News

October 02, 2010 22:00

• Experts: upcoming elections provoke growing tension in Dagestan

  The situation in Dagestan is more and more strained with the approaching October 10 elections, experts say. But the elections are just a catalyst, but the situation in the country is heavy without them, they emphasize.

October 02, 2010 21:00

• Kati Marton: head of Chechnya interrogated on Estemirova's murder

  It was stated, at the meeting of the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the leadership of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), headed by Alexander Bastrykin, that under Natalia Estemirova's murder case the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was interrogated. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Kati Marton, a board member of the CPJ.

October 02, 2010 20:00

• Anti-terror rallies held in Ingushetia

  More than 3000 persons went today to protest rallies against terrorism in four dwelling settlements in Ingushetia.

October 02, 2010 19:00

• Picket in memory of casualties of terror act in North Ossetia held in Moscow

  Today Moscow has hosted a picket in memory of the victims of terror acts committed on September 9 in Vladikavkaz. The participants of the event have expressed their hope that the situation in North Ossetia would not turn into an ethnic conflict.

October 02, 2010 17:00

• "High Fest" International Theatrical Festival starts in Armenia

  The Eighth International "High Fest" Festival was launched on October 1 in Armenia with participation 33 theatrical groups from 22 countries.

October 02, 2010 16:00

• Two civilians wounded in special operation in Makhachkala

  In the course of the special operation, the militants, who had barricaded in an apartment of a high-rise building in Engels Street in Makhachkala, wounded two young men, who tried to run across the yard, when residents were evacuated.

October 02, 2010 15:00

• EU allocates 30 million euros of Georgia

  In 2011-2013, the EU will grant 30 million euros to Georgia in support of state institutions engaged in reforms.

October 02, 2010 14:00

• Krasnodar: deceived real estate investors come to protest

  The city hosted a protest rally in defence of the rights of shareholders, against the tyranny of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies and ignorance by state-owned bodies of citizens' legitimate rights.

October 02, 2010 12:00

• Georgia adopts amendments to Constitution restricting President's powers

  At their sitting, the MPs voted 125:4 for the second reading of the new Constitution draft. The bill has no words that President is the head of the state.

October 02, 2010 11:00

• Cross installed on dome of Surb Khach Armenian Church in Turkey

  In the evening on September 30, a cross was installed on the dome of the Armenian Church of Surb Khach located on Akhtamar Island (Turkey). All the works took several hours.

October 02, 2010 10:00

• For 12 days sappers of Russia's MfE neutralized 67 bombs and mines in Chechnya

  Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of Special-Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue de-mining agricultural lands in the Grozny District of Chechnya. Since the start of their work, they have cleared 15 hectares of mines, shells and various ordnances and neutralized 67 explosive items.

October 01, 2010 23:50

• Rostov Region: disabled children from 12 municipalities start remote learning

  This school year, remote learning of children-invalids within the priority national project "Education" will be available not only for the residents of the regional capital. According to Yuri Komarov, Director of the Rostov sanatorium-boarding school No. 28, where the E-Learning Centre is located, now 150 children from 12 municipalities of the region will start studying there.

October 01, 2010 23:45

• President of Dagestan suggests Congress of Republic's Nations

  On September 29, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov moved an idea, when speaking at a sitting of the President's Council of Dagestan, of organizing of a congress of the peoples living in Dagestan for consolidation of the society in the fight against extremists. The initiative was ambiguously perceived in Dagestan.

October 01, 2010 23:40

• In Chechnya, over 63,000 families received maternity capital certificates

  The Chechen Office of the Russian Pension Fund has already issued 63,412 maternity capital certificates. However, many local certificate owners say that they prefer selling them to expand the possibilities of using state funds for the needs of their families.

October 01, 2010 23:20

• Four peacekeepers from Georgia perish in Afghanistan

  Four Georgian servicemen from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) acting under the NATO auspice perished in performing their service duties. This was reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Georgia.

October 01, 2010 23:10

• Powerful bomb found in Semender, where operation was conducted

  Power agents, who made additional examination of the area in Semender settlement, located in Makhachkala outskirt, where a special operation was conducted on September 29, detected a powerful explosive device, together with components for making bombs and ammunition. This was reported by the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

October 01, 2010 23:00

• Georgia introduces juries

  Starting October 1, according to the adopted amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, the country will introduce the institute of jurors, who will pass their final verdicts to defendants. The jury will comprise 12 persons and two substitutes.

October 01, 2010 22:50

• Resident of Stavropol who reported about mined car to be rewarded

  Vyacheslav Alyoshin, deputy director of the Stavropol cafe "Gloria", who on September 30 reported to the militia about the car-bomb parked outside his institution, plans to pass the money premium promised by city officials to a children's home.

October 01, 2010 22:30

• Grenade detected and de-mined under car bottom in Cherkessk

  In the area of the agrarian marketplace in Cherkessk, explosion experts have de-mined a car, under the bottom of which a grenade was attached. Now they check the interior and luggage compartment.

October 01, 2010 22:20

• Accident leaves almost 25,000 without electricity in Rostov Region

  The stormy wind that struck the Rostov Region at night on October 1 cut electricity supply to 24,700 residents.