News

An Azerbaijani soldier has been killed in a shootout in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Religious leaders have decided to get into power on the background of mistrust of Dagestani residents to the leaders of the republic. This opinion was voiced in the course of discussion by participants of the project "Games of Journalists". According to the journalists, on the eve of the elections to the Parliament, religious leaders use the "People against Corruption" Party as a springboard.

Investigators do not seek to reveal all the circumstances of fatal injuring of Nikolai Chistyakov, the 72-year-old former chief narcologist of the Stavropol Territory. He was fatally injured as a result of the conflict with a female police officer. This was reported by relatives of the deceased doctor.

In Azerbaijan, unidentified persons intimidate members of the electoral headquarters of Igbal Agazade, the leader of the "Umid" (Hope) Party. According to members of the Party, threats are also voiced against voters of the 90th Agdash electoral precinct, in which Igbal Agazade was nominated.

Azerbaijan accumulates military vehicles in Nakhichevan. This was reported to journalists in Yerevan by Koryun Nagapetyan, Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs.

The investigators dealing with the case of Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of Olympic facilities in Sochi, have conducted a repeated forensic examination without notifying him and without his participation – a gross violation of the norms of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure, said Alexander Boichenko, a Demerchyan’s advocate.

This morning, in a forest of the Khiv District of Dagestan, a group of policemen was shelled, local law enforcement bodies report.

Vadim Sultanov, an employees of the Centre to Combat Extremism (known as the “E” Centre) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was killed in 2011, has been was posthumously awarded an order. Sultanov was an honest cop; and his involvement in the "Black Hawks" grouping was false, said his colleagues, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered to repair roads and tower complexes, supply gas and build mosques in the Sharoy District of Chechnya within three months. He announced these plans at a meeting with residents of the village of Kenkhi, one of whom – Ramazan Djalaldinov – had complained to Putin about corruption in the district.

At least 180,000 natives of Dagestan took part in the Great Patriotic War (GPW, or WWII elsewhere in the world), of whom 90,000 perished in battles, Renat Abdulkerimov, representing the organization "Dagestan", has stated said at the roundtable "Contribution of Different Nations to Common Victory".

Four Chechen judges, from whom Ramzan Kadyrov demanded “a voluntary resignation”, did it, said a source from the republic's Supreme Court (SC). The locals, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe that the judges were forced to obey, because they occurred in the focus of a conflict of interests involving Kadyrov’s retinue.

In the evening on May 6, those residents of Novorossiysk, who protested against the construction of a quarry in a close vicinity to their houses, were left without gas supply. Then, after their threat to block the highway, the supply was resumed.

Anzor Shibzukhov, an employee of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of aiding militants, was tortured during the investigation, said his advocate.

Law enforcers have planted a grenade and drugs on Timur Temirov, his relatives assert. Temirov himself is detained. His family has appealed to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Mozdok District of North Ossetia asking to conduct a check.

In Sochi, policemen and officials of the City Mayor's Office have exceeded their official power while dispersing a picket in the Lazarevskoe District and should be prosecuted. This is stated in the appeal filed by Elena Nikitina, an organizer of the picket, to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Should Magomed Karataev, the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, resign as demanded by Ramzan Kadyrov, the actions of the acting head of Chechnya could be regarded as pressure, said Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia. Karataev himself claims that Kadyrov had been misled.

The abusive words, left by unidentified offenders on the monument to victims of the Caucasian War in Nalchik, were easily erased and cannot make the basis for legal action on vandalism or damage to property, the police have concluded.

Today, the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has ruled to arrest for two months the advocate Kheirula Shabanov, suspected of financing members of an illegal armed formation (IAF).

In the case against a woman from Ingushetia, accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF), acquisition of an improvised explosive device (IED) and use of violence against a public official, the indictment has been approved. This was reported by the Investigating Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has sentenced Batyr Pukhaev to one year and ten months of imprisonment on the charge of extremism, but found him not guilty of treason. Batyr Pukhaev was released from the courtroom, since he had already served the sentence pronounced to him.