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April 20, 2013 18:00

• Araik Petrosyan, suspected of killing the head of Proshyan, left in custody

  The Court of Appeal has dismissed the complaint of the defence Araik Petrosyan, a suspect of killing the head of the village of Proshyan, and left him under arrest. The court hearing took place against the backdrop of a protest action of local residents.

April 20, 2013 17:00

• Supreme Court of Chechnya upholds verdict of woman who tried to sell baby

  In Chechnya, the verdict has been upheld against Aksana Dashkaeva, a 42-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was sentenced earlier by one of the Grozny District Courts to ten years of imprisonment in a general security colony for kidnapping and attempted sale of an eight-month baby.

April 20, 2013 16:31

• Relatives of Tsarnaev brothers deny their commitment to radical Islam

  The brothers Johar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of organizing a terror act in Boston on April 15 that killed three people, were not the adherents of radical Islam, said their mother Zubeydat Tsarnaeva, and their uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev and their aunt Maret Tsarnaeva.

April 20, 2013 16:00

• Azerbaijan: 19 life-long convicts go on hunger strike

  On April 18, in Azerbaijan, a group of inmates who are serving their life sentences in the Gobustan Prison went on a hunger strike, demanding to reconsider their cases.

April 20, 2013 15:00

• Local resident Yusup Adjiev shot dead in Khasavyurt

  In Dagestan, on April 19, after the Friday prayer, Yusup Adjiev, a resident of Khasavyurt and one of public leaders of the Kumyk nation, was shot dead.

April 20, 2013 07:00

• Mother of resident of South Ossetia, convicted in Georgia, goes on hunger strike

  In Tskhinvali, Lyudmila Usovich, a local resident, went on a hunger strike. She is the mother of Georgy Zasseev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who is serving his life sentence in Gldani Prison No. 8 in Georgia.

April 20, 2013 05:00

• Armenia: preliminary investigation into attempt on Paruir Airikyan is over

  The Investigatory Department of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has completed a preliminary criminal investigation into the attempt on former presidential candidate Paruir Airikyan.

April 19, 2013 23:00

• TCA dismisses lawsuit against the Mayoralty, demanding to adapt public transport for invalids

  On April 18, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal (TCA) considered the complaint against the court's decision on the claim of Category II invalid Koba Nadiradze, demanding to adapt public transport in the capital of Georgia for disabled people. As reported by Nikoloz Legashvili, who was Nadiradze's advocate, the court dismissed the appeal.

April 19, 2013 22:00

• Georgian policemen detained for abuse of power

  The head of the military police department in Senaki and two military policemen, dismissed from service for misconduct, were detained on April 18 by the prosecutor's office of Adzharia; one more employee was put on the wanted list.

April 19, 2013 21:00

• Defendants in Politkovskaya's murder case insist on trial by jury

  The defence of the suspects accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya insists on a jury trial, hoping for "a fair consideration of the case," said Alexei Mikhalchik, an advocate of one of the defendants.

April 19, 2013 20:00

• New criminal case opened against four KBR officials

  The police have found new facts of illegal activities of a number of former officials of the administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), suspected of illegal alienation of national assets.

April 19, 2013 19:00

• Special operation in Arshty was disrupted by Ingush party, Chechen power agents assert

  On April 18, in Ingushetia, search of Dokku Umarov was continued, but because of the actions of the Ingush party the secret special operation to capture him was disrupted, said a high-ranking law enforcement official of Chechnya.

April 19, 2013 18:00

• US police detain sister of Tsarnaev brothers

  Today, in the state of New Jersey, the police detained a sister of the Chechens, suspected of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the US media report referring the FBI.

April 19, 2013 17:00

• Suspect of killing journalist Akhmedilov detained in Stavropol

  The second suspect of killing Malik Akhmedilov, an employee of the Dagestani newspaper "Hakikat", was detained in Stavropol on April 18, according to the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). According to investigators, two residents of Dagestan are suspected of killing the journalist.

April 18, 2013 23:50

• Mamedov's advocates reject expert conclusion of Ministry of Justice

  On April 17, in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at the trial of Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", the court listened to the experts, authors of the linguistic examination of the texts written by Mamedov, and of the forensic and technical examination of the carriers used to record the texts. The defence disagreed with the experts and demanded to exclude their opinions from the case files.

April 18, 2013 23:30

• In Baku, court refused to change Akhundov's custody for home arrest

  On April 17, the Nasimi District Court of Baku under the chairmanship of Judge Elnur Akhmedov considered the appeal lodged by Rashadat Akhundov, a board member of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout), asking to change his custody for home arrest. The court rejected the motion and left him behind bars.

April 18, 2013 23:10

• Georgian MPs accuse Saakashvili of misuse of budget funds

  On April 17, the MPs from the "Georgian Dream" accused President Mikhail Saakashvili of spending much money from the secret budget of the Special State Security Service on entertainments, personal whims, as well as gifts. Saakashvili, in his turn, has noted that the financial expenses were aimed at improving the image of Georgia and attraction of investments.

April 18, 2013 23:00

• Caucasus leads in contest of Russian sights

  The castle complex Vovnushki in the Djeirakh District of Ingushetia and the mosque named after Akhmad Kadyrov "Heart of Chechnya" in Grozny are the leaders in the multimedia contest-project "Russia-10", designed to select the most popular attractions of the country. Besides, participants of the contest are actively voting for two other attractions in the Southern Russia - the temple "Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni" in Elista and the Mamaev Kurgan with the sculpture "Motherland Calls" in Volgograd.

April 18, 2013 22:20

• Experts: Esquire's "Rating of Extremism" shows weakness of Caucasian law enforcers and not real situation

  The "Esquire" magazine has published a list of Russian regions ranked by the number of extremist materials, included in the federal list of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation by decisions of the local courts. In this rating, Caucasus does not look the most extremist part of Russia. Experts believe that the rating does not reflect the real state of things and sooner indicates the problems in the work of law enforcement bodies than the level of prevalence of extremist moods and publications.

April 18, 2013 22:10

• Politkovskaya's murder case on five defendants sent to GPO

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has sent the criminal case against five defendants accused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) for confirmation of the indictment and transfer to the court.