News

June 22, 2011 15:00

• Investment agreements of cooperation signed during Days of Dagestan in Austria

  Investment agreements of cooperation between Dagestan and “Wintertechnique Engineering” company on realization of investment projects in the territory of the republic have been signed in Austria.

June 22, 2011 15:00

• The Parliament of Georgia toughens the penalty for organizing paramilitary groups

  On June, 21, the Parliament of Georgia adopted amendments to the Criminal code in first reading by 101 votes against one according to which the penalty for participation, forming or command of paramilitary groups will be toughened.

June 22, 2011 13:00

• Five servicemen perished and twelve got wounded during battles in Kizlyar district of Dagestan

  There is confirmed data of five lost and twelve wounded officers of law enforcement bodies as a result of a special operation going on in Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

June 22, 2011 12:00

• The special operation in the South of Chechnya may last several months, members of power ministries state

  A large-scale special operation against participants of armed underground which started on May, 20, in Vedeno district of Chechnya has not yielded any results yet, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports.

June 21, 2011 23:00

• Kucher: Muslims detained in North Ossetia have advocates

  In North Ossetia, lawyers and members of the Public Chamber have access to members of Muslim communities who were detained on May 31, stated a session of the Public Chamber of the republic.

June 21, 2011 22:00

• Yerevan: subway fare to be doubled since July 1

  Since July 1, subway fare in Yerevan will be doubled. Karen Karapetyan, the Mayor of Yerevan, announced this information.

June 21, 2011 21:00

• Prosecution demands life imprisonment for accused of Kizlyar attack

  The prosecutor Andrei Nazarov, speaking in the debates in the Supreme Court of Dagestan, demanded life imprisonment sentence for all three defendants in the case of terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010.

June 21, 2011 20:00

• Ingushetia: fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin constructs garment factory

  Valentin Yudashkin, the fashion designer, approved the sites for the future garment factory which Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has shown him on June 21. The factory is to be built in the village of Ali-Yurt.

June 21, 2011 19:00

• Armenia: deputy Arzakantsyan gives money collected from opposition newspaper to charity

  Tigran Arzakantsyan, the representative of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, who won the lawsuit against the newspaper "Erkir" (Country) on the case of honour and dignity defence, intends to transfer the amount of 500 US dollars collected from the newspaper for charity. On June 21 he announced it to journalists.

June 21, 2011 18:30

• Nagorno-Karabakh: journalists watch life of people

  A group of journalists from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia and Armenia visit Nagorno-Karabakh. The programme of their visit schedules meetings with government officials, NGO representatives, travelling to remote regions of Nagorno-Karabakh.

June 21, 2011 18:00

• Einullah Fatullaev called the Council of Europe to increase support to human rights in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev, a former political prisoner, visits Strasbourg at the invitation of the Council of Europe (CE). Within his visit, on June 20 he conducted a series of meetings in various structures of the Council of Europe.

June 21, 2011 17:00

• Maryam Sharipova's brother got political refugee status in Italy

  The Court of Trieste declared the decision of the Commission's on Political Asylum, which had rejected asylum for Anvar Sharipov, to be illegal due to insufficient and contradictory motivation, and provided a native of Dagestan with a political refugee status. Giorgio Kamai, the editor of the Media Centre Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, who watched over the detainee's fate from Italy, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 21, 2011 16:00

• Baku: anonymous leaflets against hijab ban in schools

  Authors of the leaflets, which are distributed anonymously at the entrances of apartment buildings in the capital of Azerbaijan, demand to abolish the practice of the ban on hijabs at schools, as it allegedly violates human rights.

June 21, 2011 15:00

• Astrakhan Region: 'injured child' checked drivers' response to road accident

  In the Astrakhan Region the GIBDD (road police) officers checked drivers' response by staging a road accident involving a child, and watched who of road users would stop seeing the bloodied boy and who would drive by.

June 21, 2011 14:30

• Judoist from Ingushetia wins gold at European Cup

  Zelimkhan Ozdoev from Ingushetia became the gold medallist in the European Cup competitions on judo, which took place in Slovenian city of Celei on June 19.

June 20, 2011 23:30

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 13-19

  Acquittal in the criminal case on slandering Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, passed by court in Moscow; rallies and hunger strike of Dagestani residents who demand to open traffic in the tunnel connecting the centre of the republic with several mountainous districts; verdict of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia on the initiative of the new term of Eduard Kokoity's office; protest rallies in Baku, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 13-19, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 20, 2011 23:00

• Georgia: opposition demands Soso Dzhachvliani's early release

  The oppositional party "New Right-Wingers" demands early release of the stage director Soso Dzhachvliani, an activists of the "People's Assembly" of Georgia, who was detained on May 26 during dispersal of the protest rally in central Tbilisi.

June 20, 2011 22:00

• Afghanistan: eighth soldier from Georgia lost

  During a mission of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Khelmand province of Afghanistan soldier Gia Goguadze perished, reported the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia on June 20. He was already the eighth Georgian soldier lost in Afghanistan.

June 20, 2011 21:00

• Moscow: Yegor Sviridov's murder case in court

  The Moscow Prosecutor's Office confirmed the indictment in criminal case against Aslan Cherkesov, a 27-year-old native of the city of Nalchik, accused of killing Yegor Sviridov, a fan of Football Club (FC) "Spartak", and sent the materials to the Moscow City Court for consideration.

June 20, 2011 20:00

• "Forum of People's Unity of Abkhazia" nominates presidential candidate

  In Abkhazia, the oppositional Republican Party "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia", headed by Raul Khadjimba declared an intention to nominate its presidential candidate. Nomination will take place at the next congress of the organization.