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March 29, 2012 19:00

• Mother of Judge Novikov from Sochi pickets building of Russian Government

  Today, starting from 1:00 p.m., Tamara Novikova, the mother of Dmitry Novikov, Sochi Judge, holds a single picket in front of the Russian Government in Moscow.

March 29, 2012 17:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh to elect its president of on July 19

  Today, the regular plenary session of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh determined the date of the next presidential election.

March 29, 2012 16:00

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria claims having been beaten by police

  Khadis Kodzokov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei of the Baksan Region of Kabardino-Balkaria, reported on his detention and beating at the police station of the Baksan District.

March 29, 2012 16:00

• The people protesting against construction in the territory of a children’s center in Sochi underwent an assault from unidentified persons

  Today the picketers on duty who were blocking the traffic of large-size techniques in the territory of a children’s center in Constitution street of Sochi round the clock underwent an assault from unidentified persons.

March 29, 2012 15:00

• In Armenia, Khachatur Sukiasyan challenges DEC's refusal to register him as candidate for deputy

  Lawyer of entrepreneur Khachatur Sukiasyan, the representative of the Armenian National Congress (NAC), appealed to the Administrative Court a complaint against the decision of the election commission of the district No. 10, which refused to register Khachatur Sukiasyan as a candidate for MP.

March 29, 2012 14:00

• Evgeny Ischenko, ex-Mayor of Volgograd, challenges verdict pronounced against him in 2007

  Evgeny Ischenko, ex-Mayor of Volgograd, decided to challenge the verdict of guilty pronounced against him in 2007 and intends to prove his innocence. His lawyer Alexei Rozhnov has already filed a supervisory appeal to the Presidium of the Volgograd Regional Court.

March 29, 2012 13:00

• Organizers of "Caucasian Games" plan to make them international

  The status of the "Caucasian Games" will be changed to make them international. This was announced by Yuri Oleinikov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), at the meeting of the organizing committee of the cultural and sports festival, which was held on March 29 in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

March 29, 2012 12:00

• Complaint filed by Prosecutor's Office about violation of custody rules at Rostov SIZO to be considered by court

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region has filed to the court a complaint demanding to eliminate overcrowding at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1.

March 29, 2012 11:00

• Today it is the second anniversary of the explosion in the Moscow metro

  Today Muscovites and guests of the city are bringing flowers to the scene of the acts of terror in the Moscow metro which happened two years ago.

March 29, 2012 07:00

• The number of Iranian tourists in Armenia decreased

  The tour operators explain decrease of the traditional stream of Iranian tourists coming to celebrate Novruz in Armenia by inflation in Iran, high prices in Armenia and rivalry of Georgia.

March 28, 2012 23:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia sets up commission for adaptation of militants to civilian life

  Rashid Temrezov, the leader of Karachay-Cherkessia, signed the decree to establish the Commission to assist in adapting to civilian life those persons, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities in the territory of the republic.

March 28, 2012 22:00

• Residents of Azerbaijan go on hunger strike to demand dismissal of head of Masalli District

  On March 27, in the Masalli District, located in the south of Azerbaijan, in 250 km from Baku, a group of local residents went on a hunger strike to express their dissatisfaction with the activity of the local administration.

March 28, 2012 21:00

• In Armenia, DEC refuses to register oppositional representative Khachatur Sukiasyan as candidate for deputy

  The District Election Commission (DEC) No. 10 refused to register Khachatur Sukiasyan, an entrepreneur, a representative of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), as a candidate for MP.

March 28, 2012 20:00

• BECN demands to dismiss Senator Vyacheslav Derev

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, public representatives of the Adyge-Khabl and the Khabez Municipal Districts and the Board of Elders of Circassian Nation (BECN) urged the authorities to terminate the powers of Vyacheslav Derev, the member of the Council of Federation. In case, if their demands are not satisfied, the representatives of the Circassian community intend to hold on March 30 a rally in the central square of the city of Cherkessk.

March 28, 2012 19:00

• Investigators in Novosibirsk ask relatives of disappeared native of Kabardino-Balkaria to contact them

  The investigatory agencies of the Novosibirsk Region do not deny the fact that Anzor Kunashev, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who disappeared in the Novosibirsk Region, had been detained by regional power agents, and they promised to provide information on the issue only to the family member of the detainee.

March 28, 2012 18:00

• Woman-resident of Azerbaijan commits suicide because of inaction in investigation into murder of her mother, her relatives assert

  This morning, in Azerbaijan, Tarana Gabibova, a resident of the town of Khachmaz, jumped from the fifth floor. According to her relatives, Tarana Gabibova committed suicide because of the fact that law enforcement agents did not investigate the murder of her mother Nadjima Babaeva, who was the owner of the major shopping centre "Arzu" in Khachmaz. The family members believe that the murder of Nadjima Babaeva was backed by the local authorities.

March 28, 2012 15:00

• Nalchik resident complains to human rights defenders of torture in SIZO

  Islam Kurmanov, a student from the city of Nalchik of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has appealed to human rights defenders with a complaint of torture and enforcement to testify about the crimes, which he had not committed.

March 28, 2012 10:00

• Upon a judgment of European Court of Human Rights, Moscow has to pay 220 thousand euros to residents of Chechnya

  On March, 27, the Court in Strasbourg brought judgments on the cases of ten-years standing concerning murders and kidnapping of residents of Chechnya and obliged Russia to pay compensations to a total sum of 220 thousand euros and 8500 euros legal costs.

March 28, 2012 09:00

• Two new medical centers put into operation in Dagestan

  On March, 27, opening of neurology and neurosurgery unit of Republican hospital No 2 and a new line of orthopedic and traumatology center equipped with techniques of the latest generation was held.

March 27, 2012 23:00

• In Astrakhan, two hunger-strikers feel worse

  Evgeniy Bukrimov and Igor Astafiev – participants of the termless political hunger strike in Astrakhan – have health problems: they were rendered medical aid.