All news

November 24, 2009 23:00

• Facts of drug overpricing revealed in Karachai-Circassia

  The local prosecutor's office made another audit of the chemist's network and revealed facts of deliberate overpricing of drugs in Karachai-Circassia.

November 24, 2009 22:50

• Three activists of "November 7" movement detained on anniversary of "revolutions of roses" in Georgia

  On November 23, at 6 p.m., near the building of the Georgian parliament, three activists of the social movement "November 7" - Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, Dagi Tsoguriya and Irakli Kordzaya - were detained. They were found guilty of breaking the law on rallies.

November 24, 2009 22:20

• Among versions of militiamen's murder in Kabardino-Balkaria is extremists' response to article "Shura Decapitated"

  Inspectors consider several versions of the death of two law enforcers in the city of Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria, whose decapitated bodies were found yesterday in the luggage compartment of the car left in the roadside. Among the versions - an answer of the militants to an article published in a local newspapers about liquidation of the leaders of the republic's extremist underground - Shura.

November 24, 2009 22:00

• Militiaman and his daughter of 11 assassinated in Ingushetia

  Today in the morning, in Barsuki village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled the car of Hadjibikar Buzurtanov, an employee of the convoy service of the MIA. The militiaman and his small daughter, who was with him in the car, were shot dead.

November 24, 2009 21:00

• Rally demanding to demine Chechen territory held in Grozny

  In the afternoon on November 23, the Chechen capital hosted a many-thousand-strong protest action, where participants demanded prompt measures to demine the territory of the republic.

November 24, 2009 20:00

• Georgia transfers three detainees to Russia

  Georgia has sent the three citizens detained in the border with South Ossetia back to Russia.

November 24, 2009 19:00

• Treatment in prison hospital gives no relief to journalist Mushvig Guseinov

  In Azerbaijan, health condition of imprisoned Mushvig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, continues to worsen. In spite of his placement in mid-October from the colony to the specialized medical establishment of the Penitentiary Service for TB patients, his disease is progressing to the worse.

November 24, 2009 18:00

• Dagestan: witnesses are interrogated on "execution list"

  Today, Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", a figurant in the so-called "execution list" disseminated in the form of leaflets in early September in Dagestan, was summoned to the local prosecutor's office for interrogation.

November 23, 2009 23:50

• Journalists removed from courtroom during witness' evidence at Nalchik attack trial

  At the process on the events on October 13, 2005, one of today's witnesses has petitioned to the court about his interrogation at a closed judicial session. He said that he is a working militiaman. The prosecution party has supported his petition referring to the law on state protection of witnesses. The defence was against.

November 23, 2009 23:30

• Pamfilova: Dymovskiy's syndrome is the diagnosis to the whole Russian law-enforcement system

  Modernization of the Russian law-enforcement system is a must. This was stated by Ella Pamfilova, head of the Council for Promotion of Civil Society Institutes under Russian President at Dmitri Medvedev's meeting with the Council members. In her statement, the human rights defender mentioned the recent scandal caused by the resonant video appeal of Militia Major from Novorossisk of Alexei Dymovskiy.

November 23, 2009 23:20

• Lady from Rostov Region becomes "Missis of the World-2009"

  Victoria Radochinskaya, 31, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, is the winner of the prestigious international contest "Missis of the World-2009", which was held in the evening on November 22 in the southern Vietnamese city of Vungtau. She was awarded a white-gold crown decorated with 63 rubies worth about 100,000 US dollars.

November 23, 2009 23:00

• Ioffe: memorial boulder in place of Jews' massacre in Volgograd desecrated

  Vandals continue desecrating the memorial boulder installed in the place of mass executions of Jews by fascists. This statement was made by Ms Yael Ioffe, leader of the Jewish community of Volgograd, in her welcoming speech at the opening of the information-methodical seminar "Efficient Counteraction to Extremism and Xenophobia".

November 23, 2009 22:00

• Chechnya has no conditions for rehabilitating children-invalids

  Children-invalids from this republic have no chances to receive due treatment - for more than 40,000 such children Chechnya has only one rehabilitation centre.

November 23, 2009 21:00

• In Dagestan, advocate accused of insulting inspector is tried

  Today, the court precinct No. 106 of Khasavyurt began preliminary hearings on the criminal case against lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who is accused by Arslankhan Arslankhanov, an inspector for especially important cases of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, of insulting him with swear words. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Salimat Kadyrova, an advocate of the Kizilyurt Inter-District Bar, who is defending Magomedova.

November 23, 2009 20:00

• Schools suspended in Chechnya for swine flu threat

  Starting Monday, November 23, schoolchildren of Chechnya will go to additional vacations in the context of possible swine flu epidemic. The pupils' forced rest will last for at least ten days.

November 23, 2009 19:00

• North Ossetia: prosecutor's office reveals drugstores selling overpriced drugs

  As a result of revising drugstores in Vladikavkaz, employees of the republic's prosecutor's office revealed facts of setting extra charges on 20 vital and major medicines in four city drugstores.

November 23, 2009 18:00

• Russian human rights activists establish Public Commission on Chechnya for defending its residents' rights

  Activists of ten NGOs from different regions of Russia have announced establishment of the Public Commission on Chechnya, which will have its main tasks in defending victims of torture and inhuman treatment and bringing those guilty of rough violations of human rights or of failure to take the necessary measures to prevent such violations and punish for them to responsibility.

November 21, 2009 23:00

• Militia post shelled in Ingushetia, one person wounded

  An unidentified culprit used a grenade launcher to shell a stationary militia post in Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia; one employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has suffered.

November 21, 2009 22:00

• Kamalov: Kremlin doubts with candidates for Dagestan President

  Hadjimurad Kamalov, a Dagestan political scientist and director of the LLC "Freedom of Speech", said in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Moscow had not decided yet whom to support at the presidential election in Dagestan.

November 21, 2009 21:00

• Gas line "White Stream" to be jointly designed by Georgia and Ukraine

  As reported by Andrei Goncharuk, deputy head of the secretariat of the President of Ukraine, in designing the gas line "White Stream", Georgia will rely on the potential of the Ukrainian gas transportation system.