News

January 25, 2018 18:52

• Court refuses to release Oyub Titiev

  The court in Chechnya has rejected an appeal complaint against the decision to arrest Oyub Titiev; and the rights defender has been left in custody.

January 25, 2018 13:30

• US media reporters banned from access to Stavropol Duma

  Delegates have voted to ban reporters of the US editions recognized as foreign agents from attending meetings of the Duma for the Stavropol Territory.

January 25, 2018 12:40

• Tourists disappear in mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, a rescue team has been sent to search for climbers on Elbrus Mount, who stopped answering calls.

January 25, 2018 12:37

• Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of a break-through attempt

  Today, fighters from the Defence Army have stopped a break-through attempt of Azerbaijani spies, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

January 25, 2018 09:55

• Azerbaijan reports 109 bombardments during 24 hours

  On January 24 and at night on January 25, the ceasefire regime was violated from the territories of both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

January 25, 2018 08:32

• Second earthquake in Armenia within 24 hours

  An underground shock having magnitude of 2.2 points was recorded in the evening on January 24 in the Ararat Region of Armenia, 12 hours after the earthquake in the Shirak Region.

January 24, 2018 19:33

• Caucasian Forum on direct elections disrupted in Pyatigorsk

  The organizers of the forum on the return of direct elections in Northern Caucasus have been notified that they will not be able to hold the event in Pyatigorsk on January 27. The forum will be held later in Moscow in a different format, the organizers – the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations (RCCN) and the Interregional Public Organization "New World" – have decided.

January 24, 2018 14:39

• In Dagestan, HRC "Memorial" car set on fire intentionally

  The Makhachkala police have instituted a criminal case under article "deliberate destruction or damage of property" in connection with the arson of a car belonging to the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Dagestan.

January 24, 2018 14:11

• Russian citizen claims spending a year in slavery in Abkhazia

  When detained by border guards near the Psou River, a man claimed he fled from slavery in Abkhazia.

January 24, 2018 12:12

• Police finds authors of video with smoking child in North Ossetia

  Policemen have drawn up a protocol on an administrative offense committed by the resident of North Ossetia, who, in their opinion, gave a cigarette to the child, the North-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

January 24, 2018 11:59

• Rostov resident sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for trying to join ISIL

  The North-Caucasian District Military Court has pronounced a guilty verdict to a resident of Rostov-on-Don who was detained at the airport on the way to militants in Afghanistan.

January 24, 2018 08:24

• Makhachkala Vice-Mayor denies information about drowned man in canal

  Specialists run off the water in the October Revolution Canal, and no dead body was found there, reported Murad Aliev, Vice-Mayor of Makhachkala.

January 24, 2018 06:35

• Nalchik activists urge authorities to repair apartment to a family with a disabled person

  17 years ago, in exchange for the old housing, the family of Tatiana Alkhazova, a resident of Nalchik, with one of members disabled since childhood, was granted an apartment from the authorities with windows filled with plywood and without heating. Over the years, the family has not succeeded in bringing housing into proper condition, Tatiana Alkhazova stated.

January 24, 2018 03:42

• CE Commissioner demands from Russia to investigate attack on "Memorial" in Dagestan

  After threats against the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged the Russian authorities to end the harassment of rights defenders in Northern Caucasus.

January 24, 2018 03:31

• NKR's authorities extend support programme for border villagers

  The authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have extended the programme of subsidizing tariffs for electricity and gas supply for residents of northern border villages. Local residents treat the programme as a great support. Besides, in border villages, shelters are under constructions to protect people from shelling.

January 24, 2018 00:08

• Armenian experts see no big importance in delivery of Russian APCs to Azerbaijan

  Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are not intended for combat operations, and their supply to Azerbaijan does not violate the balance of forces in the Karabakh conflict zone, Armenian observers stated. The experts treated the delivery as a Russia's attempt to hinder the settlement of the conflict.

January 23, 2018 23:51

• Opening of a mountain resort means subbotniks for Chechen public employees

  In Grozny, public employees and students reported about an unusually early start of the subbotnik (voluntary Saturday work) season. Officials explained the organization of mass participation of people in public works by preparing the capital of Chechnya for the opening of the "Veduchi" mountain resort. 

January 23, 2018 22:54

• State prosecutor tells about Nurmagomedov's appeals to his brother to escape from IS

  Shamil Nurmagomedov, a native of Dagestan, accused of financing terrorism, urged his brother to flee from the territory controlled by the "Islamic State" (IS) and not participate in "turmoil among Muslims." This was evidenced by a fragment of brothers' correspondence read out today by the state prosecutor.

January 23, 2018 20:37

• Ingush branch of HRC "Memorial" resumes work after arson

  The attack on the Ingush office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" failed to disrupt the work of rights defenders in Ingushetia, said Timur Akiev, the head of the Ingush representative office of the HRC "Memorial". He has noted that the authorities did not offer to move to another premise, but rights defenders' friends helped to resume the work.

January 23, 2018 18:43

• Dagestani woman sentenced to 12 years in prison after her return from Iraq

  In Khasavyurt, the court has sentenced Naida Shaikh-Akhmedova, returned from Iraq to Grozny in the autumn of 2017, to 12 years of imprisonment, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies.