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Mar 16 2010, 20:00; CK correspondent
Money reward announced for information about Maksharip Aushev's killers
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Relatives and friends of the Ingush human rights activist Maksharip Aushev who was assassinated last October in Kabardino-Balkaria are conducting their investigation of the crime and have announced a reward for any information about his murderers. The sum of the reward makes 500,000 US dollars. In the opinion of Musa Pliev, advocate of the Aushevs, the investigation is inactive.
North-Caucasian Federal District, Ingushetia
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Mar 15 2010, 23:00; CK correspondent
Militiamen were attacked twice in Kabardino-Balkaria
| On March 13 and 14, in Kabardino-Balkaria, two attacks on law enforcers were committed; fortunately, without victims. |
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BERG...man. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version :
NATO exercises of in Vasiani and Putin's revelations on Georgian democracy.
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BERG...man. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version :
The Patriarchy interferes and calls; it was all clear with it long ago! Misha, having released the detainees; this test has failed, and it's my great, GREAT! pity:-(
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Gorgud, Azerbaijan, Baku. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version :
Will they really succeed? Azerbaijan can do without imprisoning journalists
Mar 12 2010, 22:20
Train in Dagestan was blown up by pressure-action mine
| In Dagestan, experts have established the type and power of the bomb that was triggered in the evening on March 11 on the railway in Makhachkala. The power of the bomb was 2 kilos of trotyl equivalent. |
Mar 12 2010, 20:00; CK correspondent
Russian CC not to return juries on terror cases, experts say
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Lawyers do not believe, while waiting for the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Russian Federation to consider the conformity to the Constitution of the amendments made by the State Duma in the end of 2008 in the Russian Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) and concerning the trial by jury for those accused of especially grave crimes, that the right to be tried by jurymen will be returned.
Russia, North-Caucasian Federal District
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Mar 12 2010, 19:00; CK correspondent
House of oppositionist Khazbiev searched in Ingushetia
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In the afternoon on March 11, house No. 2 in the Tsoroev Street in Nazran, belonging to the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, was visited by Ibragim Aushev, an inspector of the GOVD (Chief Interior Department), with reinforcement of power agents. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Mr Khazbiev himself.
Ingushetia, North-Caucasian Federal District
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Mar 11 2010, 23:50
Explosion wounds militiaman in Chechnya
| In the city of Argun, Chechen Republic, Akhyad Musanigov, head of the territorial militia district, was wounded by an explosion. This was reported today by the Republic's Department of the ICPO. |
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Mar 11 2010, 23:10; CK correspondent
In Sochi, militia refuses to investigate attack on building of Jehovah's Witnesses
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Employees of the Tsentralny ROVD of Sochi returned the application lodged by the Sochi community of Jehovah's Witnesses on the fact of an attack on the hall for religious assemblies. They explained their refusal to open a case by the absence of data about material damage.
South Federal District, Krasnodar region
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Mar 11 2010, 23:00; CK correspondent
Worship cross desecrated in Adygea to be restored
| The Orthodox worship cross installed in the memorial to the Cossacks who perished in the Civil War near Dakhovskaya village in Adygea, which was desecrated on March 5, will be restored. This was stated by the Maikop and Adygea Eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church. So far, law enforcement bodies try to find out the circumstances of the crime. |
Mar 11 2010, 22:50; CK correspondent
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. |
Mar 11 2010, 22:40; CK correspondent
MIA of Dagestan promises to check local resident's complaint against militiamen's actions
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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.
Dagestan, North-Caucasian Federal District
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Mar 11 2010, 18:00; CK correspondent
Karastelyov: at confrontation attacker said that he wanted to help
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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.
Krasnodar region, South Federal District
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Mar 10 2010, 23:50; CK correspondent
"Chernovik" case in Dagestan: court hears evidences
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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.
Dagestan, North-Caucasian Federal District
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Mar 10 2010, 23:40; CK correspondent
Suspect of attempt on head of Dagestan MIA has no complaints of pressure, his lawyer says
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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.
Dagestan, North-Caucasian Federal District, North Osetia - Alania
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Mar 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. |
Mar 10 2010, 23:00
Suspects of blowing up "Neva-Express" train, detained in Ingushetia, refuse to plead guilty
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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.
North-Caucasian Federal District, Ingushetia, Russia
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Mar 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. |
Mar 10 2010, 22:10; CK correspondent
Murat Kardanov, defendant in Nalchik attack case, transferred to home arrest
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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.
Kabardino-Balkaria, North-Caucasian Federal District
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Mar 10 2010, 20:30
Suspect of attacking human rights activist Karastelyov released under recognizance not to leave
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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.
Krasnodar region, South Federal District
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Mar 09 2010, 23:20
In April, ECtHR to consider Sandro Girgvliani's murder in Georgia
| On April 27, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will consider the case about the murder in Georgia in 2005 of a bank employee Sandro Girgvliani. |
Mar 09 2010, 22:40; CK correspondent
Chief Physician of RCH fined in Dagestan
| As regarded by the Prosecutor's Office and Antimonopoly Service, the Chief Physician of the largest medical establishment of Dagestan - the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH) - has broken the legislation on purchase and circulation of medical products and medical equipment; therefore he was fined by 50,000 roubles. |
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