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December 29, 2009 23:20

• Trial in Dubai on Sulim Yamadaev's attempt to resume in January

  The next session of the court on the case dealing with the attempt on Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev committed in March in Dubai will take place on January 7, 2010. This was stated by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

December 29, 2009 23:00

• Court extends custody of Markelov's suspected killer till April 19

  The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended by 3.5 months the custody of Nikita Tikhonov, accused of killing advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova.

December 29, 2009 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 21-27

  Cancellation of Derbent Mayor election; heavy consequences of blowing up the Memorial of Glory in Kutaisi for the foreign and home policy of the official Tbilisi; municipal elections in Azerbaijan, which caused negative international reaction, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of December 21-27 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 29, 2009 22:10

• Major Dymovskiy asks prosecutors to postpone interrogation

  The former employee of the UVD (Interior Department) of Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, in whose relation a criminal case was opened, was summoned today for interrogation to the prosecutor's office, but he asked there to postpone the investigatory action.

December 29, 2009 22:00

• Pshikhachev: wrong Koran and Islam interpretation exists in Northern Caucasus

  As stated by Shafig Pshikhachev, plenipotentiary of the Moslems' Coordination Centre of Northern Caucasus (MCC NC) located in Moscow, Northern Caucasus faces the need to liquidate the illiteracy displayed in perversed understanding of the Koran and principles of Islam. This was announced at the press conference held in Russian capital on the outcomes of the year.

December 29, 2009 22:00

• Volgograd Ombudsman helps invalid with his unemployment benefit

  A jobless Volgograd invalid of 56 spent half a year to prove his right to his unemployment benefit. Finally he succeeded in the court with legal support of the Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region.

December 29, 2009 20:00

• Defendants in 2007 "Neva-Express" train explosion case to have their last plea on January 11

  Today, upon the end of judicial pleadings in Novgorod at the trial on the first attack on the "Neva-Express" train in 2007, a break was announced till January 11, 2010, when the defendants will have their last plea.

December 29, 2009 19:00

• Armenia: parents of March 1, 2008, victims accuse authorities of concealing the truth

  In their open letter, parents of the ten persons who fell victim on March 1, 2008, during disorders in Yerevan accuse the country's ruling coalition and the members of the interim parliamentary commission of complicity to the crime and of an attempt to hide the circumstance of the events and blanch over the assassins.

December 29, 2009 18:00

• Khadizhat Dobrieva asks human rights defenders to find Aushev's relatives who disappeared in St Petersburg

  Ms Dobrieva, a relative of assassinated oppositionist Maksharip Aushev, has addressed human rights activists for help in searching her brothers and nephews, who disappeared in St Petersburg. She has filed respective applications to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran (Ingushetia) and Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr".

December 28, 2009 23:50

• Refugees from Georgia and Chechnya tried to leave Poland to stay in Western Europe

  Ivona Kalishewska, an employee of the Polish edition "Kaukaz.net", asserts that the recent attempt of refugees from Georgia and Chechnya, accommodated in Polish refugee centres, to cross the German border had nothing to do with their "hard residence conditions" in Poland.

December 28, 2009 23:30

• Law enforcers of St Petersburg have no information about disappearance of Maksharip Aushev's relatives

  The law enforcement bodies of St Petersburg know nothing about disappearance in their city of relatives of the human rights activist from Ingushetia Maksharip Aushev, who was shot dead in October. The missing persons are Ali Dzhaniev, a brother of Maksharip's widow, and her uncle - Yusup and Yunus Dobriev. The latter was well-known among St Petersburg Moslems for his humanitarian activity.

December 28, 2009 23:20

• Extremists lay out photo of cut-off heads of power agents murdered in Kabardino-Balkaria

  One of extremist websites has placed photos of cut-off heads of Murat Dokushukin and Albert Shebzukhov, assassinated in November in Kabardino-Balkaria. Militants say that the casualties were snooping members of the armed underground.

December 28, 2009 23:10

• Armenia: different political forces condemn beating of oppositionists

  Eduard Sharmazanov, press secretary of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia has condemned the October 27 attack on young opposition activists, treating as unacceptable any attempt of human rights violation. Oppositionists, in the turn, accuse the authorities.

December 28, 2009 23:00

• Medvedev signs laws on territorial jurisdiction of terror cases

  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has signed a number of laws changing the territorial jurisdiction of terrorists and allowing consideration of "terrorist" cases by juries.

December 28, 2009 22:00

• Zviad Gamsakhurdia's widow seeks asylum in Germany

  Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia - the widow of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - complains of pressure on her family and asks political asylum in Germany. This is the way she tries to help to release her son Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, who is kept in pre-trial custody on charges of a murder attempt and illegal firearm storage.

December 28, 2009 21:00

• Criminal case opened against Major Dymovskiy

  The investigatory bodies of the Krasnodar Territory accuse Alexei Dymovskiy, former employee of the Novorossisk UVD (Interior Department), under the article "swindle through abuse of service position."

December 28, 2009 20:00

• MP from Dagestan Isaev denounces his signature under appeal to Russia's Public Prosecutor

  Rizvan Isaev, Deputy of the Russian State Duma from Dagestan, has categorically refuted the information that he had signed an appeal of a group of MPs from Dagestan to Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor, asking to take measures against "armed groups commanded by state officials." Mr Isaev treated the incident as "provocation".

December 28, 2009 19:00

• Russia's MFA: Georgian authorities hamper flights to Russia

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation has accused Georgia of unwillingness to address issues of direct Moscow-Tbilisi flights.

December 28, 2009 18:00

• Kalmykia commemorates deportation victims

  Today, the republic marks the Memory Day on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of deportation of Kalmyks accused of treason. They were not just exiled, but spread over the vast Siberia - from the very north to the Far East and Kazakhstan. Almost half of all deported Kalmyks died in exile. Practically every family has whom to commemorate: their relatives perished either on the way or in exile - far from homeland.

December 26, 2009 22:27

• "Voice of Beslan" offers human rights activists to urge Russian authorities to pass a law on status of terror act victims

  Ella Kesaeva, head of the All-Russia Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", moved a proposal at the reporting-election Congress of Human Rights Defenders in Moscow to address the Council of Federation and State Duma with a request to pass a law on the status of terror act victims. The Congress unanimously upheld the offer.