All news

Defenders of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, sentenced to death sentence for organizing the terror act during the marathon in Boston, have filed papers to withdraw from the trial. New advocates are offered to defend the convict.

Sharon Tennyson, Director General of the Civil Initiatives Centre, and her interpreter Theodore McIntyre were fined for breaking the entry rules to Russia. In the local Rotary Club they conducted a conference on resumption of the programme of the Civil Initiatives Centre in Russia, having specified a tourist trip as the aim of their visit, said the spokesperson of the Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd.

In Suleiman-Stalsky District, an armed clash broke out between power agents and two militants, who were shot dead in the shootout, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

Human rights activists have demanded to free citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh. Investigators have no proofs that during the first Chechen war Karpyuk and Klyh were in Chechnya, rights defenders assert.

Residents of the three districts of Dagestan, which are under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, say that they have no problems related thereto. According to their stories, schools and kindergartens in the villages of the Tabasaran, Suleiman-Stalsky and Khiv Districts work as usual.

The condition of the woman, who suffered from the explosion at the GIBDD (traffic police) checkpoint in the Derbent District of Dagestan, is stably grave, said Rumina Demirova, Chief Physician of the Central City Hospital (CCH) of Derbent. According to her story, the patient is in coma and connected to an artificial respiration unit.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in three districts of Dagestan, where power agents are searching for members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), said the spokesman of the republic's operative headquarters.

The exercises of the Southern Military District (SMD) have political context and are intended to master various scenarios of the air warfare and defence for the Black Sea Fleet, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The families of casualties and victims of the explosion at the Djemikent traffic police checkpoint in the Derbent District of Dagestan will receive financial aid from the government, depending on the gravity of injuries, the press service of the republic's government has reported.

The woman, who was seriously wounded by the explosion at the GIBDD (traffic police) checkpoint in the Derbent District, has died in hospital, said Ramazan Abdulatipov, the head of Dagestan. Thus, according to official data, she is the fourth casualty of the blast, including the suicide bomber.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found a violation of the right to life of Apti Dalakov, a resident of Ingushetia, who was killed by law enforcers in 2007. His uncle was awarded a compensation for moral harm in the amount of 60,000 euros, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported.

The Imam of the city of Kislovodsk Kurman-Ali Baichorov, who was yesterday released by the decision of the Stavropol Territorial Court, is at large from his colony. The decision was enforced immediately after the Courier Service has brought the judgement of the appeal court to the colony.

The number of Russians, who consider the situation in Northern Caucasus prosperous, is reducing, indicates the latest opinion poll conducted by the "Levada-Centre". According to sociologists, the "Crimean syndrome" is gradually ceasing to affect the moods of Russians; and, in parallel, people are losing confidence in the stabilization of situation in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

In Derbent, power agents destroyed an explosive device in the house of Abutdin Khanmagomedov, who had sworn to the "Islamic State" (IS) said one of townspeople.

Elzhan Talibov, 46, the father of Admir Talibov, suspected of triggering an explosion at the GIBDD (traffic police) checkpoint, was brought to the ROVD (District Interior Division) of Derbent, said a law enforcement source from Dagestan.

Builders plan to completely dismantle the multi-storey house destroyed by explosion by March 15. The demolition of the house will cost 16,370,000 budget roubles.

One of the detainees, according to law enforcers, took part in the activities of the "Islamic State" (IS), which is banned in Russia; the second is suspected of complicity.

Representatives of Amur Khakulov, a convict in the case on the attack on Nalchik, have sent a request to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to take urgent measures in connection with the deterioration of his health. Khakulov needs haemodialysis and takes pills, said his wife.

Yusup Bartykhanov, a member of the tender committee for the selection of candidates for the post of Mayor of Buynaksk, is suspected of illegal purchase and possession of weapons and drugs. This was reported by a source from the Buynaksk City Court. According to the source, the Court has taken Yusup Bartykhanov in custody for two months.

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the appeal filed by advocates of human rights defender Rasul Jafarov and upheld his earlier sentence.