News

May 23, 2012 22:00

• Dagestani Ministry of Justice fails to sanction rally against arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies

  The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Dagestan (RD) refused to sanction rally against the arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies planned to be held on May 28 in Makhachkala. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the Ministry of Justice.

May 23, 2012 21:00

• Azerbaijan: soldier kills his comrade and commits suicide

  A soldier of the Azerbaijani State Border Guard Service shot dead his colleague and then committed suicide.

May 23, 2012 20:00

• Magomedov detained during a special operation in Dagestan released

  Today Abdurahman Magomedov detained on May, 19, during a special operation in Makhachkala was released from Kirov district Department of Interior Affairs, his attorney Ziyavdin Uvaisov reported.

May 23, 2012 19:00

• Employees of Dendrologic park in Sochi went on a hunger strike because of non-payment of wages

  On May, 22, four employees of Dendrologic park "Southern Cultures" in Adler district of Sochi went on a hunger strike because of non-payment of wages, leader of local branch of KPRF Yury Dzagania reported.

May 23, 2012 18:00

• A Director of a Lyceum in Chelyabinsk refused to submit data about schoolchildren from the Caucasus to the police

  Information appeared in Russian blogs and mass media that a police officer in Chelyabinsk made an inquiry about schoolchildren natives of the Caucasus in the educational institutions. Representatives of the Public Chamber of Russia are currently going to look into the situation.

May 22, 2012 23:00

• Stavropol hosts picket against pointwise development of historical centre

  In Stavropol, more than forty activists of different organizations took part in the protest action against the pointwise development of the historical centre. The protest action was organized by social movement "Protest Committee of Stavropol City".

May 22, 2012 22:00

• Campaign "Sing for Democracy" is over in Azerbaijan

  Today, initiators of the ended campaign "Sing for Democracy" summed up of their activities of several months and noted serious problems with the situation of human rights in Azerbaijan.

May 22, 2012 20:00

• Adygea plans to open school of bloggers

  The Youth Parliament of the State Council-Khase of Adygea, which organized the first national contest of bloggers, plans to establish a bloggers' school.

May 22, 2012 19:00

• Four defendants in case of undermining "Neva-Express" train sentenced to life imprisonment

  In accordance with the verdict of the Tver Regional Court on the case of undermining the "Neva-Express" train committed in 2009, four defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment. The remaining six defendants were sentenced to 7-8 years of imprisonment. This was reported by Musa Pliev, the lawyer of defendant Timur Kartoev.

May 22, 2012 17:00

• Georgian Parliament adopts amendments allowing Bidzina Ivanishvili to participate in elections

  At the plenary session, 111 MPs voted unanimously for the amendments to the Constitution of Georgia, which allow Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the opposition coalition "Georgian Dream", running for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

May 22, 2012 15:00

• Baku denies dispute with Tbilisi around "David Gareja" Monastery

  The Azerbaijani authorities disagree with the reports, disseminated by the media, on worsening of the situation around the "David Gareja" Monastery Complex, located on the border between Azerbaijan and Georgia. On Monday, May 21, at the press conference held in Baku, Ali Gasanov, Chief of the Public and Political Department of the Presidential Administration, declared absence of border disputes between the two countries.

May 22, 2012 12:00

• Dagestani athletes win European competitions in Combat Sambo and Judo

  At the European Championship in Sport and Combat Sambo, held on May 18-20 May in Moscow, athlete Sultan Aliev became one of the Russians athletes, who won the gold medals. Abdul Abdulzhalilov, another fighter from the republic, won the European Cup in Judo in the competitions held on May 19-20 in Orenburg.

May 22, 2012 11:00

• During a spontaneous gathering residents of Sochi demanded to prohibit construction of a power plant in Kudepsta

  On May, 21, a spontaneous gathering was held by residents of Kudepsta neighbourhood on the left bank of the Kudepsta river. About one hundred people took part in it. The citizens demanded to stop construction of Kudepsta thermal power plant (TPP) and organized watching in order not to let the developers into the building site of the plant.

May 22, 2012 10:00

• The policemen in Astrakhan broke off a walk of Shein’s supporters

  A meeting of residents of Astrakhan on the bank of the Volga held on May, 20, with Oleg Shein’s participation was broken off by the police personnel.

May 22, 2012 09:00

• A resident of Sochi collected 200 signatures for Mayor’s resignation during a single-person picket

  On May, 21, a single-person picket with the demand of Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov’s resignation was held near the Administration of Sochi. 200 signatures of the townsmen were collected, Irina Brovkina who held the picket declared.

May 22, 2012 08:00

• 200 people came out for a meeting against the physicians’ negligence in Krasnodar

  On May, 21, about 200 residents of the Crimea district of Krasnodar region took part in a meeting against the physicians’ negligence during which they collected signatures under the demand to punish those guilty of a twenty-four-years-old local resident’s death.

May 22, 2012 07:00

• Eight persons injured during an explosion of balloons operated on in Yerevan

  As of May, 21, 33 people injured during an explosion of balloons that took place on May, 4, in Yerevan are still undergoing treatment in different clinics of the capital. Eight persons were operated on in Yerevan by professor Adrian Daygler from Germany.

May 21, 2012 23:00

• In Azerbaijan, two oppositional activists rejected of CER

  The Baku Court of Appeal chaired by Judge Mirzali Abbasov considered an appeal filed by blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev to challenge rejection of conditional early relief (CER) and a motion for CER filed by Babek Gasanov, the representative of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). The Court left the activists in custody.

May 21, 2012 22:00

• Rasul Mirzaev's defenders challenge extension of his detention

  Today, lawyer of Rasul Mirzaev, World Champion in Mixed Martial Arts, filed a complaint against the decision of the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow to extend period of Rasul Mirzaev's detention till July 8, 2012. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Alexei Grebenskoy, the very defender of Rasul Mirzaev.

May 21, 2012 21:00

• Apti and Aishat Magmadov's defenders file complaint to ECtHR

  Defenders of Apti and Aishat Magmadov asks the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to recognize the verdict of the Moscow Regional Court and all subsequent decisions against the convicted persons as not complying with the requirements of the European Convention. This was reported by lawyer Musa Khadisov.