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October 04, 2013 19:14

• Yerevan: about 60 people take part in rally in support of Tigran Arakelyan

  In Yerevan today, about sixty people have rallied in support of Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC) Party, who is serving his six-year prison term on charges of disorderly conduct and resistance to authority in a conflict on August 9, 2011.

October 04, 2013 18:17

• Man who blew himself up on Russian border was a KBR resident, says Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office

  The alleged infringer of the border with Russia, who committed suicide bombing and wounded two border guards, was a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), said the Prosecutor's Office of the Sumy Region of Ukraine.

October 04, 2013 17:07

• Mukomolov: list of disappearances in Northern Caucasus has 7570 names

  Currently, the North-Caucasian list of missing persons has 7570 names. The data on 4050 of them has been collected, said Alexander Mukomolov, a member of the Human Rights Commission and the chairman of the General Lebed Peacemaking Mission in the course of the roundtable held in Pyatigorsk.

October 04, 2013 15:04

• KChR police confiscate Koran translations, although court decision has not come into force, lawyer says

  As reported on October 3 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), copies of the book with the translation of the sense of the Koran, which was found to be extremist by the Novorossiysk court, were confiscated by the police from two outlets in the marketplace of the city of Cherkessk.

October 04, 2013 15:03

• Volgograd: hunger-striking parents demand solving problems of all of them

  The parents of large families are on their 12th day of the hunger strike that they hold in the premises of the former Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). The protesters claim that they will stop the action only when the regional authorities meet all of them.

October 04, 2013 13:04

• In Sochi, Mardiros Demerchyan and his advocate deny denunciation charge

  The accusation that builder Mardiros Demerchyan has made a false denunciation of staff members of the police station of Blinovo, a district of Sochi, who allegedly beat him, is not true. This was stated by the defendant and his advocate.

October 04, 2013 12:13

• Azerbaijani experts: election outcome is predefined, which makes other candidates passive

  The presidential election campaign in Azerbaijan goes in an atmosphere of predefined results, local observers assert. Except for the candidate-in-power, all other candidates possess extremely limited resources.

October 04, 2013 11:35

• FSB stops international arms trafficking from Georgia to North Ossetia

  In North Ossetia, the international channel of trafficking in firearms and ammunition from Georgia to the Russian territory has been suppressed. A criminal case was instituted on that fact. This was reported by the FSB.

October 04, 2013 11:29

• In Moscow, suspected recruiter into banned Islamist organization detained

  A member of the international organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir" recognized in Russia as an extremist organization, was detained in Moscow. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the detainee recruited new members among the believers who attend one of the mosques.

October 04, 2013 10:33

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay 73,000 euros to family of Beslan Arapkhanov, killed resident of Ingushetia

  Russia shall pay 68,000 euros as compensation for damage and 5000 euros for judicial expenses to the family of Beslan Arapkhanov, a resident of Ingushetia, killed by law enforcers on July 20, 2004. Such a decision was pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on October 3.

October 04, 2013 07:57

• Igor Trunov: compensation for damage by militants' relatives admits abusive schemes

  The provisions of the bill that assumes compensation for damage caused by terrorists by their relatives can create schemes of abuse, since the bill provides for the "presumption of guilt", experts assert.

October 03, 2013 21:23

• HRW urges IOC to pay attention to detentions of migrants in Sochi

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pay attention to illegal detentions of migrant workers in Sochi.

October 03, 2013 20:04

• Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office takes control over inquiry into disappearance of a girl in hijab

  The investigation into the disappearance in December 2012 inGrozny of a 23-year-old local resident was conducted with serious violations. This was concluded by the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya after a respective check. Further inquiry will be carried out under the supervision of the Office, said a source from there.

October 03, 2013 16:09

• ECtHR orders Russia to pay over than 1.1 million euros to residents of Chechnya-victims of artillery attack

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russia to pay 1.165 million euros to residents of Chechnya, figuring in the case "Abdulkhanov et al versus Russia", says the decision of the Court.

October 03, 2013 15:25

• Woman from Izberbash states that policeman used force against her and questioned without summon

  Zarema Magomedova, a resident of Izberbash town in Dagestan, has appealed to rights defenders with a complaint about the actions of the city policemen, who, according to her story, forced her into the police for interrogation without a summon.

October 03, 2013 14:03

• AI: Olympic Torch Relay will shed light on human rights violations in Russia

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) is launching a worldwide campaign of highlight the situation with human rights violations in Russia. Actions and protests around the world will start on October 7 – the day of arrival of the Olympic Flame to Moscow, the AI has reported.

October 03, 2013 11:43

• Chechnya drops minimum subsistence level by 100-150 roubles for all categories

  The new minimum subsistence level for residents of Chechnya, set by the Government of Chechnya on October 2, has been reduced in average by 100-150 roubles for all categories of the population. This was reported by a representative of the Ministry of Labour of Chechnya.

October 03, 2013 06:12

• In Volgograd, six parents of many children continue hunger strike

  In Volgograd, four parents of many children and two pensioners who joined in the protest action are on the tenth day of the hunger strike. The Governor of the Volgograd Region has promised that he personally or his deputies will meet each hunger-striker.

October 03, 2013 05:38

• Valery Suchkov: 30,000 Sochi residents cannot insure their property against natural disasters

  In Sochi, the authorities offer residents to insure their property against emergencies similar to the storm that passed through the city. However, the local residents report that insurance companies refuse to insure old and dilapidated houses, which are home to tens of thousands of people.

October 03, 2013 02:05

• In Sochi, Mardiros Demerchyan charged with denunciation

  Artyom Semenets, the investigator of the Adler Division of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has filed charges against Mardiros Demerchyan of false denunciation of staff members of the Blinovo police station.