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October 11, 2013 09:41

• Dagestani residents complain about unlawful detentions in Khasavyurt District

  Residents of the village of Mutsalaul of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan have appealed to the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) with complaints about the facts of unlawful detentions and torture of their relatives suspected of aiding and abetting militants.

October 11, 2013 07:02

• Power engineers give a month to "Gorvodokanal" of Khasavyurt to pay the debts

  Local residents report that water supply has been fully restored in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt and surrounding area. Now, the "Gorvodokanal" of Khasavyurt has a month to pay all the debts to the power company, said Shamsudin Khalitov, the first deputy head of the city administration.

October 11, 2013 03:33

• Yunus-Bek Evkurov promises to solve problems of refugees and victims of landslide zones in Ingushetia till end of 2015

  Ingushetia has opened the international conference of Ombudsmen dedicated to the protection of human rights. The leader of the republic promised to resolve till the end of 2015 all the problems associated with housing accommodation of refugees and residents of landslide zone.

October 10, 2013 21:30

• Rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina receives Stieg Larsson Award

  Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", was awarded the Swedish Stieg Larsson Award – the ceremony will take place on November 7 in Stockholm.

October 10, 2013 20:47

• Observers: violations at presidential election in Azerbaijan continued throughout the whole voting day

  The October 9 presidential election in Azerbaijan was not fair, free and democratic, says the joint statement of the Centre for Monitoring Elections and Democracy Training (CMEDT) and the Public Association for International Cooperation of Volunteers (PAICV).

October 10, 2013 17:45

• 40 residents of Chechnya win lawsuit against Russia at the ECtHR on disappearances of their relatives

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the claim of 40 residents of Chechnya by finding Russia's violation of the rights of the disappearance of their relatives, says the court decision. The ECtHR has ordered Russia to pay 1.06 million euros to the applicants.

October 10, 2013 14:05

• Woman from Izberbash states that policemen demanded her to give DNA assay

  Zarema Magomedova, a resident of the Dagestani city of Izberbash and an official of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) in the Buynaksk District, asserts that local policemen force her to pass a DNA blood test. However, the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Izberbash denies it, saying that they do not collect assays.

October 10, 2013 12:15

• Fate of resident of Grozny kidnapped in 1994 established in Chechnya

  Remains of a resident of Grozny, who disappeared after detention by servicemen of federal forces in December 1994, were found at one of local cemeteries.

October 10, 2013 09:50

• Georgia: political analysts treat Margvelashvili, Bakradze and Burjanadze as main candidates for presidency

  In Georgia, at the presidential election, three candidates Georgy Margvelashvili, David Bakradze, and Nino Burjanadze occupy leading positions out of all 23 presidential candidates registered by the Central Election Commission (CEC). The majority of candidates have no chance of winning. This was concluded by Georgian political analysts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 10, 2013 09:49

• Judge from Chechnya killed in KBR was on business tour

  Adam Agakhadjiev, an arbitration judge from Chechnya, who was found dead on October 9 in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was heading for a business trip to the city of Yessentuki, Stavropol Territory, says the ICRF. So far, law enforcers have no facts about any conflicts of the judge or the other casualty – entrepreneur Isa Ataev – that could serve as a pretext for the murder, said a source from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

October 10, 2013 07:59

• Dagestani prosecutors ask court to invalidate permits to build houses near "Russian Cemetery"

  The Prosecutor's Office of the capital of Dagestan requests to declare the multi-storey buildings constructed near the "Russian Cemetery" unauthorized buildings and to oblige developers to demolish them. The court considers claims filed by the Prosecutor's Office to recognize as non-compliant to the law the resolutions issued by the Mayor of Makhachkala that permitted construction of apartment buildings in the land plots in question.

October 10, 2013 05:52

• Alexander Cherkasov: security systems at Sochi Olympic Games are similar to those already applied in Northern Caucasus

  The FSB intends to keep track of phone calls and Internet correspondence carried out by guests of the Olympic Games in Sochi by extending application of the systems of operational and search activities (known as SORM). This was stated by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, the authors of the journalistic investigation.

October 10, 2013 04:53

• Refugees' children from Ingushetia and Chechnya return home from America

  Children from families of refugees from Ingushetia and Chechnya affected by interethnic conflicts have returned home after a three-month stay in America. This was reported by Alikhan Akhilgov, one of the organizers of the trip, the leader of NGO "Foundation to Help Formerly Deported Peoples".

October 10, 2013 02:00

• In Ingushetia, Karabulak authorities start forced eviction of refugees, residents of TAC "Promzhilbaza" report

  In Karabulak, residents of the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza" complain that the city authorities started the forced eviction of residents from the TAC. Starting from the early October, the similar reports also come from other TACs in Ingushetia. This was reported by Timur Akiev, a staff member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Ingushetia.

October 09, 2013 21:42

• CEC: by preliminary data, Ilham Aliev won 84.94 percent of votes

  According to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan, the incumbent President Ilham Aliev wins the presidential race with 84.94% of all the votes.

October 09, 2013 19:08

• At trial in Armenia, ANC activist states political persecution and refuses from amnesty

  In Yerevan, the Criminal Court of Appeal has again failed to consider, at its session on the case of oppositional activists of the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC), the petition lodged by the defence on changing the freedom restraint measure of the arrested oppositional activist Tigran Arakelyan. The latter insists that he is persecuted on political grounds and refused from the amnesty.

October 09, 2013 17:52

• Dagestan resumes water supply to houses of Khasavyurt

  On Wednesday, in Khasavyurt, where water supply was absent since October 2, it was resumed both to the population and all critical infrastructure facilities, said Nurmagomed Nurmagomedov, an official from the city administration.

October 09, 2013 17:09

• Members of opposition parties of Azerbaijan state widespread violations at presidential election

  The presidential election takes place in the environment of massive violations of the law, the oppositional parties of Azerbaijan assert. In his turn, Mazakhir Panakhov, the CEC chairman, has stated minor violations during the vote, which cannot affect the outcome of the election.

October 09, 2013 16:23

• SC of KChR cancels verdict to former Deputy Chief of Police of Cherkessk

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has overturned the verdict of the Cherkessk City Court that found Ruslan Rakhaev, the ex-Deputy Chief of Police of Cherkessk, guilty of beating to death the administrative detainee Dakhir Djankezov and sent the case to the Prosecutor's Office.

October 09, 2013 11:47

• Election in Azerbaijan is accompanied by large-scale violations, says oppositional candidate

  Jamil Gasanli made his statement about the voting around 11:20 a.m. Baku time, after he has voted at the 6th polling station of the 17th Third Yasamal Constituency. He pointed to violations that accompanied, according to his version, the election process.