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June 07, 2013 11:55

• North Ossetia: doctor accused of baby-selling placed under home arrest

  Valentina Tedeeva, the chief physician of the maternity ward of the Republic's ClinicalHospital, accused of selling a child, was put from custody into home arrest because of her health problems, Eduard Gusov, an assistant to the head of the Investigating Department for North Ossetia.

June 07, 2013 08:27

• Trial on fraud with Armenian Pension Fund money postponed due to illness of one of the defendants

  The trial on the case of Vazgen Khachikyan, the former head of the welfare service, accused of a fraud with the money of the Pension Fund, has been rescheduled for June 13 due to the illness of one of the defendants – Ovannes Grigoryan, the former head of the division of payments of the above welfare service.

June 07, 2013 07:20

• Over 100 lawyers to hold strike in Armenia against methods of CoC

  On June 10 and 11, 117 Armenian lawyers are going to hold a two-day strike in protest against the working methods of the Court of Cassation (CoC), in particular, against the "arbitrariness in the application of a number of laws." The aim of the strike is to draw the attention of all the branches of power to the unacceptable practices of the Armenian CoC, including the use of "double standards".

June 07, 2013 03:07

• Regina Porfirieva: our house in Astrakhan left without electricity because of developer

  In Astrakhan, power engineers failed to connect the house of the Porfiriev family, located at No. 14 in Amurskaya Street, because of the counteraction of the developer, said Regina Porfirieva. The developer did not allow laying the cable, a source from the "Astrakhanenergo" has confirmed.

June 07, 2013 02:35

• Officials of CoE and OSCE express concern over introduction in Azerbaijan of criminal penalties for defamation on the Internet

  On June 6, Nils Mujzhnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), and Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on the Freedom of the Media, issued a joint statement, in which they expressed their serious concern over the approval by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev of amendments to the legislation, spreading the criminal liability for defamation over the online environment.

June 07, 2013 00:19

• Circulation of paper-leaflet "For Navalny" confiscated in Krasnodar

  On June 6, in Krasnodar, the police confiscated 31,000 copies of the newspaper-leaflet "For Navalny" from activists of the regional branch of the "People's Alliance" Party. The police found that the texts of the edition are discrediting the country's top officials.

June 06, 2013 23:02

• Doctors failed to render adequate help to child who died in Rostov, investigators assert

  The death of a child from meningoencephalitis in Rostov-on-Don could be a result of negligence of health workers, investigators believe. According to them, the parents of the perished child "were repeatedly visited by paediatricians": an ambulance came; however, only after a resolute request of the mother the child was hospitalized.

June 06, 2013 22:51

• Three criminal cases against 21 Jehovah's Witnesses investigated in Taganrog

  The Chief Department of the Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Southern Federal District (SFD) is investigating two more criminal cases against five Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog, suspected of extremism, the lawyer Anton Bogdanov, who is representing two of the believers, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The above Chief Department has confirmed this information.

June 06, 2013 18:30

• Dagestan: relatives of resident of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk report his illegal detention

  In the evening on June 5, Bagaudin Magomedov, a resident of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk, was detained by employees of the GOVD (City Interior Division) and charged with illegal possession of explosives and firearms, said his relative Rasul Magomedov.

June 06, 2013 17:35

• Baku Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against extension of arrest of "Nida" activist

  Rashad Gasanov, an activist of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout) will stay in custody under decision of the above court. He was arrested on March 14 and is charged under Article 228.3 (illegal possession of firearms, explosives and devices within an organized criminal grouping) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

June 06, 2013 16:07

• Azerbaijani court leaves opposition activist Gadjibeili behind bars

  Today, the Baku Court of Appeal has considered the complaint of Mustafa Gadjibeili, an advisor to the head of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, against his administrative detention; eventually, the activist was left in custody, said his advocate Nemat Kerimli and added that his client was illegally involved in forced labour at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS).

June 06, 2013 11:15

• In Astrakhan, Porfirievs report electricity outage in their house

  Today, the electricity supply was again disconnected from the house in Astrakhan, where the Porfiriev family live, said Regina Porfirieva. According to her story, people in uniform cut off the power cable that supplied electricity to the house.

June 06, 2013 09:50

• Committee of Volgograd City Duma starts considering resolution of rally in defence of mothers and children

  The organizers of the June 1 rally "For Particular Actions in Defence of Children and Mothers" in Volgograd have received a confirmation from the City Duma that the resolution of the rally had been received and was under discussion, Nikolai Belikov, one of the organizers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 06, 2013 09:21

• Grozny administration withdraws abandoned land plots

  The officials of the administration of the Chechen capital are conducting raids aimed to reveal abandoned land plots. The plots whose owners do not take care of them shall be withdrawn, said a source from the Mayoralty in Grozny. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the source that this work is active since June 3.

June 06, 2013 04:48

• Court in Sochi obliges Mayoralty to provide housing to needy family

  The Tsentralny District Court Sochi has obliged the city administration to provide comfortable housing to the family of 12 persons, now living in a house, which can collapse any time. A source from the Mayoralty said that Sochi has no vacant municipal housing; and the court decision will be appealed against. Court marshals are pessimistic about the chances of families off the waiting list to receive housing.

June 06, 2013 02:58

• Advocates of relatives of Kizlyar casualties complain of receiving threats

  The lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov report about received threats and demands to refuse from representing the interests of relatives of Gamzatov brothers killed in Kizlyar. As reported by a source from the local MIA, the police are conducting a check of the lawyers' complaint.

June 05, 2013 22:26

• In Astrakhan, repair team restores water supply to Porfirievs' house

  On Wednesday evening, the emergency service of the "Astrvodokanal" restored the water supply to the house of the Porfiriev family, which was cut off by unidentified persons from gas, electricity and water supplies on June 4.

June 05, 2013 21:34

• Action in support of those accused of robbing a pawnshop in Tbilisi

  On Wednesday, a rally was held in front of the office of the Georgian Ombudsman in Tbilisi in support of Tsotne Mamulashvili and Jaba Lomidze, accused of robbing a pawnshop. The action in their support was organized by representatives of the civil society who are familiar with the Mamulashvili family by publications in the "Livejournal" and in the social network Facebook.

June 05, 2013 19:12

• Investigators: lawyer Mamedov arrested in Azerbaijan threatened to kill a victim in his case

  The lawyer Gurban Mamedov, who knocked down a man by his car, later threatened to kill him, the Baku police has reported today. The lawyer told the court on June 4 that the materials of his criminal case had been falsified. In the opinion of Ali Kerimli, the leader of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), Mamedov's arrest was "politically motivated."

June 05, 2013 15:09

• In Astrakhan, utility workers claim having nothing to do with water and gas disconnection from Porfirievs' house

  After switching off the gas, water and electricity supplies to No. 14 inAmurskaya Street in Astrakhan, where the Porfiriev family lives, none of the city agencies responsible for delivery of public services has stated involvement in any works there. In this regard, Alexander Kamanin, a Deputy of the local Duma, asked the prosecutor to take action to protect the Porfirievs.