News

May 03, 2012 14:00

• Popular website attacked by hackers in Armenia

  A well-known Armenian Internet edition "1in.am", which is an electronic version of the "Zhamanak" newspaper, was attacked by hackers three days before the elections. As reported by Ruben Megrabyan,the editor of the Russian service of the website, currently they are actively recovering the resource and hope to cope with it by today's evening.

May 03, 2012 13:00

• Complaints of victims of 2004 Beslan terror communicated by ECtHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated to the Russian Federation seven complaints against violation by the state the rights to life and effective remedy in respect of acts and inaction of the authorities before, during and after the hostage-taking at School No. 1 in Beslan on September 1, 2004. The whole proceeding was awarded the name "Tagaeva and others versusRussia and six other complaints".

May 03, 2012 12:00

• In Dagestan, armed men kidnap a local

  Unidentified armed men have kidnapped Djavar Khanmagomedov, 31, a resident of the city of Derbent. Relatives do not exclude that is could be made by power agents.

May 03, 2012 08:00

• Stalls dismantled in Mashtots park of Yerevan

  Dismantling the stalls in Mashtots park was carried out upon the order of Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan who acknowledged the decision of construction in this territory invalid.

May 03, 2012 07:00

• A resident of Dagestan who is under house arrest fears for his life

  Some unknown people wearing camouflage uniforms are spying on Seifudin Babaev, resident of the town of Dagestanskie Ogni, who is under house arrest.He fears for his life. This was reported by Dagestani regional organization (DRO) “Human Rights Protection”.

May 03, 2012 05:00

• Activist of the “Georgian Dream” party report dispersal of the participants of an action in Kutaisi by means of fire-engines

  The authorities attempted to disperse an action of the youth branch of the oppositional party “Georgian Dream” in the town of Kutaisi by water from fire-engines. A representative of the ruling party was skeptic about this statement of the opposition.

May 02, 2012 23:00

• Dagestani woman states kidnapping of her husband

  Zukhra Mutaeva, a resident of the villageof Zubutli-Miatli, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, claims that her husband KamilMutaev,36, father of four young children, was kidnapped and taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage and masks.

May 02, 2012 22:00

• Gabibulaeva, detained at "Chermen", asks judge to let her marry defendant in Nalchik attack case

  Zalina Gabibulaeva,a resident of Dagestan, who was detainedat the road patrol checkpoint "Chermen" between Ingushetia and North Ossetia, was on her way to Nalchikaiming to get a permit to marriage with Rasul Kudaev, one of the defendants in the caseon events on October 13, 2005. This is stated in Gabibulaeva's application to the chair of the court dealing with this case.

May 02, 2012 21:00

• Krasnodar: mass brawl burst out between fans of "Kuban" and "Anji"

  Right before the "Kuban"-"Anji"football match of the 42nd day of the championship of Russia, fans of both teams held a mass brawl.

May 02, 2012 19:00

• Fight of activists of"StopKHAM" with relatives of Chechen official in Moscow is actively discussed in the Runet

  Internet users are discussing the incident with a fight at the mall "Evropeiskiy" in Moscowin the course of the campaign for observance of traffic rules launched by activists of the public movement "StopKHAM" (Stop Caveman!). Bloggers believe that the incident was kindled by the wife and son of Tamerlan Mingaev, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the ChechenRepublic under the President of Russia.

May 02, 2012 18:00

• TV Channel of oppositionist Bidzina Ivanishvili starts broadcasting in Georgia

  "Channel Nine", where the co-owner is Ekaterina Khvedelidze, the wife of the leader of the oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream"businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, has begun broadcasting in Georgia.

May 02, 2012 17:00

• The sentence to the owner of a house in Vladikavkaz where gas exploded during a wedding altered for a conditional one

  The Supreme Court of North Ossetia altered the sentence to Vadim Vazagov in whose house a gas bottle exploded during a wedding last year, nine persons perished and 50 got injured as a result. The sentence was altered by the court for a conditional one.

May 02, 2012 17:00

• Investigation of Zeinab Suyunova's case on preparation of terror act in Red Square completed

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has completed the investigation of the criminal case initiated against Zeinab Suyunova, a resident of the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, accused of the attempted terror actin Red Square in Moscow in 2010.

May 02, 2012 16:00

• Ecologists of Kavkazskie Mineralnyye Vody complain to Khloponin that the authorities ignore their appeals concerning development of Mashuk

  Pyatigorsk environmental organization “Sunny patrol” directed the second open letter of behalf of 4,5 thousand residents of Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody to Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in North Caucasian Federal Okrug (NCFO) Alexander Kholoponin asking him to settle the conflict situation connected with development of Mashuk.

May 02, 2012 15:00

• More than ten thousand Sochi residents spent 24 hours without electricity

  On the eve of the Day of Spring and Labour marked on May 1, residents of different areas of the resort city of Sochi, KrasnodarTerritory, were left without electricity, which in most homes was restored only on the following day.

May 02, 2012 14:30

• Coordinator of “Left Front” movement in Rostov region sentenced to 10 days of arrest

  Coordinator of “Left Front” movement in Rostov region Vladislav Ryazantsev was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

May 02, 2012 12:15

• 11 candidates registered for participation in the election of the City Council of Lermontov

  Eleven candidates in Stavropol region were registered for participation in early election of the Council of the town of Lermontov of the fifth convocation.

May 01, 2012 23:50

• Azerbaijan bans putting foreign serials on nationwide TV Channels

  Today, Azerbaijan has enacted a ban on showing foreign-made serials and feature films on nationwide TV Channels. According to Nushiravan Magerramli, Chairman of the National TV and Radio Board (NTRB), which made this decision, it is aimed at moral upbringing of young people and will promote the development of the local film industry. The TV broadcasters do not express dissatisfaction with the decision of the NTRB. Alesker Mamedli, the head of the Monitoring Centre of Azerbaijan Broadcasters, believes that the decision violates the broadcasters' rights and limits the choice of the viewers.

May 01, 2012 23:40

• Russian Labour March failed in Stavropol

  In Stavropol, law enforcers made every effort not to admit an unsanctioned rally of Russian nationalists named "Russian Labour March" under the slogan "For Russian Caucasus!"

May 01, 2012 23:20

• Police of Volgograd detain several demonstrators and picketers

  Today, during the May Day march in Volgograd, the police detained several persons and brought them to the Tsentralny ROVD (District Interior Division). According to Alevtina Dupree, the coordinator of the social movement "The League of Voters", eight persons were detained.