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May 02, 2013 18:00

• Head of North-Ossetian "Yabloko" associates search in his house with political order

  In Vladikavkaz, the house of Anatoly Sidakov, Chairman of the North-Ossetian Branch of the "Yabloko" Party, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mir Kavkaza" (World of the Caucasus), was searched. According to the Anatoly Sidakov's version, investigators were looking for weapons; however, he believes the political order was the real reason for the search.

May 02, 2013 17:00

• Azerbaijani researcher Khalida Khalid arrested in Iran

  Khalida Khalid, a researcher of literature, a citizen of Azerbaijan, was arrested in the city of Tabriz in northern Iran together with four activists of the movement for the rights of Azerbaijanis of South (Iranian) Azerbaijan.

May 01, 2013 22:50

• In Georgia, three persons continue one-month hunger strike near Bidzina Ivanishvili's business centre

  Three persons spent the 31st day of their hunger strike near the business centre of Bidzina Ivanishvili, Prime Minister of Georgia. The participants of the protest action demand to issue long-term and low-interest loans to pay off the mortgage and to suspend evictions until the loans are repaid.

May 01, 2013 22:40

• In Volgograd, at May Day rally, policemen stop march of nationalists and activists of Other Russia

  Today, about 60 representatives of the Other Russia and nationalists had to leave the festive column of the May Day march in Volgograd at the request of the police. This was reported by Leonid Makhinya, an activist of the Other Russia.

May 01, 2013 22:30

• Mother of ex-prosecutor from Ingushetia claims her son being pressured in prison

  The mother of Ali Dobriev, a former staff member of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Ingushetia, who is serving his sentence at the Federal Public Institution (FPI) Penal Colony (PC) No. 13 in Nizhny Tagil of the Sverdlovsk Region, complains that his son is subjected to harassment on ethnic or religious grounds by the administration and personnel of the penal colony. This information is going to check the members of the Public Supervisory Commission.

May 01, 2013 22:20

• Relatives of convicted natives of Northern Caucasus report about hunger strike at IK-7 in Mordovia

  At the Penal Colony No. 7 (known as IK-7) of the Department for the Republic of Mordovia of the Russian Federal Correction Service (FSIN), a group of prisoners, most of them being natives from Northern Caucasus, went on a hunger strike to protest against their custody conditions, as well as they way they are treated by the colony personnel, relatives of the prisoners report. So far, there was no official confirmation of the protest action from the prison administration.

May 01, 2013 22:10

• HRW: situation surrounding construction of TPP in Kudepsta demands intervention of IOC and Russian authorities

  The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern about the escalation of the conflict between residents of the settlement of Kudepsta and developers of the Olympic site - a thermal power plant (TPP). Russian authorities and the organizers of the Olympic Games should take steps to resolve the conflict and prevent acts of aggression applied by employees of private security agencies (known as ChOPs) to local residents, says the statement released by the HRW.

May 01, 2013 22:00

• Georgia: policeman clash with participants of May Day action, detaining some of them

  The Tbilisi police have prevented the May Day student action. As a result of a clash with law enforcers, a number of protesters were detained, said the eyewitness of the events Mariam Gachechiladze.

May 01, 2013 21:00

• Boston police state detention of three more suspects in terror act case

  The US law enforcers have detained three more suspects of involvement in the terror act in Boston, Boston police has reported today by posting the information in their microblog on the Twitter.

May 01, 2013 19:00

• Azerbaijan: leader of "ReAl" charged with organizing mass disorders

  Today, investigators have accused Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), arrested in connection with the events in the city of Ismailly, of organizing mass disturbances, accompanied by violence and pogroms.

May 01, 2013 18:00

• HRC "Memorial" will appeal against the demand of the MPO to get registered as foreign agent

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has received from the Moscow Prosecutor's Office (MPO) a presentation saying that the HRC is acting as a foreign agent without being registered as such at the authorized body and demanding to eliminate - within a month - the violation of federal law. The leaders of the HRC "Memorial" believe that conclusions of the MPO are wrong and plan to appeal against them.

May 01, 2013 17:00

• Explosion in Makhachkala kills two pupils of City Lyceum No. 5

  As reported today by a source from the Investigatory Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the casualties of the today's explosion in Makhachkala were identified as pupils of Lyceum No. 5.

April 30, 2013 22:40

• In Dagestan, 17 participants of Muslim wedding party sentenced to different administrative penalties

  17 participants of the incident at the Islamic wedding party in Kizlyar were sentenced to different terms of administrative penalties, and the detention in custody of five of them at the IVS (temporary detention facility) was extended for another two days.

April 30, 2013 22:30

• Georgian law enforcers claim having no information about Magomed Magomedov, missing native of Dagestan

  In Georgia, representatives of the Chief Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) state that they do not have any information on the whereabouts of Magomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who disappeared in Tbilisi. It is known that Magomed Magomedov himself was sentenced in Georgia to two years of imprisonment for illegal crossing of the border; however, in January 2013, he was amnestied, and he asked the Georgian authorities for a political asylum.

April 30, 2013 22:20

• In Chechnya, contract soldier, who shot and killed officer, sentenced

  Alexander Goryainov, a soldier of a unit of the internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of killing his colleague, was sentenced by the Military Court in Chechnya to eight years of imprisonment. The crime was committed in November 2012.

April 30, 2013 22:10

• In Dagestan, court fines user of "Odnoklassniki" for advocating extremism

  Djambulat Magomedduganov, a resident of the village of Stalskoe of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was found guilty of advocating extremism and inciting hatred and enmity on the Internet, was fined by the court 150,000 roubles.

April 30, 2013 22:00

• In Baku, action in memory of victims of massacre in Oil Academy stopped by police

  Today, the Baku police prevented the action in memory of victims of the massacre at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) in 2009.

April 30, 2013 21:00

• At trial on case of attack on Nalchik, defendants face lawsuit for more than 22 million roubles

  Today, at the trial on the case of the attack on the law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria that occurred on October 13, 2005, the aggrieved party filed a joint civil lawsuit against the defendants for a total amount of more than 22 million roubles.

April 30, 2013 20:00

• Orts Almurziev, disappeared resident of Ingushetia, detained in Kazakhstan

  Law enforcement agents of Kazakhstan detained Orts Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, whose disappearance in October 2012 was reported by his relatives. This was stated on April 29 by Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Republic's Security Council.

April 30, 2013 19:00

• Residents of South Ossetia, sentenced in Georgia, visited by their relatives

  Today, with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), residents of South Ossetia, serving their sentences in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Tbilisi, were visited by their relatives. This was reported by Irakly Kordzaya, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia.