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May 01, 2013 22:20

• Relatives of convicted natives of Northern Caucasus report about hunger strike at IK-7 in Mordovia

  At the Penal Colony No. 7 (known as IK-7) of the Department for the Republic of Mordovia of the Russian Federal Correction Service (FSIN), a group of prisoners, most of them being natives from Northern Caucasus, went on a hunger strike to protest against their custody conditions, as well as they way they are treated by the colony personnel, relatives of the prisoners report. So far, there was no official confirmation of the protest action from the prison administration.

May 01, 2013 22:10

• HRW: situation surrounding construction of TPP in Kudepsta demands intervention of IOC and Russian authorities

  The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern about the escalation of the conflict between residents of the settlement of Kudepsta and developers of the Olympic site - a thermal power plant (TPP). Russian authorities and the organizers of the Olympic Games should take steps to resolve the conflict and prevent acts of aggression applied by employees of private security agencies (known as ChOPs) to local residents, says the statement released by the HRW.

May 01, 2013 22:00

• Georgia: policeman clash with participants of May Day action, detaining some of them

  The Tbilisi police have prevented the May Day student action. As a result of a clash with law enforcers, a number of protesters were detained, said the eyewitness of the events Mariam Gachechiladze.

May 01, 2013 21:00

• Boston police state detention of three more suspects in terror act case

  The US law enforcers have detained three more suspects of involvement in the terror act in Boston, Boston police has reported today by posting the information in their microblog on the Twitter.

May 01, 2013 19:00

• Azerbaijan: leader of "ReAl" charged with organizing mass disorders

  Today, investigators have accused Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), arrested in connection with the events in the city of Ismailly, of organizing mass disturbances, accompanied by violence and pogroms.

May 01, 2013 18:00

• HRC "Memorial" will appeal against the demand of the MPO to get registered as foreign agent

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has received from the Moscow Prosecutor's Office (MPO) a presentation saying that the HRC is acting as a foreign agent without being registered as such at the authorized body and demanding to eliminate - within a month - the violation of federal law. The leaders of the HRC "Memorial" believe that conclusions of the MPO are wrong and plan to appeal against them.

May 01, 2013 17:00

• Explosion in Makhachkala kills two pupils of City Lyceum No. 5

  As reported today by a source from the Investigatory Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the casualties of the today's explosion in Makhachkala were identified as pupils of Lyceum No. 5.

April 30, 2013 22:40

• In Dagestan, 17 participants of Muslim wedding party sentenced to different administrative penalties

  17 participants of the incident at the Islamic wedding party in Kizlyar were sentenced to different terms of administrative penalties, and the detention in custody of five of them at the IVS (temporary detention facility) was extended for another two days.

April 30, 2013 22:30

• Georgian law enforcers claim having no information about Magomed Magomedov, missing native of Dagestan

  In Georgia, representatives of the Chief Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) state that they do not have any information on the whereabouts of Magomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who disappeared in Tbilisi. It is known that Magomed Magomedov himself was sentenced in Georgia to two years of imprisonment for illegal crossing of the border; however, in January 2013, he was amnestied, and he asked the Georgian authorities for a political asylum.

April 30, 2013 22:20

• In Chechnya, contract soldier, who shot and killed officer, sentenced

  Alexander Goryainov, a soldier of a unit of the internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of killing his colleague, was sentenced by the Military Court in Chechnya to eight years of imprisonment. The crime was committed in November 2012.

April 30, 2013 22:10

• In Dagestan, court fines user of "Odnoklassniki" for advocating extremism

  Djambulat Magomedduganov, a resident of the village of Stalskoe of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was found guilty of advocating extremism and inciting hatred and enmity on the Internet, was fined by the court 150,000 roubles.

April 30, 2013 22:00

• In Baku, action in memory of victims of massacre in Oil Academy stopped by police

  Today, the Baku police prevented the action in memory of victims of the massacre at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) in 2009.

April 30, 2013 21:00

• At trial on case of attack on Nalchik, defendants face lawsuit for more than 22 million roubles

  Today, at the trial on the case of the attack on the law enforcers of Kabardino-Balkaria that occurred on October 13, 2005, the aggrieved party filed a joint civil lawsuit against the defendants for a total amount of more than 22 million roubles.

April 30, 2013 20:00

• Orts Almurziev, disappeared resident of Ingushetia, detained in Kazakhstan

  Law enforcement agents of Kazakhstan detained Orts Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, whose disappearance in October 2012 was reported by his relatives. This was stated on April 29 by Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Republic's Security Council.

April 30, 2013 19:00

• Residents of South Ossetia, sentenced in Georgia, visited by their relatives

  Today, with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), residents of South Ossetia, serving their sentences in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Tbilisi, were visited by their relatives. This was reported by Irakly Kordzaya, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia.

April 30, 2013 18:00

• Musa Kadyrov, referee from Chechnya, fined by 500,000 roubles

  Musa Kadyrov, a football referee, who was suspended for lifetime from refereeing after his fight with a football player, was fined 500,000 roubles by the decision of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU). For participating in the incident, Ilya Krichmar, a football player of the "Amkar" FC, was disqualified for four matches of youth championship and fined 15,000 roubles.

April 30, 2013 17:00

• MIA: more than 31 million roubles embezzled in repair of M-6 "Kaspiy"

  Staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) revealed the embezzlement of more than 31 million roubles allocated from the federal budget for the repair and maintenance of the highway M-6 "Kaspiy" Moscow-Astrakhan, the Russian MIA reports.

April 30, 2013 16:00

• In Moscow, at trial on case of Yuri Budanov's murder, prosecutor asks to sentence defendant to 16 years of imprisonment

  Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the court to sentence Yusup Temerkhanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of the murder of ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov, to 16 years of imprisonment to be served in a penal colony of high security, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

April 29, 2013 22:50

• Relatives of Magomedkhabib Magomedaliev killed in Makhachkala outskirts complain his body not given out

  Relatives of Magomedkhabib Magomedaliev, who was killed during the special operation, held on March 20 in the village of Semender in Makhachkala outskirts, report that the body has not been given them out for burial.

April 29, 2013 22:40

• Defendant in case on fight at SC "Evropeisky" sentenced to eight years of imprisonment

  The Moscow City Court sentenced Bekhkan Rizvanov accused of attempted murder during the fight at the Shopping Centre (SC) "Evropeysky" (European) in Moscow, to eight years of imprisonment in a penal colony of high security.