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October 09, 2012 22:40

• In Azerbaijan, 22 persons, accused of collaboration with Iranian secret service "Sepah", sentenced to 3-13 years of imprisonment

  Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Alovsat Abbasov, closed the trial on the case against 22 citizens of Azerbaijan, accused of high treason and other crimes. Half of the defendants are residents of the village of Nardaran, located 25 km north of Baku and well-known by strong religious traditions.

October 09, 2012 22:20

• Website of Kabardino-Balkarian HRC suffers from hacking attack

  Today, the "zapravakbr.ru", the website of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre (HRC), suffered from hacking attack. This was reported by Zaur Shokuev, the deputy head of the HRC.

October 09, 2012 22:10

• Ex-combat engineer convicted for negligent examination of hippodrome in Nalchik on May 1, 2010

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, Andrei Prokopov, ex-Senior Combat Engineer of the Engineering and Technical Department of the Special Police Squad of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was found guilty of negligence when examining the hippodrome in Nalchik and sentenced to 2.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

October 09, 2012 22:00

• Moscow: investigators bring case on Yuri Budanov's murder to Prosecutor's Office

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) brought the case on the Yuri Budanov's murder to the Prosecutor's Office for approval of indictment. This was reported today by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the ICRF.

October 09, 2012 21:00

• In Rostov Region, person, suspected of destructing graves, detained

  In the Rostov Region, staff members of the Inter-District Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "Krasnosulinskiy" detained a man, suspected of vandalizing graves at the cemetery in the village of Vladimirovskaya.

October 09, 2012 20:00

• No less than 14 persons killed in an c in Northern Caucasus during the week from October, 1, till October, 7

  At least 22 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus last week, October, 1, till October, 7, 2012. 14 out of them perished and eight got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.

October 09, 2012 19:00

• A resident of Dagestan reports her daughter's disappearance

  Yesterday, October, 8, a resident of Rutul district appealed to the police of Dagestan reporting her daughter's obscure disappearance.

October 09, 2012 18:00

• Picketers in Dagestan unblocked the roadway after a representative of the Ministry of Interior Affairs promised to find the missing Shamil Saipulaev

  Residents of the settlement of Tsatanikh, Untsuklul district of Dagestan, unblocked the roadway at the entrance of the settlement of Gimry after Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic Magomed Ismailov promised to find Head of the settlement Shamil Saipulaev who disappeared on October, 6.

October 08, 2012 23:00

• Vladimir Putin's portrait fixed at one of mountain peaks of North Ossetia, bloggers express their indignation

  A group of climbers from North Ossetia, who have accomplished an ascent to one of unnamed peaks of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, fixed there a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kazbek Khamitsaev, Chairman of the Republic's Climbing Federation, announced the intention to submit an application for naming the mountain peak as "Putin Peak". However, the proposal sparked strong criticism of bloggers in North Ossetia.

October 08, 2012 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 1-7

  Parliamentary elections in Georgia, won by Ivanishvili's oppositional bloc; opening in Dagestan of Gimry Tunnel after years of reconstruction; killing of ex-judge and suicide of the kidnapper of the girl in Rostov-on-Don; pickets of Ingushetia residents in Moscow; clashes of protesting believers with police and opposition's demand to disband the parliament in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 1-7, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 08, 2012 22:40

• In Dagestan, Director of HBC "Daman", suspected of deceiving real estate investors, put on wanted list

  In Dagestan, Murat Guliev, the head of the housing building cooperative (HBC) "Daman", is suspected of fraud and document forgery. According to investigators, Murat Guliev raised from real estate investors more than seven million roubles for the construction of an apartment building and disappeared.

October 08, 2012 22:30

• Power agents demand to stop protest action on highway in Untsukul District of Dagestan

  In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, military men demanded that picketers from the village of Tsatanikh should unblock the highway. This was reported by the participants of the protest actions, whose number had been increased.

October 08, 2012 22:20

• A policeman in the town of Volzhsky knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the accident

  Investigators are carrying out inquiry on the circumstances of a road accident in the town of Volzhsky with the participation of a district police officer who knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the crime, Natalia Kunitskaya, representative of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry in Volgograd region, reported.

October 08, 2012 22:10

• The European Court of Human Rights obliged Armenia to pay an oppositional activist a compensation of 31 thousand euros

  According to a verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Armenia must pay a compensation of 31 thousand euros to oppositional activist Grigor Virabyan for torture he underwent from the police and violation of his right of fair trial.

October 08, 2012 22:10

• Victims in Anna Politkovskaya's case demand to cancel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov's agreement with investigators

  Today, the victims in the case on the journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder her children Ilya Politkovsky and Vera Politkovskaya filed a motion to cancel the agreement with investigators, concluded by Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-Chief of the Secret Department of the Chief Department of the Internal Affairs of Moscow.

October 08, 2012 22:00

• A missing policeman found killed in Dagestan

  The body of a policeman who disappeared in the evening of October, 7, was found in the suburbs of Buinaksk today, a representative on Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Dagestan reported.

October 08, 2012 22:00

• Sergey Sokolov: investigators have enough information to reveal real customers of Anna Politkovskaya's murder

  On October 7, a picket took place in the Novopushkinsky Park of Moscow in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who shot dead in 2006 at entrance to her house. The picket was attended by about 100 persons. Since no loudspeakers are allowed at pickets, the protesters mainly spoke to each other.

October 08, 2012 20:00

• Two residents of Stavropol region perished as a result of a grenade explosion

  Two persons perished as a result of a grenade explosion in the settlement of Kochubeeskoye, Stavropol region, a source in regional law enforcement bodies reported.

October 08, 2012 19:00

• A resident of Dagestan reports his daughter's disappearance

  A resident of Akushinski district of Dagestan appealed to the police reporting his daughter's obscure disappearance.

October 08, 2012 18:00

• Law enforcement bodies are investigating an incident with firing and human toll in a market of Krasnodar

  Yesterday, October, 7, a conflict occurred in a merchandise market of Krasnodar as a result of which firearms were used. One person was killed and two more got wounded.