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February 04, 2012 20:00

• About 150 persons attend the rally "For Fair Elections" in Astrakhan

  Today, Astrakhan hosted an oppositional rally "For Fair Elections", which was not sanctioned by city authorities. The action was attended by about 150 activists of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), "The Other Russia" and other political movements and parties.

February 04, 2012 19:00

• Missing residents of Dagestan found in Kizlyar ROVD

  Residents of the village of Khutrakh, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, brothers Omar and Gusein Magomedov, and Gazimagomed Akhmedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan, Kizlyar District, regarded as missing since February 3, have been found in the Kizlyar ROVD (District Interior Division).

February 04, 2012 18:00

• Rally "For Fair Elections" takes place in Krasnodar

  Krasnodar has hosted a rally "For Fair Elections"; it was coordinated with city authorities and attended by OSCE observers.

February 04, 2012 16:00

• Rally "For Fair Elections" held in Rostov-on-Don

  The city of Rostov-on-Don has hosted a rally "For Fair Elections", which brought together about a thousand people. Organizers report about two detainees.

February 04, 2012 15:00

• Gimry villagers beaten by power agents feel satisfactory, head of village says

  The health condition of the beaten residents of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, Magomed Baisultanov, Aslangerey Magomedov and Zainudin Zainudinov, is satisfactory, said the head of the village administration Aliaskhab Magomedov. As reported by one of the power agents' victims, he is not going to complain about their actions.

February 04, 2012 14:00

• Woman from Moscow detained in Chechnya on suspicion of preparing terror act

  As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya, the police have detained in Grozny a 20-year-old Muscovite, who, according to her story, had planned to get trained as a suicide bomber and subsequently commit a terror act in Moscow.

February 04, 2012 13:00

• Power agents continue searching militants on Chechen-Dagestani border

  The operation aimed at finding the grouping of militants, which was detected on February 2 near the Chechen-Dagestani administrative border, has brought no results yet. Power agents do not exclude that the blocked militants could get out of the cordon. The special operation continues.

February 04, 2012 12:00

• Chechnya celebrates Prophet Muhammad's birthday today

  Today, the whole territory of the Chechen Republic hosts celebrations of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, which began early in the morning.

February 03, 2012 23:00

• Bekmurzaev: accusations of residents of Russian enclave in Azerbaijan against authorities are groundless

  Complaints of residents of the Dagestani village of Khrakh-Uba, the Russian enclave in Azerbaijan, of the failure of the authorities to ensure the citizens' rights are groundless. This was declared by Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, Minister of National Policy, Religious Affairs and External Relations of the Republic of Dagestan.

February 03, 2012 22:50

• In Sochi, official dismissed for sending schedules for receiving absentee ballots

  In Sochi, Yuri Chesnokov, Chief of Division for Recreation and Tourism of the Khosta District, who signed the schedule for obtaining absentee ballots sent to the sanatorium-and-spa institutions, was dismissed for exceeding the power.

February 03, 2012 22:40

• 25 persons died from hypothermia in Volgograd Region

  With the onset of cold weather in the Volgograd Region, 25 persons died from hypothermia. This was reported by Natalya Kunitskaya, Senior Assistant of the Chief of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) of the Volgograd Region for Media Relations.

February 03, 2012 22:30

• Umarov orders militants in Caucasus to avoid attacks on civilian objects

  Dokku Umarov, the leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz", claimed changing the status of the civilian people of Russia, whom he earlier treated as his enemies for their non-resistance to the policy of the current authorities, and ordered his subordinates to avoid attacks on civilian targets.

February 03, 2012 22:00

• In Novorossiysk, court considers case of sailor's death after his beating by colleague

  The Military Court of Novorossiysk started consideration of the case against the soldier of the army unit in Novorossiysk, who is charged of the fact that in August 2011 he beat several colleagues, one of whom, a 21-year-old sailor, died.

February 03, 2012 21:30

• Stavropol hosts spontaneous rally against corruption

  This morning, about a hundred persons gathered near the city administration of Stavropol in protest against corruption among bureaucrats. Citizens began expressing their dissatisfaction after the head of the administration Igor Bestuzhij was detained on February 2 on suspicion of bribe-taking.

February 03, 2012 21:10

• Journalist of oppositional "Aikakan Zhamanak" arrested in Armenia

  The police have arrested Aik Gevorkyan, the economic observer of the oppositional "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time). His colleagues associate his arrest with Gevorkyan's journalism.

February 03, 2012 21:00

• Volgograd Region: businessmen and former policeman charged with illegal deprivation of freedom

  The criminal case initiated against Vasily Styazhkin, the director of the factory of wall materials, and Andrei Knippel, the former deputy commander of the separate battalion of patrol-and-road service (PRS) at the UVD (Interior Department) for Kamyshin and Kamyshin District, has been forwarded to the court.

February 03, 2012 20:00

• Defence: figurants in Nalchik attack case did not write appeals to participants of Moscow rallies

  The advocates of the defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 deny any involvement of their clients in the appeal to the participants of protest rallies in Moscow, written on behalf of the defendants.

February 03, 2012 20:00

• Gimry villager reports beating his neighbours by law enforcers

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed today by Shamil Magomedov, a resident of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, that in the course of operative-search actions law enforcers detained three local residents, who were later beaten.

February 03, 2012 19:00

• Residents of Dagestan report disappearance of three men

  This morning, under unknown circumstances, three men disappeared from the village of Shamkhal in Dagestan, as Shamil Magomedov, a villager, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

February 03, 2012 18:00

• In Astrakhan, court leaves lawsuit claiming to deprive Drobinskaya of custody over disabled children without consideration

  Today, the Trusov District Court of Astrakhan has held a session for considering the lawsuit lodged by the Centre of Social Support of Population on withdrawal of minors from the custody care of a resident of the city Vera Drobinskaya. According to the defendant's attorney Svetlana Tornitsoy, the claim was left by the court without consideration.