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April 05, 2012 13:00

• Human rights defenders ask Russian president to pardon political prisoners

  On April 4, human rights activists and figures of culture sent an appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to pardon those from the so-called "lists of political prisoners". On February 8, the organizers of the rally "For Fair Elections" conveyed the list of people whom they consider to be political prisoners to Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the President's Council on Human Rights. Dmitry Medvedev instructed the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to study the sentences passed to the figurants of the list.

April 05, 2012 08:00

• Oppositionists in Azerbaijan got a permission of holding a meeting on April, 8

  The authorities of Baku suggested the civil movement for democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) to hold their meeting on April, 8, in a parking lot of a driving school in the settlement of Baiilovo, South-Western suburb of Baku. During the action of protest its participants will demand to carry out democratic reforms in the country.

April 04, 2012 23:00

• Georgia: Christian Democrats offer to amend Constitution for Ivanishvili to take part in elections

  Today, activists of the Christian-Democratic Movement have moved an initiative to amend the Constitution of Georgia in order to make it possible for the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the coalition "Georgian Dream" to take part in the parliamentary elections.

April 04, 2012 22:00

• Gravestones used as foundations found in the capital of Chechnya

  In Chechnya, in the process of building underground utilities in the Lenin District of Grozny, gravestones monuments – the so-called "churts" – that were walled into the concrete foundation of the former buildings of the Republic's Hospital.

April 04, 2012 21:00

• In Armenia, court rejects Sukiasyan's appeal against CoEC's refusal to register him as candidate for deputy

  Today, the Administrative Court of Armenia has dismissed the complaint of the oppositionist Khachatur Sukiasyan against the decision of the Constituency Election Commission (CoEC) No. 10 and upheld the refusal to register him as a candidate.

April 04, 2012 20:00

• NAC: four militants liquidated in special operation in Nalchik suburb

  Law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria have killed – in the course of a special operation, conducted in the outskirts of Nalchik, the village of Khasanya, – four suspected militants.

April 04, 2012 19:00

• Chechnya: over 10,000 letters-appeals to militants gathered within the "Call of the Soul" action

  In Chechnya, within the large-scale action "Call of the Soul", more than ten thousand children's letters-appeals to militants were gathered, asking them to return to peaceful life, said the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences.

April 04, 2012 18:00

• All the casualties of special operation in Sergokala District of Dagestan identified

  All the six militants killed during the special operation conducted on April 2-4 in Dagestan, have been identified; all of them were members of the Sergokala grouping, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (ANC) has reported today.

April 04, 2012 17:00

• Volgograd authorities plan to erect monument to leaders of anti-Hitler coalition

  As stated by Sergey Bozhenov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, in Volgograd, in preparation for the celebrating of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, it is planned to erect a monument to the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition.

April 04, 2012 15:00

• Antonina Mayevskaya’s relatives in Sochi identified her dead body

  Today relatives of murdered widow of a well-known cultural figure Joseph Mayevsky Antonina Mayevskaya identified her dead body in the morgue of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar region. Investigator Maxim Bogdanovich and attorney of Mayevskaya’s relatives Igor Kurochkin were present at the identification.

April 04, 2012 08:00

• Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of religious extremism

  Six residents of Astrakhan region are accused of organization of a religious community “Tabligi Jamia” acknowledged an extremist one and participation in its activities, Astrakhan regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.

April 04, 2012 08:00

• The personnel of a penal colony in Kalmykia are suspected of beating convicts from Chechnya

  A criminal case on the fact of abuse of authority was initiated in Kalmykia against the personnel of a penal colony who have regularly been beaten up natives of Chechnya, representatives of the Apparat of Ombudsman of Chechen Republic informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

April 03, 2012 23:00

• NAC: five militants killed in special operation in Ingushetia

  According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), today in a special operation in the city of Nazran five militants were killed. One of the casualties has been preliminarily identified as the 23-year-old Salman Gardanov.

April 03, 2012 22:00

• ECtHR refuses to find Russia guilty of violating rights of defrauded investor from Krasnodar

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case "Kotov versus Russia" and refused to find the Russian Federation guilty of violating the rights of Vladimir Kotov, a defrauded investor – a resident of Krasnodar.

April 03, 2012 21:00

• Action against energy drinks held in Tskhinvali

  Today, the central square of Tskhinvali hosted an action, where the participants protested against the spread by the retail network of South Ossetia of the so-called "energy drinks", as well as against sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to minors.

April 03, 2012 20:00

• Resident of Krasnodar Territory complains of torture by police

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has started a check of the video appeal posted on the Internet by Sergey Medvesh, a resident of the village of Varenikovskaya, Crimea District, who claims that policemen had raped him with a bottle of vodka.

April 03, 2012 19:00

• Georgian Armenians ask Tbilisi authorities to allocate land for memorial to genocide victims

  In Georgia, the Armenian Diaspora has addressed the Mayoralty of Tbilisi asking to allocate a land plot for building a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. This was reported by the press service of the "Community of Georgian Armenians".

April 03, 2012 18:00

• Residents of Azerbaijan demand fair distribution of help among flood victims

  In Azerbaijan, villagers from Minbashi, Sabirabad District, have held a protest today with a demand of fair distribution of compensations allotted by the government to the victims of floods in 2010.

April 03, 2012 17:00

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria says that kidnappers wanted to know militants' addresses from him

  Aslan Guliev, a resident of the city of Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, has informed rights defenders that he was kidnapped on March 14 by unidentified men in masks, who, according to his story, tortured him, demanding to talk about his connections with militants. Fearing for his life and health, Guliev asks for help in recovering his violated rights.

April 03, 2012 16:00

• "Sova": two persons have perished in Russia this year as a result of racist attacks

  Since the start of 2012, at least 32 people have suffered from racist attacks in Russia; two of them were lost. The nine regions, where such incidents have occurred, include the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, according to the Information-Analytical Centre "Sova", which runs statistics of manifestations of racism and radical nationalism.