News

January 04, 2013 21:00

• Armenia stops receiving applications from presidential candidates

  Today, Armenia has completed the nomination procedure of president candidates; now, on January 4-14, the Central Election Commission (CEC) will register them.

January 04, 2013 20:00

• Solo pickets demanding to find Akhmed Buzurtanov held in Ingushetia

  Today, a series of solo pickets were organized on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia by relatives of Akhmed Buzurtanov, the kidnapped coach of the Ingush sports club "Kaloy". The actions will be held every day, said the organizers of the protest actions.

January 04, 2013 19:00

• Maikop Mayoralty did not sanction rally in support of Syrian Circassians

  The Mayoralty of Maikop has not sanctioned the rally in support of Syrian Circassians scheduled for January 5, said Arthur Bagadirov, one of the organizers.

January 04, 2013 18:00

• Georgia sets up new group to monitor prisons

  The Ministry of Corrections of Georgia is forming a new group for monitoring the jails. The work will be over by the end of January.

January 04, 2013 17:00

• Georgia recalls ambassadors from five countries

  The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has withdrawn five ambassadors, Maia Pandzhikidze, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, said at a press conference.

January 04, 2013 16:00

• Actions demanding Saakashvili's resignation held in several cities in Georgia

  Tbilisi and several other cities of Georgia have become venues of protests demanding resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili. They were initiated by activists of several public organizations.

January 04, 2013 15:00

• "Musavat" Party nominated its leader Isa Gambar as presidential candidate in Azerbaijan

  The today's session of the Majlis of the "Musavat" Party has decided to nominate the party leader Isa Gambar, 56, to the post of the President of Azerbaijan at the regular presidential election upcoming on October 16, 2013.

January 04, 2013 14:00

• Resident of Dagestan complains of doctors' procrastination in helping her baby

  For the second day, a one-year-old child is in grave condition at the district hospital in the village Agvali, the Tsumadin District of Dagestan; doctors, accused by parents of acting too slowly, cannot bring down the baby's high temperature.

January 04, 2013 13:00

• "Sotsprof" sends appeal to Governor of Volgograd Region on invalids' problems

  The territorial association (TA) of the Volgograd Region "Sotsprof" has sent an appeal to the regional governor Sergey Bozhenov concerning the problems of the disabled. According to activists of the association, the regional government is making too little to improve the status of people with disabilities.

January 04, 2013 12:00

• Four people wounded in shootout in Kaspiysk

  Tonight in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, four unidentified persons opened fire at four other men, who were hospitalized with wounds of different severity.

January 03, 2013 23:00

• Sochi residents: fire in Khosta District continues

  In the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, residents of Djaparidze and Leselidze Streets located in the Khosta District on the left and right banks of the Sochi River, report that as at 11:00 p.m. Moscow time, the fire in the area of Orekhov Waterfalls did not go down and moved towards individual houses.

January 03, 2013 22:00

• Subari: 3000 prisoners will get at large under the Law "On Amnesty" in Georgia

  Within two months from the entry into force of the Law "On Amnesty", 3000 inmates will be released; and 14,000 others will have their terms reduced, said Sozar Subari, Minister for Correction, Probation and Legal Assistance of Georgia.

January 03, 2013 21:00

• In Adygea, 48 families are without heating for the third day

  The tenants of an apartment building in the outskirt of the township Yablonovsky, which is a part of Adygea but located in a suburb of Krasnodar, report that they are without heating since the evening of December 31.

January 03, 2013 20:00

• Sochi residents are dissatisfied with police's work during holidays

  During the first days of 2013, residents of Sochi report about violations of public order in the city, illegal felling of trees and other accidents; they express discontent over the inadequate police reactions to their complaints.

January 03, 2013 19:00

• Authorities of Kashatakh District of Karabakh promise to give housing to all refugees from Syria by February

  In 2012, 30 Armenian families from Syria arrived in the Kashatakh District of Nagorno-Karabakh. Those who need housing will be provided with their own apartments in February, the district administration has promised.

January 03, 2013 18:00

• Rostov NGO spreads New Year gifts among homeless people

  In the Rostov Region, the public organization "Rostov without Drugs" is undertaking the action "With Faith for the Best", during which homeless people are given meals and New Year gifts.

January 03, 2013 17:00

• Synagogue to be built in Grozny near "Heart of Chechnya"

  The Chechen capital plan to build a synagogue; the ceremony of laying the foundation stone is scheduled for January 9. The site is in the place of the Ashkenazi synagogue that existed in the early 20th century.

January 03, 2013 16:00

• Rescuers find bone of ancient animal in central Volgograd

  On January 2, on the bottom of the Volga River, in the area of the central embankment of Volgograd, rescuers found a bone of a prehistoric animal, presumably a mammoth.

January 03, 2013 15:00

• Signatures against ban on wearing hijabs in schools are collected on the Internet

  The website of electronic referenda "Democrator" began collecting signatures to the demand to allow girls from Muslim families to wear hijabs in schools.

January 03, 2013 14:00

• FSB: criminal who shelled police building in KChR killed two locals

  As reported by the spokesman of the local FSB, Dinislam Karakotov, who has shelled the police building in the Malokarachay District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), had shot two locals before he was killed.