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November 17, 2009 22:20

• Court session on Sulim Yamadaev's murder case reappointed on December 17

  The Court of Dubai has postponed the next hearing on the murder case of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" GRU special battalion, for a month. The delay was explained by the need to summon additional witnesses.

November 17, 2009 22:00

• Sadygov: Norway and Germany interfere in Azerbaijani home affairs

  The statement, made by Vagif Sadygov, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan, runs that the comments of the diplomatic missions of Norway and Germany on the cases of young bloggers Gadjizade and Milli convicted in Baku were regarded by the Azerbaijani party as unreasonable and mismatching the level of current relations of these countries with Azerbaijan, and as attempts to interfere in home affairs of Azerbaijan.

November 17, 2009 21:00

• North-Ossetian residents use hotlines to complain of excessive drug prices

  Facts of overpricing the antivirus preparations sold in the chemists' network can be reported by residents of North Ossetia by means of hotline telephones installed at the pharmaceutical department of the Ministry of Public Health, territorial department of the Federal Supervision Service in Public Health and Social development and the Republic's Prosecutor's Office.

November 17, 2009 20:00

• Krasnodar Territory: two militiamen convicted for beating a detainee

  The former head of the criminal investigation division of the district OVD (Interior Unit) and his subordinate have been sentenced to three years of imprisonment. According to the investigation, in December 2008 the convicts severely beat a man.

November 17, 2009 19:00

• TI states growth of corruption in Armenia

  According to the data of the international organization named "Transparency International" (TI), last year Armenia saw growth of corruption level in comparison with the last year; and the country now is ranked the 120th-125th among 180 countries of the world by this level, while in 2008, it was ranked the 109th-114th.

November 17, 2009 18:00

• Journalist who investigated Markelov's murder detained in Moscow

  Today in Moscow militiamen have detained Dmitri Steshin, a correspondent of the politics division of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda", who investigated the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova. This was reported by a journalist's friend.

November 16, 2009 23:50

• Yamadaevs fear that suspects of attempting Sulim will be set free

  Today, the court of Dubai will consider possible release from custody of Makhdi Lorniya, a citizen of Iran and personal horseman of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, and Maksudzhon Ismatov, a native of Tajikistan, accused of organizing the attempt on Sulim Yamadaev on March 28 this year in the United Arab Emirates. In the opinion of relatives of the ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of the Russian GRU, this decision, can result in suspects' flight to Chechnya, which will mean a factual end of the process.

November 16, 2009 23:20

• Trial on attack on Nalchik postponed till November 19

  Today, the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case about the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 was cancelled because of absence of advocate Timur Lakunov. Last week, for the same reason out of three scheduled sessions only one was held.

November 16, 2009 23:00

• Major Dymovskiy rejects charges of murdering Andrei Vritov

  Major Alexei Dymovskiy, whom Anastasia Vritova accused of her son's death, is preparing a statement to Prime Minister Putin on his non-involvement in the murder.

November 16, 2009 22:30

• Karastelyov: legal aspects of Major Dymovskiy's dismissal are in a mess

  As reported by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights, who is also Mr Dymovskiy's official representative, today, in the legal and legislative aspect of the issue of the official dismissal of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossisk a real chaos is observed - bosses of law enforcement bodies of different levels in their statements contradicts each other.

November 16, 2009 22:00

• Russian Islamic Committee: colony employees in Stavropol oppress Ingushetia resident

  Idris Albogachiev, a convicted resident of Ingushetia, who is serving his term in the Stavropol Territory, is exposed to oppression from the administration of the colony. One of the relatives of the prisoner, who preferred to remain anonymous, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

November 16, 2009 21:20

• Azerbaijani authorities reject international criticism of bloggers' conviction

  The official Baku has rejected the international criticism in relation to conviction in Azerbaijan of two young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade to imprisonment for hooliganism.

November 16, 2009 21:00

• In Dagestan, prisoners complain of a ban to make namaz

  The inmates of the corrective establishments, located in the territory of the Republic of Dagestan, complain that they are forbidden to execute their morning religious rites, which was allowed earlier. The bosses from the Department for Dagestan of the Federal Service of Enforcing Punishments (known as "UFSIN") say that there is no ban, if the rites do not break the internal regulations of the corrective institutions.

November 16, 2009 20:00

• ICRC not to take part in releasing teenagers detained in South Ossetia

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia has refused to make any comments on visiting the detained Georgian teenagers in South Ossetia, having referred to confidentiality. This was reported by Maria Tedeeva, press secretary of the ICRC in South Ossetia.

November 16, 2009 19:00

• First picket in support of Major Dymovskiy held in Novorossisk

  City of Novorossisk has hosted a picket in support of Militia MajorAlexei Dymovskiy. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights.

November 16, 2009 18:00

• Five percent of Armenian children are starving

  Thirteen percent of Armenian children under 5 years of age see retardant growth rate, and five percent of all country's children are permanently starving. This was stated by Karine Saribekyan, head of the division for protecting mothers' and children's health at the Ministry of Public Health of Armenia.

November 14, 2009 22:00

• Rostov-on-Don: deceived interest-holders hold picket

  Today, deceived interest-holders (people who prepaid their apartments in a new house, but received nothing) of Rostov-on-Don have held a picket, which was not sanctioned by the authorities.

November 14, 2009 20:00

• Native of Ingushetia kidnapped in Egypt

  Mussa Mankiev has reported that his brother Ibragim Mankiev, born in 1977, was kidnapped in Egypt.

November 14, 2009 19:00

• Georgian MFA is unhappy with Moscow Mayor's visit to Abkhazia

  Another note of protest was delivered via ambassador of the Swiss Confederation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia to the Russian party. The Georgian party's protest was caused by the visit on November 13 to Abkhazia of the Moscow delegation headed by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

November 14, 2009 18:00

• In Karachai-Circassia, hostel tenants demand better housing conditions

  In the capital of Karachai-Circassia, tenants of hostels complain that they are sick and tired to live in anti-sanitary conditions and demand to improve them at least for invalids.