News

September 17, 2011 18:00

• Armenia opens new passenger terminal at Zvartnots Airport

  Within the large-scale events dated to celebrations of the 20th anniversary of independence of Armenia, on September 16, an official ceremony of commissioning the new terminal of the Zvartnots Airport took place.

September 17, 2011 17:00

• World Bank provided Georgia with 40-million-US-dollar privileged credit

  The credit has been allocated to support the country's reforms.

September 17, 2011 16:00

• "Lukoil" to start petrochemical complex in Stavropol Territory

  In October, one of the largest privately-owned Russian oil companies – the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Lukoil" – plans to lay the "first stone" of the future petrochemical complex in the Stavropol Territory.

September 17, 2011 14:00

• Russian conductor Mikhail Arkadiev receives Georgian citizenship

  Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has personally handed over a passport of Georgian citizen to the famous Russian conductor Mikhail Arkadiev. The ceremony took place on September 15 after the concert, which the conductor gave at the Conservatory of Tbilisi.

September 17, 2011 12:00

• Project ''Smile, Yerevan!'' launched in Armenia

  Within the Project ''Smile, Yerevan!'' already two buildings in the Armenian capital have been decorated with mosaic panels. The pictures are selected by the working group of the project, which comprises prominent artists, architects and entrepreneurs. The main precondition is the harmonic match of mosaics with the architectural appearance of the city.

September 16, 2011 23:50

• Azerbaijani journalist Abbasov accused of disorderly conduct

  In Azerbaijan, Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspapers "Aina" (Mirror) and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), whose relatives were attacked on September 9, is accused of violating the law. The journalist asserts that he committed no offences.

September 16, 2011 23:40

• Custody conditions in jail of Tuapse UVD, Krasnodar Territory, found inadmissible

  Today, the decision of the Pre-Kuban City Court of Krasnodar, stating that the custody conditions at the special detention facility of the Tuapse UVD (Interior Department), has entered its legal force. It was the demand of ecologist Suren Gazaryan, who was detained in February 2011 during a protest action at the so-called "Tkachov's summer cottage", to recognize as illegal the idleness of the Tuapse UVD and unacceptable conditions of detention at the jail.

September 16, 2011 23:40

• Examination results of records of the Azerbaijani aircraft that crashed down in Afghanistan disclosed

  According to the initial information obtained after decoding of the "black box" of the Azerbaijani aircraft, which crashed down in Afghanistan, the trajectory of landing of the aircraft did not meet the pre-approved trajectory of landing. This was stated by Ilham Amirov, chairman of the inquiry commission and vice-president of the CJSC "AZAL".

September 16, 2011 23:20

• Supervisory commission of Kabardino-Balkaria visits Murat Bizhev at SIZO

  The public supervisory commission over prisons and jails in Kabardino-Balkaria met Murat Bizhev, who is kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) and accused of storing firearms.

September 16, 2011 23:00

• Volgodonsk residents commemorate victims of 1999 terror act

  Today, residents of the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, have paid tribute to the victims of the terror act committed in this city on September 16, 1999. That crime killed 19 persons; 73 citizens became invalids; and in total over 16,000 people, including more than 1000 children, were officially recognized to be victims.

September 16, 2011 22:40

• Prosecutor of Akhvakh District of Dagestan demands to cancel decision on changed status of local lands

  Zubair Khalidov, Prosecutor of the Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has sent a petition to the Botlikh District Court asking to invalidate the decision of the head of the district Ismail Magomedsharipov on changing the status of local lands.

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.