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April 16, 2013 23:40

• Advocate of Soso Pavliashvili, suspected of murder in Georgia, claims his client's rights are violated

  The Tbilisi City Court is holding pre-trial hearings on the murder of businessman Avtandil Aduashvili, where one of the defendants is a relative of the Georgian pop singer Soso Pavliashvili, who lives in Moscow. The next court hearing is scheduled for April 19. Pavliashvili hopes that at that sitting Vakhtang Chkhapeliya will reject his earlier evidence, according to which the singer was the financier of the crime. Chkhapeliya's advocate complains about violation of the rights of his client by the investigation.

April 16, 2013 23:30

• Georgia: relatives and friends of painter Mamulashvili demand his release

  The held an action on April 15 in front of the courthouse in Tbilisi demanding freedom for Tsotne Mamulashvili, a painter and the expert of the "NATO Information Centre", accused of robbing a pawnshop: about 10 protesters exposed posters: "Free Tsotne Mamulashvili!" in the English and Georgian languages.

April 16, 2013 23:00

• Dagestan: Gimry villagers state mass violations during special operation

  In the course of a special operation conducted in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, power agents delivered random fire and vandalized property in houses, local residents complain.

April 16, 2013 22:10

• Muslim headgear caused detention of two girls in Makhachkala, rights defenders assert

  In the vicinity of the Southern Bus Station in Makhachkala, policemen detained two girls, one of whom was in a Muslim headgear. The girls were taken to an unknown destination, as Fatima Tarasova, an activist of the Dagestani Republic's Public Association (DRPA) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2013 22:00

• Offices of OJSC "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" are searches

  Today, the offices of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" are searched by employees of the chief department of economic security and counteracting corruption (known as GUEBiPK) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Investigatory Department of the above MIA within the criminal case opened against the former chairman of the board of directors Akhmed Bilalov and Director General Alexander Nevsky, reports the MIA.

April 16, 2013 21:00

• North Ossetia: doctor accused of selling baby sent to SIZO

  As reported by Eduard Gusov, senior assistant to the head of the Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for North Ossetia, Valentina Tedeeva, the chief doctor of the maternity ward of the Republic's Hospital, was placed into the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in connection with the official indictment of selling a human.

April 16, 2013 20:00

• Chechnya marks four years after lift of CTO regime

  The Chechen Republic has held festivities to mark the fourth anniversary of the cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. The main events took place in Grozny, where security measures were essentially strengthened on this occasion; and the centre of the city was blocked for motor traffic.

April 16, 2013 19:00

• FSB confiscates documents from SRRC office in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, agents of the territorial department of the FSB (Russia's Federal Security Bureau) have made another search of the office of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC) and seized documents and electronic data carriers, said the employees of the Centre.

April 16, 2013 18:00

• In Georgia, 70 Gldani prisoners go on hunger strike

  On April 15, the hunger strike was announced by 70 inmates of Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia, who demand reconsideration of their cases.

April 15, 2013 23:00

• World War II veteran killed in Nalchik

  The police of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) are seeking the criminals who killed Georgy Mogilko, a World War II veteran this morning in Nalchik. The murder has caused a broad resonance in the city.

April 15, 2013 22:00

• MIA of Dagestan is under large-scale check

  Employees of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia are inspecting the MIA of Dagestan in the context of the criminal case opened against high-ranking law enforcement officials, said a source from the local MIA.

April 15, 2013 20:00

• Armenia: questioning of defendants is over at trial on fight at "Harsnaqar" Restaurant

  Today, the defendants Arman Bagdasaryan and Norair Airapetyan, accused of beating military doctors in the parking lot of the Yerevan "Harsnaqar" Restaurant, presented their evidence to the court; therefore, the interrogation of the defendants was over.

April 15, 2013 19:00

• Series of pickets in support of Alexei Navalny held in Astrakhan

  A series of pickets in support of the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of a large-scale embezzlement, was held today in Astrakhan.

April 15, 2013 18:00

• Woman from Shamilkala detained during searches arrested by magistrate court

  Djanetta Selivanova, who was detained during searches in the Dagestani village of Shamilkala, was today sentenced to ten days of administrative arrest, said a villager Raisa Ismailova.

April 15, 2013 17:00

• Natives of Shyky in KBR decide to restore the village

  Natives of the village of Shyky, Cherek District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have decided to restore their village. At a meeting on April 14 in Nalchik they elected the organizing committee of five members, and instructed them to draft the charter of the future village Shyky.

April 15, 2013 16:00

• Parties in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict accuse each other of shelling

  The Armenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire in the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. According to the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, on April 7-13, they registered 250 cases of ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan at the contact line of the troops.

April 15, 2013 15:00

• Some 50 Sochi residents campaign against commercial development of the park

  Yesterday, on April 14, in the park opposite the marine station in Sochi, about 50 local residents held a rally against the build-up by traders of the resort land occupied by parks, mini-parks and green areas for general use.

April 15, 2013 14:00

• Facade of damaged high-rise in Grozny cleared of burnt skin

  Builders are completing the cleaning of the facade of the high-rise building in the complex "Grozny-City" damaged by fire on April 3. The works were carried out with the help of the technical means brought from Turkey.

April 15, 2013 13:00

• On April 8-14, 20 persons suffered in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during

  During the week of April 8-14, 2013, at least 20 people suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 11 casualties and nine wounded persons. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 15, 2013 12:00

• In Nalchik, children of Syrian Circassians present 40 drawings at charity show

  On April 14, Nalchik hosted a charity exhibition-sale, where 40 drawings of children of Syrian immigrants living in the republic were presented.