News

January 15, 2011 12:00

• Witnesses in Kadyrov vs. Orlov litigation: being rights defender in Chechnya is dangerous

  Helping people in defending their rights in Chechnya is a threat to one's life. This was stated by human rights activists and journalists at the trial "Kadyrov versus Orlov".

January 14, 2011 23:40

• Trial of Egle Kusaite in Lithuania will go on behind closed doors

  The Court of Appeal of Lithuania rejected the application of Egle Kusaite on publicity of her trial on charges of preparing a terror act in Russia and asking to combine her case with the one against Magmadovs, natives of Chechnya, accused of recruiting her.

January 14, 2011 23:10

• Volgograd Region: investigation found no evidences of illegal placement of orphans to mental hospital

  The check conducted by the Investigatory Committee of the Volgograd Region found no confirmations of the fact that pupils of the orphanage were illegally placed to the mental hospital and narcology dispensary.

January 14, 2011 23:10

• Main figurants in Kuschevskaya massacre case are suspected of plundering villager's property

  A new criminal case has been initiated against Sergey Tsapok and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, supposed leaders of the criminal gang that operated in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, on the fact of the crime committed by them in 2008, as reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation.

January 14, 2011 23:00

• Suspected Georgian spies detained in South of Russia

  According to the Russian FSB, an officer of one of the military units of the Southern Military District was detained as a suspect of spying for Georgia.

January 14, 2011 22:30

• Nagorno-Karabakh is concerned about Poland's position on Poles' visits to Karabakh territories

  On January 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh issued a comment on the statement of the Polish Embassy in Baku about the undesirability for Polish citizens to visit Nagorno-Karabakh without the permit of Azerbaijani authorities. Nagorno-Karabakh fears that other European countries may follow Poland.

January 14, 2011 22:10

• Chechen authorities intend to return Gataevs' children home

  In the nearest future, Shamsail Saraliev, Minister for Foreign Relations of Chechnya, will go to Lithuania to discuss the issue of return of Gataevs' children to Chechnya with the local Migration Service and the Committee on Tutorship.

January 14, 2011 22:00

• Barroso calls Azerbaijani authorities to release journalist Fatullaev

  The European Union welcomes release from prison of two bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade and hopes for soon release of journalist Fatullaev. This was stated today in Baku by Jose-Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, who answered local journalists' question about his satisfaction with the state of democracy in Azerbaijan.

January 14, 2011 21:00

• Knapsack with firearms and ammunition found at Beslan railway station

  Yesterday, on January 13, law enforcers found a knapsack with firearms and ammunition at the railway station in Beslan.

January 14, 2011 20:00

• Armenian tried to commit suicide in reception office of Russian President in Moscow

  As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies, an ethnical Armenian, who had no registration in Russia, tried to commit suicide in the reception office of the President of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

January 14, 2011 19:00

• Four persons killed by explosion in Khasavyurt

  Today in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, an explosion in a cafe killed four persons and wounded five more, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation reports.

January 14, 2011 18:00

• Two men and woman killed in special operation in Makhachkala

  The active phase of the special operation is over in Makhachkala. Three persons were killed, including a woman. Two of them have been identified. The casualties are suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs), as reported by the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC).

January 13, 2011 23:50

• No federal land sold to foreigners in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, where under Decree of President Dmitri Medvedev the ban on acquisition of land as property by foreign nationals was introduced in 18 municipal formations, no land plots from the federal ownership had ever been sold to foreigners.

January 13, 2011 23:30

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, public and political organizations concerned about situation in republic

  Fourteen NGOs and political parties of the republic issued a joint statement expressing their concern about the local socio-political situation.

January 13, 2011 23:20

• Organized "Spartak" fans will not participate in Sviridov's commemoration on January 15

  None of organized supporters of "Spartak" has any attitude to the action to be held on January 15 in Kronshtadt Boulevard in memory of Yegor Sviridov, who was murdered here at night on December 6, 2010. This was announced by Yegor Petrov, advisor of the director general of the Moscow-based "Spartak" Football Club. However, young people in Moscow and St Petersburg are already preparing for the action.

January 13, 2011 23:10

• Moscow authorities agree to action in memory of Markelov on January 19

  The authorities of the capital have allowed holding - on January 19 in the city centre - a march and a rally in memory of the lawyer and rights defender Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. This was announced on January 13 by the press service of the Moscow Mayor and Government.

January 13, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijani wounded and Armenian beaten in Moscow

  Within a day, two natives from Transcaucasia were attacked in Russian capital. A native of Azerbaijan received a bullet in his stomach during a street conflict, while an Armenian was beaten by a group of people.

January 13, 2011 22:50

• Bureaucrats and clergy will respond for bride abduction in Chechnya

  Along with kidnappers, heads of district administrations, militia bosses and Imams of local mosques will respond for abduction of brides in the Chechen Republic.

January 13, 2011 22:40

• Head of village administration assassinated in Dagestan

  Rabadan Rabadanov, head of the village of Verkhneye Ubeki, Levashin District of Dagestan, was shot dead this evening in the yard of his house.

January 13, 2011 22:30

• Second assailant on militiamen in Dagestan liquidated

  In the course of a special operation in central Makhachkala, power agents of Dagestan killed the second attacker on militiamen.