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July 04, 2018 10:21

• Ganja Mayor wounded in armed attack

  Elmar Veliev, the head of the Azerbaijani city of Ganja, was exposed to an armed attack. He and his bodyguard Gasym Ashbazov were hospitalized with wounds. The attacker was detained, law enforcers have reported.

July 04, 2018 09:59

• Five people hospitalized after metro halt in Baku

  A power outage in the evening on July 3 in Baku caused the metro stop. Passengers were evacuated from the trains stuck in the tunnels. The evacuation was carried out in extreme heat; and 17 persons complained about their poor health status; five of them were hospitalized.

July 04, 2018 09:40

• Cherkessk lawyers report kidnapping of their colleague

  Kemal Kuscheterov, a lawyer, was beaten up and kidnapped by unidentified people in Cherkessk after his dispute with law enforcers at the scene of investigatory actions, his colleagues have reported.

July 04, 2018 08:39

• Zaza Saralidze stops his protest at the MIA

  Zaza Saralidze, father of one of the murdered schoolboys, decided to stop his protest action held near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia. He has made the decision after the today's meeting with MIA heads.

July 04, 2018 08:27

• Izberbash residents rally because of absence of drinking water

  In the city of Izberbash, Dagestan, townspeople have gathered for a rally at the building of city administration with a demand to resume the supply of drinking water. Calls were heard among the protesters to block the federal highway.

July 04, 2018 08:14

• Residents of Novokorsunskoye achieve compensation increase

  After the residents of the village of Novokorsunskoye blocked the Timashevsk-Korenovsk highway, the territorial authorities have increased the amount of compensations due to them for the houses damaged by hail.

July 03, 2018 23:57

• Trial in Pavel Grib's case held behind closed doors

  A preliminary hearing in the case against Pavel Grib will be held behind closed doors. A father of the Ukrainian citizen, accused in terrorism, reported that his son felt bad.

July 03, 2018 23:44

• Rights defenders criticize FIFA for poor reaction to Oyub Titiev's case

  On July 5, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya will consider a motion filed by the defence of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, to transfer the consideration of the case to another region.

July 03, 2018 23:32

• Zarema Bagavutdinova released

  Zarema Bagavutdinova, a staff member of the Dagestani organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), was released from the penal colony, where she had completely served five years of her imprisonment, with a delay of six hours.

July 03, 2018 23:19

• Armenian Defence Minister wanted in case on dispersal of protesters

  Colonel General Mikael Harutyunyan, who in March 2008 held the position of the Armenian Defence Minister, was accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in connection with the dispersal of protest actions, investigators report today.

July 03, 2018 18:12

• Georgian MPs support demands voiced by Zaza Saralidze

  The parliamentary investigating commission has issued a recommendation to start the criminal proceedings against one of the main witnesses in the case on the murder of teenagers in Tbilisi. Zaza Saralidze, a father of one of the murdered schoolboys is seeking such a decision from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

July 03, 2018 17:59

• In Armenia, social service officials suspected of fraud worth 30,000 US dollars

  In Stepanavan, according to investigators, four officials registered benefits in favour of local residents without their knowledge and embezzled the money, the Armenian police reports today.

July 03, 2018 17:48

• Oyub Titiev's defence demands to hold trial outside Chechnya

  Today, the preliminary court hearing on the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny has been postponed because of the advocates' request to hold a trial in another region.

July 03, 2018 14:14

• Aslan Gagiev accused of organizing six murders

  Investigators have officially charged Aslan Gagiev, a native of the Ossetian village of Bolkvi, with organizing a criminal community and killing entrepreneurs, the "Kommersant" has reported today.

July 03, 2018 14:03

• Competitions of Russian racing drivers moved from Nalchik to Grozny

  It was decided to hold the second stage of the Russian championship in drag racing, scheduled for early August, in the capital of Chechnya, as the racing ground in Nalchik is not yet ready for the competition, the race organizers have stated.

July 03, 2018 10:44

• Rights defenders achieve closure of Tbilisi prison

  Prison No. 7 in Gulua Street in Tbilisi has been closed at the demand of rights defenders. For twenty years of its existence, the prison failed to create normal custody conditions, Gela Nikoleishvili, a rights defender, has stated.

July 03, 2018 10:17

• Tamara Mearakishvili tells reasons for her hunger strike

  Tamara Mearakishvili, a South-Ossetian activist, who went on a hunger strike in connection with the criminal prosecution, including on charges of defaming the ruling party "United Ossetia", demanded from local authorities to stop putting pressure on her. She decided to hold the protest action at home, fearing provocations.

July 03, 2018 10:03

• Georgian media report about Machalikashvili's kinship with Chataev

  Mass media of Georgia have released information about relative ties of Temirlan Machalikashvili, killed in an operation in Pankisi, with Akhmed Chataev, and also about Machalikashvili's intention to commit self-explosion in a crowded place in Tbilisi.

July 03, 2018 08:30

• Over 41,000 attend Belgium-Japan match at Rostov-Arena

  The Belgian team has beaten the Japanese one 3:2 in a 1/8 final match of the FIFA World Cup held in Rostov-on-Don. Fans from different countries watched the meeting in the fan zone in Theatre Square.

July 03, 2018 08:22

• Rostov activist summoned to police after flash mob "They've robbed us to panties!"

  Rostov-on-Don law enforcers have called the activist Anastasia Shevchenko and warned her about the inadmissibility of extremism. However, Anastasia believes that her stripping action helped to draw attention to the problem.