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November 12, 2009 20:00

• Ingushetia: Imam of Sunzha District wounded in an explosion

  Today, an unidentified bomb blew up under the car of Kosum Meiriev, Imam of the Sunzha District in Ingushetia. The churchman was wounded and brought to hospital.

November 12, 2009 19:00

• Refugees ousted out of hotel in North Ossetia

  Today, from the morning, the Vladikavkaz hotel named "Alan" began evicting the refugees from the 1992 Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. In total, 49 South-Ossetian families lived there that is, over 140 persons. The official reason for eviction is the emergency condition of the hotel.

November 12, 2009 18:00

• Karastelyov: militia pursues Major Dymovskiy's supporters

  Law enforcement bodies are exerting pressure on the people supporting Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who had made public illegal actions of Novorossisk militia bosses. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about by Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights.

November 11, 2009 23:40

• Security Council to check information about Dymovskiy's links with foreigners

  Yuri Baluevskiy, deputy secretary of the Security Council, said today that the version of involvement of NGOs, foreign ones inclusive, in the activities of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy is not confirmed and needs a further check.

November 11, 2009 23:40

• President of Dagestan: law enforcement bodies are regarded as involved in kidnappings until they solve the crime

  On November 10, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev, speaking to the workers of internal bodies on the occasion of the Day of Militia, said that law enforcement bodies will be regarded as involved in kidnappings themselves until the solve the crime and find real kidnappers.

November 11, 2009 23:40

• Azerbaijan: court rejects complaint of woman accused of beating 4 men

  On November 10, the Baku Appeal Court, presided by Judge Gail Mamedov, considered the appeal complaint lodged by Sayara Geidarova, convicted for beating of 4 men.

November 11, 2009 23:20

• Mother of the trooper who perished in Chechnya lodges 1-million claim to Strasbourg Court

  Mother of Vadim Chugunov, a Russian trooper, who perished in the battle near Ulus-Kert in 2000, believes that the failure of the Russian party to pay her the due compensation for the death of her son in Chechnya is a violation of the provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights.

November 11, 2009 23:10

• In Dubai, advocates of figurants in Sulim Yamadaev's attempt case to demand release of their clients

  In Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the judge in charge of the case on the attempt on Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion, was dissatisfied with the proofs gathered by the prosecution party and found them insufficient. On these grounds, the defence advocates plan to move, at the court session on November 16, their petitions asking to release the defendants.

November 11, 2009 23:00

• Azerbaijani public indignant with bloggers' conviction

  Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, chaired by Araz Guseinov, terminated litigation on the case of young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Representatives of the public are indignant with the verdict.

November 11, 2009 22:30

• In Dagestan, "Chernovik" case not to go back to prosecutor's office

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan has cancelled the decision of the Leninskiy Court of Makhachkala about return of the criminal case concerning the editor-in-chief and four journalists of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik" (Blueprint) to the prosecutor's office because of violations when drawing up the indictment. This was reported by Biyakay Magomedov, lawyer of the edition.

November 11, 2009 22:20

• Citizen of Georgia expects exclusion from Archangelsk to Belarus

  Citizen of Georgia Nodar Nikoleishvili, who was forced to go on hunger strike in the militia reception centre of Archangelsk, because of "inhuman custody conditions and long term of detention at the centre", said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the DFMS (Department of the Federal Migration Service) for the Archangelsk Region was planning to exclude him from Russia to Belarus within five days.

November 11, 2009 22:00

• Examination finds sanity in suspects of organizing explosions in Sochi

  The inquiry bodies have finished a complex psycho-psychiatric examination of the suspects of committing terror acts in Sochi, and, according to its conclusions, the defendants were quite responsible for their actions during the incriminated offences.

November 11, 2009 20:00

• Dagestan residents are controversial to "children's curfew"

  The ban for children and youth up to 18 years of age to stay in public places without accompanying adults from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., legalized by the deputies of the National Assembly of Dagestan, has caused different reactions among the population of the republic.

November 11, 2009 19:00

• Apaev: court disregarded mitigating circumstances in verdict to participant of raid on Budyonnovsk

  The verdict to Abubakar Mezhiev, convicted for participation in the attack on the city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, was upheld, despite the mitigating circumstances. This is the opinion Aslambek Apaev, head of the committee in defence of forced migrants' rights and director of the international peacemaking centre "Peace. Ecology. Culture" founded several months ago in Crimea.

November 11, 2009 18:00

• Picket in support of "Memorial" head to be held in Moscow tomorrow

  On November 12, in Moscow, at 5:30 p.m., in the Chistoprudny Boulevard, a solidarity picket with Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will start.

November 10, 2009 23:50

• In October, 35 suspected militants liquidated in Chechnya

  As reported by the United Army Grouping in Northern Caucasus, in October this year, in the course of the special operations conducted in the territory of the Chechen Republic, 35 members of the armed underground were liquidated, and 42 militants and their helper were detained. However, human rights activists are sure that power agents put also people who have nothing to do with the armed underground into the lists of their "trophies".

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.