News

October 03, 2013 01:16

• OSCE mission claims people forced to attend election campaign rallies in Azerbaijan

  The election campaign of Azerbaijani presidential candidates continues in deteriorating atmosphere. This was noted at the second interim report of the OSCE/ODIHR observation mission at the presidential election in Azerbaijan.

October 03, 2013 01:05

• Kabardino-Balkaria: residents of dilapidated barracks refuse to move to communal flats

  In Nalchik, residents of the barracks located in Gorky Street, recognized as dilapidated and unfit for living, have refused to move into new apartment buildings, because the city authorities offered to move two or three families into one flat.

October 03, 2013 00:24

• Johar Tsarnaev's advocates ask court to mitigate his prison conditions

  The defence of Johar Tsarnaev accused of the Boston terror act asks the court in the United States to soften his prison conditions. This was stated in the motion filed by the defendants' advocates.

October 02, 2013 21:46

• Sochi court extends Yarst's home arrest by other two months

  The Tsentralny District Court of Sochi has satisfied the investigators' motion and extended the home arrest of the journalist Nikolai Yarst until December 3.

October 02, 2013 18:05

• Dagestani court refuses to release "Anji" fans under recognizance not to leave

  Three fans of the "Anji" Football Club (FC), accused of disorderly conduct against Rostov fans, will not be released under recognizance not to leave, the Kaspiysk City Court has ruled today.

October 02, 2013 17:08

• Azerbaijan: photo reporter Mekhman Guseinov released after questioning at GPO

  After a six-hour-long interrogation at the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan, Mekhman Guseinov, photo reporter at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and a blogger, has been released, said the lawyer Gyunay Ismailova.

October 02, 2013 16:19

• NATO Secretary General urges Russia to abolish recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has again urged Russia to reconsider its decision to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

October 02, 2013 15:04

• In Dagestan, three local residents and three policemen killed in shooting with suspected militants

  According to the updated information, on October 1, during a fire-fight with militants in the Levashi District three local residents were killed. This was told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

October 02, 2013 13:08

• In Azerbaijan, advocate of detained photo reporter complains about obstacles in communicating with his client

  In Azerbaijan, advocate Elchin Sadygov are not allowed to visit Mekhman Guseinov, a blogger and a photo reporter of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), who was detained in the morning of October 2.

October 02, 2013 11:29

• Vladimir Potanin: Olympic status brings continuous losses to "Rosa Khutor" Alpine Resort

  Till present, Olympic status of the constructed "Rosa Khutor" Alpine Resort brings only losses. This was stated by Vladimir Potanin, the head of the holding company "Interros". According to the businessman's statement, the authorities are not in a hurry to help investors of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

October 02, 2013 10:36

• Law enforcers identify person suspected of terror act in village of Khuchni in Dagestan

  Law enforcers have identified the suicide bomber who on September 23 committed the terror act at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) near the OVD (Interior Division) building in Dagestan.

October 02, 2013 09:59

• SAM: Chechen pilgrims will go for hajj till October 9

  Till October 9, all Chechen pilgrims to go for hajj this year will be sent to Saudi Arabia. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) for Chechnya.

October 02, 2013 02:02

• Presidential candidate Djamil Gasanli accuses President Ilham Aliev of corruption

  In the evening of October 1, during the debates in the air of the Public TV of Azerbaijan, Djamil Gasanli, a presidential candidate of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), accused of corruption incumbent President Ilham Aliev, who was running for a third term.

October 01, 2013 19:07

• Investigators agree to give advocates materials on the case of death of 24 civilians in Katyr-Yurt

  The materials of the case of the death of 24 residents of Chechnya in the bombing of the village of Katyr-Yurt will be provided to the advocates who represent victims' interests. The relevant investigators' decision was announced at the today's court session in Grozny.

October 01, 2013 17:03

• Gainutdin not to attend the jubilee of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims

  The Russia's Council of Muftis will not take part in celebrations of the 225th anniversary of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (CSAM), which is scheduled in the city of Ufa, because they disagree with a number of actions undertaken by the CSAM.

October 01, 2013 16:14

• In Volgograd, communists extended the work of public reception office by a month

  In Volgograd, the work of the public reception office, organized by members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the mini-park opposite the regional government, will be extended by a month, that is, until the end of October.

October 01, 2013 15:36

• First flight with pilgrims under Suleiman Kerimov's charity line leaves Dagestan

  As reported by Ruslan Gereev, the director of the Centre for Islamic Studies of Northern Caucasus, the number of pilgrims, travelling to the hajj from Dagestan under support of Senator Suleiman Kerimov, has not decreased as compared with 2012. The first pilgrims supported by the charity line have already left for the hajj.

October 01, 2013 12:46

• Trial of Anna Politkovskaya's murder case postponed till October 8

  The Moscow City Court has rescheduled for October 8 the consideration of the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", because of quarantine at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where defendant Sergey Khadjikurbanov is kept.

October 01, 2013 10:58

• Case against Professor Mikhail Savva, accused of fraud, sent to Krasnodar court

  The criminal case against Professor Mikhail Savva from Kuban State University, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre was sent to the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar. This was reported by the Court.

October 01, 2013 10:28

• MIA suspects former "Rosneft" subsidiary director of embezzling KBR's mountain recreation centre

  Valery Kardanov, ex-General Director of the Fuel Company of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) (a subsidiary of Oil-and-Gas Company "Rosneft") is suspected of embezzling a recreation centre in the nature reserve at foothills of Mount Elbrus.