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April 29, 2013 22:40

• Power agents killed in explosion in Chechnya were detached by contract

  In Chechnya, investigation into the deaths of two soldiers of the Russian military unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence, who on April 28 blew up an unidentified explosive device in the south of the Republic. Both victims were contract soldiers who had come to serve in Chechnya from other regions of Russia, the Commandant's Office reports.

April 29, 2013 22:30

• Musa Kadyrov, football referee from Chechnya, gets lifetime ban for refereeing

  Today, the Disciplinary Commission of the Referees' Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) decided to suspend for life Musa Kadyrov, a line referee from Chechnya who beat a football player.

April 29, 2013 22:20

• In Astrakhan, fire occurred in house of evicted Porfiriev family

  Last night, a fire occurred in the of Porfiriev family's house in dispute located in Amurskaya Street in Astrakhan. According to the opinion of Regina Porfirieva, the wife of the family head, the fire was caused by arson. Investigators are working in place, and the version of arson is not excluded, in turn, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Astrakhan Region reports.

April 29, 2013 22:10

• Centre "E": Tamerlan Tsarnaev connected with Makhmud Nidal and William Plotnikov, members of underground

  Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspected initiator of the terror act in Boston, came to the attention of Russian power agencies in early 2011 in connection with the detention in Dagestan of Canadian citizen William Plotnikov, and in 2012, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev was seen together with Makhmud Nidal, an alleged agent of the armed underground. This was stated by a source at the Dagestan's Centre for Combating Extremism.

April 29, 2013 22:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 22-28

  Events dedicated to the Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923 and the Day of Circassian Flag; transition to final phase of trials on Budanov's murder in Moscow and bribes in GIBDD in Volgograd; adoption in the first reading of the bill on electing the head of Ingushetia by parliamentary vote - see the review of major events in the Caucasus during the week of April 22-28, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 29, 2013 22:00

• Azerbaijani Press Council calls on MIA's leaders to investigate attack on staff members of newspaper "Azadlyg"

  Today, staff members of the newspaper "Azadlyg" and members of the Azerbaijani Press Council have sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) the appeal calling to investigate the incident which occurred with journalists of the opposition newspaper on April 27.

April 29, 2013 21:00

• In Krasnodar, Court dismisses appeal against Mikhail Savva's arrest

  Today, the Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed an appeal against the arrest of Mikhail Savva, Director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre (SRRC).

April 29, 2013 20:00

• In Germany, doctors find excessive arsenic in Akhmed Bilalov's blood

  The examination of Akhmed Bilalov has revealed high content of arsenic and molybdenum in his body. This was reported by a representative of the Professor Wolfgang Kelling's Clinic.

April 29, 2013 19:00

• Yuri Budanov's relatives ask jury to find Yusup Temerkhanov guilty

  Today, relatives of Yuri Budanov supported the position of prosecutors and asked the jury to find Yusup Temerkhanov guilty of killing the ex-Colonel.

April 29, 2013 18:00

• Participant of Islamic wedding party in Kizlyar reports one of detainees was badly beaten and needs medical care

  Today, Rasim Ibadanov, a participant of the Kizlyar wedding party with Islamic flags, was delivered to the OVD (Interior Division) connection with his interview, a video record of which was earlier posted on the "YouTube". At least, one of the participants of the Kizlyar wedding party has been severely beaten and in need of medical care, a local resident reports.

April 27, 2013 23:00

• Chechen power agents not reinforce posts near Ingush border

  A source from law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic said that they would not strengthen their checkpoint near the administrative border with Ingushetia and regard the actions of their Ingush counterparts who had announced construction of the block-post near the village of Arshty as provocative.

April 27, 2013 22:00

• Doctors establish poisoning with mercury of ex-head of "RNC" Akhmed Bilalov

  German doctors have found mercury in the blood of Akhmed Bilalov, the level of which is several times higher than normal. Akhmed Bilalov himself has confirmed the fact of his poisoning with mercury.

April 27, 2013 21:00

• Rally in Krasnodar collects signatures to petition to Putin in support of Mikhail Savva

  In Krasnodar, at a rally in support of Mikhail Savva, the director of grant programmes at the "Southern Regional Resource Centre", about a hundred signatures were collected to the petition demanding to stop prosecuting the arrested human rights activist, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

April 27, 2013 20:00

• Eyewitnesses state that wedding participants in Dagestan were beaten; power agents assert that they stopped extremists' action

  Ten beaten participants of the wedding party have been brought to the OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Kizlyar, Magomed Kartashov, a member of the NGO "Union of the Just", among them, said an eyewitness of the incident. In its turn, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) states detention of the members of the extremist organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir".

April 27, 2013 19:00

• CEC of Georgia: violations fixed at midterm parliamentary elections

  As reported by Eka Azarashvili, the press speaker of the Central Election Commission (CEC), during the election of an MP in the Bagdati Constituency violations were recorded; they were confirmed also by activists of the "United National Movement".

April 27, 2013 18:00

• SC of Adygea removes complaint of Mukharbi Tkharkakhov from consideration

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Adygea has withdrawn from consideration the complaint lodged by Mukharbi Tkharkakhov, a co-chair of the movement "For Future of Adygea", against the decision of the Maikop City Court, which failed to satisfy his complaint against the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) of Maikop, the Office of the SC reported on April 26.

April 27, 2013 17:00

• Thousand come to protest against bad roads in Volzhsky

  Today, the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region has held a protest rally "We are against bad roads", where signatures were collected to petitions to Governor Bozhenov and President Putin.

April 27, 2013 16:00

• Mother of resident of South Ossetia convicted in Georgia stops hunger strike

  In Tskhinvali, after six days of hunger strike, Lyudmila Usovich, the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia. The mother went on her hunger strike in solidarity with her son and other prisoners who did the same at the jail.

April 27, 2013 15:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: "shahid belt" found in the house of woman from Chegem

  Employees of the centre to combat extremism of the MIA of Kabardino-Balkaria, acting in cooperation with local FSB agents, found a "shahid belt" in the house of a woman in the city Chegem, the MIA has reported.

April 27, 2013 14:00

• Mass detentions undertaken in mosque "Darul Arqam"

  On April 26, mass detentions of believers took place in the Moscow Muslim community "Darul Arqam". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a community member that the Imams of the mosque preached the ideology of moderate Islam and called for interethnic accord.