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March 11, 2010 22:50

• Chechnya: two locals convicted for murdering frontier guards

  On March 10, two residents of the Chechen Republic, earlier members of armed separatists' groupings, were convicted to long imprisonment terms for murdering three federal soldiers in 2002.

March 11, 2010 22:40

• MIA of Dagestan promises to check local resident's complaint against militiamen's actions

  Khaibula Khaibulaev, a resident of Karat village, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has received a letter from the department of own safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia saying that the fact of his beating on August 16, 2009, was not properly investigated by Labazan Derbishev, head of the investigation search of the Botlikh District; therefore, "an additional check was entrusted to the department of own safety of the MIA of Dagestan.

March 11, 2010 21:40

• Chechen President demands that churchmen fix namaz hours

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov held a meeting in Grozny with Sultan Mirzaev, Chairman of the local Spiritual Department of Moslems, and Adam Shakhidov, Director of the Information-Publishing Centre "Puts" (Way) named after Ahmat Kadyrov. In the course of the meeting, Mr Kadyrov expressed his serious discontent that the call to pray (azan) is made in the mosques of the republic not at the same time, but with essential time gaps.

March 11, 2010 21:20

• Georgian authorities want to bring body of refugee-suicide from Germany

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia is actively negotiating with respective bodies in Germany aiming to take home the body of citizen of Georgia David Mardiani, 17, who committed suicide on March 7 in a prison hospital in Germany.

March 11, 2010 20:00

• President of Ingushetia bans rally of Plievo residents

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov forbade the relatives of Mikail Pliev, 32, a resident of Plievo village, who was kidnapped on March 4 in Pyatigorsk, to continue their marathon rally with a demand to find Mikail's whereabouts. The relatives had been earlier invited to the President.

March 11, 2010 19:00

• Residents of Ingushetia complain that their relatives are persecuted in the army

  Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush human rights activist, a member of the Expert's Board at the Office of Russian Ombudsman, has stated that the cases of prejudiced attitude to natives from Northern Caucasus in army units have become more frequent recently. He told about two complaints lodged by residents of Ingushetia, who are concerned of the fates of their relatives.

March 11, 2010 18:00

• Karastelyov: at confrontation attacker said that he wanted to help

  The detainee, suspected of attacking Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights and representative of Alexei Dymovskiy, former Major of Novorossisk militia, asserts that he just tried to help, while the human rights activist beat him with a wooden block. According to Karastelyov, the suspect gave this evidence in the course of confrontation.

March 11, 2010 10:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 1-7

  Liquidation of Said Buryatskiy, militants' ideologist in Northern Caucasus; trial of Fatima Margieva, an activist of the People's Party of South Ossetia; protests of residents of Ingushetia and Dagestan against continued kidnappings and torture, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of March 1-7, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 10, 2010 23:50

• "Chernovik" case in Dagestan: court hears evidences

  On March 9-10, the trial continued in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on the criminal case initiated against journalists of the local weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint), accused of kindling national, racial and religious enmity.

March 10, 2010 23:40

• Suspect of attempt on head of Dagestan MIA has no complaints of pressure, his lawyer says

  Today, Adilgerei Omarov, advocate of Shamsullah Borziev, a resident of Rakhat village, Botlikh District, and a detainee as suspect of the murder attempt on Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Interior Minister of Dagestan, said that he had visited his client at the temporary isolation facility (known as "IVS") of the MIA of North Ossetia.

March 10, 2010 23:10

• Medrese teacher assassinated in Dagestan

  The body of the teacher of the local Medrese with two gunshot wounds in his head was found in his own house in Yasnaya Polyana village in Dagestan.

March 10, 2010 23:00

• Suspects of blowing up "Neva-Express" train, detained in Ingushetia, refuse to plead guilty

  None of the detainees in the course of special operation conducted in Ekazhevo village in Ingushetia, suspected of taking part in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, has pled guilty. All of them are arrested. According to the legislation, a charge of terrorism should be presented to them within 30 day after arrest.

March 10, 2010 22:50

• Chechen Ombudsman accuses Big Encyclopaedia authors of slander

  Ombudsman in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev demands to bring the editor-in-chief of the Big Encyclopaedia to responsibility for the "anti-Chechen article" placed in the 58th volume of the edition.

March 10, 2010 22:30

• Moscow City Court considers new case of skinheads Ryno and Skachevskiy

  As reported by the press service of the Moscow City Court, the leaders of a grouping of skinheads Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy, earlier already sentenced to imprisonment for murders, have pled guilty of other nationalistic attacks.

March 10, 2010 22:10

• Murat Kardanov, defendant in Nalchik attack case, transferred to home arrest

  Under inspector's statement, Murat Kardanov, a defendant in the case dealing with the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, a resident of Zolukokoazhe village, was released to home arrest. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from duly informed circles. Now, Murat Kardanov is taking his treatment at the Republic's Anti-Tubercular Clinic.

March 10, 2010 22:00

• Participants of Moscow-Tbilisi-Yerevan space bridge differ in assessing "Verkhni Lars" opening

  In the course of the space bridge held on March 9 by the RIA "Novosti" between Armenian, Georgian and Russian experts, who discussed the opening of the surface border between Russia and Georgia at the check points "Darial" and "Verkhni Lars", it became clear that the experts viewed the event differently. Alexei Malashenko from the Carnegie Institute treated the fact positively, while Georgiy Khaindrava, one of the leaders of the non-parliamentary opposition, found incompatible such factors like "occupation of Georgian regions" and simultaneous restoration of communication between the two countries.

March 10, 2010 21:00

• In Ingushetia, rally against kidnappings continues for the fifth day

  So far, no news about the whereabouts of Mikail Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia, kidnapped on March 4 in Pyatigorsk, arrived to his relatives, as his wife Makka reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Residents of Plievo village continue their protest near the local administration demanding to clear out Mikail Pliev's fate.

March 10, 2010 20:30

• Suspect of attacking human rights activist Karastelyov released under recognizance not to leave

  The person suspected of attacking Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee for Human Rights, who is representing the interests of disfavoured militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy, is at large.

March 10, 2010 20:00

• Dagestan militiamen demand dismissal of Bastrykin, ICPO boss

  The independent trade union of law enforcers and prosecutors of Dagestan made a decision at its assembly to address a letter to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev and Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Russian Federal Assembly Sergey Mironov. In their letter Dagestan power agents ask to consider impossibility for Alexander Bastrykin to stay in the post of the head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia.

March 10, 2010 19:00

• Azerbaijani Appeal Court upholds verdict to bloggers

  Today, in Baku, the Azerbaijani Appeal Court, chaired by Judge Gail Mamedov, has upheld the verdict of the first instance court to bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade.