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January 26, 2014 05:25

• Azerbaijani activist Omar Mamedov arrested on charges of selling drugs

  Omar Mamedov, a 19-year-old activist of the Civil Solidarity Party (CSP), a co-founder of the educational movement "Akhyn" (Flow), was arrested for three months on charges of selling drugs on a large scale in Azerbaijan. This was reported by Samir Asadli, Chairman of the CSP's executive committee.

January 25, 2014 18:48

• Five-storey building falls down on roadway in central Baku, killing people

  A dismantled five-storey building collapsed onto the roadway in the centre of Baku, in Geidar Aliev Avenue. Two people were lost. The police have identified them as Djavid Adalat oglu Bairamly, born in 1992, and Asiman Salman oglu Alekperov, born in 1988.

January 25, 2014 16:05

• Residents of Untsukul District of Dagestan report they were not admitted to meeting with Abdulatipov

  Today, in the Untsukul District, the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov held a meeting with local residents. However, the locals who came to meet him assert only employees of the administrations and employees of budget organizations of the district were admitted to the meeting with Abdulatipov.

January 25, 2014 15:30

• FSB denies presence in Sochi of potential suicide bomber Ibragimova

  The information about the arrival in Sochi of Ruzanna Ibragimova, a suicide bomber, who is preparing a terror act, is not true, but the person of Ibragimova is real, said the spokesman of the Sochi regional FSB office. The city police have also stated that there are no grounds to worry about the presence of suicide bombers in Sochi.

January 25, 2014 13:30

• OSCE Minsk Group is concerned about incidents in conflict zone

  Elmar Mamedyarov and Edward Nalbandyan, the heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of Azerbaijan of Armenia, respectively, held a meeting with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Co-Chairs expressed their concern about the recent incidents at the demarcation line of armed forces on both sides of the conflict.

January 25, 2014 10:56

• In Armenia, Euromaidan supporters call on Ukrainian authorities to stop violence

  On January 24, the participants of the rally in Yerevan in support of the Ukrainian Euromaidan voiced against the use of violence against protesters in the cities of Ukraine and urged the law enforcers "to join the people."

January 25, 2014 06:56

• Consulate of Czech Republic in Moscow rejects Abkhazians of students' visas

  Seven students of the Abkhaz State University who planned to go for training to the Czech Republic were denied visas at the consulate of this country in Moscow on the grounds that their passports had been issued by the Russia's Embassy in Abkhazia.

January 25, 2014 03:27

• 70 illegal migrants evicted from Chechnya in 2013

  During 2013, only seventy illegal migrants were deported from Chechnya for violating migration laws. The local Federal Migration Service (FMS) believes that the problem of illegal migration in Chechnya has been minimized.

January 25, 2014 02:27

• Azerbaijan: convicted editor-in-chief of "Tolyshi Sado" is pressed in colony, says his brother

  Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), convicted to five years in prison, is exposed to physical and moral pressure from the personnel of Colony No. 17, Sabakhaddin Mamedov, Hilal's brother, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

January 25, 2014 00:36

• Bodies of two policemen found in Stavropol Territory

  The bodies were found in the territory of the Sovietskiy District, Stavropol Territory, said a source from the district power structures. It happened at around 9:00 p.m. after checking a report about two suspicious cars.

January 25, 2014 00:07

• Maikop-Sochi road is not under special Olympic security measures (video)

  Amid increased security measures in Northern Caucasus before the 2014 Winter Olympics, the road section Maikop-Sochi remains out of control, at least officially – by law enforcement bodies, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

January 24, 2014 21:04

• Woman from Makhachkala states her illegal detention at bus station

  Olga Petrova, a resident of Makhachkala, reports about her illegal detention at the city bus station. The spokesman of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that Olga Petrova had not been on the wanted list.

January 24, 2014 19:24

• Moscow: Nasrutdinov's defence appeals against his detention

  Today, the advocates of Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, have lodged their appeal to the Moscow City Court (MCC) against the ruling on the detention of their client.

January 24, 2014 18:13

• Armenia's CC suspends pension system law

  Today, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia has decided to suspend the new law on the mandatory accumulative pension system.

January 24, 2014 15:35

• In Baku, film presentation within human rights campaign "Arts for Democracy" was disrupted

  Today, in Baku, an event within the local human rights campaign "Arts for Democracy" was disrupted. This was reported by Rasul Djafarov, the coordinator of the campaign. According to him, viewing and discussion of the documentary film "Arts Need Democracy" failed because of cut off of electricity supply. The organizers of the event believe the incident had political background.

January 24, 2014 14:54

• Postanyuk: records of phone calls prove Said Amirov's innocence in preparing terror act

  The advocates of the dismissed Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, accused of preparing a terror act, have appealed to Yuri Chaika, the General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, asking him to assess the work of investigators. The billing of the telephone calls of the defendants proves that the investigators' conclusions about the preparation of a terror act were incorrect, the lawyer Vladimir Postanyuk is sure.

January 24, 2014 14:53

• Experts treat inclusion of Krasnodar Territory in "Imarat Kavkaz" as "paper intrigues"

  In early 2014, the websites supporting North-Caucasian militants published a map, where the territory of the "Imarat Kavkaz" extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and included the Krasnodar Territory. Experts believe that the map is of virtual nature only and it does not mean real extension of militants' structures beyond Northern Caucasus.

January 24, 2014 11:31

• Vage Mkrtchyan, arrested during "Million Mask March", needs medical care, his wife reports

  Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, who was arrested during the "Million Mask March", is still in the hospital for prisoners, where he was brought after 17 days of his hunger strike. This was reported by his wife Ruzanna Badalyan.

January 24, 2014 03:24

• Policemen prohibit Salafis to leave Buynaksk, local residents report

  Buynaksk policemen warn members of the Salafi community that from February 1 and till the end of the Olympic Games in Sochi, they should not leave the town. There is no any official confirmation of the introduction of restrictions on the movement.

January 24, 2014 01:24

• In Dagestan, Samur residents demand Samur nature reserve to be administered by federal authorities

  Residents of the village of Samur of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan demand to transfer the Samur forest to federal administration and to ban geological examinations in the surrounding areas. This was stated at the meeting of Mamed Abbasov, State Duma Deputy, with members of the Federal Lezgin National and Cultural Autonomy, hydrologists, and public figures.