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July 07, 2010 22:00

• Editor of opposition newspaper in Georgia accuses authorities of persecution

  Nana Gagua who, together with her husband Malkhaz Gulashvili, is the owner and editor of the newspaper "Georgian Times" in Tbilisi, in her statement addressed to international organizations states that, due to opposition orientation of the newspaper, she, her husband and sons live under permanently extreme conditions.

July 07, 2010 21:00

• Maxim Gvindzhia insists Abkhazia is not occupied territory

  Maxim Gvindzhia, minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia, calls the statements by US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and representatives of Georgian authorities to the effect of occupation of Georgia by Russian troops as fantasy.

July 07, 2010 20:00

• Zalina Kairova says initiative group will continue to insist on closing down "Electrozinc"

  Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group ""Electrozinc" - what do we breath?", says that she and her supporters insist on implementing the court ruling on closing down the metallurgical works "Electrozinc" in Vladikavkaz, the North Ossetia capital, because its exhausts not only contaminate the atmosphere but also directly harm people's health.

July 07, 2010 19:00

• Democratic community indignant with new conviction of journalist Fatullaev

  In Azerbaijan, representatives of the regional and international democratic community condemn the court ruling with regard to journalist Einulla Fatullaev according to which he is given a new term of imprisonment.

July 07, 2010 18:00

• Head of HRC "Memorial" assumes trial on Chechen president's suit to take place in Autumn

  The trial on the criminal suit on slander of Chechen president will probably take place in Autumn this year, states chairman of HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov after the interrogation held on July 6.

July 06, 2010 23:50

• Day of Anger in Rostov-on-Don to be held despite absence of administration permission

  The action Day of Anger planned for July 7 in Rostov-on-Don is not going to be canceled because Vladimir Chub, the former governor of the region, refused material support and will be held despite the fact that the city authorities have failed to positively react to the notification about it. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sergei Reznik, independent journalist and one of the action organizers.

July 06, 2010 23:40

• Group of Balkars from Kabardino-Balkaria intends to go on hunger strike in Moscow

  A group of 12 Balkars from Kabardino-Balkaria intends to hold a hunger strike action in Moscow. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Muradin Rakhaev, the action organizer and former head of administration in the village of Bezengi.

July 06, 2010 23:30

• Khidriev involved in the case on derailing the "Neva Express" appeals against refusal to grant him conditional early relief

  Maksharip Khidriev, one of the persons involved in the case on derailing the "Neva Express" in 2007, born in Ingushetia, has appealed against the ruling of Valdai district court which refused to grant him conditional early relief (CER).

July 06, 2010 23:10

• Prosecutor's office cautions "Sanhedrin of Balkar Nation" against unsanctioned meeting

  On July 5, the public organization "Sanhedrin of Balkar Nation" was issued a caution signed by Nalchik prosecutor on the inadmissibility of holding an unsanctioned meeting. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Bakhautdin Etezov, deputy chairman of the SBN.

July 06, 2010 23:00

• Roscomnadzor intends to notify mass media on extremist comments by e-mail

  The Federal Service on Supervision in the Area of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communication (Roscomnadzor) is going to notify Internet media, in which it considers comments of the users as extremist, by e-mail and give them one day to eliminate them.

July 06, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on June 28 - July 4

  Beating of lawyers in Dagestan continues; the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh gets into focus of world community; another terror act committed by a suicide bomber in Chechnya, - look these and other events in the review of the week from June 28 to July 4, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 06, 2010 21:00

• Fatullaev's defense in Azerbaijan intends to appeal against journalist's sentence

  Isakhan Ashurov, the lawyer of Einulla Fatullaev, chief editor of the newspaper "Realniy Azerbaijan", who has been sentenced to a new term, calls the court today's ruling "illegal and unfair" and states that the verdict will be appealed against in the court of appeal.

July 06, 2010 20:00

• Human rights activist Oleg Orlov is laid charge

  Today, charges have been laid to Oleg Orlov, Board chairman of the human rights center "Memorial", on slandering Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov whom the human rights activist considers responsible for the murder in Grozny of Natalia Estemirova, employee of "Memorial", reports the HRC "Memorial".

July 06, 2010 19:00

• Court hearings on case of Vaan Khalafian's death put off till July 15

  The trial on the case of death of 24-year-old Vaan Khalafian, which started on July 6 in the general court of Kotaisk district, has been put off till July 15 because the lawyer of Khalafian's legal successor, his uncle Amik Khalafian, failed to attend.

July 06, 2010 18:00

• Son of well-known poet Adallo detained in Dagestan

  Today, Magomed, the son of a well-know poet and publicist Ali Adallo, has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his younger brother, thirteen-year-old Gamzat, who lives in Makhachkala, was detained by law enforcement officers on July 5 and is held at the temporary detention center of Botlikh district militia.

July 05, 2010 23:50

• Former head of Volgograd Central district gets seven years of prison for bribery

  Volgograd oblast court has passed a sentence to Alexander Novikov, former head of Volgograd Central district. He is convicted to seven years of imprisonment in a high-security colony.

July 05, 2010 23:10

• RF Accounting Chamber claims violations in preparation for Olympics in Vancouver and their impact on Sochi Games

  The RF Accounting Chamber has published a report on checking the use of resources on preparing for the XXI Olympic Games in Vancouver, which notes non-targeted use by the Ministry of Sport and Tourism of resources for Olympic Games in Canada, and also problems in preparing for the Sochi Olympics.

July 05, 2010 23:00

• Meeting in support of Andrei Yerofeyev and Yuri Samodurov planned on July 9 in Moscow

  The "Solidarnost" movement has announced today that, on July 9 at 19.00, a "Meeting against state inquisition" is planned to be held in Chistye Prudy near the statue of Griboyedov, in support of Yuri Samodurov, former head of Sakharov public center, and Andrei Yerofeyev, supervisor of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006", who are now defendants in the high-profile trial on the exhibition.

July 05, 2010 22:10

• Evkurov claims attackers at transport column in Ingushetia are known

  The persons who have shot at and exploded the RF MoI transport column today are known and will be found, states the Ingushetia president Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

July 05, 2010 22:00

• Imams to raise prices for kidnapping of brides and buy out of vendetta

  More than 240 persons, mostly imams and representatives of the elders, are to take part in the conference of Moslems in Ingushetia which is planned for beginning of July. During the event, it is planned adopt new prices for kidnapping brides and buy out of vendetta, reports the republic's Moslems' Spiritual Department.