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February 20, 2014 17:21

• Resident of Dagestan asserts that power agents planted a bomb into her house

  Power agents claim that in the house, which was blown up today in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, they found an explosive device; however the owner Aslikhanum Dadaeva is sure that the bomb had been planted by law enforcers themselves.

February 20, 2014 15:30

• Arrest of Asker Sokht appealed against, his advocate says

  As reported by Inver Tlij, a lawyer of the Bar of the Republic of Adygea, a complaint has been lodged on the decision of the Lenin District Court of Krasnodar to attract Asker Sokht, the chairman of the Krasnodar organization "Adyge-Khase", to administrative responsibility and his detention.

February 20, 2014 13:27

• Nalchik: volunteers ask authorities to pay attention to situation with Syrian Circassians

  The volunteers who render help to refugees from Syria have sent a letter to Yuri Kokov, the Acting Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where they draw attention to the situation of Syrian Circassians.

February 20, 2014 13:21

• Volgograd hunger-strikers intend to continue, despite solution of their personal problems

  In Volgograd, today is the 17th day of the hunger strike held by parents of many children and parents of children with disabilities. Many personal problems of the protesters have been solved, but they plan to continue in order to achieve solution of all the raised problems.

February 20, 2014 11:30

• Ukrainian alpine skier refuses to perform at Olympic Games in Sochi in protest against events in Kiev

  The Ukrainian alpine skier Bogdana Matsetskaya and her coach Oleg Matsetsky have refused to perform at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, protesting against the bloodshed during the violent dispersal of protests in Kiev, Ukrainian media report.

February 20, 2014 11:08

• Pussy Riot girls state ill-treatment by policemen at press conference in Sochi

  Today, the Kurortny Township of Adler hosted a press conference of the members of the punk band Pussy Riot, where Nadezhda Tolokonnikova stated that she was rudely treated by Sochi policemen.

February 20, 2014 07:25

• Volgograd Region: pensioner convicted for false message about bomb sent on December 29

  A court from the Volgograd Region has sentenced a 62-year-old resident of the city of Volzhskiy to correctional labour for her false call about a bomb planted on a local HPP (hydropower plant), which she made on December 29, 2013, the day of the terror act in Volgograd.

February 20, 2014 05:04

• Yerevan activists demand legal assessment of Maidan from international community

  In Yerevan, dozens of people organized a march of solidarity with the Euromaidan. They walked from the Victory Park to the building of the Ukrainian Embassy in Armenia, where activists expressed their concern about the developments in Kiev.

February 20, 2014 02:40

• Alautdin Dadaev who disappeared in Dagestan is kept by Izberbash police, says his wife

  The 53 -year-old Alautdin Dadaev, a resident of the village of Novy Agachaul, Karabudakhkent District, who disappeared in Dagestan on February 17, was detained and is kept by the GOVD (City Interior Division) of the city of in police department Izberbash, said his wife Aslikhanum Dadaeva.

February 19, 2014 22:11

• In Yerevan, march in support of Euromaidan was about 20 people strong

  Today, the capital of Armenia hosted a march in support of Ukrainian protesters, organized by activists of oppositional parties and NGOs, about 20 persons in total.

February 19, 2014 17:41

• Sochi: Pussy Riot members complain about beating by Cossacks

  Today in Sochi, Cossacks attacked the member of the Pussy Riot group, by spraying tear gas and beating them with whips, the girls and activists of the art-group "Voina" (War) have reported.

February 19, 2014 17:02

• GPO forbids journalist Ismayilova to leave Baku without notice

  Today, Khadija Ismayilova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty, was again questioned at the Investigating Department of Azerbaijan as a witness in a criminal case involving disclosure of state secrets. She was forbidden to leave Baku and Azerbaijan without prior informing investigators for the period of the inquiry.

February 19, 2014 16:04

• KBR resident reports disappearance of her husband, who left to work in Anapa

  Albina Khuzhokova, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), claims that her husband Murat Tkhagapsoev, who had gone, along with his friend, to the city of Anapa, KrasnodarTerritory, to work on a construction site, has disappeared.

February 19, 2014 15:30

• Novorossiysk court fines activist Darya Polyudova and arrests her for 15 days

  Today, Darya Polyudova, an activist of the organization named "Rot Front", who was detained in Novorossiysk, was sentenced to administrative arrest and fine, she said after the court session.

February 19, 2014 13:22

• MCC extends custody of figurants in Politkovskaya's murder case by other three months

  Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has extended the detention of all five defendants in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya. Thus, the judge has granted the petition of the prosecutor Boris Loktionov.

February 19, 2014 10:23

• Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot members were detained in Sochi on three days in a row

  On February 18, Sochi law enforcers detained the member of the Pussy Riot group for the third time during their stay in the city, said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a group member.

February 19, 2014 10:10

• ECtHR's decision on four disappearance cases in Chechnya and Ingushetia comes into force

  As stated by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on four cases related to disappearances and deaths of residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2000-2005 published on February 18, the decision has come into force.

February 19, 2014 08:00

• Gold mine workers hold protest in Bolnisi and demand from TV to objectively cover events

  The striking workers of the RMG-Gold and RMG-Copper have held a protest in front of the TV Company "Public Broadcaster of Georgia" with a demand to media people to be objective in reporting the situation at the enterprises.

February 19, 2014 03:27

• Incidents at Armenian-Azerbaijani border cannot turn into full-scale war, experts believe

  Military experts polled by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe that recent more frequent violations of the ceasefire in the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh will not lead to a resumption of a full-scale warfare.

February 19, 2014 01:18

• Journalist of "Caucasian Policy" found guilty of involvement in extremist organization

  The Magistrate Court of Judicial Precinct 406 of the Nizhny-Novgorod District of Moscow has found Rustam Djalilov, an observer of the edition "Caucasian Policy", guilty of involvement in the extremist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir", which is banned in the territory of Russia.