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June 11, 2013 12:18

• Woman-entrepreneur goes on hunger strike in Sochi

  In Sochi, Galina Maryanova, the owner of the auto camping LLC "Astra", has gone on a hunger strike, demanding to restore the water supply to her facility. According to her story, the owners of the nearby camping deprived her of water supply by just "cutting off the pipe."

June 11, 2013 11:56

• About 500 Sochi residents attend ecological action

  On June 9, from the midday to 8:00 p.m., the Komsomol Mini-Park of Sochi hosted an action in defence of the nature, which was attended by about 500 people. The organizers believe that it was a success.

June 11, 2013 11:34

• Woman, whose abduction was reported by relatives, found killed in Dagestan

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has reported that on June 9, in the Karakojsu River, in the Gergebil District of Dagestan, the body of a 43-year-old woman-resident of the village of Khadzhalmakhi, Levashin District, was found with a gunshot wound in her head.

June 10, 2013 19:10

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 3-9

  Terror act in Afghanistan which took lives of six Georgian soldiers; infective episode in the kindergarten in Rostov-on-Don; recently adopted law establishing criminal penalties for defamation on the Internet and arrest of an opposition activist in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 3-9, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 08, 2013 23:32

• Three hundred worshipers of praying house in Moscow detained in special operation

  As reported by a source from the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, a special operation held by law enforcers in the Muslim house of worship, located in Ugreshskaya Street in Moscow, resulted in detention of more than 300 believers.

June 08, 2013 21:53

• Relatives of casualties on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik dissatisfied with ECtHR's decision

  Parents of the persons who perished on October 13, 2005, inNalchik are disappointed with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the case of refusal of Russian authorities to give out bodies of suspected militants for burial.

June 08, 2013 19:51

• Sesiashvili: After terror act in Afghanistan Georgia to step up home security

  As stated by the spokesman of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the families of the Georgian soldiers, who were killed by a suicide attack in Afghanistan, will receive assistance from the state. Experts offer to take further steps to ensure the safety of Georgian troops both within peacekeeping force and in the country itself.

June 08, 2013 14:24

• Azerbaijan announces members of NCDF

  The National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan includes the members of a number of parties and public associations of the country, human rights defenders and opposition leaders who plan to nominate a united candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

June 08, 2013 14:07

• Derbent: police disrupts rally against renaming Sovietskaya Street, organizers assert

  Derbent policemen did not allow holding a rally against renaming Sovietskaya Street into Geidar Aliev Street, the organizers report. The rally was to be held in the park in Sovietskaya Street. Since morning, Derbent policemen have cordoned off the venue and blocked all the entrances, the organizers have reported.

June 08, 2013 13:32

• Resident of South Ossetia Marik Dudaev released in Georgia

  Marik Dudaev, a resident of South Ossetia, convicted in Georgia in 2005, was released on June 7, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Lira Tskhovrebov, the chair of the Association of Women of South Ossetia for Freedom and Human Rights.

June 08, 2013 08:50

• Prosecutor's Office Chechnya demands to recognize website "Ministry of Truth of the Russian Federation" as extremist

  In Chechnya, the Prosecutor's Office is seeking to recognize the website named "Ministry of Truth of the Russian Federation" as extremist, in connection with the publication of the audio and video materials put by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the list of extremist materials.

June 08, 2013 03:10

• Trial of opposition activist Dashgyn Melikov begins in Azerbaijan

  On June 7, the Sumgait City Court held a preliminary hearing on the case of Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), chaired by Judge Agil Abbasov. The defence moved a number of motions. However, since the prosecutor was not ready to express his attitude to the motions, the trial was postponed till June 11.

June 08, 2013 02:40

• Armenia to pay 193,000 US dollars to hail-affected villagers

  The Armenian government has decided to pay lump-sum compensations to socially vulnerable residents of 23 villages of the Armavir Region, who were most affected by hail. The total amount of lump-sum payments makes 80 million drams, or about 193,000 US dollars.

June 08, 2013 02:20

• Head of Kayakent District of Dagestan is accused of frauds with flats for orphans worth 1.5 million roubles

  On June 7, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) presented to Ilmutdin Gamzaev, the head of the municipal formation "Kayakent District", an accusation under the "abuse of office" and "service forgery". Gamzaev's advocate claims that his client's actions contain no crime attributes.

June 08, 2013 00:08

• In KBR, Beshkurov's defence challenges his arrest

  On June 7, Buberd Maremov, the advocate of Islam Beshkurov, who was detained in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of the KBR against the ruling of the District Court of Baksan to arrest his client for two months.

June 07, 2013 23:12

• Investigation of journalist Yarst's case completed in Sochi

  The investigation of the criminal case opened against the journalist Nikolai Yarst, accused of illegal drug possession, is over and ready for approval by the public prosecutor and further sending to the court. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by the defendant's lawyer Alexander Popkov.

June 07, 2013 23:01

• Diplomats studied the situation in Georgian villages, where the border on South Ossetia was shifted

  During a one-day trip to the village of Didi, Khurvaleti, Gugutiantkari and Ditsi of the Shida Kartli Region of Georgia, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, members of the Parliament, diplomatic missions and international organizations got acquainted with the problems of the residents of the villages separated by the new border.

June 07, 2013 19:32

• Court sends figurant of case on Sochi explosions to new forensic-psychiatric examination

  The Krasnodar Regional Court has cancelled the decision on coercive measures of medical nature in regard to the ex-militiaman Ilya Galkin, accused of committing a series of explosions in Sochi in 2008-2009, and sent the defendant to a new forensic-psychiatric examination, said a source from the Territorial Prosecutor's Office.

June 07, 2013 18:06

• Compensations paid by Armenian authorities are not enough to cover the losses from hail, farmers assert

  Villagers from Mrgashat, Armavir Region of Armenia, where on May 12 a huge hail killed the crops, said that the seeds provided by the authorities are not enough to compensate for the damages and pay back the loans.

June 07, 2013 16:32

• Tbilisi court fines protesters against actions of Russian border guards

  The Tbilisi City Court has fined two activists of the NGO "Free Zone" for their insulting cries about Russian president Vladimir Putin during a protest action against actions of Russian border guards on the border with South Ossetia.