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April 09, 2013 11:00

• Gusov: so far, investigators are unaware of other facts of selling babies at maternity hospital of Vladikavkaz

  Valentina Tedeyeva, the detained head of the maternity ward of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of North Ossetia, is so far accused of only one episode of selling a baby, said Eduard Gusov, Senior Assistant Head of the Investigatory Department.

April 08, 2013 23:00

• SC upholds guilty verdict on attempted terror act in Rostov-on-Don

  Today, the Judicial Panel for Criminal Cases of the Russia's Supreme Court has considered an appeal lodged by Dmitry Fedorushkin and Pavel Efremov, who had been convicted for an attempt to commit a terror act in Rostov-on-Don, and upheld the verdict.

April 08, 2013 22:00

• Case of 16 Jehovah's Witnesses from Taganrog has no crime attributes, the defence insists

  Sergey Vorobyov, Deputy Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation has confirmed the indictment on the criminal case against 16 members of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose community was liquidated in Taganrog by the court "for extremism." The defence of the believers declares the inconsistency of the charges.

April 08, 2013 21:00

• HRC "Memorial" challenges inspection of Moscow Prosecutor's Office

  Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed to the Zamoskvoretskiy District Court against the actions and decisions of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, which had conducted an unscheduled inspection at the office of the organization.

April 08, 2013 20:00

• Five persons killed in CTO in Ingushetia

  In the course of a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Ingush village of Dolakovo four militants were killed, namely: brothers Adam and Khalas Ozdoev, Ibragim Mestoev and Yakub Mankiev, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported. Djambulat Amirarslanov, the commander of a scout company of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was also killed.

April 08, 2013 19:00

• Baku: court refuses to release the leader of ReAl Mamedov on bail

  Today, Ilgar Mamedov, the chairman of the public movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), was left in custody by today's ruling of the court, which refused to release him on bail, Fuad Agaev, Mamedov's advocate, has reported.

April 08, 2013 18:00

• Two residents of Chechnya sent to repair "Grozny City" for their comments about the fire

  Two residents of Chechnya, who had placed on the Internet a video of the fire in a skyscraper in the complex "Grozny City", have been sent for repairs of the building for their comments on the accident.

April 08, 2013 17:00

• Dagestan: court finds "Express" Bank bankrupt

  The "Express" Bank from Makhachkala has been declared bankrupt by the decision of the Arbitration Court of Dagestan, said the lawyer Rafik Mamatov.

April 08, 2013 15:00

• Resident of Krasnodar claims beating by Cossacks

  In the Komsomolsky Microdistrict of Krasnodar, Vadim Pashaev, 35, a local resident, was beaten. According to his story, he was beaten up by people in Cossack uniform, after he refused to produce his documents to them in the absence of a policeman.

April 08, 2013 13:00

• On April 1-7, 17 persons suffered from armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from April 1 to April 7, 2013, at least 17 people suffered; of them four persons were killed and 13 more were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 08, 2013 12:00

• In Georgia, peasants conflict with Iranian tenant farmers

  In the village of Khaishi, Tetrittskaroy District of Georgia, locals broke into the farms, exploited by Iranian farmers. Georgian peasants believe that the authorities had secretly delivered to the tenants the land plots that they consider to be their own property.

April 08, 2013 09:28

• Housing shareholders of the HC "Kadetskiy" in Krasnodar ask court to suspend demolition of house

  Today, the Prikubansky Krasnodar District Court has to consider a lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the six-storey building at No. 9 Kadetskaya Street on suspension of the executive proceeding about demolition of the apartment building.

April 08, 2013 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 1-7

  Fire in "Grozny City" complex of high-rise buildings in the Chechen capital; over a dozen injured in mine explosions in Ingushetia and Chechnya; negotiations of Agrarian Ministries of Georgia result in agreement on supply of Georgian foodstuffs to Russian market; arrest on suspicion of involvement in murder of Deputy of Krasnodar Territory Legislative Assembly; three mass brawls in the Stavropol Territory, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of April 1-7, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot.

April 06, 2013 23:00

• "Novaya Sila" picketers collect 170 signatures to demand removal of Stavropol Territory out of NCFD

  The city of Stavropol has hosted a sanctioned rally of the nationalist party "Novaya Sila" (New Force). Within two hours, the activists collected about 170 signatures to the petition to the authorities demanding the return the Stavropol Territory from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) back to the Southern Federal District (SFD) and introduction in the territory of a special migration regime for natives from Northern Caucasus and Transcaucasia.

April 06, 2013 22:00

• Doctor of maternity hospital in Vladikavkaz detained at attemp to sell a baby, OBEP agent reports

  On April 6, a doctor of the maternity hospital in Vladikavkaz was detained when trying to sell a baby, said Yaroslav Gudkov, the head of the Department for Economic Security (known as OBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia.

April 06, 2013 21:00

• Activist of oppositional "Public Chamber" of Azerbaijan beaten in NAR

  Ibragim Ibragimli, 55, a member of the Coordinating Council of Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (known as GDDOP), was brutally beaten in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) brutally beaten by of Azerbaijan, 55-year-old. He received serious injuries.

April 06, 2013 20:00

• "Musavat" activist arrested for 10 days in Azerbaijan

  On April 5 in Sumgait, Sarvan Davudoglu and Elshad Khagan, activists of the local branch of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party, were detained. They were brought to the Sumgait city police department. Davudoglu was sentenced by the court to 10 days in jail for disobeying police, and Khagan released, said Akhad Mamedli, the deputy head of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party.

April 06, 2013 19:00

• "Rospotrebnadzor" rejects products of 12 Georgian wineries

  During the recent inspection held in Georgia by experts of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has rejected products of 12 Georgian wine producers. These factories will be unable to supply products to Russia, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency and the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia.

April 06, 2013 17:00

• Action demanding to close "Electrozink" in Vladikavkaz was 30 people strong

  On April 6, Vladikavkaz hosted a protest demanding the closure the metallurgical factory named the Open-Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Electrozink". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that about 30 people gathered in Victory Square.

April 06, 2013 16:00

• In Stavropol, election candidates study peculiarities of electoral processes

  A two-day-long civil seminar "School of New Power", which discusses the electoral process in Russia, was opened today in Stavropol. It is attended by over 40 listeners from different regions of Southern Russia.