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May 31, 2013 22:30

• Alagir hosts rally against construction of cement plant

  About three hundred residents of North Ossetia have staged a rally against the construction of a cement plant in Alagir. The protesters adopted a resolution that demands to cancel all the legal acts, allowing the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) to build the plant.

May 31, 2013 22:20

• Ilgar Mamedov, leader of "ReAl", placed in dungeon in Azerbaijan

  On May 30, Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" ("ReAl"), who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), was placed into a dungeon, said advocate Khalid Bagirov. According to his story, the defence was not informed about it.

May 31, 2013 22:10

• President of Georgia is suspected of spending budget for cosmetic procedures

  The Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is suspected of paying - from the state budget for his rejuvenation injections of Botox - a total of 11,400 US dollars - and bought a picture worth about 6000 pounds sterling; this data from the expense reports of the State Security Special Service SSSS was presented by Irina Imerlishvili, an MP from the ruling coalition "Georgian Dream".

May 31, 2013 22:00

• Yarst: charges of illegal drug possession in Sochi has to do with my professional activities

  As stated by Nikolai Yarst, a journalist and a freelance reporter of the "Public Television of Russia" (PTR), his criminal prosecution initiated by the UVD (Interior Department) of Sochi and the charges of illegal possession and transportation of drugs are the result of his professional activities. He also stressed that the drugs had been planted on him.

May 31, 2013 21:00

• Dagestani police are still searching for two missing Buynaksk students

  The whereabouts of the two female students of the Buynaksk Teachers' College, who disappeared on May 17, is still unknown. A criminal case on their disappearance is not yet instituted, as the law enforcement bodies have no information that the girl had been abducted or detained, said the MIA of Dagestan.

May 31, 2013 20:00

• Ismajlov: Deputy Interior Ministry promised to punish investigators who threatened me

  Vilayat Eivazov, the deputy head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, met the lawyer Aslan Ismajlov, who had reported threats and physical pressure from investigators. He promised to study the situation and punish those guilty, the lawyer himself said today. In the opinion of Orkhan Mansurzade from the press service of the MIA, none of the investigators had ever beaten Ismajlov; he just wants to attract attention.

May 31, 2013 19:00

• Azerbaijan: ex-GPP complains of threats

  Ali Omarov, the former General Public Prosecutor (GPP) of Azerbaijan, has stated today that he had received threats from a man, who introduced himself as a police officer. His statement will be investigated by law enforcement bodies, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

May 31, 2013 18:00

• Soldier commits suicide in Azerbaijan

  An additional service soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, who was taking his service at the military unit in Shamkira, has committed suicide, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

May 31, 2013 17:00

• Volgograd: nine mothers go on three-day hunger strike for children's rights

  Nine mothers have announced a three-day hunger strike in Volgograd, trying to attract attention of local authorities to the problem of shortage of places in kindergartens, rehabilitation of children with disabilities, the need to reopen dairy kitchens and increase salaries of preschool educators.

May 31, 2013 16:00

• Defenders of unloading dock attacked in Volgograd, eyewitness reports

  In the evening on May 30, four unidentified men attacked the defenders of the unloading dock, located in the Volgograd Region, a blogger Alexei Ulyanov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

May 30, 2013 22:30

• In Dagestan, court rejects lawyer Kadiev's claim for moral compensation

  Today, the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala has rejected the claim lodged by the lawyer Rasul Kadiev in demand of compensation for his moral harm caused by the abolition of direct elections. The lawyer said that he would appeal against the rejection.

May 30, 2013 22:20

• Prosecution asks up to 7.5 years in prison for protesters against ban on hijabs in Baku

  The Nariman District Court of Baku is finalizing the trial of six believers, who were arrested last October for taking part in the action against the ban on wearing hijabs in schools.

May 30, 2013 22:10

• Washington Post: Ibragim Todashev, shot dead by FBI agent, was unarmed

  Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya and an acquaintance of Tamerlan and Johar Tsarnaev, suspects of committing the Boston terror act, who was shot dead by an FBI agent during an interrogation in Florida, was not armed, The Washington Post writes.

May 30, 2013 22:00

• ICRF: in Krasnodar Territory drunken policeman knocked down a man with a child

  On May 28, in the Tbilisi District of the Krasnodar Territory, a policeman knocked down a 27-year-old man with a child of 9, who were on the road shoulder. The injured persons were taken to hospital with multiple injuries of varying gravity.

May 30, 2013 21:00

• Zubeydat Tsarnaeva tells about phone conversation with her son detained in USA

  Johar Tsarnaev, a suspect of committing the Boston terror act, who was wounded at detention, has recovered his voice recovered; and he already had a six-minute phone conversation with his mother Zubeydat Tsarnaeva.

May 30, 2013 20:00

• Georgia: law enforcers and trade unions investigate worker's death in Poti Port

  At Berth 4 of Poti Port, a cargo container fell down and killed a 45-year-old worker. The Occupational Safety Division of the Association of Trade Unions of Georgia is investigating the accident trying to reveal those guilty persons, said Gocha Alexandriya, the spokesman of the Association. The official investigation says that the versions of safety violations and negligence are studied.

May 30, 2013 19:00

• Villagers of Kubina in KChR complain of beating by police

  As reported by locals, at night on May 26, policemen beat and detained a group of young people in the village of Kubina, Abaza District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). The MIA has refuted the information, claiming that policemen did nothing illegal.

May 30, 2013 18:00

• Death toll of explosion in Makhachkala reaches two persons

  Today, the spokesman of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported that another victim of the explosion in Gamzatov Street in Makhachkala died in hospital.

May 30, 2013 17:00

• Papuashvili: human rights activists demand inquiry into events of August 2008 in The Hague

  The Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is almost ready to open a criminal case on the five-day war in August 2008 in the area of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict; however, the resumption of the investigation in Georgia can suspend the process, believes Simon Papuashvili, a volunteer of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. In its turn, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia treats the investigation as "a matter of honour."

May 30, 2013 16:00

• Ministry of Education: USE result of KBR schoolgirl to be annulled for her putting test on Internet

  The Uniform State Exam (USE) in the Russian language of a schoolgirl the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) will be cancelled, because the girl posted her performed test on the Internet, Tamara Djappueva, the head of the department for supervision and control in the field of education of the KBR Ministry of Education, has announced today.