News

May 19, 2011 23:00

• In Dagestan, court acquits "Chernovik" journalists on all the charges

  In the course of the session of the Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala, the journalists of the newspaper "Chernovik" were found innocent.

May 19, 2011 23:00

• Litigation on slandering Kadyrov turns to debate stage

  The judicial investigatory on the criminal case against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, accused of slandering the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is over. The trial is entering the stage of debates; the start thereof is scheduled for June 9.

May 19, 2011 22:50

• Zoya Svetova: Zara Murtazalieva, native of Chechnya, won't get CER

  In the opinion of journalist Zoya Svetova, the author of the book "Innocent Found Guilty" about the fate of Zara Murtazalieva, sentenced in 2005 on charges of terrorism, and scientist Igor Sutyagin, convicted under the article of espionage, Zara Murtazalieva will not get her conditional early relief (CER).

May 19, 2011 22:30

• Scandal at CSPI on extortions to Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation

  The dean of the Chechen State Pedagogical Institute (CSPI) in Grozny extorted bribes from students on the pretext of the need to invest money to the Public Foundation named after Akhmad Kadyrov.

May 19, 2011 22:30

• In Dagestan, lawyer Nabiev was forced out of Kizlyar ROVD

  Dibir Nabiev, a member of the Bar Association "Kavkaz", has stated his intention to strive for punishing the policemen of the Kizlyar ROVD (District Interior Division), who had forced him to leave the ROVD building. He wrote about it in his application to the Dagestani Public Prosecutor.

May 19, 2011 22:10

• Zhukov: the level of unemployment in Northern Caucasus is four times higher than the average Russian index

  The unemployment level in the republics of Northern Caucasus is almost four times higher than in Russia on the whole, Alexander Zhukov, Vice-premier of Russia, reported at a conference in Essentuki devoted to the situation in labour market in North-Caucasian Federal Okrug. Zhukov criticized the regional administrations for not exploiting the assets allotted on reduction of unemployment.

May 19, 2011 22:10

• Criminal case against sister of supposed "Domodedovo" suicide bomber stopped

  The sister and fellow villager of suicide bomber Magomed Evloev, who blew himself up at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport, have been released from custody; all suspicions against them are cancelled.

May 19, 2011 22:00

• A resident of Tbilisi sewed up his mouth at a hunger strike of solicitors

  A resident of Tbilisi Sulhan Dekanoidze joined a five-days hunger strike of oppositional solicitors near the building of the Georgian Parliament and sewed up his mouth. Dekanoidze expresses his protest against the detention of his brother David stating that he is illegally kept in the investigative isolation ward.

May 19, 2011 22:00

• Magomed Mutsolgov's blog cracked

  Today at 10:56 a.m., the blog of the Ingush rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov that he runs on the "Caucasian Knot" was cracked; that is, a post was published on his behalf, of which he was not the author.

May 19, 2011 21:00

• Women residents of Volgograd will join the all-Russian hunger-strike

  Several mothers in Volgograd whose children cannot attend kindergartens because of the lack of places will join the all-Russian hunger strike on May, 20. This is already the seventh hunger strike held by mothers like them residing in other regions.

May 19, 2011 20:00

• A disabled man in Armenia started a hunger strike near the Embassy of France

  Yesterday, May, 18, disabled Samvel Mikaelyan started an open-ended hunger strike near the Embassy of France in Armenia. The participant of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh is indignant with the fact that his social and domestic problems have not yet been solved.

May 19, 2011 19:00

• The Georgian opposition reports detention of an ex-deputy in Kutaisi

  Gogi Tsulaya, ex-deputy of the Georgian Parliament, Chairman of regional organization of oppositional movement "Free Georgia", was detained in Kutaisi, Press service of the movement reports.

May 19, 2011 18:00

• The court obliged the Ministry of Defense to pay half a million rubles for the loss of a woman soldier in Chechnya

  Urus-Martan city court in Chechnya obliged the Ministry of Defense to pay 500 thousand rubles for the loss of a woman soldier in Chechnya. According to the judgment, the victim's mother will receive the money as a compensation for moral damage.

May 18, 2011 23:50

• Chechnya: teenager warned for false report about terror act

  On May 17 in Chechnya, a sentence was passed to the 15-year-old boy, who last summer reported false data to the "MegaFon" mobile operator about an impending major terror act.

May 18, 2011 23:40

• Georgian citizens detained on Georgian-South-Ossetian border

  Four citizens of Georgia have been detained for illegal crossing of the state borders of South Ossetia, said the KGB (State Security Committee) of South Ossetia. According to the Georgian MIA, the young people were gathering edible herbs near the border, when Russian frontier guards tried to arrest them. According to the Georgian party, two of the Georgians were wounded.

May 18, 2011 23:30

• Dagestan: journalists have last statement at "Chernovik" trial

  The Lenin Federal Court of Makhachkala held another session on the case of journalists from the newspaper "Chernovik" accused of "inciting extremism" and "kindling hatred" to law enforcement bodies. In their last statement the journalists refused to plead guilty. The sentence will be announced on May 19.

May 18, 2011 23:20

• In Armenia, court extends arrest of high-ranking police officer

  The court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts Kentron and Nork-Marash of Yerevan has ruled to extend by two more months the custody of Major-General Ovannes Tamamyan, ex-head of the Chief Department of Criminal Investigation of the Police of Armenia.

May 18, 2011 23:10

• Residents of Khrakh-Uba to hold new protest action in capital of Dagestan

  Residents of the Dagestani enclave in Azerbaijan - the village of Khrakh-Uba - have announced their plans to hold a new rally on May 23 in Makhachkala, where they intend to demand again from the authorities of Dagestan and Russia to protect their interests.

May 18, 2011 23:00

• In Chechnya, court adjudges 30,000 roubles in favour of woman who lost daughter in shelling

  The Lenin District Court of Grozny has partially satisfied the claim lodged by Ruman Kosumova, a resident of the village of Kharachoi, Vedeno District of Chechnya, on compensation for her moral sufferings caused to her by actions of prosecutors from the Vedeno District and Shali Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

May 18, 2011 23:00

• Chechen authorities deny budget spending on expensive gifts to "Stars of World Football"

  Following the information about the intention of the administration of the head of Dagestan to buy a batch of silver watches worth about 80,000 US dollars, the data appeared in the press that the high-ranking guests of the May 11 opening ceremony of the sports complex in Grozny were generously presented with watches with diamonds. As stated now in the Chechen administration, the guests did not receive any gifts bought for the budget money.