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January 22, 2009 19:00

• Supreme Court of Dagestan sentences Farid Babaev's killer to 16 years of imprisonment

  Today Ibram Garunov, Judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, has announced his verdict to Rasil Mamedrizaev, a resident of Miskindzha village, Dokuzparin District of Dagestan, suspected of murdering Farid Babaev. The court has supported the prosecution and appointed a punishment in the form of 16 years of tight security colony.

January 22, 2009 17:00

• ATC's accident in Ingushetia: eyewitness' comment

  A driver who happened to be an eyewitness of the collision of an armoured troop-carrier (ATC) with two VAZ passenger cars in Ingushetia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by telephone that a slippery road and inaccurate ATC's driving were the causes of the accident.

January 21, 2009 22:00

• Azerbaijani police detain protesters against ban on foreign radio stations

  Today in Baku, the police have detained a group of activists from the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who tried to hold an unauthorized protest action in front of the office of the National Television and Radio Board (NTRB) of Azerbaijan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that the action was held in protest against suspension from January 1, 2009, of broadcasting in local frequencies of radio stations Liberty, Voice of America and BBC.

January 21, 2009 19:00

• Dagestan: public prosecutor asks 16 years of tight security for Babaev's killer

  In Dagestan, the public prosecutor demanded 16 years of imprisonment in a tight security colony for Rasil Mamedrizaev, who was found guilty yesterday, on January 20, by jurymen of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

January 21, 2009 00:00

• Chechnya: participants of the action in memory of Markelov suggest naming a street in his honour

  The action in memory of assassinated advocate Markelov and journalist Baburova held yesterday, on January 20, in the capital of Chechnya moved a proposal to rename streets in their honour.

January 21, 2009 00:00

• In Azerbaijan, head of Talysh Cultural Centre released from dungeon

  On January 20, late at night, Novruzali Mamedov, 70, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre in Azerbaijan and editor-in-chief of the "Talyshi Sado" newspaper, was released from dungeon ahead of term. He is serving his 10 years of imprisonment for state treason.

January 21, 2009 00:00

• Car of killed residents of Ingushetia found in Chechnya

  On January 20, the car model VAZ-2107, which was hijacked by unknown criminals who executed father and son Terkhoev on January 19, in Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was found in the southwest of Chechnya.

January 20, 2009 21:00

• Article about Budanov was one of last works of perished journalist Baburova

  Anastasiya Baburova, an off-the-staff employee of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was wounded on January 19 in the centre of Moscow, during Markelov's murder and later died in hospital, published a week ago an article about former colonel Yuri Budanov in the edition named "Personal Correspondent".

January 20, 2009 20:00

• Tikhomirova: Markelov's murder was not backed by professional militaries

  Advocate Liudmila Tikhomirova, who represented at Yuri Budanov's trial the interests of Rosa Bashaeva (mother of the lost Elza Kungaeva), believes that the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov is to advantage of "those who want discord between Chechens and Russian."

January 20, 2009 19:00

• Mass action on Markelov's murder held in Grozny

  A rally is now on in the Peoples' Friendship Square in the capital of Chechnya in connection with the murder in Moscow of well-known advocate Stanislav Markelov.

January 20, 2009 18:00

• Armenian Ombudsman demands punishment of policemen

  Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan has addressed Alik Sarkisyan, chief of the police of the Republic of Armenia with a demand to punish the police officers who commanded the dispersal of peaceful demonstrators on January 16.

January 20, 2009 18:00

• In Dagestan, one of suspects of Farid Babaev's murder found guilty

  Today, at the Supreme Court of Dagestan, jurymen have found Rasil Mamedrizaev guilty of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party, and completely acquitted the other defendant - Seferali Semimerzoev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

January 20, 2009 16:00

• Circumstances of kidnapping are investigated in Chechnya

  Yesterday, on January 19, it became known about a new kidnapping in Chechnya. This time, a resident of the city of Gudermes, aged 24, became the victim of the crime committed back in early January.

January 20, 2009 02:00

• Budanov's advocate: colonel was not involved in Markelov's murder

  Former Budanov's advocate Alexei Dulimov, who defended his interests in the court of the cassation instance, has stated that Colonel Yuri Budanov has nothing to do with the murder of Stanislav Markelov, advocate of the Kungaev family.

January 20, 2009 00:00

• Azerbaijan: editor-in-chief of Talysh newspaper aged 70 put into dungeon

  Novruzali Mamedov, 70, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), who was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for "state treason", was transferred from Investigatory Isolation Facility No. 1 to Penitentiary Establishment No. 15.

January 19, 2009 22:00

• Human rights activists are shocked by Markelov's murder

  Russian human rights activists are shocked by the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who worked in the cases of Budanov and "Cadet" related to murders of peaceful Chechen residents.

January 19, 2009 21:00

• Human rights activist accuses Ingushetian authorities of shadowing

  Aslambek Apaev, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group and Chairman of the Committee in Defence of Forced Migrants' Rights, told in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that after his meeting in Ingushetia with refugees from Northern Ossetia he and other human rights activists were shadowed by unknown people in a car that had no identification symbols.

January 19, 2009 20:00

• Lawyer-consultant of "Memorial": Markelov was killed because of his professional activities

  All the facts evidence that Stanislav Markelov was killed because of his professional work. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Cyril Koroteev, lawyer-consultant of the Human Rights Society "Memorial".

January 19, 2009 19:00

• Khatazhukov: Markelov's murder is political

  Valery Khatazhukov, head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre, believes that the murder of Stanislav Markelov, advocate of the Kungaev family, is an attempt to intimidate human rights activists. This is a political murder, he is convinced.

January 19, 2009 18:00

• Ponomaryov: Markelov received threats before being murdered

  Stanislav Markelov, advocate of the Kungaev family, was shot dead today point-blank in the centre of Moscow. Yesterday, he took part in the press conference held at the Independent Press Centre on early release of former colonel Yuri Budanov from the colony, where he served his term for murdering Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva.