News

June 09, 2012 17:00

• At Geneva debates, South-Ossetian delegation raises issue of mass burials of Ossetians in Georgia

  At the 20th round of Geneva debates on security in the Caucasus, the South-Ossetian delegation raised the issue of revitalization of searches for the citizens of their republic, who went missing in 1989-1992 and 2008. Members of the delegation said that reports are available on existence in Georgian of mass burials of assassinated Ossetians.

June 09, 2012 15:00

• Azerbaijan: activist who defended rights of flood victims detained

  Ilham Amiraslanov, a local activist of the civil society, was detained in the Sabirabad District of Azerbaijan detained. The office of the civil society "Kura" and human rights activists treat the detention as pressure on the people who try to protect their rights.

June 09, 2012 14:00

• In Adygea, 30 children with disabilities participate in charity action "Volunteers to Children"

  The Republic of Adygea has completed the charity event "Volunteers to Children", which was attended by 30 children with disabilities aged 3-15 from all over the republic. This was reported by Galimet Beshkok, the head of the department for rehabilitation of children with disabilities of the Maikop Social Rehabilitation Centre for Minors.

June 09, 2012 12:00

• Director General of "Rostov" FC resigns after fans' rally

  Director General of the "Rostov" Football Club (FC) resigned after the rally of the fans, who demanded from the leadership of the Rostov Region to terminate the contract with Yuri Belous.

June 09, 2012 11:00

• South Ossetia presents literary almanac of South-Caucasian writers

  On June 8, the city of Tskhinvali hosted a presentation of the second issue of the literary and publicist almanac of the writers of Southern Caucasus.

June 08, 2012 23:00

• Human Rights Council under Russian President: 27 out of 40 members remaining

  This week, Mikhail Fedotov, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Development of Civil Society and Human Rights received two applications from the council members who decided to quit it. Thus, 27 out of 40 initially approved members continue to be its members.

June 08, 2012 22:00

• Project coordinator for resettling Boers to Georgia detained

  Georgian law enforcers have detained Djuba Maruashvili, the coordinator of the project for resettling South African Boers to Georgia.

June 08, 2012 21:00

• Power agents name casualties of special operation in Dagestan

  The spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has disclosed the names of all those killed today during the special operation in Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk, including Rustam Gasanov, the leader of the Kizlyar grouping, his wife, three suspected militants and the owner of the apartment, in which all the six were shot dead.

June 08, 2012 20:00

• Georgia's opposition appeals against the Law "On Political Association of Citizens"

  A number of Georgian opposition parties have addressed the Constitutional Court against the new rules of financing political actors in Georgia under the Law "On Political Association of Citizens". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Nata Tsereteli, the head of the press service of the "Free Georgia".

June 08, 2012 19:00

• Moscow: 18 classmates of the detainee after the fight at "Evropeiskiy" TC detained

  At an attempt to bring witnesses of the fight at the "Evropeiskiy" Trade Centre (TC) to the investigator, policemen detained 18 students of the Maimonides State Classical Academy. Its Rector states that the students were beaten, while policemen behaved illegally.

June 08, 2012 18:00

• Aslan Cherkesov's father killed in KBR

  Magomed Cherkesov, the father of Aslan Cherkesov, convicted for the murder of a Moscow "Spartak" football fan, was killed in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The suspect of the murder has been detained, said a source from the Baksan Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department for the KBR of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

June 08, 2012 17:00

• Armenian TV refutes information that Jehovah's Witness killed his parents

  Following the court ruling, on June 5, the Public Television of Armenia (PTA) refuted in the news programme live on air the false information about the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses. The believers of this community welcomed both the ruling and the action of the television.

June 08, 2012 15:00

• In Sochi, locals stop machinery from entering site of Kudepsta TPP

  Today in Sochi, local residents have once again stopped heavy construction equipment, which, as stated by the city authorities, is needed to carry out geological surveys in the place of the planned construction of the thermal power plant (TPP) on the Kudepsta River. Today, the protestors were addressed by Alexander Zvyagin, a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, who was unsuccessfully trying to convince them of the need to build the TPP.

June 08, 2012 14:00

• In Astrakhan, Commander of "Ashuluk" sentenced conditionally because of death of a soldier

  Colonel Andrei Zaichenko, Commander of the "Ashuluk" Training Range, located in the Astrakhan Region, has been convicted conditionally for the negligence that led to the death of a soldier, the Chief Military Investigatory Department of the ICRF, has reported today.

June 08, 2012 13:00

• Missile launched in Astrakhan Region alarms locals and hits target in Kazakhstan

  The Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RSMF) have made a test launch of a "Topol" intercontinental ballistic missile from the "Kapustin Yar" Training Range, located in the Astrakhan Region. The training warhead of the missile hit the conventional target on the training range in Kazakhstan with the preset accuracy, said Colonel Vadim Koval, the spokesman for the RSMF. At the same time, residents in Russia and other countries, who watched the missile in the sky, took her for an UFO (unidentified flying object).

June 07, 2012 23:00

• Case of teenager's killing in Dagestan brought to Investigatory Department of NCFD

  The criminal case on the fact of death of Imadibir Makhiev, a 16-year-old resident of the village of Karata of the Akhvakh District, the pupil of the 11th form, was brought to examination to Yessentuki to the Investigatory Department of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). This was told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Denga Makhiev, the uncle of the deceased teenager.

June 07, 2012 22:00

• In Krasnodar Territory, two persons hospitalized after fires in two houses

  At night on June 7, at one-hour interval, in the city of Labinsk of the Krasnodar Territory, two private houses, standing opposite each other, burst into flames. A 45-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man suffered in the fire. The fire was caused by a leakage in the gas pipeline.

June 07, 2012 21:00

• Armenia to pay compensation to two Jehovah's Witnesses by ECtHR's decision

  The Armenian government will allocate 20,000 euros to the Ministry of Justice for payment of compensation to two members of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, stipulated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

June 07, 2012 20:00

• Three persons, injured in fire in Volgograd cafe, go to court

  Three persons, injured in gas explosion and fire in the cafe "Bellagio", have filed lawsuits to the Central District Court of Volgograd to demand compensation for moral damages. One of the victims, in accordance with the decision of the Court, will receive compensation of 200,000 roubles.

June 07, 2012 19:00

• In Georgia, three "Georgian Dream" Party activists detained on charges of bribing voters

  In Kutaisi, in Georgia, Grigol Ambrolauri, Mikhail Meskhi, and Mikhail Amashukeli, representatives of the political coalition "Georgian Dream" headed by businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, were detained. They are accused of bribing voters. This was reported by the press service of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.