News

February 06, 2013 17:00

• DPS inspector killed by shelling in Nalchik

  In the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in an attack on the crew of the road-and-post service (DPS), a policeman was lost; another one was hospitalized with wounds.

February 06, 2013 16:00

• Arrested leader of "ReAl" Ilgar Mamedov nominated as presidential candidate

  Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), arrested on charges of organizing riots in the city of Ismailly, has been nominated by the movement as a presidential candidate at the election of the head of Azerbaijan upcoming on October 16, 2013.

February 06, 2013 15:00

• ICRF: man who opened fire at power agent killed in Dagestan

  Tonight, near the village of Kadyrkent, Sergokalin District of Dagestan, a local opened fire at power agents and was killed by return fire.

February 06, 2013 14:00

• Ivanishvili reports about his first 100 days in office

  Bidzina Ivanishvili has summed up his first 100 days in office as the Prime Minister of Georgia. He believes that he was successful.

February 05, 2013 23:00

• Police finds the car of the policeman killed in Khasavyurt

  The car of the Chechen policeman Magomed Eskerkhanov, who was kidnapped and killed in Dagestan, was found burned down in Khasavyurt, said the spokesman of the Investigatory department for Dagestan of the ICRF.

February 05, 2013 22:00

• Nalchik starts hearing on lawsuit of KBR resident, announced by MIA as suicide bomber

  On February 4, the Nalchik City Court chaired by Judge Aslanbek Zhigunova held the first hearing on the lawsuit of Fuza Makhotlova, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), lodged against to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the KBR on protection of her honour, dignity and business reputation and compensation of moral damage on the fact of declaring her a suicide bomber.

February 05, 2013 21:00

• 42 refugee families move to new apartment in Georgia

  On February 4, in the Georgian city of Gori, 42 refugee families received keys from their new apartments.

February 05, 2013 20:00

• Police find multimillion embezzlement of budget funds in Dagestan

  According to the Russia's MIA, the money allocated for capital repairs of the housing fund and resettlement of tenants from dilapidated houses was stolen.

February 05, 2013 19:00

• Affected investors of "Express" receive almost a third of insurance compensation

  The North-Caucasian Branch of the Savings Bank has paid more than a billion roubles of insurance compensations to residents of Dagestan on their deposits, opened at the Joint-Stock Commercial Bank "Express", whose license had been revoked.

February 05, 2013 18:00

• Paruir Airikyan's advocate confirms refusal of his client to demand postponement of presidential election

  The election of the President of Armenia will be held in accordance with the previously approved schedule and will not be postponed, since the candidate Airikyan has decided not to apply for the delay.

February 05, 2013 17:00

• Suspect of killing head of local MIA released from custody in Dagestan

  The criminal case of the murder in 2009 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerey Magomedtagirov has not been sent to the court; therefore, the alleged killer was released from detention under home arrest, said Alexei Vasilkov, the deputy head of the Department of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

February 05, 2013 16:00

• Advocates of the figurant in Politkovskaya's murder case appeal against extension of his arrest

  The defence of Sergey Khadjikurbanov, a figurant in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", has decided to challenge the extension of his arrest, which was ruled by the Moscow City Court.

February 05, 2013 15:00

• In Nalchik, relatives of missing KBR residents stop their action after meeting local FSB boss

  Today in Nalchik, relatives of the residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) Alim Kaitaev and Ismail Baluev, who had been kidnapped, in their opinion, in Nalchik, decided to stop the protest action, which was attended by about 80 people.

February 05, 2013 14:00

• Two Azerbaijani soldiers killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  As a result of a violation of the ceasefire regime, two Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and one more wounded, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

February 04, 2013 23:00

• Kerimli: accusation of Tofig Yagublu is "politically motivated"

  The arrest of the deputy chairman of the "Musavat" Party Tofig Yagublu, accused of organizing riots in Ismailly, was undertaken under the order of the authorities – he has committed nothing illegal, said Nemat Kerimli, Yagublu's defender.

February 04, 2013 22:00

• ICRF: eight people detained in Moscow on suspicion of kidnapping Chechnya resident

  According to the press service of the Investigatory Department for Moscow of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), eight suspects of kidnapping a resident of Grozny have been detained in Moscow.

February 04, 2013 21:00

• Bomb installed on the door of healer's house neutralized in Dagestan

  Sappers have completed neutralizing the bomb mounted on the door of a private house in the village of Sabnova, Derbent District of Dagestan; the power of the bomb was 2 kilograms of TNT (trotyl) equivalent, the Operational Headquarters of the Republic has reported.

February 04, 2013 20:00

• Opening of ski route in Ingushetia postponed till February 20 because of warm weather

  The solemn opening ceremony of the first alpine ski route at the resort of Armkhi in Ingushetia, which was to be held on February 5, has been postponed due to the unusually warm weather.

February 04, 2013 19:00

• Mayor of Maikop Michail Chernichenko resigns

  The today's sitting of the Presidium of the Council of People's Deputies of the city of Maikop has discussed an application lodged by the head of the administration of the capital of Adygea Michail Chernichenko about his resignation from his post at his own will.

February 04, 2013 18:00

• Airikyan wants to demand delay of presidential election in Armenia

  Paruir Airikyan, a presidential candidate of Armenia and the Chairman of the Association "National Self-Determination", who suffered an assassination attempt, has been moved from the intensive care to a regular hospital unit.