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February 22, 2014 16:50

• Rally in Volgograd calls Governor Bozhenov to resign

  A statement demanding resignation of the Governor of the Volgograd Region Sergey Bozhenov was adopted by the participants of the rally dated to the Day of Fatherland's Defender (February 23). A letter with the same demand was also sent to President of Russia.

February 22, 2014 05:57

• Chechen MIA: no terror acts committed in 2013 in Chechnya

  Ruslan Alkhanov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, asserts that in 2013 not a single terror act was committed in the republic's territory. During this year, law enforcement bodies killed 28 militants; other 54 members of the armed underground and their helpers were detained or persuaded to surrender.

February 22, 2014 05:06

• Azerbaijan: journalist Ismayilova opens source of information on recruitment of oppositionist

  The man who had revealed an alleged internal service report of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, which refers to the recruitment of an oppositionist, was Ramin Nagiev, a former investigator of the MNS. This was reported on February 21 by Khadija Ismayilova.

February 22, 2014 03:24

• Armenia: contest announced for best ten short film scenarios about Armenian Genocide

  The Armenian Fund for Cinematography Development "Golden Apricot" has announced, jointly with the Charity Fund "Pyunik", a contest aiming at defining the best 10 scenarios for 4-6-minute fiction films and documentaries about the Armenian genocide.

February 22, 2014 03:09

• KBR: Syrian student Nart Abaza challenges his residence permit annulment

  In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Nart Abaza, a student from Syria, had gone to the Nalchik City Court (NCC) against the cancellation of his residence permit.

February 22, 2014 01:37

• Yerevan hosts march against pension reform

  On February 21, in Yerevan, about four thousand people took part in the march against the mandatory accumulative pension system.

February 22, 2014 00:43

• Public Chamber of Dagestan recommends federal examination of Samur Waterpipe project

  In Makhachkala, the Dagestani Public Chamber has held public hearings "Impact of water intake from Samur Valley on ecology of Samur Nature Complex".

February 21, 2014 21:20

• Advocate still cannot meet Alautdin Dadaev detained on February 17 (+video)

  The lawyer Selim Magomedov, who was hired by relatives of Alautdin Dadaev, a resident of the village of Novy Agachaul, who was detained on February 17, and whose house was blown up on February 20, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he was not admitted to his client yet.

February 21, 2014 18:04

• Sochi: untreated sewage drained into sea

  The Bzugu water treatment facilities in Sochi fail to run to their full capacity. Therefore, most of untreated faecal sewage from the Olympic capital gets right into the Black Sea, say ecologists and oppositional party activists.

February 21, 2014 14:52

• In Sochi, three members of Dagestani community claim denial of access to Olympics

  Rashidat Nurmagomedova and Abdurashid Gadjimagomedov, two leaders of the Dagestan community of Sochi, received refusals of the Organizing Committee (OC) "Sochi-2014" of issuing fan's passports. Another community member Mukhtarakhmed Alidibirov claims that his fan's passport was blocked.

February 21, 2014 14:11

• Ataman Kuts admits that he turned to Prosecutor's Office against Pussy Riot's stay in Sochi

  One of the Sochi-based websites has posted the appeal of Nikolai Kuts, the Ataman of the Tsentralny District Cossack Society of Sochi, to the city prosecutor to express protest against the presence of Pussy Riot band in the capital of the Olympics.

February 21, 2014 12:44

• Azerbaijani GPO inquires circumstances of Ismayilova's meeting with US Senate staff

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has questions to Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and a collaborator for the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty in connection with her meeting this January with two employees of the staff of the US Senate.

February 21, 2014 11:03

• Investigators do not rule out involvement of nationalists in murder of native of Dagestan in Saint Petersburg

  Investigators admit participation of nationalists in the murder of a native of Dagestan, a MIA trainee, committed on February 18, said the spokesman of the ICRF Chief Department for Saint Petersburg.

February 21, 2014 09:40

• Novorossiysk: advocate of Darya Polyudova drafts complaint against her arrest

  Marina Dubrovina, who represents the interests of Darya Polyudova, the leader of the Novorossiysk branch of the "Rot Front" Party, has announced her intention to appeal against the court ruling to sentence her client to 15 days of arrest and a fine of 10,000 roubles for a solo picket.

February 21, 2014 08:49

• Tsarnaev's advocates try to soften his prison regime

  The advocates of Dzhohar Tsarnaev, accused in the USA of committing the terror act in Boston in April 2013, ask the court to withdraw the special prison restrictions imposed on their client. The team of advocates was strengthened by another lawyer, who specializes in cases, where the death penalty is considered.

February 21, 2014 03:42

• Simonov: builders of Olympic venues have about 40 million roubles of unpaid wages

  700 people, who worked at the construction of Olympic facilities, still have not received their wages in the amount of some 35-40 million roubles, the Sochi-based reception office of the network "Migration and Law" of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

February 21, 2014 00:26

• Yerevan hosts photo exhibition "They need housing"

  The exhibition of photographs held in Armenia is dedicated to the people of the city of Spitak, who survived in the earthquake of 1988 and still need housing.

February 20, 2014 22:54

• Organizer of action against Olympics in Nalchik states he was tortured by police

  Andzor Akhokhov, the organizer of the action against the Olympics held in Nalchik, was released after ten days of administrative arrest and stated that the police had tortured him.

February 20, 2014 22:03

• President of "Assembly of Caucasian Nations" detained in Chechnya, relatives report

  Today, Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the international public-political movement "Assembly of Caucasian Nations", was detained by law enforcers in the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, his relatives report.

February 20, 2014 19:25

• In Sochi, participant of scuffle with Pussy Riot and "Voina" art-group fined

  Today, the instigator of the brawl on February 19 in Sochi between the Cossacks and member of the punk band Pussy Riot and the art-group "Voina" (War) was fined by one thousand roubles, said a source from the Sochi Transport Police.