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February 18, 2014 20:22

• Sochi: member of Anti-Corruption Committee associates non-admittance to Olympics with his activities

  Vladimir Sokolov, a native of Sochi, a member of the Public Anti-Corruption Committee, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he was not admitted to the Olympics, although he had his fan's passport and a ticket. Sokolov suggested that the decision was associated with his social activities.

February 18, 2014 19:17

• Italian transgender activist asserts that she was twice detained in Sochi

  Vladimir Luxuriya, an ex-deputy of the Italian Parliament and a transgender activist, said that he was twice detained by the police in Sochi. The latter denies the detentions.

February 18, 2014 16:21

• Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko sent from Tuapse detention to Krasnodar SIZO

  Evgeny Vitishko, a convicted activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), has been convoyed from the special detention facility of the Tuapse OVD (Interior Division) to the Krasnodar SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he will wait for his departure to a colony-settlement.

February 18, 2014 16:03

• Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova summoned to GPO on charges of disclosing state secrets

  In Azerbaijan, Khadija Ismayilova, a well-known investigative journalist and an employee of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty, was summoned to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) as a witness in the criminal case instituted in connection with the material posted by her on the Facebook. The Office saw divulging state secrets in the material and opened a criminal case.

February 18, 2014 16:01

• In Dagestan, parents of policeman accused of robbery ask authorities to take inquiry under control

  The parents of Magomed Piraev, a former policeman of Kizilyurt, have appealed to the President and Prime Minister of Russia, as well as to the leaders of the country's law enforcement bodies, asking them to supervise the investigation of the criminal case initiated against their son.

February 18, 2014 14:32

• Sochi UVD: Pussy Riot members were questioned in connection with hotel theft

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, members of the punk band Pussy Riot, have been questioned in connection with a report about a theft at the hotel, the Sochi UVD (Interior Department) reports.

February 18, 2014 12:03

• Athletes and guests of Sochi Games can attend prayer houses of world's major religions organized in all Olympic Villages

  In Sochi, the three Olympic Villages located in the Imereti Lowland and in Krasnaya Polyana, opened – for the days of the Olympic Games – special prayer rooms, serviced by volunteers and clergymen, representing the world's major religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Protestantism.

February 18, 2014 09:56

• On Tuesday, Evgeny Vitishko's administrative arrest has expired

  The term of the administrative arrest imposed on the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, currently kept at the special detention facility in the city of Tuapse, has expired on Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. Moscow time, said the lawyer Alexander Popkov.

February 18, 2014 05:31

• Olga Noskovets, "EcoWatch" activist, released from Sochi police

  On Tuesday, Olga Noskovets, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) and a member of the City Council of the "Yabloko" Party, was set free from the police division of the micro-district of Blinovo in Sochi.

February 18, 2014 01:26

• Adygea: Circassian activists demand to release Asker Sokht

  The Maikop city public organization "Adyge-Khase-Circassian Council" has demanded the release Asker Sokht, the head of the public organization "Adyge-Khase" of the Krasnodar Territory, from custody. The demand was supported by Ilyas Soobtsokov, the ex-chairman of the Adygea regional public organization for revival of national traditions of the Circassian nation "Adyge-Khase".

February 17, 2014 22:52

• Ex-policeman Pavlyuchenkov testifies against defendants in Politkovskaya's murder case

  Today, the former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who had been sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment under the case of the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, performed as a witness, and repeated his earlier testimony about the preparation for the crime.

February 17, 2014 20:45

• Sochi court sentences activist David Khakim to correctional labour

  Tonight, the Magistrate Court in Sochi has decided to punish the Sochi activist David Khakim with 30 hours of correctional works, said the lawyer Alexander Popkov.

February 17, 2014 18:25

• Pyatigorsk is dismantling minaret of unfinished mosque

  The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Stavropol Territory has begun implementing the decision of the City Court about dismantling of the minaret of the unfinished mosque in Pyatigorsk, the Muftiat of the Territory said on February 16.

February 17, 2014 18:09

• 26 people continue hunger strike in Volgograd

  As reported by Elena Samoshina, a hunger-striker, the action in Volgograd is continued by 26 parents of many children and parents of children with disabilities. Today, the protesters were visited by representative of Russia's Investigating Committee and State Duma Deputy.

February 17, 2014 15:55

• Chechen native Muzaev was again stopped from flying to London by Border Service of Georgian MIA

  Today, the Frontier Service of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has again stopped Saikhan Muzaev, an ethnic Chechen, who took the citizenship of Georgia in 2011, from boarding the flight Tbilisi-Trabzon-London, said Alex Shoshikelashvili, the head of the Human Rights Institute.

February 17, 2014 11:30

• Hospitalized Volgograd hunger-striker starts eating for health indications

  Valery Vitkin, a hospitalized participant of the hunger strike, held by parents of many children and parents of disabled children in Volgograd, has begun taking food, said Georgy Goryachevskiy, another hunger-striker.

February 17, 2014 10:20

• Armenia: DEM.AM activists call opponents of new pension system to strike

  On 16 February, in Mashtots Park in Yerevan, members of the initiative group named DEM.AM held a public debate and drafted a plan of action against the country's pension reform. Activists announced their intention to switchover from local actions to broad-scale ones and urged all the opponents of the new pension system to hold a one-day strike.

February 17, 2014 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on February 10-16

  Competitions at Winter Olympics in Sochi; two attempts of self-immolation in Azerbaijan; special operations against militants in five districts of Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 10-16, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 17, 2014 02:12

• On February 10-16, 10 persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from February 10 to February 16, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus affected at least 10 people, nine of them were killed and one was wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

February 17, 2014 01:01

• Evgeny Vitishko's prosecution is politically motivated, say picketers in Moscow

  The ruling passed on the case of Evgeny Vitishko is politically motivated; while sending Vitishko to a colony-settlement has to do with his report on the environmental damage inflicted during the preparation of Sochi for the Olympics, said the participants of the action in support of the ecologist, held in Moscow.