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June 29, 2013 15:59

• Azerbaijan: adviser to the head of "Musavat" Party Yadigar Sadygov arrested for two months

  On June 29, the Lankaran District Court of Azerbaijan ruled to restrict the freedom of Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the head of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who is accused of hooliganism, by a two-month-long arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the ruling at the appeal instance.

June 29, 2013 12:39

• Mayor of Karachaevsk put on federal wanted list

  Soltan Semyonov, the incumbent Mayor of Karachaevsk, was put on the wanted list, Sergey Shuvaev, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Investigating Department for Karachay-Cherkessia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 29, 2013 11:27

• Businessman's house blown up in Khasavyurt

  At night on June 29, in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, four unidentified masked men armed with submachine guns blew up the house of a businessman; nobody suffered in the incident, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

June 29, 2013 03:32

• Dagestan announces contest on design of monument to perished journalists

  The Union of Journalists of Dagestan has announced an international contest on the design of a monument to fallen journalists.

June 29, 2013 00:56

• 31 educators to be sacked in Dagestan for USE violations

  As stated on June 28 by Evgeniy Semchenko, the head of the department for assessing the education quality of the "Rosobrnadzor" (Russian Federal Supervisory Service in Education and Sciences), more than 30 officials from education bodies and schools of Dagestan will be dismissed for violations during the unified state examination (USE).

June 28, 2013 19:39

• Participants of rally in front of Armenia's GPO demand release of convicted ANC activists

  On June 28, 40 persons took part in a protest action held in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia demanding immediate release and acquittal of the four young activists of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), now kept in custody.

June 28, 2013 14:16

• Georgia: parliamentary minority declares political boycott

  The parliamentary faction of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party in Georgia stops its work in the supreme legislative body of the country and starts its political boycott in protest against the detention of senior officials of Tbilisi Mayoralty, said the MP Levan Bezhashvili.

June 28, 2013 11:18

• Lortkipanidze: disruption of Geneva discussions was caused by attempt of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to change format

  In the course of the talks in Geneva on security in Southern Caucasus, delegates of the conflict regions made an attempt to leave one working group and continue working in another one. The co-chairs banned the precedent and stopped the security working group, said the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, explaining the disruption of the talks.

June 28, 2013 10:09

• Transparency International demands to check Chief Architect of Yerevan for abuse of powers

  Law enforcement bodies of Armenia are preparing to launch inquiry into activities of Narek Sarkisyan, the Chief Architect of Yerevan, after the statement of the anti-corruption centre of the Transparency International about his possible misuse of powers.

June 28, 2013 09:51

• Engineers promise to restore skyscraper in "Grozny City" by late September

  The 145-meter tower of the complex "Grozny City", which was damaged by fire in April, will be restored with the use of new fire-resistant decoration materials by September 30, the city administration reports.

June 28, 2013 04:21

• Inquiry into Yarst's case in Sochi is run with violations, advocates assert

  The journalist Nikolai Yarst, accused of drug possession, is not guilty of the incriminated offence, while the inquiry into his case is accompanied by violations, the Yarst's advocates Alexander Popkov and Marina Dubrovina said at the press conference held in Sochi.

June 28, 2013 03:15

• Advocate: inquiry into the case of ex-office manager of president of Azerbaijan is accompanied by ECHR violations

  The court in Baku dismissed the complaints of the former office manager of the president of Azerbaijan Akif Muradverdiev, filed by his defence in connection with his freedom restriction, the conducted searches and investigators' refusal to provide information. According to the advocate Fuad Agaev, the court decisions gave sufficient grounds for filing a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

June 28, 2013 02:48

• "Pravozaschita" turns to prosecutor's office on forcing Buynaksk residents to give DNA assays

  Zarema Bagautdinova, a representative of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) for the Buynaksk District, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan asking him to react to the fact of forcing 23 residents of Buynaksk to give their saliva for collecting DNA samples.

June 28, 2013 02:07

• Issues of encroachment on human honour and rights to be discussed by conference scheduled in Ingushetia

  On June 29, the city of Magas will hold a conference against encroachment on human honour and rights, which will be organized by the republic's administration and Muftiate. One of the topics to be discussed at the forum will be the issue of bride abduction.

June 28, 2013 00:59

• Unloading dock in Volgograd Region was burned down intentionally, its defenders are sure

  The fire in the unloading dock, located near the farmstead of Bobry in the Sredneakhtubinsk District of the Volgograd Region, which was recognized as cultural heritage, was caused by arson, the activists who fought for the preservation of the building are sure. They now prepare a series of rallies to demand to find and punish the arsonists.

June 27, 2013 20:31

• Adviser to "Musavat" head detained in Azerbaijan on suspicion of hooliganism

  On June 27, Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the chairman of the opposition "Musavat" Party, was detained by police in the city of Lankaran in southern Azerbaijan on suspicion of committing acts of hooliganism. The "Musavat" finds the accusations fabricated and politically motivated.

June 27, 2013 20:14

• Relatives of 28-year-old resident of Dagestan state his disappearance after detention by power agents

  In Dagestan, relatives cannot locate Magomed Magomedov, 28, who was detained by police on June 24. His relatives assert that Magomed Magomedov was detained by Kizilyurt district policemen at the post at the entrance to Kizilyurt from the village of Komsomolskoe.

June 27, 2013 18:58

• Kruter: defence will insist on July 3 in court on home arrest for Said Amirov

  On July 3, at a session of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, the defence of the arrested and removed from office Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov will insist on changing his freedom restraint measure to home arrest, said Mark Kruter, Amirov's advocate.

June 27, 2013 17:50

• Azerbaijan extends custody of theologian Bagirzade by a month

  On June 27, the court has extended till August 1 the custody of Talekh Bagirzade, a theologian, said his lawyer Javad Javadly. The defender finds the decision unjustified and intends to appeal against it at the appellate.

June 27, 2013 17:09

• Ismailov: delegate of future Kumyk Parliament killed in Dagestan

  Tamerlan Akaev, a villager of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, a 28-year-old supporter of Salafism, who had been elected a delegate to the future Kumyk Parliament, was shot dead in his car. According to Rasul Ismailov, the head of the human rights organization "Civil Initiative", believes that the reason for the murder could be the hostility that arose on religious grounds.