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April 03, 2013 12:00

• Relative of theologian Bagirzade detained in Baku claims falsification of indictment

  The police had actually kidnapped the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, while the charges of drug possession are absurd, Mirgasym Aliev, a relative of Bagirzade, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 02, 2013 23:00

• Seven wounded by two explosions in Ingushetia

  Seven servicemen were wounded by two explosions triggered in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia; some of them will be sent by a special flight to Moscow for treatment.

April 02, 2013 22:00

• Case on collapse of a house in Astrakhan stopped because of defendant's death

  Today, the Soviet District Court of Astrakhan has ruled to stop the criminal case about the explosion in a nine-storey apartment building in February 2012, the collapse of which killed 11 persons, said Elena Yaroslavtseva, the spokesperson of the Astrakhan Regional Court.

April 02, 2013 21:00

• Court sentences Gabibulaeva and Akaeva each to 2 years in colony

  The imprisonment term for Zalina Gabibulaeva and Zaira Akaeva, residents of Dagestan, sentenced today to two years in colony, will be counted from the day of their detention.

April 02, 2013 20:00

• Suspects of killing a fan arrested in absentia and put on wanted list in Rostov Region

  Today, the Lenin District Court of Rostov-on-Don has arrested in absentia two suspects of murdering Alexander Terekhov, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

April 02, 2013 19:00

• Theologian Talekh Bagirzade arrested for two months in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Sabunchi District Court of Baku has arrested the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of drug possession, for two months. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Mirgasym Aliev, a relative of Bagirzade.

April 02, 2013 18:15

• In Baku, police disperse IDPs' protest action

  Today, the police have stopped a protest action held in Baku by internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Hostel No. 5 of the Baku State University.

April 02, 2013 17:00

• Azerbaijan: action against the arrests of young opposition activists postponed

  The protest action against arrests of activists of youth organizations, scheduled for April 12 in Baku, has been postponed indefinitely, said its organizer, the editor-in-chief of "Azadlyg" Ganimat Zakhid.

April 02, 2013 15:00

• NCFU students-participants in scrimmage in Stavropol expelled

  12 students of the North-Caucasian Federal University (NCFU), who took part in a mass brawl in Stavropol, have been expelled.

April 02, 2013 14:00

• Head of Proshyan village found dead in Armenia

  Grach Muradyan, the head of the village of Proshyan, the Kotaik Region of Armenia, was found dead. According to the police, he was killed because of his professional activities.

April 02, 2013 13:00

• Ingush authorities associate information about officials' paying militants with elections

  Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma Deputy from Chechnya, has sent a request to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking to check the information about payment of large sums of money to the armed underground by the head of the Ingush government, as it was stated on air of Channel One by the surrendered militant Ibragim Torzhkhoev. In Ingushetia, the situation was treated as a provocation on the eve of the presidential election in the republic.

April 02, 2013 12:00

• Case about fight at SC "Evropeisky" to be considered with jury

  Olga Nikolenko, Judge of the Moscow City Court (MCC), has decided to hear the criminal case about the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeisky" in Moscow with participation of a jury.

April 02, 2013 11:00

• Armenian MoD: Azerbaijan pulled machinery and special fighters to the border

  Azerbaijan has pulled up some military equipment and a special unit closer to certain sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, said Artsrun Ovannisyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

April 01, 2013 23:00

• Akhmed Dodov: more than thousand families in flooding zone in Malgobek

  A rise of the ground water in the eastern part of the Ingush city of Malgobek has caused flooding of the area inhabited by over a thousand families, said Akhmed Dodov, the head of the city administration.

April 01, 2013 22:00

• Return of "Borjomi" to Russia delayed because of new check

  The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russia's Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) will re-check the quality of the Georgian mineral water "Borjomi", the producers of which are going to resume their exports to the Russian market, said Gennady Onischenko, the head of the agency.

April 01, 2013 21:00

• "Nida" activist Zaur Gurbanly arrested in Azerbaijan

  Today, in Baku, the police have arrested Zaur Gurbanly, a blogger and an activist of the movement "Nida". By decision of the Nasimi District Court the activist was arrested for three months.

April 01, 2013 19:00

• Dagestan: investigator is suspected of contract murders

  Magomed Akhmedov, an investigator of the Kirov District of Makhachkala, was detained on suspicion of committing several contract murders, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

April 01, 2013 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, Nardaran residents demand to release theologian Bagirzade

  Today, residents of the village of Nardaran in Azerbaijan have held a protest in demand of release of theologian Talekh Bagirzade and other believers, arrested for taking part in actions in defence of citizens' religious rights.

April 01, 2013 16:00

• The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf in Azerbaijan granted in part

  The demands of the workers of oil enterprise Bos Shelf producing oil drilling platforms in Azerbaijan who on March, 18, went on a strike demanding higher wages, benefit packages and solution of a number of other problems were granted in part.

April 01, 2013 15:00

• 23 persons delivered to the police during a mass scuffle in Stavropol

  On March, 1, 23 persons were delivered to the police department during a mass scuffle with the use of traumatic arms in Stavropol. Administrative protocols were drawn up concerning 17 of them, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Stavropol region reports.