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October 27, 2009 23:00

• Dubai police presents new evidences on Sulim Yamadaev's case

  On October 26, a court session was held in Dubai on the attempt case on Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion. For the first time, the police have promulgated the materials throwing the light on this crime.

October 27, 2009 22:10

• Zubairuev urges public prosecutor to warn head of Dagestan Public Chamber against supporting extremism

  Zubair Zubairuev, head of the "Echo Moskvy-Makhachkala" Radio, sent an application to the public prosecutor of Dagestan, asking him to make a warning to Abumuslim Murtazaliev, Chairman of the Public Chamber, on inadmissibility of approving extremist leaflets and saying that it was a "form of attempt to return journalists back into legal field."

October 27, 2009 22:00

• President of Dagestan meets participants of roundtable "Peace to the Caucasus"

  On October 26, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting with the organizers and participants of the roundtable that took place in Makhachkala under the project "Peace to the Caucasus".

October 27, 2009 20:00

• Kriger: still no answers to many important questions on "Nord Ost"

  In spite of 7 years expired after the Dubrovka terror act in Moscow, nobody has until now answered a number of important questions; the main ones are: why was it impossible to do without storming the building, which entailed so many victims killed by unknown gas and why special troops killed all the terrorists, although many of them were unconscious? The questions were asked by Mikhail Kriger, activist of the Solidarity Union with Political Prisoners.

October 27, 2009 19:00

• Criminal case opened against head of HRC "Memorial" Orlov

  As reported by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, a criminal case on slander was initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

October 27, 2009 18:00

• Aushev's murder proves insecurity of people in Ingushetia, human rights activists assert

  Ingush human rights activists express their extreme concern of the murder of Maksharip Aushev, a republic's well-known public figure.

October 26, 2009 23:40

• Rosa Malsagova: Maksharip Aushev was irritator for Ingush authorities

  Rosa Malsagova, former editor-in-chief of the website Ingushetia.Org", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Maksharip Aushev's relations with President Yunus-Bek Evkurov were not cloudless. After execution of Aushev's nephew earlier this April, Maksharip Aushev has repeatedly accused the republic's leadership of inability to stop extrajudicial executions.

October 26, 2009 23:10

• Evkurov: power agencies can stand behind Maksharip Aushev's murder

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has stated that the murder of the well-known local oppositionist and public figure Maksharip Aushev was directed against the republic's leadership, and personally against him.

October 26, 2009 23:00

• "Memorial" still hesitant to resume its work in Chechnya

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which suspended its work in Chechnya in mid-July this year after the murder of Natalia Estemirova, the leading expert of the organization, has not yet resumed its work in the republic. The decision on the issue can be expected in early November.

October 26, 2009 22:00

• Yamadaevs hope Dubai trial to name everyone involved in attempt on Sulim

  The members of Yamadaev family hope that in the course of litigation in Dubai, where the next court session is to be held today on the case dealing with the attempt on Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of special troops of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), the names of all the persons involved in this crime, including the main customer, will be named.

October 26, 2009 21:00

• HRW: Aushev's murder challenges Evkurov's power in Ingushetia

  The Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes that the murder of Maksharip Aushev, a well-known Ingush oppositionist and former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Org", causes doubts of whether President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has enough power to preserve the pluralism, which he tries to support, in his republic.

October 26, 2009 20:30

• Moscow holds action in memory of Dubrovka victims

  In Moscow, in Chistye Prudy, near the monument to Griboedov, a meeting has started in memory of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre. The United Civil Front is the organizer of the action.

October 26, 2009 20:00

• Mikhalchenko: murdered Maksharip Aushev kept stating that his kidnapping was not investigated

  After the incident with a failed kidnapping of Maksharip Aushev by unidentified power agents at the entrance to Nazran, he was shadowed by special services. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website "Ingushetiyaru.org". According to her story, it was Aushev who had helped the film crew of the REN-TV to safely leave the republic, when they had problems with people of the former president of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov.

October 26, 2009 19:00

• Semenenko: wheelchair invalids have motion problems in Volgograd

  Volgograd is not fit for normal life of invalids. This statement was made by wheelchair invalid Oleg Semenenko in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 26, 2009 18:00

• Maksharip Aushev buried in Ingushetia

  As reported by oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, Maksharip Aushev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Org", was buried into his patrimonial cemetery in Surkhakhi village. According to his story, since morning, many people have gathered at the house of the victim.

October 24, 2009 22:00

• Explosion in the capital of Dagestan

  Today in Makhachkala, a mine or a bomb blew up when a militia bus was passing by; a militiaman was wounded.

October 24, 2009 21:00

• Editor who covered events in the Caucasus and was kidnapped in Moscow found in Tatarstan

  On October 23, Sergey Yezhov, editor of the website "Foreshorten", which covers the situation in Northern Caucasus, was kidnapped in Moscow. Today, Sergey sent a news item about himself from the city of Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan).

October 24, 2009 20:00

• Ingushetia: relative of special operation victims states that they were not militants

  Ibragim Khayauri, a brother of Rosa Khayauri, 48, who was killed during a special operation in Ordzonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, rejects the version of power agents that his murdered sister and her son Aslanbek Machukaev, 20, were militants and rendered armed resistance. He has stated it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 24, 2009 19:00

• Shein: Prosecutor's Office of Astrakhan "buries" the cases about journalists' beatings

  Oleg Shein, a Deputy of the Russian State Duma from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" and a former candidate to the post of Mayor of Astrakhan, is convinced that the Prosecutor's Office of Astrakhan tries to close the cases initiated after two journalists were beaten on the voting day.

October 24, 2009 17:00

• IPD: at bloggers' trial in Azerbaijan human rights are broken

  Experts of the Azerbaijani Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD) have analysed the course of the litigation on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries, and concluded that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is broken during the trial.