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August 04, 2013 05:34

• In Gelendzhik, human rights activists sentenced to 8-13 years of imprisonment

  In the KrasnodarTerritory, the court found members of the Gelendzhik Human Rights Centre (GHRC) guilty in the case of fraud and sentenced them to 8-13 years of imprisonment.

August 04, 2013 00:25

• Father of anaesthesiologist Marat Gunashev asks to speed up investigation into case against his son

  Father of anaesthesiologist Marat Gunashev, suspected of the murder of the chief of the Makhachkala Police, has asked human rights defenders to provide assistance in investigating his son's case and bringing it to trial.

August 03, 2013 23:08

• Imam of Makhachkala city mosque shot dead in Dagestan

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source from the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the ICRF that an Imam of a Makhachkala mosque was killed tonight in the course of shelling; his driver was wounded.

August 03, 2013 22:46

• In Baku, police detains supporters of journalist Khadidja Ismailova

  The Baku police have prevented a protest action of women-journalists demanding to stop blackmailing and interfering into the privacy of their colleague Khadidja Ismailova, an employee of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty. All the participants of the action and the journalists who covered it were detained by the police.

August 03, 2013 19:44

• Religious figure Javid Mamedov released in Azerbaijan

  The theologian Javid Mamedov is back at large in Azerbaijan, said Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "In Support of Democracy". Mamedov was detained on October 19, 2012, and accused of organizing a believers' action in defence of the religious hijab.

August 03, 2013 19:04

• Sochi residents complain about poor quality of repair of roads and pavements

  Sochi residents express their outrage with the poor quality of repairs of roads, pavements and house-adjoining territories. In particular, in the Tsentralny District, the streets named after Gorky, Voikov, Pervimaiskaya, Sebastopol, Titov, Tuapse, Dagomys, Kubanskaya, Theatrical and Ordzhonikidze, and Kurortny Avenue remained unrepaired.

August 03, 2013 19:00

• August 4 marks two years after arrest of Ales Bialiatski

  On August 4, a number of European cities will hold actions in support of Ales Bialiatski, the head of the human rights centre "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), who was sentenced in Belarus.

August 03, 2013 16:10

• In North Ossetia, picket against "Electrozink" was supported by 15 persons

  Up to 15 people have come today to picket against the operation of the metallurgical factory of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Electrozink" in Vladikavkaz, said German Revazov, the organizer of the action and an activist of the movement "Stop 'Electrozink'!" and the environmental organization "Novoe Vremya".

August 03, 2013 13:09

• North Ossetia hosts international arts symposium "Alanika"

  The Seventh International Arts Symposium "Alanika" was launched on August 1 in Vladikavkaz. During the event artistic workers Italy, Turkey, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Croatia, Great Britain, Georgia and Azerbaijan will implemented their projects in the field of contemporary arts.

August 03, 2013 04:11

• Additional check of Demerchyan's beating undertaken in Sochi

  On August 2, in Sochi, investigators resumed checking the information that the builder Mardiros Demerchyan had been beaten by policemen. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Artyom Semenets, an investigator from the Adler Division of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

August 03, 2013 03:36

• In Moscow, the Bar "Musaev and Partners" will render legal aid to detainees in Matveevsky Marketplace

  Musa Pliev, a lawyer from the Bar "Musaev and Partners", has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on August 1 an agreement was signed on provision of legal aid by the Bar to the persons detained during the anti-crime cleansing of the Matveevsky Marketplace.

August 02, 2013 23:23

• Journalist Sardar Alibeili arrested for disorderly conduct in Azerbaijan

  Today, by decision of the Khatai District Court of Baku, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "P.S. Nota" and the on-line edition "www.psnota.com" Sardar Alibeili was arrested for 2 months for hooliganism.

August 02, 2013 21:59

• Sochi residents claim losses due to power outage

  Residents of the city of Sochi have complained that due to power outage for almost 24 hours in the neighbourhood "Gagarinsky" they suffered material losses because of spoiled foodstuffs, medicines and broken electrical appliances.

August 02, 2013 21:58

• Sitting on demolition of would-be mosque in Stavropol rescheduled for August 8

  Today, the Court of Arbitration of the Stavropol Territory has held a session on the combined process dealing with the construction in process in Kulakov Avenue, where earlier employees of the city administration saw signs of a mosque. The trial was adjourned until July 8.

August 02, 2013 21:15

• In KBR, former pilot seeks reinstatement in MIA detachment

  In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Andrei Gonibov, a former helicopter pilot-navigator from the special-purpose aviation detachment of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), is seeking reinstatement at work and claims that he was dismissed on trumped-up reasons.

August 02, 2013 20:52

• Armenia: leaflets spread calling to impeach two Yerevan transport officials

  Today, at public transport stops, activists of the initiative group "We'll pay 100 drams!" were handing out leaflets calling to dismiss the head of the transport department of Yerevan Genrik Navasardyan and the director of "Yerevantrans" Misak Ambartsumyan.

August 02, 2013 20:10

• Yerevan hosts rally in support of convicted ANC activists

  An action in support of the four oppositional activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), convicted of disorderly conduct and resistance to the police, was held today in Yerevan. The participants demanded a fair consideration of their cases by the Court of Appeal (CoA).

August 02, 2013 17:55

• Russia's SC softens sentence to two defendants on charges of mass rioting in Sagra

  The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has reduced the sentence to two defendants on charges of riots in the village of Sagra, Sverdlovsk Region, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. Artyom Rabadanov and Shota Katamadze were released in the courtroom.

August 02, 2013 07:54

• Lawyer: prosecution has no chances at Georgia's CoA on Bacho Akhalaya's case

  The Prosecutor's Office will fail to win the case at the Court of Appeal (CoA), if disputes the verdict of acquittal, passed in the case of Bacho Akhalaya, the former Minister of Interior and the former Minister of Defence of Georgia, said his advocate Malkhaz Velidjanashvili.

August 02, 2013 03:42

• Investigators refuse to open criminal case on the death of the convict for blowing up "Neva-Express" Train

  The Investigating Division for Yekaterinburg of the ICRF has dismissed the application of relatives of Tarkhan Kartoev who asked to open a criminal case on the fact of his violent death during his stay in quarantine of Colony No. 2 in Yekaterinburg, said the lawyer Tatiana Okushko.