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August 10, 2013 15:27

• Tural Abbasly spent three days in handcuffs in Baku jail, his mother asserts

  In Azerbaijan, Tural Abbasly, the leader of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party, who is serving an administrative penalty of arrest, is subjected to inhuman treatment in detention. This was reported by the activist's mother.

August 10, 2013 14:50

• Case against Mayor of Karachaevsk is customized, his advocate asserts

  The criminal case against Soltan Semyonov, Mayor of Karachaevsk, is of ordered and political nature. This was stated by Andrei Ostroukhov, an advocate of Soltan Semyonov, during the court session to review the motion to take Soltan Semyonov in custody.

August 10, 2013 12:14

• In Armenia, draft law to ban propaganda of homosexualism recalled

  On August 8, Vladimir Gasparyan, Chief of Armenian Police, recalled the earlier proposed draft law to ban the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.

August 10, 2013 11:04

• AI: Azerbaijan launches presidential campaign, having 14 political prisoners

  The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has demanded to release 14 political and civil society activists, human rights defenders and journalists imprisoned in Azerbaijan.

August 10, 2013 04:56

• In Chechnya, five local residents sentenced for armed attacks

  The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic found guilty five local residents of banditry and attacks on law enforcers and sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment.

August 09, 2013 23:01

• In Georgia, CDM offers to constitutionally ban same-sex marriages

  The Georgian oppositional Christian-Democratic Movement (CDM) had offered to add the Constitution with the provision allowing marriages only of different sexes.

August 09, 2013 22:15

• Yerevan hosts picket against increase of tuition fees in universities

  On August 9, a protest action was held at the building of the Armenian government against the decision of the authorities to raise tuition fees in universities.

August 09, 2013 21:48

• Volgograd: seventeen people picket against use of animals in circus

  On August 9, at the building of the circus in Volgograd, a picket against the use of animals in circus, coordinated with the authorities, was held.

August 09, 2013 17:04

• Stanislav Khatskevich, former CEO of "Krasnaya Polyana", arrested

  The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested Stanislav Khatskevich, the former Director General of the Open Joint-Stock Company "Krasnaya Polyana", suspected of abuse of power at obtaining revenues from the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi.

August 09, 2013 15:57

• Moscow court finds activities of Transparency International-Russia political

  The Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has dismissed a complaint against the warning of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office demanding from the non-profit organization (NPO) Transparency International-Russia, which carries out its work among other regions in the Caucasus, to get registered as a "foreign agent".

August 09, 2013 12:13

• While alive, Ruslan Akhtakhanov received no threats, his daughter asserts at trial in case of her father's murder

  On August 8, at court session in case of the murder of Chechen poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov, the Savyolovo District Court of Moscow listened to four witnesses, including Zarema Akhtakhanova, the daughter of the murdered poet.

August 09, 2013 08:03

• In Krasnodar Territory, ICRF verifies information that child was raped in children's camp

  The Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Krasnodar Territory verifies the information on the fact of a crime committed against a minor girl in one of the children's camps of Anapa.

August 09, 2013 06:36

• On August 18, Sochi to hold rally against construction in park area

  In Sochi, Lyudmila Shestak, a City Council deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has filed to the Mayoralty an application on holding in Primorsky Park a rally against capital construction of a well-room in the park area. The rally is scheduled for August 18.

August 09, 2013 03:42

• Dmitry Sanakoev: Georgia invaded by 23,000 refugees because of August war

  In Georgia, the problem of refugees remains unsolved for five years since August 2008. Their number reaches about 23,000 persons; however, the exact number of refugees still has not been calculated.

August 09, 2013 03:18

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, residents of Verkhny Kurkuzhin village batten ambulance station doors to protest against dismissal of physician

  Residents of the village of Verkhny Kurkuzhin of Kabardino-Balkaria battened doors of the local ambulance station to protest against the dismissal of Mukhamed Tatimov, acting head of the local ambulance station.

August 09, 2013 02:03

• Detained Mayor of Karachaevsk pleads not guilty, his lawyer reports

  Soltan Semenov, Mayor of Karachaevsk, who was detained on August 8 after charges of misuse of budgetary funds, has agreed to testify in the case. However, he pleaded not guilty.

August 08, 2013 20:42

• 300 signatures collected in Volgograd against construction of hotel in green zone

  On August 8, picketers demanded from the authorities of Volgograd to stop building a hotel in Predmostnaya Square, felling the greenery and capturing parkland, and to hold public hearings initiated by residents, not officials.

August 08, 2013 17:35

• Krasnodar court extended Mikhail Savva's custody

  By the decision of the Oktiabrsky District Court of Krasnodar, the custody term of Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre, accused of a fraud, has been extended by two months.

August 08, 2013 15:19

• Residents of South Ossetia pay tribute to victims of August 2008 events

  At night on August 8, the Theatre Square of Tskhinvali hosted the action "Living Light of Memory", which brought together several hundreds residents of South Ossetia.

August 08, 2013 14:38

• ReAl activists complain that authorities hamper Ilgar Mamedov's participation in presidential election

  Artificial obstacles are set up for the official nomination of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), now under arrest, as a presidential candidate at the upcoming election in Azerbaijan on October 9.