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October 09, 2012 23:50

• Azerbaijan: 32 believers face criminal charges for confronting police

  32 detainees face criminal charges in connection with the unsanctioned protest action of believers, which was held on October 5 in Baku in front of the Ministry of Education and which grew into clashes between the protesters and the police. The courts pronounced their arrests as pre-trial restriction measures. This was reported on October 8 by Eldar Sultanov, Press Officer of the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan.

October 09, 2012 23:40

• Makhachkala residents express their indignation at power agents' failure to inform them about special operation

  Special operation near the village of Agachaul of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, located in the vicinities of Makhachkala, is conducted by military men on detached service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was reported by a source in the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Residents of Makhachkala claim that the morning bombing of the forest near the village of Agachaul raised panic among them.

October 09, 2012 23:20

• Leader of UNMP youth organization beaten in Tbilisi

  Last night, in Tbilisi, Tsotne Gvasaliya, the leader of the youth organization, the member of the "United National Movement" Party (UNMP), was beaten by unidentified persons. Members of the Party suspect that the attack was committed for political reasons. This was reported by David Sakvarelidze, a candidate for Parliament from the UNMP.

October 09, 2012 23:10

• In Kropotkin, candidate to City Council from "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" beaten

  In the evening of October 8, in the Krasnodar Territory, Lyudmila Barzdanes, the human rights defender and the candidate to the deputy of the Kropotkin City Council from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, was beaten. Her condition is assessed as of moderate severity. On October 10, she will be brought to Krasnodar.

October 09, 2012 23:00

• In Dagestan, local resident claims delay of investigation into his accidental injury by power agents

  Ibragim Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who in last November was shelled by power agents by error, claims delay of the investigation into the incident. Investigators failed to reveal who opened fire on a car of the local resident and wounded him and damaged his car. Officials from the investigatory agencies of the Khasavyurt District state that the investigation into the incident is underway.

October 09, 2012 22:40

• Azerbaijani Court of Appeal keeps human rights defender Talekh Khasmamedov in custody

  Today, the Shirvan Court of Appeal of Azerbaijan dismissed the appeal, which was filed by Talekh Khasmamedov, the human rights defender, the leader of the NGO "Law and Order", against the decision of the Goychay District Court.

October 09, 2012 22:40

• In Azerbaijan, 22 persons, accused of collaboration with Iranian secret service "Sepah", sentenced to 3-13 years of imprisonment

  Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Alovsat Abbasov, closed the trial on the case against 22 citizens of Azerbaijan, accused of high treason and other crimes. Half of the defendants are residents of the village of Nardaran, located 25 km north of Baku and well-known by strong religious traditions.

October 09, 2012 22:20

• Website of Kabardino-Balkarian HRC suffers from hacking attack

  Today, the "zapravakbr.ru", the website of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre (HRC), suffered from hacking attack. This was reported by Zaur Shokuev, the deputy head of the HRC.

October 09, 2012 22:10

• Ex-combat engineer convicted for negligent examination of hippodrome in Nalchik on May 1, 2010

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, Andrei Prokopov, ex-Senior Combat Engineer of the Engineering and Technical Department of the Special Police Squad of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was found guilty of negligence when examining the hippodrome in Nalchik and sentenced to 2.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

October 09, 2012 22:00

• Moscow: investigators bring case on Yuri Budanov's murder to Prosecutor's Office

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) brought the case on the Yuri Budanov's murder to the Prosecutor's Office for approval of indictment. This was reported today by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the ICRF.

October 09, 2012 21:00

• In Rostov Region, person, suspected of destructing graves, detained

  In the Rostov Region, staff members of the Inter-District Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "Krasnosulinskiy" detained a man, suspected of vandalizing graves at the cemetery in the village of Vladimirovskaya.

October 09, 2012 20:00

• No less than 14 persons killed in an c in Northern Caucasus during the week from October, 1, till October, 7

  At least 22 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus last week, October, 1, till October, 7, 2012. 14 out of them perished and eight got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.

October 09, 2012 19:00

• A resident of Dagestan reports her daughter's disappearance

  Yesterday, October, 8, a resident of Rutul district appealed to the police of Dagestan reporting her daughter's obscure disappearance.

October 09, 2012 18:00

• Picketers in Dagestan unblocked the roadway after a representative of the Ministry of Interior Affairs promised to find the missing Shamil Saipulaev

  Residents of the settlement of Tsatanikh, Untsuklul district of Dagestan, unblocked the roadway at the entrance of the settlement of Gimry after Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic Magomed Ismailov promised to find Head of the settlement Shamil Saipulaev who disappeared on October, 6.

October 08, 2012 23:00

• Vladimir Putin's portrait fixed at one of mountain peaks of North Ossetia, bloggers express their indignation

  A group of climbers from North Ossetia, who have accomplished an ascent to one of unnamed peaks of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, fixed there a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kazbek Khamitsaev, Chairman of the Republic's Climbing Federation, announced the intention to submit an application for naming the mountain peak as "Putin Peak". However, the proposal sparked strong criticism of bloggers in North Ossetia.

October 08, 2012 23:00

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

  Parliamentary elections in Georgia, won by Ivanishvili's oppositional bloc; opening in Dagestan of Gimry Tunnel after years of reconstruction; killing of ex-judge and suicide of the kidnapper of the girl in Rostov-on-Don; pickets of Ingushetia residents in Moscow; clashes of protesting believers with police and opposition's demand to disband the parliament in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 1-7, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 08, 2012 22:40

• In Dagestan, Director of HBC "Daman", suspected of deceiving real estate investors, put on wanted list

  In Dagestan, Murat Guliev, the head of the housing building cooperative (HBC) "Daman", is suspected of fraud and document forgery. According to investigators, Murat Guliev raised from real estate investors more than seven million roubles for the construction of an apartment building and disappeared.

October 08, 2012 22:30

• Power agents demand to stop protest action on highway in Untsukul District of Dagestan

  In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, military men demanded that picketers from the village of Tsatanikh should unblock the highway. This was reported by the participants of the protest actions, whose number had been increased.

October 08, 2012 22:20

• A policeman in the town of Volzhsky knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the accident

  Investigators are carrying out inquiry on the circumstances of a road accident in the town of Volzhsky with the participation of a district police officer who knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the crime, Natalia Kunitskaya, representative of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry in Volgograd region, reported.

October 08, 2012 22:10

• The European Court of Human Rights obliged Armenia to pay an oppositional activist a compensation of 31 thousand euros

  According to a verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Armenia must pay a compensation of 31 thousand euros to oppositional activist Grigor Virabyan for torture he underwent from the police and violation of his right of fair trial.