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October 13, 2011 22:30

• Armenian activist Vaagn Chakhalyan, convicted in Georgia, stops his hunger strike

  At the request of Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, the leader of the Armenian Eparchy in Georgia, the Armenian activist Vaagn Chakhalyan, who was convicted in Georgia for 10 years in prison and is now kept at the high security prison No. 6 in Rustavi, stopped his earlier declared termless hunger strike. This was reported by the lawyer Stepan Voskanyan, Mr Chakhalyan's advocate, and Robert Tatoyan, the programme coordinator of the Union "Erkir" (Law) at a press conference in Yerevan.

October 13, 2011 22:10

• Kalyapin's complaint against idleness of Russian MIA for NCFD rejected

  Today, the Essentuki Court has ruled to dismiss the complaint lodged by Igor Kalyapin, the chairman of the Interregional Committee against Torture against inaction of officials of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) at kidnapping.

October 13, 2011 22:00

• Two defence witnesses questioned at trial on riots in Manege Square

  At the trial in the Tver Court of Moscow considering the riots in Manege Square then burst out in December 2010, the journalists of the editions "Grani.ru" and "Agency of Political News" (APN) gave their evidences as witnesses for the defence.

October 13, 2011 20:00

• KBR: rally in memory of casualties of the attack on Nalchik

  Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has held mourning ceremonies on the occasion of the next anniversary of the militants' attacks on Nalchik on October 13, 2005.

October 13, 2011 19:00

• Moscow to host picket in defence of Chechen resident Zubair Zubairaev

  Today, the picketers, who plan their action in Moscow in front of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), will stand for the rights of Zubair Zubairaev, a Chechen resident, who is now in a colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

October 13, 2011 18:00

• Yevgeny Konovalov, rights defender and entrepreneur, beaten near Krasnodar

  Yevgeny Konovalov, a Krasnodar human rights activist and a member of the public movement "All people are equal before the law", was hospitalized to the intensive care unit of the territorial clinical hospital after a severe beating.

October 12, 2011 23:00

• Court of Appeal upholds decision prescribing "Zhamanak" to pay fine to Kocharyan family

  On October 11, the Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint lodged by the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Skizb Media Kentron", the founder of the "Zhamanak" (Time) newspaper, against the family of ex-President Robert Kocharyan. The court upheld the decision of the first instance, under which the newspaper is obliged to pay a fine of 3 million drams (about 8000 US dollars) to the Kocharyans as compensation of moral harm.

October 12, 2011 22:50

• Policeman shot dead in Dagestan

  In the evening on October 11, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, as a result of shelling a VAZ-21099 car, a policeman was killed.

October 12, 2011 22:40

• North Ossetia holds ecological action "Protect!"

  On October, the Youth Tourist Club, pupils of the orphanage "Victoria", senior schoolchildren of the Vladikavkaz Secondary School No. 24 and volunteers of the ecological public organization "Green Patrol" took part in the environmental charity action in the Koban Gorge.

October 12, 2011 22:30

• HRW calls on stars to return their royalties for performing in Grozny on Day of the City

  The Hollywood stars and other celebrities who were invited to the mass celebrations of the Day of the City in Grozny, which coincided with the birthday of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, should refuse from the money or gifts they received, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes.

October 12, 2011 22:30

• In Georgia, Court of Appeal upholds verdict to Badri Bitsadze

  Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the first instance court in relation to Badri Bitsadze, ex-head of the frontier Police of Georgia, convicted in absentia for resisting the police, said his advocate Levan Samushiya.

October 12, 2011 22:20

• Court extends arrest of athlete from Dagestan Rasul Mirzaev until December 17

  The Presnya District Court of Moscow has left the four times world champion in ultimate fighting from Dagestan Rasul Mirzaev suspected of beating the student of Ivan Agafonov, 19, to death, in custody, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom.

October 12, 2011 22:10

• Supreme Court of South Ossetia rejects Tedeev's lawsuit against CEC

  Today, the Supreme Court of South Ossetia has upheld the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to refuse to register Djambolat Tedeev, the head coach of the Russian national team in free wrestling, as a candidate for the presidential election in South Ossetia. On October 16, in Vladikavkaz the opposition plans to hold a protest rally.

October 12, 2011 20:00

• Policeman who wounded several persons in Yessentuki is in hospital

  The policeman who wounded, in early October, three persons in the city of Yessentuki, Stavropol Territory, is in hospital and was not dismissed from the police, said Svetlana Kharchenko, the assistant of the head of the Investigatory Department for the Territory of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation). According to her story, local law enforcement bodies possess evidences that the policeman used his forearms as forced self-defence.

October 12, 2011 19:00

• Administration of Charodin District of Dagestan posts state order on construction of toilet worth 730,000 roubles

  On October 11, the official website of Russian state procurements Zakupki.gov.ru posted a state order for "building a restroom in the village of Tsurib, Charodin District of Dagestan. The cost of the purchase is almost 730,000 roubles.

October 12, 2011 19:00

• Opposition activists detained in Rostov-on-Don

  Five activists of the oppositional movement "Left-Wing Front" were detained by the police in the streets of Rostov-on-Don. Three of them were released immediately, after writing down their passport data; the other two were kept at the station for several hours.

October 12, 2011 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, oppositionist Bashirli again denied his CER

  Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has rejected the appeal complaint lodged by Ruslan Bashirli, the head of the youth organization "Eni Fikir" (New Thinking), against refusal to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to him.

October 11, 2011 23:50

• Another picket against parliamentary elections held in Rostov-on-Don

  Activists of oppositional movements have held another picket against the parliamentary elections to be held in Russia on December 4, 2011. The picketers called citizens to refuse to take part in them by excluding themselves from voters' lists, or by spoiling the ballot paper.

October 11, 2011 23:40

• Armenian Ombudsman and Defence Minister to set up a group for preventing army crime

  As agreed on October 10 by Seiran Oganyan, Minister of Defence, and Karen Andreasyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, with the aim to reduce the criminality level in the Armed Forces of Armenia, a working group will be set up.

October 11, 2011 23:20

• Ecologists ask to cancel tenders on construction of road to weather station in Adygea

  Activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" have sent an official appeal to the Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Yury Trutnev, where they ask to cancel two tenders on construction of the road running to the weather station in the Republic of Adygea.