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April 17, 2009 22:00

• In Chechnya, skirmish takes place after cancellation of CTO regime

  In the high-mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya, a combat collision burst out between Russian militaries and a group of militants. There is no data about any casualties or victims. The skirmish happened right at the time, when Grozny hosted a rally-concert dedicated to cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the republic.

April 17, 2009 21:00

• In Ingushetia, cafe is damaged by explosion

  Today, at about 11 a.m., an explosion took place in one of the cafes in central Nazran. The building was essentially damaged: windows were broken and walls damaged. None of the visitors or personnel suffered.

April 17, 2009 20:30

• Charge presented to suspect of murdering Ruslan Yamadaev

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has accused Elimpasha Khatsuev of complicity in murdering Ruslan Yamadaev and attempting to murder Sergey Kizyun, accomplished on September 24, 2008, in Moscow, as the press service of the ICPO reports.

April 17, 2009 20:00

• Adelkhanov: "self-defence groups" of the opposition in Georgia are inactive yet

  On April 15, it was announced that "self-defence groups" of the Georgian opposition would soon start patrolling; however, Emil Adelkhanov, deputy chairman of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, said that the groups are still inoperative.

April 17, 2009 19:00

• State prosecutor in Nalchik attack case gives details of events on October 13, 2005

  On April 16, at the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria trying the case about attack on Nalchik, Olga Chibinyova, head of the group of state prosecution, continued disclosing the indictment and passed over to episode-by-episode description of the events on October 13, 2005.

April 17, 2009 18:00

• Mirza Sakit: situation in Azerbaijani prisons is horrifying

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that on April 17 at a press conference held in the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) poet-satirist Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zakhidov), journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper, stated that the situation in prisons of Azerbaijan is horrifying: prisoners are humiliated and exposed to torture; bribe-taking flourishes.

April 16, 2009 23:40

• Kabardino-Balkaria: suspects of involvement in IAFs complain of torture

  In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), two residents of Karachaevo-Circassia and a resident of Adygea, detained on March 19 in the city of Tyrnyauz, have lodged complaints to human rights organizations saying they were exposed to illegal inquiry methods.

April 16, 2009 23:10

• Residents of Ingushetia hold picket demanding to stop kidnappings

  On April 15, at the monument to victims to political repressions, located between the cities of Nazran and Magas in Ingushetia, a protest action was conducted by relatives of the young people, kidnapped during the last week in the Malgobek District.

April 16, 2009 23:00

• Resident of Belokan District of Azerbaijan states forced Shiitization of Sunnite Moslems

  Azerbaijan pursues the policy of forced Shiitization of Moslems-Sunnites, indigenous Dagestanians, who inhabit their lands. This was stated by Magomed Ismailov, a resident of the Belokan District of Azerbaijan, who studies in one of Makhachkala higher schools.

April 16, 2009 22:00

• Hearing begins on the case of the judge who sentenced Budanov

  Today, the Moscow Garrison Military Court has started the hearing on the case of Vladimir Bukreev, former judge of the North-Caucasian Regional Court, who in 2003 passed the verdict of guilty to Colonel Yuri Budanov who had killed a Chechen girl.

April 16, 2009 21:10

• Chechnya celebrates CTO cancellation with rally and concert

  The capital of Chechnya is hosting a rally and a concert dedicated to Moscow's decision to lift the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Republic's territory that had existed there for nine years.

April 16, 2009 20:30

• Panuashvili: attacks on oppositionists in Georgia become a trend

  These days in Tbilisi, attacks on activists of the opposition have become more frequent, as Soso Panuashvili, expert of the Tbilisi branch of the organization named "Human Rights", who is holding everyday monitoring of civil disobedience actions of the opposition, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2009 20:00

• Resident of Dagestan states that he was kidnapped and beaten by strangers

  Ali Aliev, born in 1984, a resident of Leninkent village in a suburb of Makhachkala, asserts that he was kidnapped and beaten by law enforcers. The incident happened in the daytime a week ago in the presence of plenty of witnesses, as he himself said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2009 19:00

• In Ingushetia, unidentified person kills a local woman

  In the evening on April 15 in Nazran (Ingushetia), under unclear circumstances a young woman was murdered, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Investigatory Division (ID) of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia.

April 16, 2009 18:00

• European Court starts considering Georgia-versus-Russia claim

  Today, the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has held its first session on the claim lodged by Georgia and charging Russia with regular violation of the rights of Georgian migrants, when they were deported from Russia in 2006-2007.

April 15, 2009 23:40

• Singer-oppositionist beaten in Georgia

  On April 14, in the capital of Georgia, popular local singer Zurab Mandzhavidze, who took part in the actions of the opposition, was beaten.

April 15, 2009 23:30

• In Armenia, court sanctions arrest of former policeman Tadevosyan

  The court of general jurisdiction of the capital community Kentron-Nork-Marash, under presidency of Judge Gagik Khandanyan, has satisfied the police's petition to arrest former policeman Ashot Tadevosyan, detained on April 10 in the Northern Avenue. He is accused under Articles 136 and 316.1 of the Criminal Codes: "Insult of a policeman" and "Rendering resistance to power representative".

April 15, 2009 23:10

• Application on violated rights of Smbat Aivazyan, activist of Armenian opposition, sent to Strasbourg

  On April 14, Lusine Saakyan, advocate of oppositional activist Smbat Aivazyan, who was convicted under Article 316 of the Criminal Code of Armenia ("Resistance to power representative"), filed her application to the European Court on Human Rights on violation of the client's rights.

April 15, 2009 23:00

• Prosecution in the case on attack on Nalchik: militants planned to create Islamic state

  Now, at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the state prosecutor is announcing the indictment as presented to the defendants. The basic leitmotif of the document - the defendants tried to dethrone the Russia's existing state order and create an Islamic state.

April 15, 2009 22:10

• Abkhazian MFA indignant with Vollebekk's accusations of oppressing national minorities

  The statement of Knuth Vollebekk, Supreme Commissioner of the OSCE on national minorities (dated April 14, 2009), in which he accused Abkhazia of forced passportization, recruiting to army and restriction of teaching in the Georgian language, was groundless and engaged, as spoken in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia.