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April 30, 2014 11:52

• Casualties of shootout with power agents in Stavropol Territory were residents of Dagestan, investigators report

  The persons killed in an armed clash with policemen in the Stepnovsk District (with the administrative centre in the village of Stepnoe) of the Stavropol Territory have been identified as residents of Makhachkala, as reported by investigating authorities.

April 30, 2014 11:08

• Sochi: observers reveal problems with information and accessibility of police stations for invalids

  Sochi has held an inspection decade of the work of police offices and stations. Rights defenders and activists of public organizations inspected 14 police stations located in all four districts of Sochi, Adler and Krasnaya Polyana, including those at railway stations.

April 30, 2014 11:06

• Chechen power agents strengthen security for May holidays

  In the context of May holidays, since Thursday, the Chechen law enforcement bodies will switchover to the round-the-clock service, a law enforcement source told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The increased security regime will last until May 11.

April 30, 2014 10:15

• Georgia: Ombudsman asks authorities not to extradite natives of Northern Caucasus to Russia

  Russia has asked Georgia to extradite natives of Northern Caucasus, including Mikhail Kadiev and Yusup Lakaev, accused of resonance killings, said the Ombudsman of Georgia Ucha Nanuashvili. He sent a memo to the Prosecutor's Office asking not to do it.

April 30, 2014 08:18

• Kutaisi hosts rally against anti-discrimination legislation

  A protest against the antidiscrimination legislation was held on April 29 in Kutaisi. It happened after the statement of the Patriarchate of Georgia against adoption of the bill.

April 30, 2014 04:21

• KChR resident challenges experts' decision on his Category III disability

  Bureau No. 2 of the Chief Department of Medico-Social Examination of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has appointed disability Category III to Muradin Alshunov, a resident of the aul Erkin-Yurt of the Nogai District, who became disabled after being beaten up in September 2012.

April 30, 2014 03:32

• In Abkhazia opposition demands government resignation

  The Abkhazian oppositionists have demanded from the republic's president to dismiss the cabinet of ministers and form the government of people's trust. The Coordinating Council (CC) of oppositional political parties and public organizations offers to retain the right to nominate a candidate for the prime minister, who will then form the government alone.

April 29, 2014 22:26

• KChR resident sentenced to three years for giving 1000 roubles to militants

  Baris Bairamkulov, a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has been sentenced to three years in colony on charges of financing illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the amount of 1000 roubles. The defendant refused to plead guilty.

April 29, 2014 20:39

• KTC dismisses Demerchyan's complaint

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court (KTC) has dismissed the complaint lodged by the defence of the Sochi builder Mardiros Demerchyan, accused of slandering policemen, against holding the handwriting examination without regard of defendant's questions.

April 29, 2014 20:30

• Missing resident of Dagestan found among those killed in Stavropol Territory

  One of the casualties of the armed clash with policemen in the Stepanov District of the Stavropol Territory was identified as Nizam Asaliev, a resident of Dagestan, said a source from the Lenin ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala. Earlier, Asaliev's relatives stated that he disappeared on April 26.

April 29, 2014 20:07

• IPD office searched in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani law enforcers conducted a search in the office of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), which is headed by rights defender Leila Yunus, who was detained on the eve and questioned at the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). During the search, they confiscated computers, documents, conference materials and books by Leila Yunus' husband.

April 29, 2014 17:25

• Infografika: statistics of victims in Northern Caucasus in 2010-2013 under the data of the Caucasian Knot

April 29, 2014 15:30

• 9-hour-long interrogation of Leila Yunus is over in Baku

  Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), left the building of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan at about 3:00 p.m. Moscow time after being questioned for nine hours at the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes.

April 29, 2014 12:40

• Militants' camp found in CTO area in Dagestan

  A special operation to search for members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) is underway near the village of Ullubiyaul, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, said a law enforcement source. According to his version, an abandoned militants' camp with weapons and foodstuffs was found in a forest near the village.

April 29, 2014 08:22

• GPO: violations during preparation of Sochi Olympics result in 55 criminal cases

  The checks of the preparation process for the Winter Olympic Games in Russia revealed numerous violations of the law; 55 criminal cases were opened, says the report of Yury Chaika, the Russia's Public Prosecutor General, which has arrived in the Federation Council.

April 29, 2014 04:18

• In Rostov-on-Don, prosecution witness in Amirov's case states torture in SIZO

  In Rostov-on-Don, on April 28, the North-Caucasian District Military Court questioned, in the case of Said Amirov and Yusup Djaparov, the witnesses of the prosecution – Magomed Abdulgalimov, the former Assistant Public Prosecutor of the city of Kizlyar, and his driver Murad Aliev. Abdulgalimov said that he was tortured in SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Dagestan.

April 29, 2014 02:08

• Prosecutor's Office: journalist Sadig Soltanov who perished in fire in Baku had been killed

  In Baku, at the fire place in the settlement of Bulbul, Surakhani District, the body of Sadig Soltanov, the editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani newspaper "Mizan Teresi", was found. The journalist may have been killed, said the City Prosecutor's Office.

April 29, 2014 00:56

• Judicial inquiry into Politkovskaya's murder case is over

  On April 28, the Moscow City Court (MCC) completed the judicial inquiry into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper. Rustam Makhmudov, accused of committing the murder declared his innocence; however, Anna's daughter did not believe him.

April 28, 2014 23:54

• Rights defender Leila Yunus and her husband detained in Baku

  On Monday evening, power forces detained at departure by air from Baku Leila Yunus, the director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy, and her husband Arif Yunus, a conflictologist. This was reported by Mekhman Aliev, the director of the "Turan" News Agency, who saw the spouses off.

April 28, 2014 23:40

• Event of campaign "Art for Democracy" disrupted in Baku, organizers report

  The administration of the Grand Hotel in Baku, where an event of the human rights campaign "Art for Democracy" was scheduled for April 29, has notified about impossibility of renting the place.