Magomed was a prominent critic of Ingushetiya President, Murat Zyzikov who has criticized inushetiya.ru’s reporting and has brought a court case seeking to shut it down.  His lawyer is quoted saying that the police picked him up and shot him in the temple before dumping him near the hospital.

Zyzikov has been fighting an insurgency in Ingushetiya and has taken a hardline stance to any opposition.

The website is calling for supporters to rally and demonstrate to protest the killing, and we here fully support their cause.

Azerbaijani web page Day.az [editor’s note: won’t load for me] which is reliable source of nformation in Russian from Azerbaijan were attached from Russia. According to Baimov, editor-in-chief of Day.az all cyber attacks administred from one point. He said, that hackers did not liked the way how day.az writing about South Ossetia and Georgia. It is based on human rights and do not include Russian Propaganda. Day.az still working to renew system and start in full mode. But cyber attacks could be done once more.

Hacking attacks against political opponents are more and more common and obviously will be a part of warfare from here on out, unfortunately. We wish Day.az luck in resisting further attacks.

IFEX (with CJES) has additional information.

The Syktyvkar prosecutor’s office (Komi Republic) has filed criminal charges against Internet blogger Savva Terentyev for allegedly violating Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The article refers to “fanning hatred or a feud” and “belittling a person’s dignity”.

IFEX further reports, “The blogger faces a fine in the amount of 200,000 rubles (approx. US$7,760) or up to five years in a penal colony if convicted of the charges.” (They still have penal colonies? Good grief.)

The CPB is not in the habit of calling for the defense of people who encourage violence. There are, however, a few red flags. First is the uncertain translation. If any Russian-speaking readers can locate the original, please let us know. That’s highly doubtful, as the first thing that usually happens when a government finds a blog or blog post officially offensive is that it gets deleted. [Could this be it? http://terentyev.livejournal.com/]

The second flag is the way he’s being charged. The words “hatred” and “dignity” in a blogger’s prosecution usually signal less an issue of law than one of politics. The blogger’s already guilty, so some charges need to be found.