News

September 04, 2012 23:20

• Four out of five persons, detained near hospital in Nazran, released from custody

  In Ingushetia, four out of five persons, convicted after the incident, which occurred on September 1 in the yard of the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Ingushetia, had served their administrative penalties, and they had been released. Another convict Ali Khazbiev, a brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist, an activist of the "PARNAS" Party, remains in custody and receives medical treatment at the Republic's Clinical Hospital.

September 04, 2012 23:10

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, Days of Kabarda's and Balkaria's entry into Russia celebrated separately

  Kabardino-Balkaria held the solemn events to celebrate the 185th anniversary of Balkaria's voluntary entry and the 455th anniversary of Kabarda's voluntary entry into Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

September 04, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijan: rights defenders condemn conviction of opposition activists Ilgar Rzaev

  Ilgar Rzaev, an activist of the oppositional "Open Society" Party (OSP) and a volunteer of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), was sentenced in Azerbaijan to 2 years in prison. Azerbaijani human rights activists and NGOs find the verdict "politically motivated."

September 04, 2012 22:40

• Relatives of Sirajuddin Khasaev from Buinaksk reports his repeated kidnapping

  Residents Buinaksk-relatives of the kidnapped Sirajuddin Khasaev, who was found in a hospital in Makhachkala, claim that he was kidnapped again. In this regard, they plan to block the federal highway.

September 04, 2012 22:20

• Journalist of "Esquire" questioned by FSB about her article about kidnappings in Chechnya

  Svetlana Reiter, a correspondent for the "Esquire" magazine, claims that she was summoned for questioning to the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) in the context of her article concerning disappearances in Chechnya and the inaction of the authorities, where the statement of Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Committee Against Torture, was mentioned.

September 04, 2012 22:10

• Iranian authorities release two Azerbaijani poets

  Iran has freed from prison two young Azerbaijani poets - Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, said Mail Gadjizade, Shakhriyar's father.

September 04, 2012 22:00

• Court refuses to open criminal case on torturing former Stavropol city manager

  In North Ossetia, the Lenin District Court of Vladikavkaz has dismissed today the motion lodged by the advocates of Igor Bestuzhy, the former head of the administration of the city of Stavropol, suspected of bribery, to initiate a criminal investigation on the application of their client about the use of torture against him at the temporary detention centre (known as IVS).

September 04, 2012 21:00

• The court in Volgograd released a cameraman who was filming a young communists' action

  On September, 3, a cameraman in Volgograd who was filming an action against extermination of head of pig livestock in the region because of an infective episode of pig African plague was released from administrative arrest.

September 04, 2012 20:00

• Sirazhuddin Khasaev kidnapped in Buinaksk underwent torture, his relatives report

  The wounded Sirazhuddin Khasaev who survived after adduction in Buinaksk underwent torture together with Khizri Pirmagomedov who later was found killed, kidnapped Zair Khasaev's wife reported.

September 04, 2012 19:00

• Magomed Khazbiev reported search in his house in Ingushetia

  Members of the top brass were searching the Khazbievs' house in Nazran for about an hour, Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev reported. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs informed that the incident really took place but they were not aware of the details yet.

September 04, 2012 18:00

• A teacher who got lost in Dagestan found dead

  Deputy Director of Energetics college in the town of Kaspiysk Rabadan Kadiev who disappeared in July was found dead in his homestead in Makhachkala, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported.

September 03, 2012 23:50

• In Ingushetia, doctors insist on hospitalization of Ali Khazbiev

  Doctors of the ambulance, called again to the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran, insists hospitalization of Ali Khazbiev, brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist and activist of the party "Parnas", who was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Doctors fear for his health.

September 03, 2012 23:50

• Volgograd: participant of "Three Piglets" action arrested for "manifest disrespect for society"

  Protocols on administrative offence were drawn up against the participants of the action "Three Piglets" held on August 31 in the building of the Government of the Volgograd Region. Six people have been fined, and one more is still in detention.

September 03, 2012 23:40

• On third day of "Memory Watch" Beslan residents lay flowers at monument "Tree of Sorrow"

  In North Ossetia, today on the final of the memory days of the victims of the terror act of September 1-3, 2004, in Secondary School No. 1 in Beslan, residents of the city and republic's leaders took part in the mourning ceremony at the Memorial Cemetery and laid flowers at the monument named "Tree of Sorrow".

September 03, 2012 23:30

• Missing resident of Buinaksk Sirajuddin Khasaev found in hospital

  Today, Sirajuddin Khasaev, a resident of Buinaksk, who disappeared on September 2, was found in the Central Makhachkala Hospital with burns of his legs and a gunshot wound in his shoulder, a source from the Dagestani regional public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

September 03, 2012 23:20

• Relatives declared innocence of people killed in Malgobek District of Ingushetia

  Abdurakhman Kurskiev, Ilez Merzhoev and Ibragim Bekbuzarov, who were shot dead in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, rendered no resistance and were armless, said their relatives-eyewitnesses of the incident. They turned to the police, the head of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking to investigate the killings. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia said that the casualties were militants and resisted detention.

September 03, 2012 23:00

• Action "We need peaceful Dagestan" is held in Dagestan

  Today, on September 3, on the solidarity day against terrorism, Dagestan hosts a youth action "We need peaceful Dagestan", said the republic's committee for youth policy.

September 03, 2012 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 27 to September 2

  Murder in a suicide bombing in Dagestan of Sheikh Said Afandi and gunfire at the frontier post; special operation to free hostages in Georgia; pardoning of Ramil Safarov, found guilty of murdering Armenian officer, in Azerbaijan; commemoration of casualties of 2004 Beslan terror act, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 27-September 2, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 03, 2012 22:10

• Zara Murtazalieva, native of Chechnya, convicted for plotting terror is at large

  Today, Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, who was convicted for preparing a terror acts in Moscow in the mall "Okhotny Ryad", has been released.

September 03, 2012 22:00

• Ukraine: after July 18 Osmaev's advocates are not admitted to the client, his relatives assert

  The advocates of Adam Osmaev, who is under arrest in Ukraine as the main suspect in the case on preparing a terror act against the President of the Russian Federation, is, cannot meet their client after July 18, Amina Okueva, Osmaev's common-law wife, said today.