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March 12, 2013 15:00

• In Baku, Avaz Zeinalov, editor-in-chief of "Khural", sentenced to nine years in prison

  Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has announced the conviction to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. Azerbaijani human rights activists have already called Zeinalov a political prisoner.

March 12, 2013 14:00

• Cossacks of Southern Russia and Urals urge federal and regional authorities to recognize them as nation

  More than two thousand Cossacks from the Don, Terek, Kuban and the Urals have signed a petition to the authorities to recognize them as a nation.

March 12, 2013 13:00

• Concert of Yuri Bashmet in Tbilisi was accompanied by protest

  During a charity concert of Yuri Bashmet in Tbilisi on March 11, several dozens of young people held a protest action, demanding the arrest the musician for his visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

March 12, 2013 12:00

• "Nida" activists arrested in Azerbaijan can be exposed to illegal methods of pressure, their leaders are concerned

  In Azerbaijan, parents of the arrested activists of the civil movement "Nida" (Shout) Bakhtiyar Guliev, Shakhin Novruzlu and Mamed Aziziov refused from the services of independent lawyers, suggested by the leaders of the movement. The leaders of the movement are concerned about possible pressure on the detainees and believe that the criminal case against them was fabricated.

March 11, 2013 23:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia: suspects of killing Shebzukhov challenge the verdict

  Three out of four figurants in the murder case of Fral Shebzukhov, an advisor of the former head of Karachay-Cherkessia, convicted by the Supreme Court of the republic to various terms of imprisonment, have appealed against their verdict.

March 11, 2013 22:00

• Inquiry into peoples' deaths during Krymsk flooding is over

  The investigation of a criminal case against four senior officials of the Krymsk District, accused of negligence that entailed deaths during the flood in July 2012, is over. The case has been sent to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment.

March 11, 2013 21:00

• Hunger strike in Zverevo suspended for negotiations with authorities

  Residents of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, who run a hunger strike in disagreement with the growth of utility rates, have stopped their protest action for the time of negotiations with regional authorities.

March 11, 2013 20:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia: fellow villagers of assassinated Renat Temrezov announce protest action

  After Renat Temrezov was shot dead by a policeman, the village of Chapaevskoe, Karachay-Cherkessia, hosted a protest action that was attended by about 400 people, the villagers report. After the funeral, a meeting took place of local residents with the district administration; and there no "spontaneous" sentiments in the village, according to Marat Botashev, the head of the rural settlement.

March 11, 2013 19:00

• Five protesters against non-combat losses in Azerbaijani Army arrested

  Five citizens of Azerbaijan have been subjected to administrative arrest, and 16 others were fined for taking part in a non-sanctioned protest against non-combat losses in the army. The rulings were passed today by the Sabail and Nasimi District Courts of Baku.

March 11, 2013 18:00

• Ex-presidential candidate Andreas Gukasyan lodges two petitions to Armenia's CC

  Today, at the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia, which hears the case on non-recognition of the results of the presidential election, a former candidate Andreas Gukasyan has demanded to remove the representatives of the incumbent president and to involve the president himself in the process.

March 11, 2013 17:00

• Soldier killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  As reported by the MoD of Azerbaijan, Ali Abilov, its soldier was killed in the Karabakh conflict zone.

March 11, 2013 16:28

• Ex-presidential candidate Ovannisyan urges young people to stop hunger strike

  Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate of Armenia and the leader of the oppositional "Heritage" Party, who holds a hunger strike in Freedom Square in Yerevan to protest against the rigged election, called the young people who had joined him to stop their action.

March 11, 2013 15:00

• Policemen search for folk healer's killer in Dagestan

  The folk healer, who was killed on March 10 in Dagestan, was an invalid, engaged in making amulets. A special operative plan was introduced in the republic with the aim to find the offender.

March 11, 2013 14:00

• In Chechnya, artillery wounds two locals

  On March 10, in the south-west of Chechnya, in the foothill Achkhoi-Martan District, the shelling by militaries of the forest, two local residents, who were gathering wild leek, were wounded. They are now in grave condition.

March 11, 2013 13:00

• Nida activists arrested in Azerbaijan

  A Baku court has arrested three activists of the Nida, who are accused of inciting violence and civil disobedience, possession of narcotics and explosives.

March 11, 2013 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 4-10

  Murders of a federal judge, a teacher and a teacher and folk healer in Dagestan; announcement by the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation of essential overrating of Olympic objects in Sochi; permit to 40 Georgian producers of mineral water, wine and cognac to enter the Russian market; granting political asylum in Finland to Polina Zherebtsova, author of the book about war in Chechnya; presentation of the study "What people think about Stalin in Russia and Transcaucasia", dated to 60years after deathof Joseph Stalin, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 4-10, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 09, 2013 23:00

• Teacher killed in Dagestan

  The school teacher of the Russian language in the village of Kurakh, Dagestan, was found dead in her house.

March 09, 2013 22:15

• Kudepsta residents block KAMAZ trucks at supposed HPP construction site

  The entrance to the territory of the intended construction site of the Kudepsta Heat and Power Plant (HPP) of three KAMAZ trucks with building materials has caused massive protests of local residents who demand to stop any attempt to start building the hazadrous, in their opinion, object.

March 09, 2013 22:00

• Victim of flooding in Derbent claims he cannot get compensation for mistake of local authorities

  Kakhriman Shikhgasanov, who suffered from the flooding in Derbent, states that because of negligence of local officials he cannot get his due compensation.

March 09, 2013 21:00

• Judge killed in Dagestan

  According to the spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the republic, the basic version of the murder of a judge, committed in the evening on March 9 in Dagestan, has to do with his service activities.