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February 12, 2014 17:19

• Three suspected militants killed in special operation in Dagestan

  In the course of a special operation conducted in the village of Bammatyurt, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, three suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were killed, said a source from the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

February 12, 2014 15:30

• Volgograd hunger-striker needs medical care

  On Wednesday, Olga Stepanova, a mother of many children, who is taking part in a hunger strike in Volgograd, needed medical help, said another protester Georgy Goryachevskiy. According to his story, they called an ambulance to the woman, but she refused from hospitalization.

February 12, 2014 15:10

• Vitishko's defence claims absence of notification about dismissal of complaint against ecologist's administrative arrest

  It was back on February 6 that the Krasnodar Territorial Court dismissed the complaint lodged by Evgeny Vitishko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", against his administrative arrest for 15 days, said the court. However, neither Vitishko, nor his lawyer, according to them, knew about this decision until February 12.

February 12, 2014 13:53

• Krasnodar Court upholds punishment to Vitishko as colony-settlement

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the complaint lodged by Evgeny Vitishko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for North Caucasus" (EcoWatch), against the change of his conditional verdict by the real deprivation of freedom in the case of damaging the fence of the so-called "Tkachov's summer cottage".

February 12, 2014 13:35

• AI: IOC must emphasize human rights violations because of Olympics in Sochi

  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should stop ignoring serious human rights violations associated with the preparation and holding of the Olympic Games in Sochi, says an open letter to the IOC President Thomas Bach from the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

February 12, 2014 13:13

• Court upholds the conviction of Nadezhda Tsapok

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the complaint of Nadezhda Tsapok against the verdict of the first instance, under which she was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of fraud, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

February 12, 2014 08:16

• SAM of North Ossetia offers to set up a body to combat extremism

  Hadji Murat Gatsalov, the Mufti of North Ossetia has proposed to establish a joint permanent body including religious, public and state structures that will supervise and monitor the situation with extremism in the republic.

February 12, 2014 03:43

• Turkish authorities decide to deport Azerbaijani journalist

  The Turkish authorities have decided to deport Makhir Zeinalov, 28, a citizen of Azerbaijan and a journalist from the country. Ankara has accused him of violating the Turkish laws. Zeinalov rejects the accusation and treats his deportations as a violation of the freedom of speech.

February 12, 2014 02:43

• Initiator of rally in memory of terror victims claims violation of constitutional rights in refusal of Astrakhan Mayoralty to sanction the action

  Igor Stenin, the organizer of the rally in memory of those killed in the terror acts in Volgograd, which was scheduled in Astrakhan for February 6, has filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office against the Mayoralty of Astrakhan, which abolished the earlier issued permit.

February 12, 2014 01:42

• Demolition of 10,000 houses in central Baku planned by authorities violates people's rights, NGO activists assert

  In central Baku, they have started mass resettlement of residents; they plan to demolish about 10,000 old buildings inhabited by about 40,000 people, the authorities of the Azerbaijani capital have stated. They explain these measures by the need to improve the city and plan to create greenery zones there.

February 11, 2014 23:56

• Fourth day of Olympics added one medal to Russian team's stock

  On the fourth day of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, eight sets of medals were competed. The only medal of the Russian team was the silver medal won by the speed skater Olga Fatkulina in the women's 500-meter race.

February 11, 2014 17:17

• At trial in Dagestan, secret witness testified against Zarema Bagavutdinova

  At the court session on the case of Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), a testimony of another "secret witness" was presented. He said that Zarema had recruited a native of Dagestan for participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs).

February 11, 2014 15:31

• Investigators and prosecutors question Volgograd hunger-strikers

  In Volgograd, parents with many children and parents of children with disabilities are on their hunger strike for the eighth day already. On February 10, the venue of the protest action was visited by investigators of the Regional Investigating Committee, who interviewed the protesters. On Tuesday, the hunger-strikers, some of whom have continued health worsening, were visited by employees of the Prosecutor's Office.

February 11, 2014 14:38

• OC "Sochi 2014" sold nearly million tickets to Olympic events

  To date, the spectators of the Winter Olympics in Sochi have bought 925,000 tickets, said Dmitry Perlin, the ticketing programme director of the Organizing Committee (OC) "Sochi-2014". Empty seats during competitions are filled in by volunteers, said Alexandra Kosterina, the spokesperson of the OC.

February 11, 2014 12:48

• Opponents of homosexuality come out in Sochi with posters in English

  At the central railway station in Sochi, an unsanctioned picket against the promotion of homosexuality was held, local residents report, arguing that its participants and organizers were the visiting Americans.

February 11, 2014 08:41

• Terror threat to Sochi Olympics persists, experts say

  The probability of terror acts and provocations during the Winter Olympics in Sochi cannot be ruled out, said the politicians, human rights activists, lawyers and journalists, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to their answers, at the maximum concentration of anti-terrorist forces in Sochi and its vicinities, other regions of Russia remain vulnerable.

February 11, 2014 07:15

• "Adyg's House" in Sochi Olympic Park was visited by about 30 members of Circassian Diasporas

  The Olympic Park in Sochi has launched the "Adyg's House" and the "Circassian Yard", representing the culture of the Adyg nation – the indigenous population of the Black Sea coast. Within a few days, the "Adyg's House" was attended by about 30 representatives of the Circassian Diasporas, who came to the Olympic Games in Sochi from Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Israel, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

February 11, 2014 02:07

• Sochi: organizer of rally against "residence-based discrimination" challenges the officials' refusal to grant sanction

  On February 10, Roman Shikarev, one of the organizers of the rally against "residence-based discrimination" addressed the court with his complaint about the actions of officials of the city administration, who had banned illegally, in his opinion, the applied public event.

February 10, 2014 13:29

• Residents of Lak villages are ready to negotiate with Kumyks on settling Karaman conflict

  The participants of the roundtable in Makhachkala, organized by Lak villagers to discuss the issues of resettlement from the Novolak District of Dagestan, decided to organize a rally in the near future. The parties also came to the conclusion about the need to negotiate with Kumyk nationals to resolve the conflict in Karaman.

February 10, 2014 13:01

• Native of Samara living in Dagestan complains about pressure from power agents

  Anastasia Dulevskaya, a native of Samara, living in Dagestan and detained by law enforcement bodies in Makhachkala in early January for 24 hours, reports that she is afraid of further persecution by power agents. The young woman turned to the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) with a complaint, which was then delivered to the Prosecutor's Office.