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April 10, 2013 21:00

• Makhinya: flats of five civil activists searched in Volgograd

  Law enforcers of Volgograd have searched apartments of five civil society activists, said Leonid Makhinya, an activist of the regional branch of "The Other Russia".

April 10, 2013 20:00

• Davitashvili: this year Georgia will be able to deliver million bottles of wine to Russia

  Georgia will be able to export to Russia about a million bottles of wine already in 2013; while the annual country's output makes 10 million litres of wine, said Levan Davitashvili, the head of the Georgia's National Wine Agency.

April 10, 2013 18:00

• Krasnodar Territory opens support centre of minor businesses for ex-prisoners

  Today, the city of Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Territory, is opening rehabilitation and adaptation centre for minor businesses intended for former prisoners and people who occurred in difficult life situations. As part of the project, the participants will be provided with psycho-social, legal and educational assistance.

April 10, 2013 17:00

• Azerbaijan: language experts invited to trial of Hilal Mamedov

  The defence Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" newspaper, accused of inciting interethnic hatred, has petitioned about invitation to the trial of the experts, who had provided their linguistic conclusion. The court has satisfied the petition of the defence.

April 10, 2013 16:00

• Russian GPO suspects Akhmed Bilalov of abuse of power

  Marina Gridneva, the spokesperson of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation has reported today that a criminal case was opened against Akhmed Bilalov, the ex-chairman of the board of directors of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus", under the article of abuse of power.

April 10, 2013 14:58

• Eyewitness of Yuri Budanov's murder asserts at trial that he saw Mitsubishi Lancer in the scene

  Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has continued the trial of the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov. Alexander Gaisin, an eyewitness of the crime, said during evidencing that he saw a silver Mitsubishi Lancer car at the scene, which was used, according to investigators, by the killer of Yuri Budanov to escape from the place.

April 10, 2013 13:00

• Azerbaijani soldier wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone

  Shikhveli Farkhad oglu Shikhsafiev, 19, a soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, was wounded as a result of a violation of the ceasefire regime in the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, reports the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

April 10, 2013 07:34

• Members of "execution list" leave Dagestani village of Khadjalmakhi, local reports

  Many Salafi Muslim who lived in the village of Khadjalmakhi, Levashin District of Dagestan, who found themselves in the so-called "execution list", have left the village, said a local resident.

April 10, 2013 04:00

• Georgia hosts protest against Islamization of Adzharia

  In Tbilisi, about 50 people came to hold their protest at the Turkish Embassy with the slogan "Stop Islamization of Adzharia!"

April 09, 2013 23:00

• Clashes in Yerevan of Ovannisyan's supporters with the police

  Today, supporters of Raffi Ovannisyan have held an action in Freedom Square named "Inauguration of New Armenia" as an alternative to the inauguration ceremony of Serzh Sargsyan, the official winner of the presidential election.

April 09, 2013 22:00

• Officer killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  Shakhriyar Bahramgulu oglu Mamedov, a lieutenant of the Azerbaijani Army, was killed on April 8 in the contact line of Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

April 09, 2013 21:00

• Yakub Mankiev killed in special operation in Ingushetia was not a militant, his uncle says

  Yakub Mankiev, who was killed in the special operation in the Ingush village of Dolakovo, was not a militant, says his uncle Magomed Darsigov. According to his story, Yakub Mankiev was the son of the former Minister of Agriculture of Ingushetia Bamat-Girey Mankiev.

April 09, 2013 20:00

• Ministry of Justice makes protocols on violation of registration of "Golos"

  Protocols about violations at registration were drawn up in relation to the Association "Golos" (Vote) and its executive director Lilia Shibanova. According to the Russian Ministry of Justice, the association acts as a foreign agent, but not registered in the appropriate registry. The "Golos" denies receipt of any foreign funds.

April 09, 2013 19:00

• In Azerbaijan, court leaves "Nida" activist Zaur Gurbanly behind bars

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court (BAC) has rejected a complaint lodged by Zaur Gurbanly, an activist of the civil movement "Nida", against his arrest for three months. His advocates find the court's decision unreasonable.

April 09, 2013 18:00

• Policeman, his wife and children wounded in blast in Dagestan

  The wife and two children of a policeman from Buinaksk, in whose car an improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered, were discharged from hospital after receiving medical care. The policeman himself is in grave condition, said the Dagestani MIA.

April 09, 2013 17:00

• Trial on flood in Krymsk grants petition to disqualify all judges

  Today, the Krymsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case of the flood in Krymsk in July 2012. The court granted the prosecution's motion for disqualification of all the judges of this court composition. Now, the Territorial Court will make a decision to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case.

April 09, 2013 16:00

• Action "Inauguration of New Armenia" ends with march in central Yerevan

  Today, Yerevan hosted – against the official inauguration of President Serzh Sargsyan – an oppositional rally named "Inauguration of New Armenia". In the course of the action, Raffi Ovannisyan, the runner-up in the presidential election, read out the "Oath to New Armenia"; then his supporters organized a spontaneous march.

April 09, 2013 14:00

• Eyewitness of Budanov's murder tells court how killer fled the scene

  Today, at the Moscow City Court, which is considering the murder case of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, the prosecutor questioned the eyewitness of a crime, which confirmed that the killer fled away from the scene in a Mitsubishi Lancer car.

April 09, 2013 13:00

• Workers engaged in burned-out building in "Grozny City" talk about lack of special equipment

  Four general contractors have begun repair works of the highest building in the complex "Grozny City", burned out on April 3 in the centre of the capital of Chechnya. A source from the organization named "Genstroy" reported about the shortage of special technical means for working at height; such means have been ordered in Turkey.

April 09, 2013 12:00

• Director of Krasnodar "Levados" Centre interrogated by FSB, says her mother

  On April 8, the Department of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) for the Krasnodar Territory questioned Elena Shablo, the director general of the non-profit public organization "Levados" Information Centre, said her mother Nina Shablo.