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December 16, 2013 00:37

• Rally near Sochi City Administration was attended by up to 100 persons

  In Sochi, a rally was held in front of the city administration. People protested against permanent collapses of light, water, gas, and heating supply. According to various estimates, the protest action was attended by 50-100 persons.

December 15, 2013 20:36

• New methods used to discredit North-Caucasian journalists, Moscow conference asserts

  Independent journalists of Northern Caucasus are subjected to pressure; and a number of methods to discredit them are used: in particular, they are accused of supporting extremists and Wahhabism. Russian authorities should include journalists in the number of persons to be released on amnesty. This was stated by participants of the international conference "Freedom of speech: Russian realities, problems and prospects".

December 15, 2013 19:58

• French MFA: President Francois Hollande will not come to Sochi Olympic Games

  French President Francois Hollande will not attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi. This was announced by Laurent Fabius, the head of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), in his interview to the Radio Station "Europe 1".

December 15, 2013 16:35

• Musa Pliev: appeal against court's decision to ban Koran translation to be considered on December 17

  The Krasnodar Regional Court has scheduled the consideration of the appeal against the court's decision on the recognition extremist the book entitled "Semantic translation of holy Koran in Russian" by Elmir Guliev, for December 17.

December 14, 2013 22:13

• Tbilisi sets up tents for the homeless because of cold weather

  On the outskirts of Tbilisi, Georgian authorities have set up tents for homeless people, where they could take refuge from the cold. Magda Popiashvili, the head of the press service of the Georgia's Ministry for Regional Development, said that in total they installed 13 tents, which house 104 people.

December 14, 2013 19:41

• Yerevan: Santa Clauses opposed accumulative pension system

  Today, Yerevan held a protest against the law "On Mandatory Accumulative Pension System". The action, organized by the initiative groups DEM.AM and "Against 5-percent compulsory payments", was attended by dozens of people dressed as Santa Clauses and waving flags with the inscription "Against!"

December 14, 2013 17:05

• Delegation of US Meskhetian Turks visits KBR

  A delegation of Meskhetian Turks from the USA has visited the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and met the Diaspora members willing to move to other countries, said Bektas Ampashulin, the leader of the "Vatan" national cultural centre of Meskhetian Turks in the KBR.

December 14, 2013 16:19

• Problems of temporary housing and unemployment in Spitak remain unsolved

  As stated by Anahit Gyulazyan, the head of the Mayoralty office of the city of Spitak, today, 25 years after the devastating earthquake in Northern Armenia, the city is still facing the unsolved problems of unemployment and temporary housing.

December 14, 2013 15:44

• Ferriani: Sochi Sledge Centre is completely ready for 2014 Olympics

  The "Sledge" Centre in Sochi, which will host the Olympic competitions in sledge, bobsleigh and skeleton, is completely ready for the races, said Ivo Ferriani, the president of the International Federation of Bobsleigh and Toboggan.

December 14, 2013 14:29

• Yaganov: detentions of Circassian activists have to do with Sochi Olympics

  The December 13 detentions of activists and leaders of Circassian public organizations are associated with the forthcoming Olympic Games in Sochi, said Ibragim Yaganov, the chairman of the Public Movement "Khase".

December 14, 2013 12:43

• Residents of township Esto-Sadok (Sochi) state destruction of driveways by builders (video)

  Builders have destroyed the access ways to the Sochi Township named Esto-Sadok by their heavy trucks, having spoiled Beryozovaya Street, locals assert. According to residents, they endure hardships since Sochi was announced to be the Olympic capital.

December 14, 2013 03:41

• Chechnya: the number of AIDS patients goes up

  This year has marked an increased number of HIV/AIDS cases among residents of the Chechen Republic in comparison with 2012, says the local Ministry of Public Health.

December 14, 2013 00:51

• Court appointed examination of documents in the case of recognizing "Women of the Don" as foreign agent

  In the case of recognizing the Union "Women of the Don" as a foreign agent, Judge Natalia Kalashnikova from the Novocherkassk City Court has appointed examination of documents and announced a break until January 12, 2014, said Elena Pershakova, one of the advocates at the trial and the head of the legal division of the "Public Verdict".

December 14, 2013 00:03

• Turkish Foreign Minister acknowledges that the deportation of Armenians in 1915 was "inhumane"

  On the outcome of his December 12 visit to Armenia, Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, has confessed that the deportation of Armenians in 1915 was an inhuman act.

December 13, 2013 16:16

• Dagestan: local resident asserts his son was beaten by policemen after detention

  The parents of Gamzat Aliev, a resident of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, who was detained on suspicion of aiding militants, have appealed to the head of the republic with a complaint against the actions of the local policemen, who, according to their version, had beaten the suspect after detention.

December 13, 2013 15:13

• Board of Chechen Parliament demands to deprive Zhirinovsky of his parliamentary mandate

  The Board of the Chechen Parliament has held an extraordinary sitting and decided to send a special appeal to the Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin demanding to dismiss Vladimir Zhirinovsky of his parliamentary activities, the press service of the Chechen Parliament has reported.

December 13, 2013 15:10

• Baku Court refuses to move journalist Gashimli, who complained of torture, away from MNS SIZO

  The Sabail District Court of Baku has considered a complaint of the journalist and human rights defender Parviz Gashimli about the conditions of his custody at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) and his request to move him into the SIZO of the country's Penitentiary Service. The court has denied Gashimli's motion.

December 13, 2013 14:04

• Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin: prayer rooms of five world religions are ready for the Olympics

  On the eve of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, prayer premises of five world religions – Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity – have been prepared, said Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church.

December 13, 2013 14:01

• Dagestani resident is fined for involvement in "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami"

  A magistrate of the Nizhny Novgorod District of Moscow sentenced a resident of Dagestan to a fine of 60,000 roubles for involvement in the banned terrorist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami". This was reported by the Moscow Prosecutor's Office.

December 13, 2013 13:15

• ICRF: Dagestani policeman was killed, when rescuing local hostages

  Last night, in the Akhvakh District of Dagestan, armed men initiated a shootout with policemen. Criminals took hostage from local residents; however, the hostages managed to escape during the shootout. This was reported by the investigating agencies.