News

July 25, 2009 10:00

• New website of Ingushetia opposition to continue the cause of Evloyev

  Ingushetia opposition intends to continue at its new site the cause started by oppositionist Magomed Evloyev, murdered owner of the "Ingushetia.Ru" site, reports Magomed Khazbiyev, Ingushetia oppositionist.

July 25, 2009 08:00

• Georgian opposition cancelled daily meetings in Tbilisi

  Georgian opposition is not going to hold daily meetings in front of the parliament building, noted Levan Gachechiladze, one of the leaders of opposition and the "Defend Georgia" movement, at the July 24 meeting.

July 25, 2009 06:00

• Armenian opposition accuses law enforcement agencies of unlawful actions

  In connection with the completion of investigation and the majority of court trials on the cases of Armenian oppositionists arrested in the course of the 2008 presidential elections and post-election events, the opposition Armenian National Congress (АNC) has accused the Armenian law enforcement agencies of unlawful actions and support of the "unlawful regime".

July 25, 2009 03:00

• Uve Schram: European Commission to disclose its report on war in South Ossetia

  Uve Schram, German diplomat and deputy head of the European Commission International Investigation Commission on the Causes of the Five-day War in South Ossetia in August 2008, has spent three days in Tbilisi. According to him, the European commission on investigating the August war events is going to disclose its report at the end of September.

July 24, 2009 23:50

• European Union and USA call for releasing bloggers arrested in Azerbaijan

  The chair of the European Union represented by the Sweden Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement condemning the arrest of young activists in Azerbaijan. "The European Union is deeply concerned with the arrest and imprisonment of young activists Adnan Gadzhizade and Emin Milli in Azerbaijan", states the document submitted to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the EU office in Baku.

July 24, 2009 23:10

• Armenian court of appeal upholds the arrest of oppositionist Arakelian

  The Armenian court of appeal has upheld the decision of the court of first instance on arresting Tigran Arakelian, an 18-year old opposition activist accused of beating a policeman, as a measure of restraint. The court dismissed the petition of lawyer Vardui Elbakian on releasing the young man on bail.

July 24, 2009 23:00

• Khazbiev: functionaries of Ingushetia support militants

  Most functionaries and businessmen of the Republic of Ingushetia "pay kickback" to militants, claims Magomed Khazbiev, leader of Ingushetia opposition. According to him, civil servants continue to pay militants in the same way they were doing it under Murat Ziazikov, the previous president.

July 24, 2009 22:00

• 20 people taken to hospital with food poisoning in Stavropol Krai

  20 people, including seven children under 10, have been taken to hospital with food poisoning in Novopavlovsk (Stavropol Krai).

July 24, 2009 21:10

• In Ingushetia, attacks on private shops become frequent

  In the last two days, in Ingushetia, two armed attacks of unidentified persons on shop owners were registered, as a result of which two persons were lost.

July 24, 2009 21:00

• Militant's son Maskhud Abdullaev leaves Chechnya for Azerbaijan, and then - for a third country

  Maskhud Abdullaev, son of one of the leaders of Chechen militants Supyana Abdullaev, who has the status of a UN refugee, has managed to get over from Chechnya to Azerbaijan, and therefrom - immediately to a third country. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told today about it by a representative of Chechen refugees who referred to Maskhud Abdullaev's relatives.

July 24, 2009 21:00

• Khazbiev: attempt on Evkurov stopped resettlement of refugees of the Prigorodny District

  In early July, resettlement of the refugees from the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, living in Ingushetia, should have begun. However, it did not happen, as reported by Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev. The reason was in the attempt on President Yunus-Bek Evkurov. His Administration says that the agreement on resettlement existed, but particular dates were not specified.

July 24, 2009 20:00

• Main version of hostels' collapse in Astrakhan is in building reconstruction

  One of the main versions of the house downfall in Astrakhan is an illegal reconstruction with rearrangement of hostel rooms into apartments with violation of safety rules at civil works, which resulted in damaging the integrity of load-bearing walls. Today, this was reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO).

July 24, 2009 19:00

• In Rostov Region, July 25 was announced the mourning day

  Today, Sergey Nazarov, Vice-Governor of the Rostov Region, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that a day of mourning was announced in the region to commemorate 21 casualties in the accident near Samarskoe village, Rostov Region.

July 24, 2009 18:00

• Chechen residents are indignant of authorities' celebrations on the day of Estemirova's funeral

  Chechen people feel indignant of the actions of the republic's authorities, who not just ignored the farewell ceremony with Natalia Estemirova on July 16, and then tried to hamper her colleagues and friends to see her off for ever, but also organized celebrations near the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny.

July 23, 2009 23:30

• European Court again condemns Russia for disappearance of Chechen resident

  Today in Strasbourg, the decision on the case "Mutsaeva versus Russia" was announced, in which the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized Russia's violation of a whole range of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to Khizir Tepsurkaev, detained by power agents in 2001 in Chechnya and missing since.

July 23, 2009 23:10

• Protest action against suppression of rights and freedoms in Azerbaijan held in Paris

  On July 22, the Day of National Press of Azerbaijan, a protest action against suppression of rights and freedoms in this country was held in Paris in front of Azerbaijani embassy. The action was organized by the "Reporters without Borders", an international organization in defence of journalists, with participation of a group of young Azerbaijanis.

July 23, 2009 23:00

• Moscow: after picket in Estemirova's memory, militiamen detain organizer of the action

  After the picket in Russian capital aimed to commemorate Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", its organizer Victor Sakirko was detained by the militia.

July 23, 2009 22:40

• Russia's MFA finds independent investigation of Estemirova's murder suggested by the United Nations illegal

  Experts of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) will not be able to hold their own independent investigation into the murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, as it is contradictory to the Russian legislation. This was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation.

July 23, 2009 22:10

• Yamadaevs hope for fair trial on attempt on Sulim Yamadaev

  In the opinion of Yamadaevs' relatives, the trial of the two persons, accused of an attempt on the former commander of the "Vostok" special-purpose GRU battalion, Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, who by official data was assassinated in Dubai on March 28 this year but by statements of his relatives is alive and under protection of the police, will allow making responsible both the executors and organizers, and the direct customer of this crime.

July 23, 2009 22:00

• Sochi: Russian officer stops his protest hunger strike

  On July 22 in Sochi, Rank III Captain Evgeniy Tsapko, a serviceman of the Military Unit 2159, stopped his protest hunger strike that he conducted since June 22, because of a sharp aggravation of his health condition.