News

September 12, 2011 22:20

• Suspects of Domodedovo terror act become witnessed

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has removed suspicions from the security agents who had figured in the criminal case for their failure to ensure due security at objects of transport infrastructure, opened after the attack at the Domodedovo Airport.

September 12, 2011 22:10

• In Rostov Region, unidentified persons smashed windows in house and car of editor-in-chief of "Novoshakhtinskaya Pravda"

  In the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Region, two unidentified assailants broke windows on the ground floor of the private house and the car belonging to entrepreneur Alexander Singurov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper named "Novoshakhtinskaya Pravda".

September 12, 2011 22:00

• Woman from Dagestani Kizlyar complains of harassment by policemen

  In Dagestan, Gulzhanat Guseinova, a resident of the farm of Ukrainskiyian, Kizlyar District, has stated that at night on September 10 her house was shelled by policemen.

September 12, 2011 21:00

• A new meeting against "Olympic" resettlement passed off in Sochi

  The sixth meeting of sufferers from "Olympic" resettlement was held in Sochi from 18 till 19 o'clock opposite the railway station on September, 11.

September 12, 2011 19:00

• Investigative Department in Kabardino-Balkaria is carrying out inspection on the information of torturing a person detained by personnel of power ministries

  Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria is investigating the information of unlawful actions of the personnel of law enforcement bodies against detained Murat Bizhev. This was reported by Senior Assistant of Head of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in KBR Tatiana Nauzhokova.

September 12, 2011 18:00

• Natives of Dagestan in Stavropol region state that local courts deprive them of dwellings and registration

  Natives of Dagestan, residents of the settlement of Novy Yankul, Andropovsky district of Stavropol region, complain that the local court deprives them of registration and dwellings by its judgments. District court confirms the fact of bringing the verdicts stating that it had acted in accordance with the law. The authorities of Dagestan promised to take part in solving the problem.

September 10, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijani oppositional editor states threats addressed to his family

  Ganimat Zakhid, the editor of the Azerbaijani opposition newspaper "Azadlyg", was forced to take his family out of the country "because of security threats." The editor informed his colleagues about it in his letter.

September 10, 2011 22:00

• Stavropol Territory: underground bank with billions of profits exposed

  Two unemployed residents of the city of Stavropol founded an underground bank, and for three years earned more than 8 billion roubles, said a source from local law-enforcement bodies.

September 10, 2011 21:00

• Ecologists hold action "Packs-Killers" in Tuapse District of Krasnodar Territory

  The action "Packs-Killers" was held in the Tuapse District by participants of the forum of environmental initiatives "EKA-MIR-2011". While distributing their campaign materials, the organizers told people about the harmful effects of plastic packs and packages on the environment, and then offered everyone to take part in decorating a six-meter eco-bag.

September 10, 2011 20:00

• "Rostransnadzor" suspends flights of YaK-42 of "Grozny Avia" airline

  After the air crash of YaK-42 near Yaroslavl, which claimed 43 human lives, Russia suspended operation of eight aircrafts of this model; in particular, after the emergency inspection held by the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision ("Rostransnadzor"), the operation of the YaK-42 belonging to the "Grozny Avia" was suspended.

September 10, 2011 19:00

• Special operation underway in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, power agents are pursuing the militants who had shelled the house of a police officer. This was stated by Nikolai Sintsov, the official spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC).

September 10, 2011 18:00

• Tibet monks come to Kalmykia to attend international Buddhist forum

  A group of monks from the Tibetan Monastery Gyudmed has come to Kalmykia to take part in the international forum "Buddhism: Philosophy of Non-Violence and Compassion", which will begin its work in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, on September 22 and last till October 2.

September 10, 2011 16:00

• Rights defenders complain to the ECtHR about poor inquiry of Estemirova's murder

  Human rights activists have complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of their colleague, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Natalia Estemirova.

September 10, 2011 15:00

• Forty-four schoolchildren hospitalized with intestinal infection after rest in Anapa

  Forty children, who were returning by train to Karelia from a summer camp in the city of Anapa, were taken off the train and hospitalized with an intestinal infection. They were taken to hospitals of Michurinsk, Tver, Ryazan and Moscow.

September 10, 2011 14:00

• Georgia hosts "Golden Talent-2011"

  In Batumi, the festival named Golden Talent-2011" is on. It is attended by 18 performers from many countries.

September 10, 2011 13:00

• PACE closes the case on March 1, 2008, events in Armenia

  The announcement of the universal amnesty in spring this year, and the investigation by Armenian authorities of the deaths of 10 civilians in the course of the anti-government demonstrations on March 1-2, 2008, have allowed the PACE to state the termination of the case related to the March events.

September 10, 2011 12:00

• NGOs of Azerbaijan and Georgia engaged in conflicts set up Coordination Board

  In Baku, on the initiative of the "Organization for Liberation of Karabakh" (OLK), the "Coordination Board on Conflicts in Southern Caucasus" was founded. On the Georgian part, it includes a coalition consisting of 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and on the Azerbaijani one - the OLK and the Centre for Deportation Victims.

September 09, 2011 23:10

• MIA: Said Buryatskiy allies liquidated in Ingushetia

  Militants, killed in Ingushetia on September 8, were involved in the group of Said Buryatskiy (Alexander Tikhomirov), the Wahhabi ideologist, who was killed in 2010. This was reported today by the source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

September 09, 2011 23:10

• Human rights activists continue protesting against non-combat losses in Armenian Army

  Protest rallies against the non-combat losses in the Armenian Army will be continued until the objective results of investigation into the death of soldiers are available. This was reported by Arthur Sakunts, Chairman of the Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly, who participated in the march "Army in black" held on September 8.

September 09, 2011 23:00

• Owner of brick factory in Dagestan denies information about Andrei Popov's slavery

  Owner and workers of the brick factory in the city of Kaspiisk, where, according to soldier Andrei Popov, he was kept as a slave, told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that former soldier had never been at the enterprise. At present, investigators from the military prosecutor's office examine the factory.