News

March 31, 2012 17:00

• Armenia's voter lists corrected after publication of opposition newspaper

  The list of voters of Armenia contained the name of the late President of the National Academy of Sciences Fadey Sargsyan. The mistake was corrected after noticed by the opposition newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time).

March 31, 2012 16:00

• Volgograd Region: people protest against state of roads

  Residents of the city of Mikhailovka, Volgograd Region, have protested against the state of urban roads by means of a flash mob. Motorists were indignant with the way the road service workers repair the carriageway – they jut fill the pits and holes with old bricks.

March 31, 2012 15:00

• In May, Switzerland will select company for monitoring cargos on Georgian-Russian border

  This May, the Swiss party will choose a company, which will monitor cargo traffic in the checkpoints on the Psou River (the Abkhazian section of the border), Roki (the South-Ossetian section of the border) and in Lars.

March 31, 2012 14:00

• Judge Novikov's mother from Sochi stops her pickets

  In Moscow, Tamara Novikova, the mother and defender of Judge Dmitry Novikov, has suspended her solo pickets until Monday, April 2, hoping to have her problem solved by the Ministry of Justice.

March 31, 2012 13:12

• Krasnodar airports to switch off illumination for "Earth Hour" action

  The airports of the Krasnodar Territory will participate in the international "Earth Hour" initiated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and will today turn off the illumination for one hour.

March 30, 2012 23:00

• Makhachkala resident claims disappearance of her two sons

  In Dagestan, relatives of 31-year old Magomed Murtuzaliev and 30-year-old Abdula Murtuzaliev cannot establish their whereabouts and fear that they might be kidnapped and that their lives and health are at risk. Their mother Zoya Abdulaeva, a resident of Makhachkala, appealed to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking to help find her disappeared sons.

March 30, 2012 22:00

• Personnel of Krasnoyarsk SIZO checked for involvement into beating of Aslan Cherkesov

  The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory conducts investigation into the fact of beating in the Krasnoyarsk SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Aslan Cherkesov, a native of the city of Nalchik, who was convicted for the murder of the football fan Yegor Sviridov committed in Moscow, and who serves his sentence in the region. This was reported by Olga Volobueva, Senior Assistant of the Prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

March 30, 2012 21:00

• In Sochi, several persons injured in picket against cutting down trees

  In Sochi, several local residents suffered during the picket against cutting down trees in the territory of the children's centre in Konstitutsii Street. A woman-protestor was delivered to hospital.

March 30, 2012 20:00

• In Astrakhan, hunger-strikers publish on Internet videos of violations at election

  In Astrakhan, participants of the political hunger strike did not receive from the Central Election Commission (CEC) videos from the webcams, which were operating at city electoral precincts on March 4, and began to publish their available videos on the Internet, since they fear that the records may disappear from the resource of the Ministry of Communications and the "Rostelecom".

March 30, 2012 19:00

• Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria report on unlawful detention and torture of their sons by power agents

  Rosa Aishaeva, a resident of the town of Tyrnyauz, and Larisa Nagoeva, a resident of the city of Nalchik, appeal to human rights activists to help in defending the rights of their sons, Murat Aishaev and Murat Nagoev, who, according to the women, had been kidnapped by power agents. According to the women, the young people were tortured to confess to belonging to militant groupings.

March 30, 2012 17:00

• First blogger from "Heritage" Party runs for seat at Armenian Parliament

  In Armenia, for the first time, a blogger intends to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 6. Izabella Abgaryan, who writes under the nickname of iza1976, is being nominated by proportional system from the "Heritage" Party.

March 30, 2012 11:00

• The Labourites of Georgia held an action “Red light to Saakashvili”

  The Labour party of Georgia held an action of protest against falsification of the parliamentary election in October, 2012, under the slogan “Red light to Saakashvili”.

March 30, 2012 10:00

• Public prosecutor’s office of Krasnodar region protected the borders of “Bolshoy Utrish” reserve

  Public prosecutor’s office of Krasnodar region acknowledged destruction of state natural reserve of regional value “Bolshoy Utrish” unlawful.

March 30, 2012 09:00

• The Musalimov family in Khasavyurt appealed to human rights activists complaining of pressure from members of the top brass

  Local policemen in Khasavyurt are bringing pressure on the Musalimovs because of the twenty-seven-years-old Salim Musalimov who has a federal wanted notice for suspicion of infringement on the life of an officer of law enforcement bodies in 2011, his mother Dagmara states. The family appealed to “Memorial” Human Rights Center and reports that Salim Musalimov has been staying in France since 2010 and could not therefore have committed the crime incriminated to him.

March 29, 2012 23:00

• In Volgograd, 10 victims of explosion in "Bellagio" are still in hospital

  Two more victims of the explosion in the Volgograd cafe "Bellagio" were discharged from Moscow hospitals. Artyom Sotnikov, a resident of Volgograd, and Yulia Podgornaya, a resident of Moscow, will continue to receive medical treatment at home. Thus, 10 persons still remain at the hospitals of Moscow and German Cologne.

March 29, 2012 22:00

• Rostov Region: four residents need new housing after flooding

  Four residents of the farm yard of Turoverov-Glubokinsky of the Millerovo District of the Rostov Region need new housing after the flooding of their houses.

March 29, 2012 21:00

• In Azerbaijan, release of activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev rejected again

  Today, the Garadag District Court of Baku again rejected the activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev of conventional early relief (CER) in connection with serving of half of his imprisonment sentence.

March 29, 2012 20:00

• Moscow City Court reduces sentences for riots in Manege Square

  Judicial board of the Moscow City Court has mitigated the sentence for several defendants in the case of organizing mass riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010 and reduced their terms of imprisonment by two and three months.

March 29, 2012 19:00

• Mother of Judge Novikov from Sochi pickets building of Russian Government

  Today, starting from 1:00 p.m., Tamara Novikova, the mother of Dmitry Novikov, Sochi Judge, holds a single picket in front of the Russian Government in Moscow.

March 29, 2012 17:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh to elect its president of on July 19

  Today, the regular plenary session of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh determined the date of the next presidential election.