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November 02, 2012 21:00

• Azerbaijan: four defendants on case of Guba riots refuse to plead guilty

  Today, at the court session of the Guba District Court on the case against seven defendants, accused of the riots on March 1 in the city of Guba, prosecutor read out the indictment. Four defendants completely denied their guilt. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by lawyer Asabali Mustafaev.

November 02, 2012 20:00

• Alexei Navalny's "Good Truth Machine" ready to help Krymsk and Derbent victims

  The "Good Truth Machine", the new project of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, a fighter against corruption, includes collecting funds for emergencies and willingness to render financial assistance to residents of Derbent and Crimean and to help them "with working hands". This was reported by Georgy Alburov, the coordinator of the organization.

November 02, 2012 19:00

• Case against suspects of killing ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov brought to court

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Moscow has completed the investigation into the criminal case against Yusup Temerkhanov, accused of the murder of ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov.

November 02, 2012 18:00

• In Moscow, court obliges investigators to institute criminal case on terror act on Dubrovka

  Today, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow found to be unlawful the refusal of investigators to institute criminal proceedings against the officials, who led the operation to rescue hostages in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in 2002.

November 02, 2012 17:00

• Today is 69th anniversary of deportation of Karachays

  Today, Karachay-Cherkessia remembers the tragic events connected with the deportation of the Karachay nation to Central Asia in 1943.

November 02, 2012 15:00

• Court arrests for five days two defendants, accused in case on "Dagestani wedding party" in Moscow

  The Tver Court of Moscow arrested for five days Zurab Ramazanov and Ruslan Mamerdzaev. They were found guilty of disobedience to the orders of the police during the incident with shooting at the "Dagestani wedding party" in Moscow.

November 02, 2012 14:00

• Police prevent attempt to hold picket in front of Azerbaijani Parliament

  In Baku, the police prevented an unsanctioned picket in front of the Parliament of Azerbaijan, which was to be held by the opposition "Civil Movement for Democracy 'Public Chamber'" (CMDPC). The action was held to protest against the discussion by the country's National Assembly of the draft amendments, aimed at multiple increases in penalties for violations of the rules of holding rallies and pickets.

November 02, 2012 13:34

• In Sochi, workers cut down about 50 trees for construction of "Olympic" road

  This morning, workers began massive cutting down of rare tree along Gorky Street, half a kilometre away from the crossing of Titov and Constitution Streets, down to the Sochi River. This was reported by residents of the residential district "Zavokzalny." The workers state that they are clearing space for the construction of the alternate road.

November 02, 2012 10:00

• 17 convicts are on a hunger strike in the prison or Rustavi

  17 convicts in Rustavi prison No 16, Georgia, are holding an action of protest in form of a hunger strike, 11 of them are ill with AIDS. The convicts are indignant at their prison conditions and the actions of prison administration. They also refuse to take medicines as a sign of protest.

November 02, 2012 09:00

• The Ministry of Education and Science acknowledged 11 institutions of higher education in North-Caucasian Federal okrug inefficient

  11 institutions of higher education and 25 subsidiaries in North-Caucasian Federal okrug were put on the list of inefficient by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation from the point of view of their activities.

November 02, 2012 08:00

• The prosecution on the case of beating a teenager in Dagestan demands up to 4 years of custody for the defendants

  At the session of Shamil district court of Dagestan on the case of beating up Mahmud Ahmedov aged 14 by officers of Shamil district Department of Interior Affairs Gamzat Nurudinov and Shamil Magomedaliev on October, 1, Public Prosecutor Zapir Magomedov demanded 3 and 4 years of custody for the defendants.

November 02, 2012 07:00

• Preliminary hearings on Ahmed Chataev’s case passed off in Georgia

  Preliminary hearings on the case of Russian citizen Ahmed Chataev detained in September in a special operation of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia in Lopota gorge were held in Tbilisi city court today. The court refused to release Chataev on bail, his attorney Nino Andriashvili reported.

November 01, 2012 23:00

• Relatives of Akhmedkhan Aushev, detained in Ingushetia, cannot find out his whereabouts

  The wife of Akhmedkhan Aushev, a resident of Nazran, who was detained during a special operation in Ingushetia and who, according to his lawyers, was subjected to torture by power agents, states that since October 31, she cannot find out where her husband was brought.

November 01, 2012 22:00

• Workers of Poti Port go on indefinite strike

  Today, starting from 08:30 a.m., more than 1200 workers of the Poti Port declared an endless strike. They states that they will be on the hunger strike, till their demands for higher wages and better working conditions are fulfilled.

November 01, 2012 21:00

• In Krasnodar, court refuses to release figurants in Sergey Tsapok's brother murder case

  Today, the Appeals Instance of the Krasnodar Regional Court dismissed the appeals, filed by lawyers against the decision to extend the detention of three suspected members of the criminal grouping from the village of Kuschevskaya, accused of the murder of Sergey Tsapok's brother and other crimes.

November 01, 2012 20:00

• Prosecutor's Office of KBR intervenes with medical treatment of newborn baby of members of Jehovah's Witnesses community

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) obliged the Chief Doctor of the Perinatal Centre not to break the law during the medical treatment of a newborn baby of members of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses. Parents refused blood transfusion and insisted on an alternative medical treatment. The baby's mother denies the information about the refusal of medical treatment.

November 01, 2012 19:00

• Court to consider complaint, filed by David Sanasaryan, member of public initiative, against Ruben Airapetyan, owner of "Harsnaqar" Restaurant

  The General Jurisdiction Court of Yerevan communities of Avan and Nor-Nork accepted for consideration the claim, filed by David Sanasaryan, a member of the public initiative group "We demand to punish all the persons, responsible for the incident at the 'Harsnaqar' Restaurant", against Ruben Airapetyan, the owner of the Restaurant. David Sanasaryan urges Ruben Airapetyan to make public apologies for the offending, inflicted on him.

November 01, 2012 18:00

• Magomed Mutsolgov and Rasul Kadiev are among candidates to Human Rights Council, introduced to Vladimir Putin

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed to the Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights to discuss its expansion by including the leaders of Internet voting, including Magomed Mutsolgov, the leader of the organization "Mashr" and a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot". Vladimir Putin also promised to consider additional candidates, voiced by Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the Council, including Rasul Kadiev, a lawyer from Dagestan.

November 01, 2012 17:00

• North Ossetia and Ingushetia commemorate victims of Ossetian-Ingush conflict

  On October 29 and 30, Ingushetia and North Ossetia held actions to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992. In their turn, the people, who suffered in those events, state that till present, 20 years later, they feel the effects of the conflict.

November 01, 2012 16:00

• Five hunger-strikers in Ingushetia arrested for 15 days

  Magistrate court of the Central District of Nazran left five participants of the hunger strike, organized by supporters of the regional public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", under administrative arrest for 15 days for disobeying the police. This was reported by Idris Abadiev, the leader of the organization.