News

September 28, 2011 22:30

• Armenia states transfer of the last prisoner of war to Azerbaijan

  Through the mediation of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration, Armenia has passed over to the third party the last Azerbaijani prisoner of was (POW) - Roman Novruz oglu Guseinov. According to the Armenian party, eight citizens of Armenia are still in Azeri captivity.

September 28, 2011 22:20

• Court upholds arrest of supposed Politkovskaya's killer

  The Moscow City Court has upheld the extension until December 7 the custody of Rustam Makhmudov, accused of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the press service of the court reports.

September 28, 2011 22:10

• Society "Memorial" in Moscow invites to housewarming party

  On October 1, the Society "Memorial" opens its new Moscow house, purchased and equipped with the help of Russian and foreign sponsors. On the housewarming day, employees will show the interior for all the guests, announce their future programs, expose the gathered museum and archive collections and tell about new opportunities and services of their organization.

September 28, 2011 22:00

• ICRF reports eight casualties of blast in Dagestan

  According to the latest data, the explosion of a car in Dagestan killed eight persons, including an 11-year-old girl.

September 28, 2011 20:00

• The court in Baku is trying a lawsuit of civil activists against Public Television

  Hearing of a case on a lawsuit of nine youth organizations and branches of political parties against Public TV and Radio Company (PTRC) under the chairmanship of judge Metanet Gajieva started in Yasamal district court of Baku.

September 28, 2011 19:00

• A volunteer youth center opened in Rostov-on-Don

  On September, 27, the first youth volunteer club "I am a Volunteer" opened in Rostov-on-Don.

September 28, 2011 18:00

• Witnesses on the case of an assault at Nalchik denied the evidence they gave during pretrial inquest

  On September, 27, during a trial on the case of gunmen's assault at Nalchik in autumn, 2005, in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, three witnesses who at the moment of the assault were servicemen of the frontier department which underwent the gunmen's attack bore evidence.

September 27, 2011 23:40

• Ingush authorities offer refugees to rent housing; migrants complain of pressure

  As reported by refugees from North Ossetia and Chechnya, on September 24, in the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia, an attempt was made to force them out from a temporary accommodation centre (TAC). Under the order of the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the internally displaced persons (IDPs) should move out of their adapted premises before September 30. The republic's authorities promise to pay 5000 roubles monthly to every family for renting some housing; however, refugees say that this money is not enough.

September 27, 2011 23:10

• In Dagestan, relatives of detained suspects as militants' helpers complain that they cannot see detainees

  A resident of Kizlyar (Dagestan) Zaur Omarov complains that for more than a month he cannot see his brother Omar, detained as a suspected helper. Zaur told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that investigators are against their meeting.

September 27, 2011 23:00

• Lawyers hold protest in Tbilisi

  The Bar Association held a rally in front of the Supreme Court of Georgia in protest against detention of lawyer Tariel Murmanashvili, accused of a fraud.

September 27, 2011 22:40

• In Azerbaijan, journalist Mekhtiev to challenge fine imposed by court

  Khyakimeldost Mekhtiev, the regional correspondent of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), sentenced by the Sharur District Court to a fine for illegal use of electricity, intends to appeal against this decision.

September 27, 2011 22:30

• Rostov holds another protest against parliamentary elections

  The action was aimed against the Russian parliamentary elections to be held on December 4, 2011. The picketers explained passers-by that the opposition offers to hold alternative elections on that very day.

September 27, 2011 22:30

• Georgia holds actions in support of "Hercules" workers

  On September 26, simultaneously in Kutaisi and Tbilisi, protest actions were held against authorities' actions against the workers and trade union leaders of the "Hercules" Steel Works.

September 27, 2011 22:10

• "Chechengrazhdanstroy" workers complain of systematic non-payment of wages

  In Chechnya, employees of the organization named "Chechengrazhdanstroy" complain that their bosses are not in a hurry to pay salaries. According to one of them, the debt of the company to him personally is over one million roubles. The chief accountant asserts that for two years already the organization runs no activity in Chechnya; therefore, the staff was sent on vacations without pay.

September 27, 2011 22:00

• "March of Georgians" underway in Tbilisi

  In the capital of Georgia, over 1000 persons are taking part in the oppositional protest action against the policy of the authorities named the "March of Georgians". In the course of their march, the protesters have blocked the traffic in Rustaveli Avenue and Baratashvili Street.

September 27, 2011 21:00

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay compensation to woman in Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russia to pay 63,000 euros to Aminat Beksultanova, a resident of Chechnya, who had accused power agents of illegal detention and murder of her son. Besides, she accused the Russian government of a failure to conduct an investigation into his disappearance.

September 27, 2011 20:00

• An official convicted in Kabardino-Balkaria for ungrounded refusal to improve a veteran's dwelling conditions

  Zolsky district court of Kabardino-Balkaria acknowledged head of Home inspection of the village Administration guilty of negligence. She was accused of a groundless refusal in improving dwelling conditions of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

September 27, 2011 19:00

• A web-site promoting free access to information opened in Armenia

  Within the framework of a project "Application of the legislation on freedom of information in Armenia" and with financial support of OSCE Office in Yerevan and the US Agency for International Development, Center of Freedom of Information in Yerevan presented its new web-site givemeinfo.am. The web-site shows statistic situation with freedom of information in Armenia and all the requests of Center of Freedom of Information for the period of 2010-1011 are placed there.

September 27, 2011 18:00

• One of the defendants on the case of an assault at Nalchik went on a hunger strike

  Husein Khubolov, one of the defendants on the case of an assault at Nalchik went on a hunger strike. This became known at a next scheduled trial.

September 26, 2011 23:40

• In Kalmykia, Buddhist forum asks Russian MFA to give entrance visa to Dalai Lama XIV

  Scientists, writers and public figures, who took part in a conference held within the forum "Buddhism: Philosophy of Non-Violence and Compassion" held in Elista (Kalmykia), have appealed to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) asking to allow a pastoral visit of the Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama XIV to Russia.