News

December 01, 2010 22:00

• Suspect of murder in Slavyansk-on-Kuban detained

  As reported by Igor Zhelyabin, head of the press-service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, the suspect of murdering a woman and assaulting other three persons in Slavyansk-on-Kuban was detained.

December 01, 2010 21:00

• Militiaman convicted for murder in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia, today a former militiaman and his accomplice, who killed a local woman and gained possession of her property, have been sentenced to long prison terms.

December 01, 2010 20:00

• Nine families have been evicted from a dormitory in North Osetia without housing

  Nine families from the category of displaced persons have been evicted from the dormitory of Special vocational school (SVS) No 14 in the village of Elkhotovo, Kirov district of North Osetia. They had been living there since 1991.

December 01, 2010 19:00

• 16 schoolchildren in Astrakhan got poisoned with pepper gas

  After dispersion of pepper gas by an unidentified person in the building of school No 74 of Astrakhan from a gas vessel 13 schoolchildren were taken to the toxicological unit of district Alexandro-Mariinskaya hospital, three injured pupils refused hospitalization.

December 01, 2010 18:00

• The wife of a resident of Ingushetia lost in Dagestan asks Director of State Security Service to find out his location

  Zarema Khutiyeva, resident of Nazran, reports that she still knows nothing of the fate of her missing husband Muhamed Aslambekovich Khutiyev born in 1973 who disappeared yet on October, 20. She has submitted a request to State Security Service to render her assistance in establishing her husband's location.

November 30, 2010 23:50

• Stavropol Territory: violent death of head of village soviet is not confirmed

  According the preliminary data of the investigation, the cause of the death of the head of the Irgaklin Rural Soviet, Stepnovskiy District, and her brother was poisoning with carbon monoxide, said Ekaterina Danilova, senior assistant to the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia in the Stavropol Territory.

November 30, 2010 23:40

• Former head of Kuschevskiy District gets to hospital after suicide attempt

  Valery Palkin, former head of the Kuschevskiy District, Krasnodar Territory, cut his veins open and was hospitalized, said the press service of the regional GUVD.

November 30, 2010 23:10

• Georgia to try suspects of spying for Russia in mid-December

  In Georgia, the Batumi City Court will start, presumably on December 14-15, the trial of the 13 citizens of Russia and Georgia detained as members of a spy network set up in the country.

November 30, 2010 23:00

• Brussels: European Parliament holds "Circassian Day"

  Today, the European Parliament in Brussels starts the event called "Circassian Day", held for the fifth time already and aimed at discussing the issues of ethno-cultural revival, development and political problems of the Circassian nation and society.

November 30, 2010 22:50

• Chechnya checks pharmacies for selling counterfeit drugs

  From November 24 on, employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are detecting pharmacies and retail outlets, where non-licensed and counterfeit drugs are sold. Sellers of such drugs will face administrative punishments.

November 30, 2010 22:40

• Russian MIA declares solving all terror acts in Northern Caucasus

  All the terror acts committed in the territory of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have been solved, Sergey Chenchik, Head of the GUVD of the MIA for the NCFD, said at a press conference today.

November 30, 2010 22:30

• Medvedev: Kuschevskaya is an example of power-crime merge

  Addressing today his message to the Russian Federal Assembly, President Dmitri Medvedev stated the need to fight laxity in law enforcement agencies and other bodies of state power. As an example he cited the events in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where 12 persons were assassinated on November 5.

November 30, 2010 22:20

• President of Chechnya will not evidence at the trial on Israilov's murder

  Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will not go to Vienna to the trial on the murder in Austria of his former bodyguard Umar Israilov. This was stated by Andrei Krasnenkov, Kadyrov's advocate. In his opinion, the investigation has no proofs of President's involvement in the murder. However, the human rights activists, engaged in monitoring the litigation, are convinced that Kadyrov shall evidence and point to strong arguments present in case materials.

November 30, 2010 22:10

• Special operation is on in Dagestani village of Balakhani

  Today, from 8 in the morning, Balakhani village, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is blocked by units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). This was reported by power structures of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

November 30, 2010 20:00

• Georgian opposition demands drawing representatives of the USA an EU to investigation of explosions in Tbilisi

  The oppositional Labour Party of Georgia stands for arrival of representatives of the US Congress and the European Parliament in Georgia in order to prove complicity of the country's authorities in the explosions which took place in Tbilisi at night of November, 29, with their assistance.

November 30, 2010 19:00

• A teenager in Dagestan identified the militiamen who had beaten him up

  On November, 26, in the Prosecutor's office of Sovetsky district of Makhachkala, Dagestan, a procedure of identification of the militiamen who at the end of June beat up a fourteen-year-old Makhmud Akhmedov, took place, the teenager was taken to hospital as a result of beating.

November 30, 2010 18:00

• Relatives of missing people in Chechnya held a meeting in Grozny

  On November, 29, women relatives of missing citizens of Chechen Republic held an action in Grozny in which over 30 women took part. The participants adopted an appeal to the community asking for help in search of their kidnapped or missing relations.

November 29, 2010 23:40

• Chechnya: circumstances of mass brawl in a village are investigated

  Law enforcement agencies of the republic hold investigation into the mass brawl that burst out in a foothill settlement of the Shali District and resulted in several injured persons, including one militiaman.

November 29, 2010 23:30

• Chechen journalists receive special prize of TV Festival "Hero of Our Time"

  On November 27, Rostov-on-Don closed the "Hero of Our Time" festival of socially relevant television programmes and TV films. It was held for the fourth time by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), and for the first time - in the south of Russia. A series of programmes made by Chechen journalists by the 65th Victory Anniversary was specially marked.

November 29, 2010 23:10

• WikiLeaks materials show US awareness of start of 2008 Five-Day War

  The website of WikiLeaks has posted documents, which indicate that the USA knew about the events in August 2008, when the Georgian-South-Ossetian conflict escalated into the "Five-Day War" between Georgia and Russia, but concealed facts from the world community.