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May 13, 2010 23:20

• Lawyers complain that they are not let to Guchapshev detained in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Elena Bairamkulova and Magomed Abubakarov, lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen Bars accordingly, have addressed Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department of the Russian ICPO for the KBR (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), and Anzor Getigezhev, Public Prosecutor of the Maiskiy District of the KBR, with their complaints that employees of the Maiskiy ROVD did not let them to Anzor Guchapshev, whose interests they represent and who was detained on the fact of a car explosion of Maiskiy.

May 13, 2010 23:00

• Dagestan: attack on motorcade kills eight wiremen

  According to updated information, in Dagestan, at shelling and blowing up of a militia motor column in the Sergokalin District, which transported employees of the republic's television broadcasting centre, eight workers of the repair team were lost, and four militiamen were wounded.

May 13, 2010 23:00

• Two Adygea residents convicted for use of slave labour

  The Krasnogvardeisk District Court of Adygea has found the defendants accused in the criminal case about illegal deprivation of freedom of Vladimir Vinsha, a resident of Ladozhskaya village, Ust-Labinsk District of the Krasnodar Territory, guilty.

May 13, 2010 22:20

• At trial on attack on Nalchik, prosecution is against jurymen

  In the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the prosecution petitioned to reject the request lodged by advocates and defendants to transfer the case to the Chairman of the Supreme Court for consideration by a jury.

May 13, 2010 22:00

• Monument to Beslan terror act victims to open in Moscow on June 1

  The opening ceremony of the memorable sign in Moscow dedicated to the victims of the act of terror in Beslan, committed on September 1-3, 2004, is planned for June 1. The issues of its installation were discussed on May 12 at the working meeting of Alexander Totoonov, deputy chairman of the government of North Ossetia and republic's plenipotentiary at Russian President, with Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts.

May 13, 2010 21:00

• Azerbaijan: human rights activists tell about officials' arbitrariness in the NAR

  At the press conference held in Baku at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) journalists and human rights activists Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev and Elman Abbasov told about the bureaucrats' arbitrariness and total flouting of human rights reigning in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Earlier, Mekhtiev and Abbasov, being regional correspondents of the IRFS, for two years had been monitoring the situation with human rights in the NAR.

May 13, 2010 20:00

• FSB identified all the figurants in the case of suicide bombers on Moscow metro

  Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has declared that the executors and organizers of the Moscow bombing were identified; some of them were already killed. In his turn, Medvedev stated that terrorists deserve no quarter.

May 13, 2010 19:00

• South Ossetia released three citizens of Georgia

  Today, the South-Ossetian authorities, through intermediary of the European Council commissioner for human rights Thomas Hammarberg, have set free the three residents of Kaspsky area, Georgia.

May 13, 2010 18:00

• The Grozny residents inform of youth abduction

  Next abduction of a youth has happened in Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. Representative of one of the Chechen NGO has reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that this abduction took place at around 11am this morning in Mayakovsky small town.

May 12, 2010 23:50

• Denisova: I was not notified that my criminal case was stopped

  The militia of Krasnodar failed to present the decision about termination of the criminal case against Ms Denisova, head of the Krasnodar human rights organization "ETnIKa", as the human rights activist asserts. She is going to demand apologies and damage compensation.

May 12, 2010 23:20

• Inquiry into the case of 12 school directors in Chechnya is not over

  The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has opened criminal cases against directors of 12 schools of the Vedeno District. According to the investigation, last summer each of them appropriated, by forgery, 30,000 roubles. Defendants' colleagues speak about constant extortions and small salaries of teachers. Also, they are confused by the fact that all the 12 directors are suspected of simultaneous forgery and appropriation of the same sum. The investigation continues.

May 12, 2010 23:00

• In Karachai-Circassia, activists of "Adyge Khasse" demand to solve Aslan Zhukov's murder

  Activists of the youth movement of Circassians "Adyge Khasse" express their readiness to hold a rally in the context of the unsolved murder of Aslan Zhukov. This was reported by Timur Zhuzhuev, chairman of the movement.

May 12, 2010 23:00

• One person lost and three wounded by two explosions in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by local law enforcement bodies of the republic, today in the morning, when a car with militiamen was blow up in the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria, a local resident was wounded and a militiaman was contused. Yesterday, on May 11, in the evening in city of Maiskiy a car exploded: a man was killed and another one was wounded.

May 12, 2010 22:40

• Dymovskiy plans to hold all-Russian protest action on June 12

  Former militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy has expressed his intention to organize an all-Russian rally on June 12 on the problem of malversations in law enforcement bodies and the judicial system.

May 12, 2010 21:10

• Case of Levon Gulyan who died in police to be sent to the ECtHR

  The lawyers who represent the interests of the relatives of Levon Gulyan, who died three years ago at the police station, are going to lodge a complaint, after passage of all the domestic instances in Armenia, to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). They promised it today at a press conference.

May 12, 2010 21:00

• Karachai-Circassia: President's adviser killed

  Today, in the city of Cherkessk, Fral Shebzukhov, adviser of the President of Karachai-Circassia was assassinated.

May 12, 2010 20:00

• Moscow municipal court found legal the sentence for extortion in the Politkovskaya murder case

  Moscow municipal court dismissed a cassation appeal of the advocates of former militiaman Sergey Khadzhykurbanov, who was declared not guilty in the journalist Anna Politkovskaya murder case but then sentenced to eight years in prison for extortion money from a key witness.

May 12, 2010 19:00

• European Court fined Russian Federation for disappearance and death of the Chechen people

  The European human rights court (EHRC) in Strasbourg has fined Russia to the sum of 225 000 euro for disappearance and death of habitants of Chechnya, the released court communique informs today. Relatives of the disappeared people repeatedly applied to the Russian judicial bodies but were not satisfied with their decisions. In the claimants' opinion, the local courts failed to investigate properly the circumstances of their relatives' disappearance.

May 12, 2010 18:00

• In Dagestan Akhmed Rabadanov countrymen disassociate him from the blasts on Moscow metro

  Akhmed Rabadanov, habitant of the Village of Novy Kostek, who was killed on 26 March and who is considered the accomplice of the suicide bombers blown themselves up at Moscow metro stations on 29 March, had nothing to do with this crime, said one of Rabadanov's fellow-villagers to the Caucasus Knot correspondent on condition of strict anonymity.

May 11, 2010 23:50

• Azerbaijan: situation in flooding zone remains tense

  The situation in Mursalli village and surrounding area (Azerbaijan), where in the evening on May 10 the Kura River washed off a dam, remains strained. Dashgyn Agaev, a resident of the village, said today in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that water continues to advance. The situation is also heavy in the Salyan District, where the water level would not go down. Deputies from the opposition accuse officials of having done nothing to prevent the tragedy.

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