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September 19, 2013 11:36

• Trial on lawsuit of HRC "Memorial" demanding to cancel registration as foreign agent scheduled for November 18

  The court session on the claim filed by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" challenging the demand of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office to get registered as a foreign agent is scheduled for November 18. This was reported by the Zamoskvorechye District Court of Moscow.

September 19, 2013 10:25

• Russian border guards suspend demarcation of Georgian-South-Ossetian border

  Protests of residents of the Georgian village of Ditsi forced Russian border guards to suspend works on the demarcation of the border between Georgia and South Ossetia.

September 19, 2013 08:52

• United voting day in NCFD: parties claim violations in Dagestan and North Ossetia

  Members of the opposition claim violations have been committed during the voting at the elections of heads of cities and regions in Dagestan and North Ossetia held on September 8.

September 19, 2013 06:16

• In Georgia, pupils of two schools evacuated because of false bomb report

  After a report that a bomb was planted in one of the two secondary schools located in the villages of Dvabzu and Gagma Dvabzu of the Ozurgeti District of Georgia, all students, teachers and other staff members were evacuated from educational institutions. The verification revealed that the anonymous information was false.

September 19, 2013 02:54

• Ex-policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov identifies defendant as alleged killer of Anna Politkovskaya

  At the court session held at the Moscow City Court on the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov has identified defendant Rustam Makhmudov on the video record that shot the alleged murderer of Anna Politkovskaya.

September 18, 2013 22:06

• Demolition of houses of militants' relatives is illegal and should be punished, lawyers and rights defenders assert

  Demolition of houses of militants' relatives is voluntarism, as the right to private property is protected by the Constitution of Russia, said lawyers and human rights activists in their comments on the decision of the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and the republic's authorities to demolish the "houses of the families who had sheltered bandits."

September 18, 2013 20:33

• Dagestan starts trying participants of "Kizlyar wedding"

  The Kizlyar City Court has begun the trial on the conflict that happened in April between the police and members of a wedding convoy.

September 18, 2013 19:34

• Journalist Parviz Gashimli arrested in Azerbaijan

  The Sabail District Court has decided to arrest the journalist Parviz Gashimli, detained on suspicion of smuggling and possession of firearms, for two months. The "Bizim Yol" issue of September 18 posted a short statement, where the authors called on the international community and human rights organizations not to stay indifferent to the arrest of Parviz Gashimli.

September 18, 2013 18:01

• Ex-policeman Pavlyuchenkov testifies against other figurants in Politkovskaya's murder case

  A former policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, already sentenced to 11 years in prison for organizing the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, has revealed at the Moscow City Court the roles of other defendants in organizing the murder.

September 18, 2013 16:34

• Dagestani court rules to arrest two suspects of illegal possession of firearms

  Saidpasha Musaev and Magaram Aliev, residents of the village of Manas, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, detained on suspicion of illegal firearms possession, have been arrested by the court for two months.

September 18, 2013 09:49

• Chechnya: special operation fails to find persons involved in terror act in Sernovodsk

  The operation to search for members of the armed underground, which is carried out in the Sunzha District of Chechnya starting from September 16, has not yet succeeded. This was reported by a representative of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs.

September 18, 2013 07:48

• Reason for Armenia's accession to Customs Union were hidden from public, opposition asserts

  Armenia's accession to the Customs Union is the sole decision of President Serzh Sargsyan. The reason for the accession and the expected result are not clear to the public, since all information about the Customs Union and the association agreement with the European Union is closed. This is stated by representatives of the opposition parties of the country.

September 18, 2013 06:04

• Georgian Parliament considers draft law to toughen penalties for false reports of terrorism

  The Parliament of Georgia has initiated the legislative initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs toughening the law on penalty for false calls about explosive devices at different objects. The Parliament plans to consider the draft law at accelerated rate and can adopt it in the final third reading this week.

September 18, 2013 03:45

• Sentencing in case against ex-Deputy Mayor of Novocherkassk scheduled for September 23

  On September 23, the verdict in the case against Vladislav Zhuravlyov, ex-Deputy Mayor of Novocherkassk, accused "of inciting hatred and hostility", is to be pronounced. At the court session held on September 17, the court listened to the final speech of the defendant.

September 18, 2013 01:41

• Special aircraft brings to Moscow policemen wounded in Ingushetia

  Three policemen, who were wounded as a result of the explosion of a car in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, were brought by a special aircraft to the Moscow hospital of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs . The state of two policemen is assessed by doctors as moderate, and one policeman is in serious condition.

September 18, 2013 00:52

• At trial on Anna Politkovskaya's murder, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov's wife refuses to testify

  At the trial on the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya held at the Moscow City Court, Oksana, the wife of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was sentenced in a special manner, refused to testify. The jury considered her testimony given during the preliminary investigation.

September 17, 2013 23:14

• Journalist Parviz Gashimli detained in Azerbaijan

  Today, Parviz Gashimli, an employee of the independent newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) and the director of the website moderator.az, was detained in Azerbaijan on suspicion of contraband and illegal possession of firearms. The journalist denies any wrongdoing.

September 17, 2013 22:13

• Conflict of locals with Russian border guards burst out near Georgian village of Ditsi

  A clash between locals and Russian border guards who are installing barbed wire happened near the Georgian village of Ditsi, Zakaria Vatikadze, the attorney of the Ditsi territorial body, said today.

September 17, 2013 22:03

• Dagestani communists: elections in Derbent were falsified

  Members of the Dagestan Branch of the Communist Party have addressed the head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov, the republic's Central Election Commission and the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan stating mass violations during the elections of deputies to the City Assembly of Derbent.

September 17, 2013 20:35

• Magomedova: Dagestani investigators re-qualify the case on threats to lawyers

  Investigators in Dagestan have decided to re-qualify the criminal case opened on the fact of threats addressed to the lawyers Magomedova and Suslanov, said the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova.