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March 21, 2013 21:00

• Dagestani resident complains about threats from relatives of suspects of raping his daughter

  In Dagestan, Magomednabi Nazhmutdinov, a resident of Karabudakhkent, complains about threats received by him from relatives of the suspects who figure in the case on sexual abuse of his daughter.

March 21, 2013 20:00

• Acting City Manager of Volgograd fined for bad roads

  By results of the prosecutor's inspection, Vladimir Sobakar, the acting head of the administration of Volgograd, was fined by the State Road Inspectorate by 2000 roubles for the unsatisfactory state of road paving in the city.

March 21, 2013 19:00

• Georgian border guards detain vessel with fish products from Abkhazia

  The Turkish ship named "Aydar" with fish products was detained, on its way from Abkhazia, by Georgian border guards in the neutral area of the Black Sea.

March 21, 2013 18:00

• AI treats four "Nida" activists arrested in Azerbaijan as "prisoners of conscience"

  The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the four young public activists of the "Nida" arrested in March. The young people are being persecuted for exercising their freedom of expression and assembly, the AI believes.

March 21, 2013 17:00

• Soldier killed in conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Volodya Avakyan, a regular serviceman, has died of the wound received in the conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

March 21, 2013 15:00

• Office of the "Memorial" in Moscow is inspected by prosecutors

  A prosecutor's check is currently on in the office of the International Historical-Enlightenment, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society "Memorial".

March 21, 2013 14:00

• Court extends custody of 53 defendants in Nalchik attack case

  Today, at the trial conducted by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of the attack on Nalchik, the court has announced the decision on extending the detention of 53 defendants.

March 21, 2013 13:00

• Khloponin finds the problem of waste disposal in NCFD critical

  Over the past seven months, specialists have detected in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) more than 530 illegal dumps with a total area of over 300 hectares. The information was announced at the sitting of the Council on Local Self-Government in the NCFD, held in Nalchik on March 19. Alexander Khloponin, the presidential envoy for the NCFD, has treated the situation as critical.

March 21, 2013 12:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: imam of village mosque arrested on suspicion of financing militants

  The investigatory authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria suspect the imam of the mosque of the village of Svetlovodskoe, Zolsky District, of funding members of the armed underground, the local department of the ICRF has reported today.

March 21, 2013 11:00

• Special operation is on in Semender, Dagestan

  In the course of a special operation conducted near Makhachkala, one power agent was killed and two others wounded, law enforcers of the Republic of Dagestan have confirmed. Prior to the armed clash, five women and one child went out of the house that was then stormed.

March 20, 2013 23:00

• Local resident: power agents conduct mass searches in Tsumadin District of Dagestan

  Gadji Magomedov, a resident of the village of Kvanada, has reported that today the village was blocked by power agents, who conducted mass searches.

March 20, 2013 22:00

• Ingushetia opens ski slopes at "Armkhi" resort

  The opening ceremony of the first ski slope in Ingushetia, which is a part of the resort "Armkhi" in the Djeirakh District of the republic, took place today.

March 20, 2013 21:00

• At the trial on attack on Nalchik prosecution asks to leave 53 defendants in custody

  At the trial at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of an armed attack on Nalchik in October 2005, the court has asked for another extension of detention of 53 defendants. As stated by advocates in the course of the session, on March 19, two defendants went on hunger strike.

March 20, 2013 20:00

• A trial on Budanov's murder defence asks to remove a number of proofs against the defendant

  Today, the advocates of Yusuf Temerkhanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of killing the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, moved a motion to exclude a number of proofs from the case files, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

March 20, 2013 19:00

• "Terek" fined by 200,000 roubles for the incident during match with "Rubin"

  The "Terek" FC from Grozny has been fined by 200,000 roubles and will hold one match on the neutral pitch, because of the incident in its match against "Rubin", said Arthur Grigoryants, the chairman of the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union.

March 20, 2013 18:00

• Azerbaijan hands over two persons detained while crossing the border to Armenia

  The handover ceremony of the two Armenian citizens detained in Azerbaijan after crossing the border, took place today under the mediation of representatives of the Yerevan and Baku offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

March 20, 2013 17:00

• In Georgia, opposition demands preferential voting on amendments to Constitution

  The "United National Movement" has demanded to hold a preferential voting in order to identify the actual distribution of political forces. The members of the "Georgian Dream" were against the initiative.

March 20, 2013 16:00

• Azerbaijan released former defence minister Ragim Gaziev

  Ragim Gaziev, the ex-Minister of Defence of Azerbaijan, detained in the evening on March 19, was released tonight without charging. He did not rule out that his detention had to do with his open letter criticizing the head of the state.

March 20, 2013 15:00

• Case on human deaths at flood in Krymsk sent to court

  The indictment against four senior officials of the Krymsk District has been approved; and the case has been sent to the court. They are accused of negligence that resulted in human deaths during the flood in July 2012.

March 20, 2013 14:00

• Aslan Cherkesov transferred to another colony for order violation, says GUFSIN

  Aslan Cherkesov, convicted of murdering Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC, in a scuffle in Kronstadt Boulevard in Moscow, has been transferred to another colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for systematic violations of the regime, said the spokesman of the Chief Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service (GUFSIN) of the territory.