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October 14, 2011 22:40

• Defendant, accused of murdering anti-fascist Dzhaparidze, left in custody until December

  The Kuzminki District Court of Moscow extended to December the detention period of the defendant Yuri Tikhomirov, accused of murdering the anti-fascist Ilya Dzhaparidze.

October 14, 2011 22:30

• Relatives of Yakhyaev, kidnapped in Dagestan, organize picket in central Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, relatives of Rustam Yakhyaev, who was taken away to some unknown destination by armed people, are going for the picket in the central square of the capital of Dagestan. According to the relatives of the kidnapped, Yakhyaev is kept in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and he is accused of murder of Murtazaliev, Deputy Chief of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 14, 2011 22:20

• Militaries from "Vostok" battalion ask Medvedev to intervene in situation in South Ossetia

  More than one hundred military men from the battalion "Vostok" (East) appealed with an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Russian Federation. They ask the leader of the state to intervene in situation in South Ossetia.

October 14, 2011 22:10

• Parents of soldiers, perished in Armenian army, hold protest action near presidential residence

  Today, the protest action against crimes in the Armenian army was held near the residence of Armenian President. Vardan Gukasyan, the representative of the Ministry of Defence of the country, advised the protesters to go to the military police; however, parents of dead soldiers refused and claimed Serzh Sargsyan.

October 14, 2011 22:00

• MIA: in Dagestan, lawyer and investigator detained for bribery

  The agents of the FSB Department of Dagestan detained a lawyer and an investigator into especially important cases of the investigatory department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic for taking a bribe amounting to 1 million roubles. This was reported by the press service of the Dagestani MIA.

October 14, 2011 21:00

• Policeman from Buryatia perished in Chechnya due to careless handling of weapons

  Investigatory authorities believe that a member of the Department of Internal Affairs of Buryatia, who was found with a gunshot wound on the north of Chechnya, perished as a result of careless handling of weapons.

October 14, 2011 20:00

• Soldier perished in accident in Armenia

  On October 13, Aram Melkonyan, a 21-year-old regular soldier, perished in Armenia as a result of an accident.

October 14, 2011 19:00

• In Moscow, picket in defence of Chechen resident Zubair Zubairaev held near FSIN building

  On October 13, a picket was held in front of the building of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) in Moscow. Protesters demanded to bring to justice the FSIN officers allegedly involved in beating prisoner Zubair Zubairaev.

October 14, 2011 18:00

• Union of Soldiers' Mothers denies soldier Popov's confession of desertion

  The former regular soldier Andrei Popov, who claimed that he had been in captivity in Dagestan during 11 years, did not sign a confession of desertion. This was stated by the Saratov Union of Soldiers' Mothers.

October 13, 2011 23:40

• Soldier shot himself in Nagorno-Karabakh

  In Nagorno-Karabakh, in the combat position of one of military units, stationed on the north section of the border, the regular soldier Yuri Gevorkovich Nersisyan committed suicide when being on combat duty.

October 13, 2011 23:10

• Soldier Popov confessed that he was not in slavery in Dagestan

  The soldier from the Saratov Region Andrei Popov has admitted that he had been consciously evading his military service since 2000. Earlier, he claimed that he escaped from slavery at the brick factory in Dagestan after 11 years of captivity, said a source close to the investigation into the circumstances of the soldier's disappearance.

October 13, 2011 23:00

• British rights defender, beaten in Azerbaijan, evidences to the court

  Today, the Yasamal District Court of Azerbaijan held a hearing on charges of committing acts of hooliganism against the US citizen Amanda Erickson and the citizen of Great Britain Celia Davis.

October 13, 2011 22:50

• Djambolat Tedeev expelled from South Ossetia

  Today, the head coach of the Russian national team in free wrestling Djambolat Tedeev was deported to Russia, said Tamara Kelekhsaeva, the press secretary of the president of South Ossetia.

October 13, 2011 22:40

• Chechen president heads the list of most criticized heads of Russian regions

  The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov became the leader in the anti-rating of the most criticized governors, compiled by the "Medialogy" Company based on the index of information favour, which is calculated by experts judging from the quality and quantity of citations in the media of characteristics of this or that figure.

October 13, 2011 22:30

• Armenian activist Vaagn Chakhalyan, convicted in Georgia, stops his hunger strike

  At the request of Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, the leader of the Armenian Eparchy in Georgia, the Armenian activist Vaagn Chakhalyan, who was convicted in Georgia for 10 years in prison and is now kept at the high security prison No. 6 in Rustavi, stopped his earlier declared termless hunger strike. This was reported by the lawyer Stepan Voskanyan, Mr Chakhalyan's advocate, and Robert Tatoyan, the programme coordinator of the Union "Erkir" (Law) at a press conference in Yerevan.

October 13, 2011 22:10

• Kalyapin's complaint against idleness of Russian MIA for NCFD rejected

  Today, the Essentuki Court has ruled to dismiss the complaint lodged by Igor Kalyapin, the chairman of the Interregional Committee against Torture against inaction of officials of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) at kidnapping.

October 13, 2011 22:00

• Two defence witnesses questioned at trial on riots in Manege Square

  At the trial in the Tver Court of Moscow considering the riots in Manege Square then burst out in December 2010, the journalists of the editions "Grani.ru" and "Agency of Political News" (APN) gave their evidences as witnesses for the defence.

October 13, 2011 20:00

• KBR: rally in memory of casualties of the attack on Nalchik

  Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has held mourning ceremonies on the occasion of the next anniversary of the militants' attacks on Nalchik on October 13, 2005.

October 13, 2011 19:00

• Moscow to host picket in defence of Chechen resident Zubair Zubairaev

  Today, the picketers, who plan their action in Moscow in front of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), will stand for the rights of Zubair Zubairaev, a Chechen resident, who is now in a colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

October 13, 2011 18:00

• Yevgeny Konovalov, rights defender and entrepreneur, beaten near Krasnodar

  Yevgeny Konovalov, a Krasnodar human rights activist and a member of the public movement "All people are equal before the law", was hospitalized to the intensive care unit of the territorial clinical hospital after a severe beating.