News

September 14, 2011 22:00

• Armenia: lawyers and rights defenders offer to establish the institute of Military Ombudsperson

  As believed by the participants of the conference "Situation in the Armenian Army", the establishment of the institute of Military Ombudsperson can improve the situation in the Armed Forces of Armenia.

September 14, 2011 21:00

• Baku rights defenders and reporters state suppression of civil activism in NAR

  The absence in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of civil activism and violations of human rights have been stated by rights defenders and journalists from Baku, who visited the NAR on September 12. They spoke about it on September 13 at the press conference held in the Azerbaijani capital at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

September 14, 2011 20:00

• A policeman in Krasnodar region committed suicide

  At night of September, 11, local policeman Evgeny Tereshenko committed suicide in the stanitsa of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar region, by shooting in his head from a Government-issue Makarov.

September 14, 2011 19:00

• Residents of Karachay-Cherkessia complain of infringement of their religious freedom

  Residents of Khabez district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia state that policemen regularly come to their houses, carry out searches without explanation of the reason and take them to police department where they are interrogated, their fingerprints are taken and the policemen take written statements from those interrogated that they are not Wahhabis.

September 14, 2011 18:00

• Human rights activists report kidnapping of a resident of Gudermes district of Chechnya

  On September, 2, armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms in the capital of Chechnya kidnapped a resident of Gudermes district of the republic and carried him away in an unknown direction, "Memorial" Human Rights Center reports.

September 13, 2011 23:50

• Administration of Matveev-Kurgan District, Rostov Region, refuses to bury soldiers who perished in Great Patriotic War

  The authorities of the Matveev-Kurgan District of the Rostov Region has rejected the initiative of the Search Association "Mius-Front" to rebury the remains of more than ten soldiers who perished in the battles for liberation of the Rostov Region.

September 13, 2011 23:40

• Residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia sentenced for machinations with compensations for lost housing

  A resident of the Gudermes District of Chechnya and a woman from Ingushetia have been convicted in Chechnya for illegal receipt of compensation benefits, due for the housing and property lost during the warfare.

September 13, 2011 23:10

• Resident of Dagestan detained on suspicion of murdering two policemen

  In the city of Izberbash, power agents have detained a person suspected of assaulting policemen, of whom two died. This was announced today by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

September 13, 2011 23:00

• Incomes of Chechen president and his gifts to "Terek" footballers are actively discussed in Russian blogosphere

  Jonathan Legear, a newcomer of the "Terek" Football Club (FC) has confessed that Ramzan Kadyrov, who is also the president of the FC, triples the bonuses paid to the players and presents expensive watches and cars to them. The users of the Livejournal try to understand: where the Chechen leader takes money to buy expensive gifts.

September 13, 2011 22:40

• In Armenia, publisher of "Aikakan Zhamanak" prepares lawsuit to ECtHR

  The Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Dareskizb" - the publisher of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" - will defend its right to the freedom of expression at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The company is preparing a lawsuit and plans to submit it to the court before the end of September.

September 13, 2011 22:40

• Ingush leader sacks his health minister

  Today, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has visited the Karabulak City Hospital, severely criticized its work and ordered mo take a cadre decision on the Minister of Public Health of Ingushetia.

September 13, 2011 22:30

• Georgian metallurgists go on termless strike

  In the morning on September 13, the workers of the metallurgical plant "Hercules", located in the city of Kutaisi, announced a termless strike. The refusal of a hundred of workers to get to work was a continuation of the long-term conflict with the plant management.

September 13, 2011 22:10

• In Maikop, kindergarten educator is accused of violence

  In the city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, a woman-educator of kindergarten No, 28 is accused of forcing children to sleep during the rest hour with the help of a stick. The first court session was held on September 13.

September 13, 2011 22:00

• Editor of "Menk Merontsov" found assassinated in Armenia

  The police have identified the woman whose body was found in the Kotaik Region of Armenia as the editor of the Yerevan newspaper "Menk Merontsov" (In Close Circle).

September 13, 2011 21:00

• The police in Baku did not allow picketers to approach the Embassy of Iran

  An action of protest planned for September, 12, in front of the Embassy of Iran in Azerbaijan failed. The police pushed the picketers aside.

September 13, 2011 20:00

• Journalists and human rights activists from Baku were denied meeting with the Ombudsman of NAR

  On September, 12, a delegation of 20 Azerbaijani journalists and human rights activists visited the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Ombudsman of the republic Ulkar Bairamova refused to meet the delegation and the management of the Ministry of Interior Affairs asked them to leave the territory of NAR, the journalists and human rights activists report.

September 13, 2011 19:00

• Father of a kidnapped resident of Chechnya submitted a complaint to the European Court

  Doka Suleimanov who states that his son Timur was kidnapped by unknown people after he confessed to preparing an act of terror submitted a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights.

September 13, 2011 18:00

• Oleg Orlov: "The meeting between Prime Minister of Great Britain and human rights activists testifies to Cameron's concern about the state of human rights in Russia"

  On September, 12, a meeting of Russian human rights activists with Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron was held in the Public Center named after Andrey Sakharov.

September 12, 2011 22:40

• Residents of Akhvakh District of Dagestan rally to demand not to change the status of local lands

  The village of Karata, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has hosted a rally, where residents of this village demanded not to transfer the agricultural lands reserved for the local cooperative, into the municipality ownership.

September 12, 2011 22:30

• A local resident found shot down in Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan

  Last night a forty-years-old resident of the settlement of Mezhdurechie, Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan, Abdulgapar Valiev was found killed. There were several gunshot wound on the victim's body, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.