News

About a thousand protesters continue their action under the rain in Freedom Square. The opposition has set up a tent camp, where Levon Ter-Petrosyan, ex-president of Armenia and the leader of the ANC (Armenian National Congress) is going to stay over the night.

At the Sabail District Court in Baku, three out of four defendants, arrested for taking part in the meeting on 2 April, were given the floor for their last plea.

A spontaneous emission of petroleum products into the Tuapse river happened at one of the enterprises of "Rosneft" in the town, activists of "Environmental Watch on North Caucasus" report.

Police personnel in Nalchik detained a locomotive driver from whom four trotyl blocks of a total weight of 800 gram and seven electrical detonators were confiscated, a representative of Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Kabardino-Balkaria reported.

Head of Kirovsky district of Volgograd Sergey Kapanadze was detained by the police within the framework of investigating a case of swindle in building a municipal physical training complex (PTC). Kapanadze is suspected of bribetaking and abuse of authority, Press service of Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Volgograd region reported.

According to the investigators, the former chief physician of the Volgograd Regional Clinical Hospital of War Veterans inflicted a loss on the state in the amount of 1.2 million roubles.

After receiving a complaint through Twitter, Yuri Trutnev, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) of the Russian Federation, has instructed the "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising the Nature) to identify and eliminate ecological violations in one of Sochi districts.

Investigators believe that one of the main versions of the car explosion near the village of Tashkapur, which occurred on Wednesday afternoon, was an attempt on Magomed Magomedov, the head of Gergebil District of Dagestan. This was reported by the spokesman of the Republic's department of the ICRF.

Alexander Oldak, the head of the Chief Department (CD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Stavropol Territory, is suspected of committing a crime in the period when he headed the MIA's CD for the Altai Territory. This was reported on September 28 by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation (ICRF).

At the court session, where the riots in Manege Square in Moscow in 2011 are considered, the witness Kambikov confirmed that defendant Berezyuk hit a policeman; however, he failed to identify the organizers of the riots among the defendants. Other victims also failed to identify the defendants.

Malik Appaev, a resident of the town of Tyrnyauz of Elbrus District of Kabardino-Balkaria, claims illegal detention and torture by power agents, who demanded that he pleaded guilty to illegal possession of military grenade.

Heads of Dagestani power agencies held an operative meeting in Makhachkala. It was reported that this year Dagestan saw 136 attempts on law enforcers; 70 of them were killed and 145 more injured.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has confirmed the indictment on the criminal case against seven residents of Dagestan, who, according to the investigators, put groceries, cafes and other sale outlets in the city of Makhachkala, where they sold alcohol, on fire. The criminal case files have been sent to the Supreme Court of Dagestan, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reports.

Ismail Magomedsharipov, the head of the Akhvakh District, cancelled his earlier statement on transfer of agricultural lands allocated to the production cooperative "Karatinsky" to the district municipal property. The title on land plots was also cancelled.

Shalva Ramishvili, journalist of an independent Georgian TV company "Maestro", and the company's cameraman were detained in Kvareli district of Eastern Georgia, in the territory of a vineyard belonging to Mikhail Saakashvili. The Georgian human rights activists estimated the journalists' detention as a pressure upon free mass media and demand investigation on the incident.

The military reported loss of two more soldiers of statutory service after Russian-Byelorussian manoeuvres "Union Shield-2011" which passed off in "Ashuluk" firing range, Astrakhan region.

Religious Capitul (board) of the Finnish town of Espoo decided to suspend pastor Yuha Molari from office for three months for criticism of "Kavkaz Center" web-site.

The project "Week of Freedom" launched on September 21 was completed on September 28, the International Day of Freedom of Information with awarding the annual prize of the Freedom of Information Centre (FIC) "Golden Key and Rusty Lock" with assistance of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Albert Auesovich Tutov was kidnapped in Tyrniauz, Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported by Fatima Talovna Ulimbasheva, resident of Baksan district of the republic. The young man's relatives are afraid that members of the top brass were involved in the abduction.

Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of eight defendants in the case on the explosion in the Moscow shooting club "Object", which occurred on December 31, 2010, until the end of December this year, Ekaterina Korotova, the press secretary of the court, reports.