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April 10, 2013 13:00

• Azerbaijani soldier wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone

  Shikhveli Farkhad oglu Shikhsafiev, 19, a soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, was wounded as a result of a violation of the ceasefire regime in the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, reports the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

April 10, 2013 07:34

• Members of "execution list" leave Dagestani village of Khadjalmakhi, local reports

  Many Salafi Muslim who lived in the village of Khadjalmakhi, Levashin District of Dagestan, who found themselves in the so-called "execution list", have left the village, said a local resident.

April 10, 2013 04:00

• Georgia hosts protest against Islamization of Adzharia

  In Tbilisi, about 50 people came to hold their protest at the Turkish Embassy with the slogan "Stop Islamization of Adzharia!"

April 09, 2013 23:00

• Clashes in Yerevan of Ovannisyan's supporters with the police

  Today, supporters of Raffi Ovannisyan have held an action in Freedom Square named "Inauguration of New Armenia" as an alternative to the inauguration ceremony of Serzh Sargsyan, the official winner of the presidential election.

April 09, 2013 22:00

• Officer killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  Shakhriyar Bahramgulu oglu Mamedov, a lieutenant of the Azerbaijani Army, was killed on April 8 in the contact line of Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

April 09, 2013 21:00

• Yakub Mankiev killed in special operation in Ingushetia was not a militant, his uncle says

  Yakub Mankiev, who was killed in the special operation in the Ingush village of Dolakovo, was not a militant, says his uncle Magomed Darsigov. According to his story, Yakub Mankiev was the son of the former Minister of Agriculture of Ingushetia Bamat-Girey Mankiev.

April 09, 2013 20:00

• Ministry of Justice makes protocols on violation of registration of "Golos"

  Protocols about violations at registration were drawn up in relation to the Association "Golos" (Vote) and its executive director Lilia Shibanova. According to the Russian Ministry of Justice, the association acts as a foreign agent, but not registered in the appropriate registry. The "Golos" denies receipt of any foreign funds.

April 09, 2013 19:00

• In Azerbaijan, court leaves "Nida" activist Zaur Gurbanly behind bars

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court (BAC) has rejected a complaint lodged by Zaur Gurbanly, an activist of the civil movement "Nida", against his arrest for three months. His advocates find the court's decision unreasonable.

April 09, 2013 18:00

• Policeman, his wife and children wounded in blast in Dagestan

  The wife and two children of a policeman from Buinaksk, in whose car an improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered, were discharged from hospital after receiving medical care. The policeman himself is in grave condition, said the Dagestani MIA.

April 09, 2013 17:00

• Trial on flood in Krymsk grants petition to disqualify all judges

  Today, the Krymsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case of the flood in Krymsk in July 2012. The court granted the prosecution's motion for disqualification of all the judges of this court composition. Now, the Territorial Court will make a decision to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case.

April 09, 2013 16:00

• Action "Inauguration of New Armenia" ends with march in central Yerevan

  Today, Yerevan hosted – against the official inauguration of President Serzh Sargsyan – an oppositional rally named "Inauguration of New Armenia". In the course of the action, Raffi Ovannisyan, the runner-up in the presidential election, read out the "Oath to New Armenia"; then his supporters organized a spontaneous march.

April 09, 2013 14:00

• Eyewitness of Budanov's murder tells court how killer fled the scene

  Today, at the Moscow City Court, which is considering the murder case of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, the prosecutor questioned the eyewitness of a crime, which confirmed that the killer fled away from the scene in a Mitsubishi Lancer car.

April 09, 2013 13:00

• Workers engaged in burned-out building in "Grozny City" talk about lack of special equipment

  Four general contractors have begun repair works of the highest building in the complex "Grozny City", burned out on April 3 in the centre of the capital of Chechnya. A source from the organization named "Genstroy" reported about the shortage of special technical means for working at height; such means have been ordered in Turkey.

April 09, 2013 12:00

• Director of Krasnodar "Levados" Centre interrogated by FSB, says her mother

  On April 8, the Department of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) for the Krasnodar Territory questioned Elena Shablo, the director general of the non-profit public organization "Levados" Information Centre, said her mother Nina Shablo.

April 09, 2013 11:00

• Gusov: so far, investigators are unaware of other facts of selling babies at maternity hospital of Vladikavkaz

  Valentina Tedeyeva, the detained head of the maternity ward of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of North Ossetia, is so far accused of only one episode of selling a baby, said Eduard Gusov, Senior Assistant Head of the Investigatory Department.

April 08, 2013 23:00

• SC upholds guilty verdict on attempted terror act in Rostov-on-Don

  Today, the Judicial Panel for Criminal Cases of the Russia's Supreme Court has considered an appeal lodged by Dmitry Fedorushkin and Pavel Efremov, who had been convicted for an attempt to commit a terror act in Rostov-on-Don, and upheld the verdict.

April 08, 2013 22:00

• Case of 16 Jehovah's Witnesses from Taganrog has no crime attributes, the defence insists

  Sergey Vorobyov, Deputy Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation has confirmed the indictment on the criminal case against 16 members of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose community was liquidated in Taganrog by the court "for extremism." The defence of the believers declares the inconsistency of the charges.

April 08, 2013 21:00

• HRC "Memorial" challenges inspection of Moscow Prosecutor's Office

  Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed to the Zamoskvoretskiy District Court against the actions and decisions of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, which had conducted an unscheduled inspection at the office of the organization.

April 08, 2013 20:00

• Five persons killed in CTO in Ingushetia

  In the course of a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Ingush village of Dolakovo four militants were killed, namely: brothers Adam and Khalas Ozdoev, Ibragim Mestoev and Yakub Mankiev, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported. Djambulat Amirarslanov, the commander of a scout company of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was also killed.

April 08, 2013 19:00

• Baku: court refuses to release the leader of ReAl Mamedov on bail

  Today, Ilgar Mamedov, the chairman of the public movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), was left in custody by today's ruling of the court, which refused to release him on bail, Fuad Agaev, Mamedov's advocate, has reported.