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April 25, 2012 19:00

• A local resident kidnapped in Dagestan

  This morning armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms who introduced themselves as officers of the Department of Interior Affairs of Magaramkent district carried away resident of the settlement of Kiuchhiur, Kurakh district, Ramazan Saidhanov. Location of the kidnapped man is unknown at the moment. This was reported by the man's brother Abdulhamid Saidhanov.

April 25, 2012 18:00

• A peacemaker from Georgia perished in Afghanistan

  Sergeant Valerian Khudjadze, representative of Georgian peacemaking contingent in Afghanistan, blasted on a mine, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported today. The time of the accident was not specified.

April 24, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijan: arrested journalist complains about inhuman treatment at GUBOP

  The journalist Zaur Guliev, arrested after the events in the city of Guba, told about torture and inhuman treatment applied to him during his stay at the country's Chief Department for Combating Organized Crime (known as GUBOP) of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). This is stated in his complaint, sent from the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) to the NGO "For Human Rights".

April 24, 2012 22:00

• GPO: suspects of attempt on President of Abkhazia give confessions

  Anzor Butba, Ramzi Khashig and Alkhas Khutaba, arrested under the case of an attempt on the president of Abkhazia, have confessed that twice – in November 2011 and on February 10, 2012 – they attempted, together with Rushbey Bartsits, who is now searched, to kill the president, said the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Republic.

April 24, 2012 21:00

• Moscow hunger-strikers in support of Oleg Shein stop their action

  The participants of the Moscow solidarity hunger strike have decided to stop their action, after Oleg Shein's statement that he would quit his hunger strike as soon his supporters, arrested for staging a flash mob "For Fair Elections", were released.

April 24, 2012 19:00

• Journalist Ruslan Gereev attacked in Dagestan

  Today, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in Makhachkala, in Akushinsky Avenue, five unidentified men attacked and beat Ruslan Gereev, the deputy director general and editor of the political division of the newspaper "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), said Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief.

April 24, 2012 18:00

• In Elista, candidate not approved as city manager tries to storm Mayoralty

  Supporters of Arthur Dordjiev, who was not approved for the post of city manager, blocked the Elista Mayoralty and tried to storm the building, said Mingiyan Yashaev, the incumbent acting city manager of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.

April 24, 2012 17:00

• "Memorial" asks ICRF Chairman to take control of the case of policemen who tortured resident of Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has sent an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), asking him to take the criminal case initiated against the policemen who tortured Inal Berov, a resident of Nalchik, under his special supervision.

April 24, 2012 16:40

• In Astrakhan, Oleg Shein stops his hunger strike

  Today, Oleg Shein, an ex-candidate for the Mayor of Astrakhan and a member of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, has announced his withdrawal from the political protest hunger strike.

April 24, 2012 15:00

• Hungary quits "Nabucco" Project, said Prime Minister

  On April 23, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, said that the Hungarian oil company MOL would quit the gas pipeline project named "Nabucco". So far, the company's managers and the authors of the pipeline project have not confirmed the information.

April 24, 2012 13:00

• Dagestan: local resident states kidnapping of his cousin

  On April 20 in Makhachkala, unidentified persons in masks kidnapped a local resident Zalbek Magomed-Kamilovich Paizulaev, born in 1967. This was announced by his cousin Ramzan Omarov, who addressed human rights activists asking to help to find his relative.

April 24, 2012 11:00

• Armenia holds torch marches in commemoration of genocide

  At night on April 24, funeral torch marches to commemorate the victims of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey and the 97th anniversary of the tragedy took place in Yerevan and other cities on the country.

April 24, 2012 10:00

• In Dagestan, Rasul Magomedov's wife complains of harassment by power agents

  Patimat Murshidova, a resident of the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she was persecuted by law enforcers.

April 23, 2012 23:00

• Symbolic funeral of Armenian oligarchy held in Yerevan

  At the protest action aimed to protect the Mashtots Park in Yerevan, activists held a symbolic funeral ceremony of oligarch Olik Garkhyan.

April 23, 2012 22:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh youth holds torchlight march in memory of victims of Armenian Genocide

  In the evening on April 23, Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, hosted a torchlight march and a rally to commemorate the victims of the genocide of Armenians committed in the Ottoman Empire.

April 23, 2012 21:00

• Dagestan: teenager seriously wounded by policeman brought to Makhachkala for further treatment

  Imadibir Makhiev, 16, who on April 16 was shot in his head by a policeman, was transferred from the Akhvakh Central District Hospital to Makhachkala, to the intensive care unit of the Republic's Clinical Hospital.

April 23, 2012 20:00

• In Dagestan, policemen ask parishioners not to visit the mosque of Kaspiisk

  In Kaspiisk, employees of the local GOVD (City Interior Division) have asked the believers not to visit the mosque, located in Aeroflotskaya Street, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a local resident Abakar Abakarov.

April 23, 2012 19:00

• Forty hunger-strikers take part in protest in Astrakhan

  The office of Oleg Shein, a member of the "Spraveldivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party and an ex-candidate for the Mayor of the city, has reported that the political hunger strike against the outcomes of the election of the Mayor of Astrakhan has now 40 participants.

April 23, 2012 18:00

• In Baku, woman evicted from her flat in central city after speaking at oppositional rally

  Today, Shirinbadji Rzaeva and members of her family were evicted from their apartment in Baku. This happened after she expressed yesterday, on April 22, her strong criticism at the oppositional rally against the leadership of Azerbaijan and the Baku Mayoralty for massive violations of citizens' property rights.

April 23, 2012 16:00

• Two persons arrested in Volgograd for propaganda of Nazism

  Law enforcement authorities of Volgograd have detained two young men, one of whom stuck a swastika sticker to his T-shirt and went to the Easter Sacred Procession, while the other was disseminating leaflets with Hitler's portrait on the dictator's birthday.