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July 08, 2014 11:05

• Natalia Miller: victims of Kuschevskaya massacre insist on genetic examination of Sergey Tsapok's body

  In the Krasnodar Territory, the victims in the criminal case against the organized crime grouping from the Cossack village of Kuschevskaya have sent an appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation. The victims insist on a genetic examination and their personal involvement in the identification of the body of Sergey Tsapok, the deceased leader of the criminal grouping.

July 08, 2014 09:29

• Rights defenders treat verdict to Ruslan Kutaev as too severe

  The verdict to Ruslan Kutaev, President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, will be appealed against. This was announced by Pyotr Zaikin, an advocate of the human rights defender. The decision of the Urus-Martan City Court pronounced against Ruslan Kutaev, is politically motivated and unprecedentedly severe, and the very criminal case was fabricated. This was stated by experts in the field of human rights protection.

July 08, 2014 03:17

• Law enforcers shot dead suspect of killing policeman in Grozny without warning, eyewitnesses assert

  On July 3, in Grozny, law enforcers killed Khusein Dakhtaev, who was suspected of the murder of a staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Residents of the Chechen capital state that the suspect was shot dead without any warning.

July 08, 2014 01:36

• In Volgograd Region, Ukrainian refugees demand to clarify their status

  Ukrainian refugees, accommodated in the Volgograd Region, have filed an appeal to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, where the forced migrants raised issues on their employment and repatriation. The refugees ask the Russian State Duma to define their status and explain it to them.

July 08, 2014 00:06

• Armenia: prosecutor asks 6.5 years in prison for Volodya Avetisyan

  On July 7, in Armenia, at the trial of Volodya Avetisyan, a retired Colonel and a Karabakh War veteran, the public prosecutor asked to sentence him to 6.5 years of imprisonment. In his final speech, Volodya Avetisyan refused to plead guilty. The pronouncement of the verdict has been postponed for indefinite period.

July 07, 2014 23:32

• Two of five persons killed by power agents in Untsukul District of Dagestan were not militants, locals assert

  On July 6, the Untsukul District of Dagestan was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. According to the NAC, the special operation claimed the life of one law enforcer; three other power agents were wounded. Five suspected militants were killed; and three of them were identified as Rasul Gadjiev, Abdulkhalim Gadjiev and Magomed Adalaev.

July 07, 2014 17:29

• Court in Chechnya sentences Ruslan Kutaev to four years in prison

  The lawyer Pyotr Zaikin has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that today the Urus-Martan City Court sentenced Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, to four years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. The court also banned Kutaev for one more year to attend public events and be engaged in any public activities.

July 07, 2014 14:57

• Azerbaijan: blogger Mekhman Guseinov released after three hours in police custody

  In the morning on July 7, Mekhman Guseinov, 25, a blogger and an employee of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan, was detained and taken to Nasimi district police of Baku and was released three hours later, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

July 07, 2014 12:24

• Sergey Tsapok found dead in Krasnodar SIZO

  Sergey Tsapok, convicted for organizing a massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, was found dead in a cell of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Krasnodar, the territorial ID of the ICRF has reported today. No traces of violent death were found on his body; and the preliminary reason thereof is a heart failure, said the FSIN (Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service).

July 07, 2014 10:56

• On July 16, Krasnodar Territorial Court to consider prosecutors' protest on replacement of Vitishko's conditional imprisonment for real one

  The consideration of the petition lodged by Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory demanding to cancel the decision of the Tuapse District Court to place the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko for three years into a colony-settlement was scheduled by the Krasnodar Territorial Court for July 16, Alexander Popkov, Vitishko's advocate, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 07, 2014 08:58

• Linguist fails to find film "Ordered to Forget" as inciting interethnic enmity

  The screening of the film "Ordered to Forget" can not incite any interethnic or inter-confessional enmity – this is the conclusion of Professor Evgeny Tarasov, the Department Head at the Linguistics Institute of the RussianAcademy of Sciences, who made a linguistic examination of the film banned for screening by the Ministry of Culture.

July 07, 2014 08:35

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 29-July 6

  Call of the leader of "Imarat Kavkaz" to militants to refuse from terror acts against civilians; suspension because of shelling of operation of checkpoint in Russian-Ukrainian border in the Rostov Region; CTO and detentions of parishioners in Dagestan mosques, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 29-July 6, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 07, 2014 05:46

• MfE: TACs in SFD accommodate almost 7000 Ukrainian refugees

  By July 6, the Southern Federal District (SFD) had deployed 80 stationary and five field temporary accommodation centres (TACs), which received 6917 refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions of Ukraine, said the press service of the Southern Regional Centre of the Russia's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

July 07, 2014 03:05

• Native of Chechnya suspected of killing power agents extradited to Russia from Slovakia

  Slovakia has rendered to Russia Anzor Chentiev, a native of Chechnya, who is suspected of killing two OMON (riot police) agents in Grozny in 2001 and a number of other crimes.

July 07, 2014 01:40

• During week of June 30-July 6, 2014, six persons perished in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of June 30-July 6, 2014, six persons were killed and at least three other persons were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

July 06, 2014 22:38

• Azerbaijani opposition founds new party

  Today, in Azerbaijan, the creation of new opposition "Free Democrats" Party has been announced. Sulkhaddin Akper has been elected its Chairman.

July 06, 2014 20:13

• In Karachaevsk, detainee Magomed Bidjiev cuts his veins

  In Karachaevsk, Magomed Bidjiev, a detainee kept at the local IVS (temporary detention facility), has cut his veins because of psychological pressure put upon him by investigators and policemen. This was stated by Bela Gappoeva, an advocate from the Karachay-Cherkessian National Advocates' Chamber.

July 06, 2014 17:11

• In Sochi, participants of anti-corruption rally claim officials ignore their demands

  In Sochi, officials ignore the demands of mothers of large families, persons with disabilities, and ecologists. This was stated by participants of the anti-corruption rally held in Sochi. The protestors have also noted indifference of Sochi residents.

July 06, 2014 10:18

• Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko complains about violation of his rights in colony-settlement

  In his phone conversation with members of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), ecologist Evgeny Vitishko has complaint about being subjected to pressure by the administration of the penal colony-settlement No. 2 of the Department for the Tambov Region of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

July 06, 2014 06:07

• Tbilisi Court fines eight detained participants of protest action in front of City Court

  On July 5, in Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court pronounced the decision to impose an administrative penalty in the form of a fine of 100 laris (about 59 US dollars) on each of the eight protestors detained near the courthouse. The detainees attended the protest action held after the arrest of Gigi Ugulava, former Mayor of Tbilisi. They were found guilty of disorderly conduct near the courthouse.