News

October 27, 2010 19:00

• Attempt of blasting military sappers committed in Chechnya

  A fougasse exploded during engineering reconnaissance of the territory by the servicemen of a sapper unit of federal forces in the South-East of Chechnya. There have been no victims among the personnel.

October 27, 2010 18:00

• A group detained in Krasnodar region for suspicion of a large-scale land fraud

  Participators of an organized group which included the Head of Trade Department of the Administration of Tuapse district have been detained in Krasnodar region. The detained are suspected of bribe-taking of 71 million rubles for illegal extermination of lands out of state property, Alexander Nazarov, Deputy Chief of the Department of economic security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, reported.

October 26, 2010 23:40

• Azerbaijani public figures urge convicted journalist Fatullaev to stop hunger strike

  A group of journalists, human rights activists and intellectuals - members of the Committee in Defence of Freedom of Expression - believe that the hunger strike announced by Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan", kept at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), has already caused quite a broad public resonance.

October 26, 2010 23:20

• Dagestani project of water purification gets Grand Prix of British Invention Show

  At the recent British Invention Show, the innovation project of the Dagestani State Agricultural Academy (DSACA) "Water Purification Complex and Technology for Water Purification from Arsenic" received main awards - the Platinum Grand Prix, Gold Medal and Honorary Diploma.

October 26, 2010 23:10

• Residents of Dagestani capital complain about census takers

  Gadji Kadiev, a resident of Makhachkala, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that none of census takers visited his house at 19 Gamidov Avenue, where he lives with his family.

October 26, 2010 23:00

• 300 persons came to commemorate Dubrovka victims in Moscow

  On October 26 in Moscow, more than 300 persons gathered in the square in front of the Theatrical Centre: victims and relatives of the casualties of the Dubrovka terror act, and victims of other terror acts - exploded houses in Guryanova Street and Kashira Highway in Moscow, in Volgodonsk and at Beslan school capture.

October 26, 2010 22:40

• Attack on Vinyukov in Sochi was made by hired criminals, his associates say

  According to Alexei Dymovskiy, leader of the "White Tape" movement, and Yuri Dzaganiya, local CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) leader, the attack in Sochi on Mikhail Vinyukov, chairman of the Sochi branch of the "White Tape", was an ordered the crime, organized by those dissatisfied with the activities of the rights defender.

October 26, 2010 22:30

• Refugees in Georgia demand resignation of Minister in charge of IDPs

  On October 25 in Tbilisi refugees broke a tent camp at the Ministry for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Refugees and Accommodation, demanding resignation of Minister Koba Subeliani. Refugees believe that the government fails to address their housing problems; while the Ministry finds their claims to be ungrounded.

October 26, 2010 22:10

• Investigatory Committee reports detention of attackers on Baksan HPP

  The investigatory bodies and operative agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB have detained two persons who confessed of committing a terror act on July 21 at the Baksan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria, as Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee (IC), said today.

October 26, 2010 22:00

• Warsaw Court of Appeal stops Zakaev's arrest case

  Today in Warsaw, the Court of Appeal overturned the first instance's ruling to arrest Ahmed Zakaev, leader of Chechen separatists. The session held behind closed doors also stopped Zakaev's arrest case.

October 26, 2010 21:00

• Galina Kozhevnikova: the case of "White Wolves" is an attack upon the attempt to limit the jury trials

  The case of "White Wolves" once again confirms that the jury trial, in case of proper work of the investigation, will not acquit the Nazis, Galina Kozhevnikova, Deputy Director of informational and analytic center "SOVA" said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

October 26, 2010 20:00

• The sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) have finished their work in Chechnya

  The personnel of the Center of Rescue Operations of Special Risk "Leader", MES of Russia, have accomplished their work on mine clearing in the territory of Chechnya. The sappers of "Leader" had been working in Chechnya since the middle of September this year.

October 26, 2010 19:00

• Militiamen in Dagestan offset a lawyer's disadvantage for damaging her car

  As a result of an achieved peace accord the personnel of law enforcement bodies in Dagestan completely offset to lawyer Jamilya Tagirova the disadvantage for having knocked out the window glasses in her car.

October 26, 2010 18:00

• Organization "Democracy for the Sake of Development" asks the authorities of Karabakh to help release the journalist arrested in Transdniestria

  A non-governmental organization of Armenia "Democracy for the Sake of Development" has submitted an appeal to the President of Nagorno-Karabakh concerning Ernest Vardanyan, an Armenian journalist arrested in Transdniestria

October 25, 2010 23:40

• Hot-water boiler caused explosion in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Zaragizh village school suffered from an explosion. According to the principal, who referred to the experts studying the circumstances of the night explosion, the reason was in the canteen hot-water boiler. Thus, the initial statement about a terror act was not true.

October 25, 2010 23:20

• Suicide bombers who attacked Chechen Parliament came in a taxi

  Two of the three suicide bombers who attacked the building of the Chechen Parliament in Grozny in the morning of 19 October are still unidentified. The procedure is difficult, because their bodies torn into fragments by explosives belts are not subject to visual identification. Inspectors continue revealing new details of the incident.

October 25, 2010 23:10

• Armenia: WWF to protect brown bears

  In the south of Armenia, employees of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) plan to start night on duty shifts near the gardens, where brown bears come for nutrition. This was announced by the PR Department of the WWF.

October 25, 2010 23:00

• Bodies of two Russian contract militaries found in Armenia

  As reported by the press service of the Armenian Police, the bodies of two contract servicemen of the Frontier Department of Russia's FSB were found in a military unit stationed in the city of Gyumri, in the northern part of the country.

October 25, 2010 22:50

• Alleged Chechen rebels liquidated in Dagestan were medrese students

  The two residents of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, assassinated on October 20 in a special operation of power agencies in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, were medrese students, listed as missing since October 8 this year.

October 25, 2010 22:40

• Former high-ranking SFD prosecutor sentenced to eight years for fraud

  The Serpukhov Court of Moscow has sentenced Senior Adviser of Justice Sergey Abrosimov, former head of the division for supervising inquiry and operational-search activities of the Chief Department of Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) in the Southern Federal District (SFD), guilty, according to the investigation, of taking huge bribes, to eight years in a minimum security colony.