News

October 09, 2010 22:00

• Kalmykia delays commissioning of its WPPs till November

  Start of wind power plants (WPPs) in Kalmykia was again postponed. The problems of the WPP park were discussed on October 7 at the sitting chaired by the republic's prime minister.

October 09, 2010 21:00

• All referees of the top football league disqualified in Armenia

  Following the meeting of Ruben Airapetyan, President of the Armenian Football Federation (AFF), with the leaders of the clubs of the local top league, a decision was made to disqualify all the referees who serviced the league matches.

October 09, 2010 20:00

• Rostov-on-Don holds Science Festival, first in the south of Russia

  From October 1 the city of Rostov-on-Don is hosting the first in the south of Russia Science Festival, organized by the Southern Federal University (SFU). On October 8, the central event of the festival took place - interactive scientific and learning exhibition.

October 09, 2010 18:00

• Chechen authorities promise to restore water supply of large village before end of year

  Residents of Alkhan-Kala village, Grozny District, have no centralized water supply for nearly twenty years; water which fails to meet sanitary standards is brought to them in tanks. The authorities promise to fix water supply till the end of this year.

October 09, 2010 17:00

• Karachai-Circassia wins Caucasian Games

  The national team of Karachai-Circassia has been recognized to be the winner of the first sports festival of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) - the Caucasian Games.

October 09, 2010 16:00

• Kalmykia starts project on rural family businesses

  The innovation project "Opening of 50 rural family businesses", which has acquired the status of the pilot project of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, is implemented in the Pervomaiskiy Rural Municipality Formation of the Republic of Kalmykia.

October 09, 2010 15:00

• In Rostov Region, head of building company is accused of embezzling 150 million roubles from shareholders

  The Oktiabrskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don has sanctioned the arrest of the director of the construction company "Monolith", suspected of deceiving about 400 real estate shareholders to the sum of 150 million roubles, the press service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Rostov Region reports.

October 09, 2010 14:00

• Ten GIBDD officers accused of bribe-taking face trial in Astrakhan

  As reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, a criminal case against a GIBDD (Russian equivalent for the STSI - State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) company commander and nine inspectors, accused of taking bribes when on duty service, has been sent to Astrakhan Regional Court.

October 09, 2010 13:00

• Dagestan postpones election of Gergebil head for absence of candidates

  Initially, four candidates were registered to the post of the head of Gergebil village, Gergebil District of Dagestan, but all of them recalled at the request of the village community. Thus, the election of the village head planned for October 10 was cancelled for absence of candidates.

October 09, 2010 11:00

• ASU students make rally over universities of Southern Russia

  A motor rally of the students of the Adyg State University (ASU), performed on October 4-6, was dated to the university's jubilee and was held under the motto "By Roads of Friendship".

October 08, 2010 23:40

• Refugees, teachers and street traders hold solidarity rally in Tbilisi

  On the initiative of the opposition Conservative Party of Georgia and the People's Party, on October 7 in Tbilisi, in front of the Parliament of Georgia, a solidarity protest rally was held by refugees, teachers and street traders, who spoke in defence of their rights.

October 08, 2010 23:20

• In Moscow, Caucasians' wives state kidnapping of their husbands by power agents

  In late September five of the natives of the Caucasus disappeared in Russian capital; their relatives suggest that they were detained by security agents and kept in one of Moscow's detention facilities. The wives of two of them - Zelimkhan Chibiev and Magomed Israpilov - told about it to human rights activists and asked for legal assistance.

October 08, 2010 23:10

• Ingushetia commemorates Anna Politkovskaya

  A memory rally of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was murdered 4 years ago, took place in Ingushetia, in the office of the human rights organization "Mashr".

October 08, 2010 23:00

• Rally in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow brings hundreds of people together

  From 300 to 500 persons gathered on October 7 in Moscow at the rally in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was murdered four years ago. The event was attended by many journalists of Russian and foreign mass media.

October 08, 2010 22:50

• Subscriptions are bagged for renaming Lesnaya Street after Anna Politkovskaya

  The editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta" in Moscow has started bagging subscriptions for commemorating Anna Politkovskaya and renaming Lesnaya Street, where she lived and died, in her honour.

October 08, 2010 22:40

• Moscow will fail to have Zakaev extradited from Poland, experts believe

  On October 26, the Court of Appeal will sit in Warsaw to consider the case of provisional arrest of Ahmed Zakaev, said the court spokesperson Barbara Trembska.

October 08, 2010 22:30

• Active search of mosque attackers in Abkhazia

  According to latest data, as a result of today's shelling of the house, used by the local Muslim community as a mosque, one member of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Abkhazia was killing and two more wounded.

October 08, 2010 22:20

• Sochi court rejects all ex-judge Novikov's petitions

  On October 4, a trial began in Sochi of Dmitri Novikov, former judge of the Khosta District Court, accused of a fraud with 17 land plots located in Kurortny Avenue. He was brought to the courtroom, where not so long ago he had held litigations himself, at gunpoint and in handcuffs. Mr Novikov rejects all the charges and declares that the Territorial Court and inspectors have done everything to conceal objective information from citizens.

October 08, 2010 22:10

• MfE employee assassinated in Ingushetia

  In the city of Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia, unidentified assailants opened automatic fire on an employee of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE); he died in hospital.

October 08, 2010 22:00

• The arson of the office of an investigator who deals with corruption cases is being investigated in Volgograd

  Some unidentified persons have set fire to the office of a military investigator in Volgograd who had been working at corruption cases. Official documents kept in the office have not been damaged, Press service of the military investigative Department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of Russia reports.