News

April 03, 2012 09:00

• A flashmob with the demand of release of prisoners of conscience passed off in Baku

  On April, 2, a group of activists of youth organization of “Musavat” party held a flashmob in Baku devoted to the anniversary of dispersal of an oppositional meeting in the capital of Azerbaijan. The participants of the action demanded release of the persons convicted for participation in the meeting last year. The action was dispersed by police riot squads.

April 03, 2012 08:00

• Mufti of Dagestan calls for the imams, members of power ministries and ordinary citizens to avoid aggression

  Mufti of Dagestan Ahmad-haji Abdullaev called for the residents of the republic not to consider Wahhabis the persons who wore long beards or hijabs and asked members of power ministries not to use force against the suspects. The Mufti also refuted the information that the imams submitted lists of Wahhabis to law enforcement personnel.

April 03, 2012 06:00

• Meeting of defrauded real estate investors held in Sochi

  On April 2, about three hundred defrauded housing investors gathered in the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, near their houses in Goleneva Street to discuss the plan of further actions: should their demands remain unsatisfied, they are ready to picket the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne.

April 02, 2012 23:00

• Russian businessman pleads guilty of illegal visit to Abkhazia

  In Tbilisi, at preliminary court hearings, the Russian businessman Konstantin Rodionov, accused by Georgian authorities of illegal visiting Abkhazia, has fully admitted his guilt.

April 02, 2012 22:00

• In Dagestan, relatives of journalist Magomedov report his detention by power agents

  On March 17 in Makhachkala, law enforcers detained journalist Kamil Magomedov, who worked for the newspaper "Svobodnaya Respublika" (Free Republic), his wife Savdat Mikailova has reported.

April 02, 2012 21:00

• In Kalmykia, prisoner of IK-2 tried to commit suicide

  At night on April 2, Magomed Nurudinov, who is serving his sentence at the Penal Colony No. 2 (IK-2) in the Kalmyk village of Yashkul, tried to commit suicide by hanging, said Vladimir Galitrov, the head of the regional branch of the All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights".

April 02, 2012 20:00

• Baku: photographer Etimad Budagov accuses Mayoralty official of beating him

  Zulfali Ismailov, an official from the Baku Mayoralty, attacked the photojournalist of the News Agency "Turan" Etimad Budagov, the victim reports. The incident occurred during the forced eviction of tenants of No. 20 in Shamsi Badalbeili Street.

April 02, 2012 19:00

• Stash: 50 persons come to Kabardino-Balkaria from Syria

  About 50 persons have arrived in Kabardino-Balkaria from Syria. Currently, the repatriates are filing their documents for temporary residence, said Akhmad Stash, the head of the NGO "Peryt" engaged in helping compatriots to repatriate and accommodate in the land of their ancestors.

April 02, 2012 18:04

• Astrakhan activists hold pickets in support of political hunger-strikers

  Today, two activists have held solo pickets in front of the administration of the Astrakhan Region and Secondary School No. 32 in support of the demands of the political hunger-strikers.

April 02, 2012 17:00

• Defence in case on riots in Manege Square to challenge the verdict at supervisory instance and ECtHR

  The defence of the figurants in the case on the riots in Manege Square intends to appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court, which dismissed the advocates' cassation complaints and upheld the verdict of the Tver Court of Moscow, at the Russia's supervisory instance and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

April 02, 2012 16:00

• Residents of Ingushetia demand from Medvedev, Putin and Evkurov to take control over inquiry into Abubakar Tsechoev's kidnapping

  Relatives, neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances of the employee of the "Vodokanal" Abubakar Tsechoev, who was kidnapped on March 22 in Ingushetia by unidentified power agents, demand from the leaders of Russia and Ingushetia to admit a lawyer and a physician to him, as well as establish and punish all those involved in the incident.

April 02, 2012 15:00

• Chechen authorities close plenty of retail outlets

  Shops, kiosks and cafes are closed in Chechnya as a result of the checks conducted by a special inter-ministry commission. In order to obtain a permit to resume the work, huge bribes are requested, some local businessmen assert.

April 02, 2012 14:00

• Local resident kidnapped in Dagestan, his relatives report

  In Makhachkala, unidentified persons have kidnapped Allakhverdi Radjabov; his relatives are sure that it was done by power agents. However, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan assert that Allakhverdi Radjabov was not detained and does not figure in any criminal cases.

April 02, 2012 13:00

• In Krasnodar, Cossacks tore posters with Christ quotations, advocates of forgiveness of Pussy Riot assert

  In the course of the rally "For Faith, Kuban and Fatherland", held in Krasnodar on March 31, several activists decided to hold solo pickets in the same area calling to forgive the Pussy Riot performers. They were stopped by the rally securities, who tore into pieces the posters with quotations from the Bible, the activists said. The authorities and Cossacks refused to comment their actions.

April 02, 2012 12:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 26-April 1

  Search of the flat of Geidar (Heydar) Jemal in Moscow; set up of commission for militants' adaptation and demand of resignation of Derev, Member of the Federation Council in Karachay-Cherkessia; approval of Konstantin Khramov, Mayor of Nevinnomyssk, as Prime Minister of the Volgograd Region; rally of oppositional Armenian National Congress in Yerevan; Azerbaijanis mark Genocide Day, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of March 26-April 1, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 02, 2012 11:00

• Sochi: Elena Spasskaya placed into SIZO after surgery

  Elena Spasskaya, Director of the Sochi Municipal Enterprise "Direction for Operating Trade Gallery", accused of a large-scale fraud, has undergone a surgery at Oncology Hospital No. 4 and was returned to the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

April 02, 2012 08:00

• The authorities of the Russian Federation allowed sand recovery in Anapa district to “Kroton” company, the ecologists state

  The Government of the Russian Federation confirmed the right of “Kroton” limited company of recovery of 20 ton sand in the Black sea shelf opposite the health resort of Anapa, representatives of “Environmental Watch on North Caucasus” state.

March 31, 2012 23:00

• Rally against Pussy Riot held in Krasnodar

  More than ten thousand people gathered today at a rally in Chistyakov Grove in Krasnodar in support of revival of spiritual and moral values. The event was caused by the "punk prayer" staged in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral by the group named "Pussy Riot".

March 31, 2012 22:00

• Azerbaijan hosts events dated to Genocide Day

  The commemoration ceremony in memory of victims of ethnic clashes in March 1918 was held in different regions of Azerbaijan.

March 31, 2012 21:00

• FSB: Ingush power agents have no relation to kidnapping of Rustam Aushev

  The official statement of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia states that its employees were not involved in detention of Rustam Aushev, a resident of Ingushetia, who disappeared on February 17.