News

May 02, 2011 23:00

• NGOs and opposition hold protest action in Tbilisi

  Activists of several NGOs, youth organizations and oppositional parties have held a protest action near Tbilisi courts, where in May 2005 Zurab Vazagashvili and Alexander Khubulov were killed in a police special operation.

May 02, 2011 22:50

• Repatriation of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia to start in 2012

  It is expected that since January 2012, the process of repatriation to Georgia of Meskhetian Turks from various countries of the world will begin.

May 02, 2011 22:40

• Freedom House: Georgia is best in Southern Caucasus by freedom of press

  Today, the international NGO Freedom House has issued a comparative analysis of the status with the freedom of press in 196 countries worldwide. Georgia is in the 118th place, which is the best among the countries of Southern Caucasus.

May 02, 2011 22:10

• In Dagestan, beaten journalist states he was threatened by attackers

  Journalist Magomed Khanmagomedov, beaten in Derbent, sent a telegram on the fact on attack on him to the head of the Dagestani MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) Abdurashid Magomedov, where he reports about the threats expressed by the assailants.

May 02, 2011 22:00

• Lithuanian journalist Thomas Chivas demanded from Public prosecutor's office to attach his articles to Egle Kusaite's case

  On April, 27, Lithuanian journalist Thomas Chivas appealed to the prosecuting party asking to attach his articles to the case of Egle Kusaite accused of terrorism equally with the telephone talks of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko and human rights activist Oksana Chelysheva submitted by Public prosecutor's office as one of the evidences of Egle Kusaite's pressure upon the investigation.

May 02, 2011 21:00

• Chief of Department of Interior Affairs of Sergokala district killed in Dagestan

  In the evening of May, 1, some strangers shot down Nasrulla Magomedov, Chief of the Department of Interior Affairs of Sergokala district.

May 02, 2011 19:00

• A tour of the sights of the Olympic objects opened in Sochi

  The authorities of Sochi in cooperation with an excursion agency opened a new excursion route over the Olympic objects of the winter Games of 2014.

May 02, 2011 19:00

• Three officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs wounded in the South of Chechnya

  Three officers of the republican law enforcement bodies got wounded on May, 1, at about 17:30, during operational search actions in the mountainous and wooded area near the settlement of Eshelkhatoy, Vedeno district.

May 02, 2011 18:00

• IFSR called for Obama to demand release of Azerbaijani journalist Fatullaev

  Azerbaijani Institute of Freedom and Safety of Reporters (IFSR) wrote a letter to President of the USA Barack Obama asking him to mention the name of convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev in the speech of Head of the USA devoted to World Press Day.

April 30, 2011 23:00

• Speaker of Armenian Parliament asks President to pardon Mikaelyan

  On April 29, Chairman (Speaker) of the National Assembly of Armenia Ovik Abramyan addressed President Serzh Sargsyan asking him to pardon Sasun Mikaelyan, an opposition activist and a veteran of the Karabakh War.

April 30, 2011 22:11

• Picket of the Movement "Accessible preschool education for Russian children" held in Volgograd

  Activists of the movement "Accessible preschool education for Russian children" held a picket in Volgograd demanding to solve the problem of shortage of kindergarten places. The action took place within the nationwide day of protest.

April 30, 2011 22:00

• KBR: suspected militant blows himself up at detention

  In the evening on April 29, Ruslan Dolov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), suspected of involvement in IAFs (illegal armed formations), triggered a grenade in his car, when power agents tried to detain him.

April 30, 2011 21:00

• Baku commemorates victims of massacre in ASOA

  Today, activists of oppositional political parties and youth organizations of Azerbaijan have managed, despite the obstacles erected by the police, to hold in Baku an action in memory of the casualties of the mass murder committed at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA).

April 30, 2011 20:19

• Congress of "Adyge-Khasse" held in Sochi

  Today, the township of Lazarevskoye in Sochi hosted the seventh congress of the public organization "Adyge-Khasse" of the Black Sea Adygs-Shapsugs. More than 180 delegates listened to the report of the chairman of the Organization Madzhid Chachukh.

April 30, 2011 20:00

• Astrakhan journalist Oleg Teplischev to appeals against his sentence

  The journalist's defence stated violations in the course of his trial, which resulted in a sentence to 180 hours of corrective work under the charge of beating the local Deputy Rifkat Shabanov; therefore, hi advocates intend to appeal against the verdict.

April 30, 2011 19:00

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, Orthodox Church set on fire

  As reported by the local MIA, in the village of Costa-Khetagurov, Karachay-Cherkessia, unidentified persons set fire to the church and destroyed the stela of St George Victorious.

April 30, 2011 18:00

• In Russia, journalist-refugee from Georgia goes on hunger strike demanding to return home

  On April 29, the Georgian journalist Levan Gudadze, who had first fled to South Ossetia and then to Russia, went on hunger strike at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow with a demand to send him back to Georgia. He explains his action by absence of safety guarantees for him and his family.

April 30, 2011 17:00

• Azerbaijan: literature of Jehovah's Witnesses confiscated from a local woman

  In the house of Gyulnaz Nasirova, a resident of Lyankaran, 19 books of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses were found and confiscated.

April 30, 2011 16:00

• Tbilisi's authorities appoint places for invalids to park

  The Tbilisi City Council has decided to allocate special parking places for drivers with disabilities. The places will be used only by them.

April 30, 2011 15:00

• In Georgia, people seek protection from wolves

  Wolves are attacking people in rural areas. Such reports come from different parts of the country.