News

October 07, 2010 18:00

• Field commanders in Chechnya have selected a new leader

  Chechen field commanders publicly renounced their oath to Dokku Umarov and selected a new leader for themselves. This has become Husein Gakaev.

October 06, 2010 23:50

• In Georgia, commission for studying Gamsakhurdia's death requests materials from Russia

  The interim commission of the parliament of Georgia set up to study the circumstances of the death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of Georgian, is waiting for photo materials from the Russian Prosecutor's Office of the examination, which was held in Rostov-on-Don in 2007.

October 06, 2010 23:20

• ICPO wants to extend inquiry into Politkovskaya's murder till February 2011

  As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, new suspects have now been established in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", and international requests have been sent on legal aid to a number of European countries.

October 06, 2010 23:10

• Anthrax focus liquidated in Krasnodar Territory

  As reported today by the territorial department of the "Rospotrebnadzor", all the preventive and anti-epidemiological measures have been completed in the Beloglinskiy District of the Krasnodar Territory, where after September 19, cases of anthrax (Siberian plague) in animals were revealed in one of the farms.

October 06, 2010 23:00

• Large-scale special operation against militants is on in Chechnya

  The large-scale actions aimed to find members of the armed underground unleashed in late September in the foothill and mountain regions of Chechnya continue, but so far, despite involvement of huge forces, they gave no feasible results.

October 06, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 27 - October 3

  Georgia gets used to revised Constitution; election race in SFD regions becomes more complicated; instability in south of Russia brings people out to rallies of protest against terrorism and violations of human rights, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 27-October 3, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 06, 2010 22:50

• Ognianova: ICPO is ready to reconsider Magomed Evloev's murder case

  At the meeting at the ICPO, the CPJ experts were told that the Committee is involved in all the above mentioned 19 murder cases of Russian journalists; inspectors are ready to reconsider some of them, for example, the murder case of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru".

October 06, 2010 22:40

• Skinheads who committed several murders in Volgograd and Moscow convicted

  Today, the Moscow City Court has sentenced three skinheads to 8-21 years in prison after finding them guilty of several murders committed in Volgograd and Moscow in 2007-2009, as well as of organizing a series of explosions in public places.

October 06, 2010 22:30

• Two persons wounded in Dagestan at kidnapping attempt, local resident reports

  Yunus Rabadanov, a resident of the city of Izberbash, said today that local law enforcers tried to kidnap him, and wounded him and an occasional passer-by Murad Radjabov.

October 06, 2010 22:10

• Sappers from Russia's MfE defused about 100 explosive items in Chechnya

  Specialists from the "Leader" Centre for High Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue their work in the territory of the state farm "Zarya" in the Grozny District of Chechnya. In the near future the sappers hope to de-mine around ten hectares of agricultural lands of this state farms.

October 06, 2010 22:00

• Kati Marton: Chairman of the Russian Supreme Court believes Kadyrov's suing Orlov was a mistake

  Vyacheslav Lebedev, Chairman of the Supreme Court, said that the litigation initiated by the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was a mistake. This was stated by Kati Marton, a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), after meeting with Mr Lebedev.

October 06, 2010 21:00

• Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports a suicide of a soldier detained in Armenia

  On October, 5, Manvel Saribekian, Armenian soldier detained on September, 11, in Azerbaijan committed a suicide, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports. People in Armenia do not believe in the suicide version.

October 06, 2010 20:00

• Editor-in-Chief of Dagestani newspaper "Chernovik" became laureate of Committee to Protect Journalists' award

  Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York has announced the names of the laureates of International Free press award, 2010. Nadira Isayeva, editor-in-chief of Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" was named among them. This prize is awarded for bravery displayed by journalists and publishers while carrying out their professional duties.

October 06, 2010 19:00

• Militiamen detained a participant of an ecologic meeting in Tuapse for using a black and green flag

  During the meeting held in Tuapse on October, 3, militia officers detained Roman Krylov, animal-defending activist, for using a black and green flag.

October 06, 2010 18:00

• 170 people detained in Georgia for suspicion of financial fraud

  On October, 5, law enforcement bodies in Georgia detained the leaders of an importer company "Trans-Cargo" and the personnel of shopping centers "Kidobani" and "Passage", their total number comes to about 170 people. The mass detention was reported by Investigation service of the Ministry of finance of the country.

October 05, 2010 23:50

• Observatory for Protection of Human Rights Defenders worries about human rights in Southern and Northern Caucasus

  The Observatory for Protection of Human Rights Defenders has released its Annual Report for 2010 "Adamant in Protest". The report, partially translated into Russian, covers the struggle for human rights around the world throughout the year. Its essential part is on the former Soviet Union countries, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia.

October 05, 2010 23:40

• Suspect of false call about a bomb in Moscow-Grozny aircraft detained

  Law enforcement agencies of Belarus have detained a supposed telephone terrorist, who reported about a bomb aboard the Moscow-Grozny aircraft.

October 05, 2010 23:30

• Attacker in Nalchik hippodrome assassinated, ICPO reports

  The terrorist who had planted a bomb, which was triggered on May 1 in the hippodrome in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed on August 28 in Nalchik as a result of a special operation, said Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

October 05, 2010 23:20

• Armenia starts building its second wind farm

  The Italian Company "Gierre" has begun building, near the Karakhach Pass, Shirak Region, Armenia's second wind farm; the power will make 90 MW. This was reported by Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia.

October 05, 2010 23:10

• NAC: Yusupov, liquidated in special operation in Makhachkala was involved in a series of murders

  The person assassinated today during a special operation in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, was identified as Erlan Yusupov, born in 1987, who was involved in a series of killings of law enforcement officials. This was stated by the Information Centre of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC).