News

March 02, 2013 10:00

• Action against non-combat losses initiated in Baku

  In Azerbaijan, a group in the Facebook "Stop soldiers' deaths!" is inviting people to a protest action associated with the death of Private Seimur Allakhverdiev.

March 02, 2013 09:00

• Book "There Was a City..." presented in Makhachkala

  A book about Makhachkala "There Was a City..." was published in Dagestan; it is a collection of memoirs of 83 residents of Makhachkala recorded by journalists Svetlana Anokhina and Polina Sanaeva and illustrated by photographs – views of the city and portraits of the authors and memoir heroes.

March 02, 2013 08:00

• Yerevan commemorates March 2008 casualties

  On February 28, the capital of Armenia hosted a mourning march and a prayer in memory of the ten persons who perished on March 2008, when the police dispersed a peaceful rally demanding to nullify the election totals.

March 01, 2013 18:00

• Sochi: case of journalist Kravchenko sent to reconsideration

  The Tsentralny District Court of Sochi has considered the appeal lodged by Svetlana Kravchenko, a journalist of the "Caucasian Knot" against the verdict on the case of beating Vladimir Krivosheev, a guard of the Private Guarding Enterprise (known as "ChOP") "Region-3". The court has sent the case to reconsideration.

March 01, 2013 17:14

• Students boycott lessons in protest against election outcomes in Armenia

  The emotions of the students' strike in Armenia are getting beyond borders, said Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Sciences, and called the organizers to admit that their action has failed.

March 01, 2013 17:00

• Rapper who posted clip criticising road police on YouTube arrested in Azerbaijan

  The rapper Said Aliev, more broadly known as Dado, was arrested in Baku. His relatives believe that the young singer is persecuted for his video clip YPX, in which he criticises the practice of bribe-taking among road police.

March 01, 2013 16:00

• Chechnya presents its resort "Veduchi"

  The Itum-Kalin District of Chechnya has held a broad-scale presentation of the alpine ski resort "Veduchi" with participation of famous athletes from nine countries.

March 01, 2013 15:00

• The collection rate of utility payments in Grozny exceeds 120 percent

  In January, the utility employees of the Chechen capital managed to collect 121 percent of all types of payments for housing and municipal services. Residents of Grozny report about raids aimed to disconnect the debtors from gas, electricity and water supplies.

March 01, 2013 14:00

• In case of war with Iran Southern Caucasus will be drawn into conflict, experts assert

  A possible warfare launched against Iran will throw the development of Southern Caucasus back for many years; the tension is already telling on the attractiveness of economic projects. This was stated by the participants of the video bridge "Moscow – Astana – Yerevan" that was held on February 25 in Moscow in the presence of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

March 01, 2013 13:00

• Suren Gazaryan nominated to Netizen Prize

  Suren Gazaryan from Krasnodar, a member of the Coordination Board of the Russian opposition and an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", has been nominated for the Netizen Prize.

March 01, 2013 12:00

• Refugees from Sumgait insist that pogroms in 1988 were genocide

  On February 28, Nogorno-Karabakh marked the anniversary of the tragedy in Sumgait. The eyewitnesses of those events believe that the pogroms should be adequately assessed by the world community, while Azerbaijan should compensate the material damage and moral harm suffered by the victims.

March 01, 2013 11:00

• Abkhazia: opposition demands govt's resignation

  On February 28, a number of Abkhazian oppositional organizations held a protest rally in Sukhumi against increasing tariffs on power, during which they also moved a demand to dismiss the government.

March 01, 2013 09:18

• Oppositional candidates reject the totals of presidential election in Armenia

  The Armenian oppositional forces believe that the presidential election was held with violations and were falsified. This was stated by the election offices of the ex-candidates, who took part in the 2013 presidential election.

March 01, 2013 09:00

• Ingushetia: refugees from Chechnya fear TAC closure

  Forced resettlers from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) named "Promzhilbaza" and located in the city of Karabulak received information about the upcoming removal of their camp scheduled for March 1.

February 28, 2013 22:25

• North Ossetia starts action "Let's save Olympic wrestling"

  On February 28, the city of Vladikavkaz started collecting signatures in favour of preserving the styles of wrestling – free, Greco-Roman and women's – in the Olympic programme. This is one of the elements of the action "Let's save Olympic wrestling", which was a reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to exclude wrestling from the Olympic programme.

February 28, 2013 21:18

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria cancels compensations to 60 Chernobyl liquidators

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has cancelled compensations of moral harm to the last 60 remaining members of the group of former liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Earlier, they were paid their compensations under the rulings of the Nalchik City and Terek District Courts.

February 28, 2013 18:18

• Stavropol Territory: court convicts on terror

  Today, the Stavropol Territorial Court has finished announcing the verdict on the case of three locals accused of preparing and committing terror acts in Pyatigorsk and Stavropol. The terms of imprisonment requested by the accusation have been upheld.

February 28, 2013 18:00

• Initiative group of referendum for election of president by parliament registered by Georgia's CEC

  On February 26, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia registered an initiative group of three persons that had proposed to start collecting signatures in favour of election of the country's president by the parliament. For the incumbent president to appoint referendum, they need to collect 200,000 signatures within three months.

February 28, 2013 17:00

• Raffi Ovannisyan calls to sack election falsifiers in Armenia

  Raffi Ovannisyan, a former presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional party named "Heritage", has announced continuation of his struggle and called to dismiss those guilty of falsifying the election outcomes.

February 28, 2013 14:00

• Russia's SC postpones cassation on Pavlyuchenkov's verdict

  Today, the judicial panel on criminal cases of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has failed for the second time to consider the cassation complaint lodged by the defence of the convict in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta". Because of Pavlyuchenkov's illness, the consideration was indefinitely postponed.