News

December 02, 2010 22:30

• Threats against Imam assassinated in Dagestan were unknown, locals say

  Basir Salakhgereyev, 35, Imam at one of Khasavyurt city mosques, who was killed on November 1, was non-conflict person and had not received any threats. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Idris Zagalov, a resident of Khasavyurt.

December 02, 2010 22:20

• Georgia: parliamentary commission found that Zviad Gamsakhurdia did not commit suicide

  Within the next two weeks, the parliamentary inquiry commission, which has investigated the circumstances of the death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, will publish the final report on its work.

December 02, 2010 22:10

• Advocate of suspects of organizing Vladikavkaz terror act complains of having no access to her clients

  Inspectors would not allow private advocate Aza Yandieva to her clients - Islam Khashagulgov and Yusup Dzangiev, suspected of terrorist activities and currently kept in Vladikavkaz at the temporary isolation facility (known as "IVS") of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The advocate is sure that her clients are under pressure.

December 02, 2010 20:00

• Director of a children's home denies that her inmates were punished by hospitalization to a psychiatric hospital

  Director of the state educational institution "Children's Home of Volgograd" where facts of compulsory psychiatric treatment of inmates were discovered has been suspended from office, Press Service of Volgograd regional administration reports. Alevtina Krapivina herself denies all the accusations saying that the inmates have slandered her.

December 02, 2010 19:00

• A brochure of "Memorial" Human Rights Center in Krasnodar region is under examination on extremism

  Department of State Security Service in Krasnodar region is carrying out an examination of the book "Status of Citizens of the Former USSR in the Territory of Krasnodar Region" issued by "Memorial" Human Rights Center and a youth group for tolerance "ETnICA" on signs of fomentation of hatred and animosity (clause 282 of the Criminal code of Russia).

December 02, 2010 18:00

• An action "The World against AIDS" passed off in Grozny

  On December, 1, Chechnya celebrated the World day of struggle against AIDS with a great action. It was carried out by activists of youth patriotic club "Ramzan", Informational and publishing center "Put'" and the regional department of Voluntary Association of assistance to the army, military aviation and navy.

December 01, 2010 23:50

• North Ossetia: MPs highlight main problems of road safety

  On November 29, within the session of the "Government's Hour", the North-Ossetian Parliament addresses the state of road safety. Before that, a commission set up from among MPs, raided the streets of Vladikavkaz and republic's districts and examined the work of drivers' schools, safety of passenger transportation, work of traffic militiamen and drivers' medical examination centres.

December 01, 2010 23:40

• Dagestan: fire victims from Tsibari evacuated to nearby villages

  Residents of the Dagestani village of Tsibari, where 80 houses out of 95 burnt down, were evacuated to nearby villages - Mamok and Shauri.

December 01, 2010 23:30

• Prosecutor of Kuschevskiy District demoted

  After the check conducted by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) after the resonant massacre in Kuschevskaya village, the head of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kuschevskiy District, Krasnodar Territory, was demoted and one of his deputies was dismissed.

December 01, 2010 23:10

• Adallo: in his address to Federal Assembly Medvedev failed to mention Northern Caucasus

  The famous poet and public figure Adallo said in his comment on the annual address of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to the Federal Assembly that he was surprised with its content - the President made no mentioning of Northern Caucasus. In their turn, politicians do not share this opinion, noting that the President drew public attention to all the country's problems.

December 01, 2010 23:00

• Militiamen kill local resident in Kabardino-Balkaria

  After the today's incident in the village of Shalushka, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, a criminal case was initiated against local militiamen under the article of excessive self-defence.

December 01, 2010 22:40

• In Dagestan, unidentified persons shell a shop and put it on fire

  On November 30, three unidentified persons broke into a commercial shop, poured gasoline all around and set the premise on fire. Then they shelled the counters and windows. No injured persons were reported.

December 01, 2010 22:30

• Journalist Pashinyan, imprisoned in Armenia transferred to closed prison

  In the evening on November 30, Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), one of the eleven still imprisoned opposition activists, was transferred from the prison "Kosh", located not far from Yerevan in the Aragatsotn Region, to the prison "Artik", located in the Shirak Region, in northern Armenia.

December 01, 2010 22:20

• In Volgograd, employee of the Prosecutor's Office who ran down a child faces charges

  The investigatory bodies have indicted Svetlana Ivanova, a former employee of the Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd Region, who, according to investigators, in July 2009 killed by her car a young child Sasha Kolokoltsev. This was announced today by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation.

December 01, 2010 22:10

• Dagestan: no progress in case of pregnant woman, shot dead in special operation

  Mamatkhan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, has visited, on his own initiative, the Investigatory Committee, which holds inquiry of violations admitted by the militia during investigation into the execution of his daughter-in-law - Sapiyat Magomedova, who was in the fourth month of her pregnancy.

December 01, 2010 22:00

• Suspect of murder in Slavyansk-on-Kuban detained

  As reported by Igor Zhelyabin, head of the press-service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, the suspect of murdering a woman and assaulting other three persons in Slavyansk-on-Kuban was detained.

December 01, 2010 21:00

• Militiaman convicted for murder in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia, today a former militiaman and his accomplice, who killed a local woman and gained possession of her property, have been sentenced to long prison terms.

December 01, 2010 20:00

• Nine families have been evicted from a dormitory in North Osetia without housing

  Nine families from the category of displaced persons have been evicted from the dormitory of Special vocational school (SVS) No 14 in the village of Elkhotovo, Kirov district of North Osetia. They had been living there since 1991.

December 01, 2010 19:00

• 16 schoolchildren in Astrakhan got poisoned with pepper gas

  After dispersion of pepper gas by an unidentified person in the building of school No 74 of Astrakhan from a gas vessel 13 schoolchildren were taken to the toxicological unit of district Alexandro-Mariinskaya hospital, three injured pupils refused hospitalization.

December 01, 2010 18:00

• The wife of a resident of Ingushetia lost in Dagestan asks Director of State Security Service to find out his location

  Zarema Khutiyeva, resident of Nazran, reports that she still knows nothing of the fate of her missing husband Muhamed Aslambekovich Khutiyev born in 1973 who disappeared yet on October, 20. She has submitted a request to State Security Service to render her assistance in establishing her husband's location.