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November 10, 2009 23:30

• Chechnya to try supposed "turnskin will epaulets"

  An employee of the Chechen militia will face justice on charges of complicity to a member of separatists' armed formations. The former militiaman is under a threat of several years in prison.

November 10, 2009 23:00

• Date of trial of Georgian teenagers detained in South Ossetia still unknown

  November 9 was to be the starting day of the trial in South Ossetia of four Georgian teenagers, detained by local power agents; however, the trial was uncertainly postponed.

November 10, 2009 22:20

• Major Dymovskiy plans to give press conference in Moscow

  Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who told about corruption in law enforcement bodies of Novorossisk, arrived in Moscow in his car, as he was not let to go by air.

November 10, 2009 22:00

• Sochi residents concerned of building Olympic alternate of Kurortny Avenue

  Residents of the city of Sochi express their concern of the plans to erect a 17-kilometre-long alternate of the existing Kurortny (Resort) Avenue. The new highway threatens to liquidate thousands of rarest vegetative exotics, bring unimaginable economic costs and create ecological hazard, as the experts say.

November 10, 2009 21:20

• Evkurov reports solving terror act at Nazran ROVD building

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said about resolution of a number of resonant crimes committed in his republic. Among them, according to Mr Evkurov, the attempt on him, the terror act at the building of the ROVD (District Interior Unit) in Nazran and the murder of the Deputy Chair of the republic's Supreme Court.

November 10, 2009 20:00

• Court upholds verdict to participants of attack on Budyonnovsk

  The judicial panel for criminal cases of the Supreme Court has upheld the verdict of the Stavropol Territorial Court to Igor Sokolov and Abubakar Mezhiev, both aged 39, who took part in the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995. They will serve their terms at the general regime colony, as the General Prosecutor's Office has reported.

November 10, 2009 19:00

• Disfavoured Major denied cooperation with the West

  Already former Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who was dismissed for criticizing his Novorossisk colleagues and bosses, denied, at the press conference held in the Independent Press Centre, charges that his revelations had been prepaid by western NGOs.

November 10, 2009 18:00

• Prosecutor's Office of Archangelsk checks long custody of Georgian citizens at special reception centre

  Citizen of Georgia David Khubunaya, who is waiting for six weeks already for his exclusion from Russia at the special reception centre intended for minor offenders in the city of Archangelsk, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his complaints against long custody had forced the local Prosecutor's Office to initiate a case.

November 09, 2009 23:30

• Kabardino-Balkaria: doctor convicted to two conditional years for death of child

  Today, the Chegem District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced the verdict of guilty to Aryubat Gemueva, doctor-paediatrician of the local district hospital, accused of non-rendering held to Aslan Kugotov, 13, who subsequently died.

November 09, 2009 23:00

• Russia's MIA: NGOs are behind Major Dymovskiy's video appeal to Putin

  The public statements of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy were backed up by NGOs funded from abroad, in particular, the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This was stated by a source from the Department of Internal Security (DIS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

November 09, 2009 22:40

• Psychologists find suspect of Markelov's murder extremely aggressive

  Experts have made a psychological portrait of Evgenia Khasis, 25, a suspect on the case of murdering advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. In the opinion of psychologists, Evgenia Khasis is very unbalanced and aggressive. Meanwhile, her friends do not believe in her involvement in the resonant murder.

November 09, 2009 22:20

• Young man killed on November 5 in Chechnya was Azerbaijani wrestling champion

  Arthur Duzgaev, 21, who, as Chechen power agents kept asserting, returned from Azerbaijan with the aim to join the armed underground, and was liquidated on November 5 while rendering armed resistance, was a freestyle wrestler and had recently won the title of champion of Azerbaijan. His relatives assert that he had been kidnapped by unidentified persons three days before his.

November 09, 2009 22:00

• Panfilov, head of "Centre of Extreme Journalism", moves to Georgia

  A Russian journalist, head of the "Centre of Extreme Journalism" Oleg Panfilov has moved to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, because of the current situation in Russia.

November 09, 2009 21:00

• Head of Georgia's MFA calls detention of teenagers in South Ossetia "shameful show"

  Grigol Vashadze, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, has promised that the teenagers detained by power agents of South Ossetia, will be surely released. He told journalists about it today in the break of the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova regional co-operation group).

November 09, 2009 20:00

• Interrogation of "Memorial" head on Kadyrov's claim postponed

  The interrogation of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on the criminal case opened under the claim lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has been postponed till November 12 or 13.

November 09, 2009 19:00

• Georgian wants to strive for better custody conditions for detainees in Archangelsk special facility

  Citizen of Georgia Nodar Nikoleishvili had to go on hunger strike at the militia special detention facility in Archangelsk because of "inhuman custody conditions and long stay at the facility, which is not intended for the purpose." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Nikoleishvili himself, who waits for his exclusion from Russia for the fifth month already.

November 09, 2009 18:00

• Major Dymovskiy from Novorossisk asserts that he is shadowed

  Late in the evening on November 8, Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy said at the press conference that outdoor surveillance after him was established. After the press conference he found that his car was opened, despite the installed signalling system.

November 07, 2009 23:00

• Isa Yamadaev: Ruslan's house searched, Musa is on wanted list

  Isa has reported that the cottage of his brother - Ruslan Yamadaev, Deputy of Russian State Duma, who was assassinated in 2008, - was house-checked, while another brother - Musa Yamadaev - was announced into search.

November 07, 2009 22:00

• Aliskhan Pliev kidnapped in Ingushetia

  Early in the morning on November 4, armed persons in military uniform and masks rushed into Boris Pliev's house and forced away his son Aliskhan, born in 1979.

November 07, 2009 21:00

• "Imedi" TV Company to go to Strasbourg Court against Georgian authorities

  Journalists of the Georgian "Imedi" TV Company have decided to apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the context of the events on November 7, 2007, when actions of supporters of the opposition was severely suppressed in Tbilisi. This was announced by MP Giorgi Targamadze, leader of the parliamentary minority.