prosecutor's Office to check the legality of policemen's action, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

July 24, 2014 04:18

• Dagestani SC starts considering appeal against Zarema Bagavutdinova's verdict

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan has begun considering the appeal complaint against the verdict passed by the Buynaksk City Court against Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy). At the July 23 court session, the defence asked to cancel the verdict against Bagavutdinova.

July 24, 2014 00:56

• Prigorodny District of North Ossetia gives foodstuffs to needy people

  A charity action of food distribution among needy families was held on July 23 in the settlement of Novy in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. In total, volunteers distributed some 200 packages of foodstuffs, Beslan Tsechoev, the adviser to the head of Ingushetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 23, 2014 20:24

• In Makhachkala, police release all detained believers

  Aisha Selimkhanova, an activist of the DRPO "Pravozaschita", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that all the mosque-goers detained at night on July 23 in Hungarian Fighters Street had been released.

July 23, 2014 17:52

• Body of missing resident of Dagestan found

  Asoltan Amaev, a resident of the settlement Tarki of Makhachkala, who was considered missing, was found burned down in his car on the road in the Kumtorkalin District, said the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

July 23, 2014 17:38

• Convicted member of Tsapok's gang stops hunger strike, Prosecutor's Office of Krasnodar Territory reports

  The convict Vladimir Alexeev, a member of the Tsapok's gang, who is kept at SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Krasnodar, has abandoned his earlier announced hunger strike, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the KrasnodarTerritory has reported today.

July 23, 2014 15:39

• Faraj Kerimli, activist of "Musavat" Party, detained in Azerbaijan

  Faraj Kerimli, 29, the deputy chairman of the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, was detained today in Baku, his advocate reports. His party colleagues believe that Kerimli's detention has to do with his public and political activities and his activism on the Internet.

July 23, 2014 13:06

• In Adygea, participants of the library flash mob give out 50 books

  On July 19, the central park of the city of Maikop became the venue of a flash mob – a public action "City with a Book", held on the initiative of the National Library of Adygea. Aminat Kuchmezova, the head of the sector of mass events of the library, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the main task of the action was to promote reading.

July 23, 2014 12:22

• Rostov Governor asks Medvedev to send more Ukrainian refugees to other regions

  The daily inflow of Ukrainian refugees to the Rostov Region makes 1500-2000 persons, while other regions accommodate some 300-500 people each, Vasily Golubev, the Rostov Governor, told the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The Governor believes that the flow of immigrants to other regions should be doubled.

July 23, 2014 09:45

• Canada creates International Circassian Organization to Support Repatriation

  Aslan Beshto, the chairman of the public movement "Kabardian Congress" (Nalchik), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Canada had launched the International Circassian Organization to Support Repatriation, intended to work exclusively within the humanitarian aspect. Beshto is a member of its executive committee.

July 23, 2014 06:44

• Man killed in Novoselitskoe District of Stavropol Territory is Almaz Abdulnasyrov, says his wife

  The man shot dead on July 21 in a shootout in the Novoselitskoe District of Stavropol Territory is Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the village of Kara-Tobe, Neftekumsk District, says his wife. She questions the power agents' version of the incident, in which the man was shot dead.