News

September 23, 2011 19:00

• Armenian opposition calls for revolution

  The Armenian National Congress (ANC) has decided to change the current ruling regime, Nikol Pashinyan, an oppositional activist and editor-in-chief of the "Armenian Time" newspaper, said today at a rally. He called the audience to revolution.

September 23, 2011 18:00

• Astrakhan Mayor fires principal Gogoleva

  Nadezhda Gogoleva, Director of School No. 74 and a member of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) was dismissed today in Astrakhan without any explanations.

September 22, 2011 23:00

• ECtHR holds hearing on eligibility of Georgia's lawsuit against Russia

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg held a public hearing on the lawsuit of Georgia to the Russian Federation on the results of the war in South Ossetia in August 2008.

September 22, 2011 22:30

• Protest action held at building of CoE mission in Tbilisi

  On September 21 the activists of the Resistance Movement and several NGOs held a rally at the Council of Europe (CoE) mission in Tbilisi.

September 22, 2011 22:20

• Azerbaijani Diaspora in Germany holds protest action in Stuttgart

  Representative of Azerbaijani Diaspora in Germany held a picket in the city of Stuttgart to protest against the concert "The 20th Anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."

September 22, 2011 22:10

• Khashiev: Chechen refugees not to be evicted from Ingushetia

  Families residing in the territory of Promzhilbaza (industrial dwelling centre) in the town of Karabulak, will not be evicted. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Isa Khashiev, Deputy Chief of Russia's Federal Migration Service of the Republic of Ingushetia, who on September 21 within the committee visited refugees' temporarily accommodation centres (TACs).

September 22, 2011 22:00

• Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria extends arrest of defendants in Nalchik attack case

  Today, at the hearings on the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the court prolonged the detention of 55 defendants for another three months. The court also questioned four victims on the incident of the attack on the border guard unit in Nalchik.

September 22, 2011 21:00

• Chechnya solves embezzlement of 113 million roubles of militaries' bonuses

  The Chief Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has revealed the embezzlement of 113 million roubles of budget funds allocated to reward soldiers for taking part in counterterrorism operations in the mountainous part of Chechnya.

September 22, 2011 20:00

• Dagestan: case on Sapiyat Magomedova's beating by power agents returned from court to prosecutor's office

  Today, Judge Ibragim Tashanov of the Khasavyurt City Court of the Republic of Dagestan pronounced the return of the criminal case initiated against the police officers of the OVD (Interior Division) of Khasavyurt, who were accused of beating lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova on June 17, 2010, to the prosecutor's office. Now the accused power agents can again become the defendants, in case the acquittal of Sapiyat Magomedova on the criminal case, which was initiated against herself, is pronounced.

September 22, 2011 19:00

• Eleven blast victims hospitalized in Makhachkala

  11 out of 54 people, who were injured in two explosions in the capital of Dagestan, were hospitalized. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the reception wards of the Republic's Clinical Hospital, the Republic's Association of Emergency Medical Aid and the Republic's Traumatological Hospital.

September 22, 2011 18:00

• Soldier, suspected of desertion, hospitalized after visiting Dagestan with investigators

  Andrei Popov, a soldier from Saratov, who claims to have been kept in slavery in brick factories in Dagestan for 11 years, was hospitalized after returning from a trip to Dagestan.

September 21, 2011 23:10

• Doctor in Stavropol Territory to stand trial for death of patient

  In the city of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), the investigation is over into the criminal case against the head of the therapy ward of the central city hospital, whose misdiagnosis resulted in death of a patient.

September 21, 2011 23:00

• NAC: militants liquidated in KBR were involved in resonant terror acts

  Today, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported with reference to the latest data of the Investigatory Committee of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) that on September 20, in the course of the special operation, held in the Elbrus District of the KBR, two members of the armed underground, involved in several high-profile terrorist crimes, were killed.

September 21, 2011 22:50

• Chechen refugees fear eviction from Ingushetia to Chechnya

  The refugees from Chechnya, who have been living since mid-1990s in the city of Karabulak in temporary accommodation centres (TACs), are afraid of being forced to leave Ingushetia. Today, they wait for a commission of the Ministry of Nationalities' Matters of Ingushetia, which will demand to abandon the territory by September 30.

September 21, 2011 22:40

• In Azerbaijan, journalist Abbasov complains of pressure and threats

  Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspaper "Ayna" (Mirror) and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) whose relatives were attacked on September 9 at their home, said at a press conference that he continued experiencing pressure and threats.

September 21, 2011 22:20

• Moscow City Court upholds verdict to blogger Alexei Dudko

  Today, the Moscow City Court has upheld the verdict of the Tagansky District Court to the blogger Alexei Dudko - six years in prison.

September 21, 2011 22:00

• In Turkey, prosecutor demands capital punishment for defendants in Hrant Dink's murder case

  At the session held on September 20, the prosecutor demanded life imprisonment for the seven defendants, figuring in the murder case of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

September 21, 2011 20:00

• Explosion in the capital of Dagestan kills three persons

  According to preliminary data, the explosion of a car in Makhachkala killed three persons, said a source from the city UVD (Interior Division).

September 21, 2011 20:00

• Life of Abkhazia explosion victim is out of danger, doctors say

  The life of Fatuse Bzhikshieva, who was injured by the explosion in Sukhumi, is out of danger, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Republic's Hospital of Sukhumi. According to preliminary information, the power of the bomb, triggered in the car, was equivalent to 200 grams of TNT (trotyl) equivalent.

September 21, 2011 19:00

• Ganizhev: residents of native village of Domodedovo suicide bomber are happy with his sister's rehabilitation

  The villagers of Ali-Yurt, where the family of Magomed Evloev, the supposed executor of the terror act at the Domodedovo Airport, lives, where glad to receive the news about termination of the criminal prosecution of his sister and a fellow villager. This was announced by Idris Ganizhev, the head of the village administration.