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April 26, 2011 23:20

• Administration of Yeisk District refutes ecologists' data about pollution of the Azov Sea

  Experts who visited the Yeisk Estuary of the Azov Sea in the Krasnodar Territory saw algae in water, not pollution. This was reported by Sergey Kashlev, head of the civil defence and emergency division of the administration of the Yeisk District.

April 26, 2011 23:00

• Liudmila Alekseeva: "People in Chechnya fear to utter a word"

  The last decade in Chechnya was "presented" to illegal armed formations (IAFs), believes Ruslan Martagov, a Chechen political analyst. Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, believes that people in Chechnya are still fearful.

April 26, 2011 22:50

• Rally on 25th Chernobyl anniversary held in Adygea

  The people who rallied in Maikop at the memorial to liquidators of the Chernobyl accident spoke about the events that happened 25 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and implications thereof.

April 26, 2011 22:40

• Investigation into the murder of "Spartak" FC fan Yegor Sviridov is over

  Investigators have completed their inquiry into the killing of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, which was committed at night on December 6 in Moscow. This was reported by Vadim Yakovenko, Acting Head of the Investigatory Department for Moscow of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), who added that there are five figurants in the case.

April 26, 2011 22:30

• Resident of Dagestan complains of illegal police persecution

  Ahmedudin Dalgatov, a resident of Dagestan, complains that his family is unlawfully persecuted by law enforcement bodies. A possible reason of harassment, according to observers, is that he and his wife are practicing Muslims.

April 26, 2011 22:20

• Gisaev: Norway illegally denies asylum to Chechen refugees

  The Migration Service of Norway continues passing unlawful refusals to refugees from Chechnya. This was reported by defender Ahmed Gisaev who lives in Norway.

April 26, 2011 22:10

• Residents of Kazakhstan convicted for viewing video appeals of Said Buryatskiy and Dokku Umarov

  The City Court of Temirtau, Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, has sentenced four men to various terms of imprisonment for propaganda of terrorism and inciting religious hatred, because they had discussed the lectures and watched video appeals of Said Buryatskiy, militants' ideologist, who was later liquidated in Ingushetia, and Dokku Umarov, leader of the so-called "Imarat Kavkaz".

April 26, 2011 22:00

• Former employee of "Let's Save Generation" deported from Norway

  Salyakh Isaev, a former employee of the regional charitable public organization (RCPO) "Let's Save Generation", has been arrested in Norway. He is prepared for expulsion; and in the morning on April 27 he will be sent back into Chechnya. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by rights defender Ahmed Gisaev.

April 26, 2011 21:00

• Public prosecutor's office accuses Mayor's office of the town of Shakhti of illegal refusal of registration of the veterans needing dwelling

  Mayor's Office of the town of Shakhti refused registration of seven veterans of the Great Patriotic War as persons needing improvement of dwelling conditions. During the prosecutor's inspection it was found out that the veterans were living in houses practically with no necessary facilities.

April 26, 2011 20:00

• A group of Chechen refugees returned from Poland to Chechnya

  On April, 25, a group of Chechens consisting of 24 people, little children among them, was delivered to Grozny by bus from Poland. Until recently they had resided in that country. Residents of the republic who left for the countries of Europe in different periods are now returning to their motherland because they failed to get settled abroad, a representative of Federal Migration Service told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 26, 2011 19:00

• A figurant of the case of murder of Markelov and Baburova hospitalized after an attempt of suicide

  Nikita Tikhonov, defendant on the case of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, has slashed his wrists in the investigative isolation ward "Matrosskaya Tishina", therefore hearing the case was deferred. Officials of law enforcement bodies consider that the attempt of suicide has been just a feint.

April 26, 2011 18:00

• The defendants on the case of murder of lawyer Markelov were striving for seizure of power, the prosecuting party declares

  The prosecuting party at the trial on the case of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova declared its opinion that Tikhonov and Khasis had been involved in drawing up a neonazi terrorist program of seizure of power "2020".

April 25, 2011 23:20

• Moscow extends arrest of "The Other Russia" activist accused of Manege Square disorders

  Today, the Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till June 13 the arrest of Igor Berezyuk, an activist of "The Other Russia", accused under the case of mass riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010.

April 25, 2011 23:10

• Omarova: Residents of Dagestan mostly complain of violations of their socio-economic rights

  In 2010, over 60 percent of applications sent by residents of Dagestan to the Republic's Ombudsperson told about violations of citizens' rights in the socio-economic sphere. This is stated in the report on activities presented by the Ombudsperson Ummupazil Omarova on 22 April to the president and members of the government of Dagestan.

April 25, 2011 23:00

• Journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" outraged that his telephone conversations with Egle Kusaite were added to case files

  Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist, the war correspondent of the "Novaya Gazeta" and a veteran of two Chechen wars, has addressed - via the Internet - to the Lithuanian Embassy demanding clarifications on why his telephone conversations with Egle Kusaite, accused of preparing a terror act in the territory of Russia, were added to the criminal case and are now used as proofs of Kusaite's pressure on the investigation. The journalist himself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot".

April 25, 2011 22:50

• Northern Caucasus sees more and more shady financial transactions, "Rosfinmonitoring" says

  According to the Federal Financial Monitoring Service ("Rosfinmonitoring"), the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) is in the lead by the growing number of shadow schemes and the amount of suspicious transactions, said Yury Chikhanchin, head of the Service, speaking at the conference.

April 25, 2011 22:40

• Detentions in Kidero continue, residents report

  The residents of the village of Kidero, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, report that detentions in the village continue by unidentified power agents in masks. On April 22 they was detained here Ayubkhan Magomedov, and on April 23 - his fellow villagers Magomed Abdurakhmanov and Rama Magomedov. It became known only today that they are kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of Makhachkala.

April 25, 2011 22:30

• In Azerbaijan, two officials punished with public works for arbitrariness

  The Sheki District Court of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Kyamran Suleimanov, finished the trial of two former officials of the district administration, who were arrested after the suicide committed by local businessman Khikmet Salimov on February 3.

April 25, 2011 22:10

• In Tbilisi, Armenian Diaspora holds protest in front of Turkish Embassy

  On April 24, the Community of Armenians in Georgia held a protest rally under the slogan "We remember and fight for justice!" in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. The action was attended by about 600 persons, who demanded to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915.

April 25, 2011 22:00

• Krasnodar Territory: ecologists report pollution of Azov Sea

  As reported by the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", after an accident at the sewage collector, waste water got into the Yeisk Estuary in the Krasnodar Territory.