News

September 16, 2011 22:30

• Azerbaijani Bar Association excludes lawyer Elchin Namazov

  Today, the Presidium of the Bar of Azerbaijan has decided to suspend the powers of the lawyer Elchin Namazov and dismiss him from the Bar membership. The punishment followed the recognition by the Bar's disciplinary commission of Namazov's violation of professional ethics.

September 16, 2011 22:20

• NTV journalist beaten up in Dagestan

  Tonight in Makhachkala, Omar Magomedov, the correspondent of the North-Caucasian bureau of the NTV Company, was beaten.

September 16, 2011 22:00

• A charitable youth action started in Chechnya

  The youth Parliament of Chechnya announced a monthly charitable action "We are One Unit" in the republic.

September 16, 2011 20:00

• An imam of a local mosque killed in Buinaksk district of Dagestan

  Zainudin Daiziev, imam of a mosque in the settlement of Kadar, was shot down in the evening of September, 15, in Buinalsk district of Dagestan, Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

September 16, 2011 19:00

• An action of protest of relatives of victims of the events of March, 1, 2008, passed off in Yerevan

  The relatives of ten victims of the events of March, 1, 2008, are indignant over the report of PACE Monitoring Committee "Activities of the Institutes of Democracy in Armenia". On September, 15, they held an action of protest near CE office in Armenia.

September 16, 2011 18:00

• A strike of metallurgists dispersed by police in Georgia

  At night of September, 16, the police dispersed an action of protest of metallurgists in Georgia and detained 15 persons without a charge. Later the detained were released. This was reported by Irakly Petriashvili, leader of Association of Trade Unions.

September 15, 2011 23:20

• Cherkasov: inspectors dealing with Estemirova's murder check possible complicity of Chechen power agents in the crime

  The investigators engaged in the murder of the Chechen rights defender Natalia Estemirova check possible involvement of local power agents in the crime, Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of the Human Rights Society "Memorial", said at the press conference, "North Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger", which was held on September 14 in the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

September 15, 2011 23:10

• Eight victims questioned at trial of ex-adviser of Armenian Prime Minister accused of paedophilia

  Within consideration of the case of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, a major businessman and a former adviser of Armenian Prime Minister, accused of paedophilia, there are ten victims. All of them originate from socially disadvantaged families, as stated by Ovsep Sargsyan, the spokesman of the prosecution at the trial.

September 15, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijani MoD refutes loss of its drone over Nagorno-Karabakh

  The drone (spy unmanned aircraft), which crashed down in Nagorno-Karabakh, had nothing to do with Azerbaijan, said the local Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was reported in a special statement of the Ministry.

September 15, 2011 22:50

• RwB: freedom of press in Dagestan and Chechnya is no better

  Human rights defenders believe that over the past two years the situation with the freedom of the press in Northern Caucasus, has worsened. This was stated on September 14 at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow at the press conference "Northern Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger".

September 15, 2011 22:40

• WWF lifts objections to construction of ski resorts in Northern Caucasus

  The Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" and the World Wildlife Fund-Russia (WWF) have signed an agreement on cooperation in the area of nature protection in Northern Caucasus.

September 15, 2011 22:30

• Two residents of Volgograd Region diagnosed with anthrax

  The Regional Department of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has reported that two residents of the village of Semichny, Kotelnikov District of the Volgograd Region, were hospitalized with the diagnosis of anthrax.

September 15, 2011 22:10

• Escherichia coli detected in dry rations given out to children who got poisoned in Anapa

  As reported today by Oleg Tushmalov, the head of the Moscow Interregional Investigatory Department for Transports of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the dry food kits, which had been given to the children who returned from a summer camp in the Krasnodar Territory and were hospitalized en route, the coliform bacillus was detected.

September 15, 2011 22:00

• In Anapa, 15 armed men attack a private hotel; some of them wounded

  In the village of Utrish, located near the city of Anapa, 15 armed youngsters opened fire at a hotel with tourists.

September 15, 2011 21:00

• Zamira Rakhmanova from Dagestan wins world championship in wrestling

  At the World Championships in Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Women's Wrestling, held in Turkey, Zamira Rakhmanova, an athlete from Dagestan, has won the gold medal. This is the first Russian gold medal in women's wrestling since 2002.

September 15, 2011 20:00

• A movement "Parents of Volgograd for Children's Rights" accuses deputies of ignoring the townsmen's appeals

  Members of a non-governmental pressure group "Parents of Volgograd for Children's Rights" appealed to deputies of the municipal and regional Dumas asking for aid in solving the problem of the lack of places in kindergartens of Volgograd. 36 legislators ignored the activists' request.

September 15, 2011 19:00

• Two schoolchildren in Rostov region perished as a result of poisoning with gas for lighters

  On September, 14, two schoolchildren aged 12 and 13 in the town of Shakhti, Rostov region, perished after breathing in butane through polyethylene bags.

September 15, 2011 18:00

• Defense of the defendants on the case of "Urvan jama'at" in Rostov insists on the defendants' being not privy to extremism

  On September, 14, the parties of the case of "Urvan jama'at" (Kabardino-Balkaria) spoke in a debate in North-Caucasian military circuit. The defendants and their attorneys asked the court to re-qualify a number of clauses in the case and also not to impose life imprisonment.

September 14, 2011 23:10

• Deputy head of Stavropol administration is suspected of abuse of power

  Vladimir Elichev, Deputy Head of Administration of the city of Stavropol and Director of the Town-Planning Committee, is suspected of abuse of power. As reported by the press service of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) operative agents believe that Elichev had broken the order of granting land plots, owned by the municipality, in favour of some particular company.

September 14, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 5-11

  Acquaintance visit to the Caucasus of Philippe Lefort, the newly appointed EU Special Representative for Southern Caucasus and Crisis in Georgia; youth educational forums in the Rostov and Astrakhan Regions; mass brawls - prevented and not - in the Stavropol Territory; setting up of former militants' adaptation commission in Ingushetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 5-11, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".