News

August 16, 2018 17:56

• Court questions investigator in Titiev's case

  The investigator of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) was unable to confirm to the court today that the search witnesses supervised in detail the inspection of Oyub Titiev's car.

August 16, 2018 14:30

• Azerbaijan counts 87 bombardments in conflict zone during 24 hours

  Armenian militaries have shelled positions of the Azerbaijani Army by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence has stated today.

August 16, 2018 14:21

• Western powers call on Baku to release activists and journalists

  The USA, the European Union and the Council of Europe, while welcoming the release of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party in Azerbaijan, have urged official Baku to release all the persons arrested for the implementation of their fundamental freedoms.

August 16, 2018 14:09

• Persecutions of Jehovah's Witnesses in Southern Russia remind Soviet repressions

  In the Stavropol Territory, law enforcers detained two Jehovah's Witnesses to check their involvement in extremist activities; however, later they were released, Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses*, has stated. In general, Jehovah's Witnesses* are now almost in the same situation as in the Soviet era, said Alexei Makarov, a rights defender.

August 16, 2018 11:24

• USA train Georgian militaries to use Javelins

  The military exercise "Noble Partner-2018" ended in demonstrative training fights, during which Georgian militaries used the American Javelin anti-tank missile complex for the first time.

August 16, 2018 11:14

• 120 persons evacuated from Yerevan hotel after bomb report

  Rescuers have inspected the "Silachi" Hotel in Yerevan after a call was received from an unknown man, who threatened to blow up the building. The explosive device was not found.

August 16, 2018 11:03

• Body of Azerbaijani resident evacuated from Karabakh conflict zone

  Today, the body of a man found in a neutral strip between positions of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, was handed over to the Azerbaijani authorities with the mediation of international organizations.

August 16, 2018 08:13

• Marks in schools of Dagestan and Chechnya are most overstated in Russia

  Dagestan and Chechnya are among the top three Russian regions with the largest number of schools, where overstated marks were found by the "Rosobrnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science).

August 16, 2018 08:05

• 9000 pilgrims leave for Hajj from Dagestan

  About 9000 pilgrims have left for the Hajj from the Makhachkala Airport, which has organized 40 charter flights to execute the departure phase of the Hajj campaign.

August 15, 2018 21:41

• MIA expert tells the court about seizure of marijuana from Titiev

  Ismail Demelkhanov, an expert, told the court how he participated in the seizure of marijuana from Oyub Titiev's car, but could not comment on any other circumstances of his detention.

August 15, 2018 21:33

• Residents of Georgia tell about horror from bombings during Five-Day War

  One of the heaviest memories of the Five-Day War, which ended 10 years ago, for residents of Georgia are linked with Russian air strikes and tanks in the outskirts of Tbilisi.

August 15, 2018 21:22

• Terror act threat interrupts work in Armenian government building

  Today, in Yerevan, employees of the government building were evacuated because of an explosion threat in the Ministry of Public Health. The man who threatened to blow up the Ministry has been established, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

August 15, 2018 18:25

• Over 20 persons recognized cruelty victims in Astrakhan kindergarten

  Today, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported that the owners of the kindergarten in Astrakhan, who were arrested after a video was posted with roped children, have been charged. Investigators have a new video depicting cruel treatment of children in the kindergarten, a source has stated.

August 15, 2018 18:07

• MfE reports reduction of queues at Russian-Georgian border

  The waiting time for passage through the checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road has dropped to six hours, the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed today. Tourists complained of long waiting time in the neutral strip.

August 15, 2018 13:41

• Azerbaijan claims 91 acts of shelling from Armenia

  During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 91 times, by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

August 15, 2018 13:28

• Law enforcers report demining of two munitions in Makhachkala

  The explosive devices, found in Takho-Godi Street and near the dwelling settlement of Tarki in Makhachkala, have been rendered harmless and transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), a source from the Dagestani Branch of "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) has stated.

August 15, 2018 13:18

• Kuban programmer creates software to trace extremists-newcomers

  Ivan Shukshin, a programmer from the city of Gelendjik, has created a computer programme that tracks the updates to the list of extremists and terrorists, posted on the website of the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service).

August 15, 2018 11:12

• Authorities ban environmental rally in Gelendzhik planned by activists

  The activists' request to hold a rally in Gelendzhik, dedicated to the environmental problems of the city, was denied. Instead, officials offered them to hold a protest action in the village of Kabardinka. The organizers disagreed and insist on holding a rally within the city. They see the real reason for the refusal in the fact that bureaucrats are unwilling to publicize the problems with the pollution of beaches on the Black Sea.

August 15, 2018 10:59

• Prosecution states Martynov's plans to blow up a synagogue

  Maxim Martynov, the defendant in the case of preparing a terror act in the Novocherkassk shopping centre, had initially planned, together with his accomplice, to blow up a synagogue, but later decided to change the object of the terror act, the prosecutor asserts.

August 15, 2018 08:36

• Kocharyan's supporters demand to protect court from pressure

  Supporters of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, accused within the case of dispersal of protest in 2008, gathered in front of the residence of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and asked him to protect judges from pressure.