News

September 18, 2010 17:00

• Warsaw court releases Zakaev because of his British refugee status

  Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, who was not arrested by the Warsaw Regional Court on September 17 in spite of the request of the Polish Prosecutor's Office, may any moment leave Poland. The court justified its decision to release Zakaev by the fact that he had been granted political asylum in Great Britain - a member-country of the European Union.

September 18, 2010 16:00

• Territorial congress of rights defenders takes place in Sochi

  A number of public and human rights organizations of the Krasnodar Territory have to Sochi to hold their congress. In parallel, they inspect the Olympic objects.

September 18, 2010 14:00

• Armenia's MoD identifies officer and soldiers pictured in army violence video

  All the figurants of the incident filmed and then placed on the Internet on September 11, showing violence in Armenian army, have been identified and delivered to the Military Police of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. A criminal case was initiated.

September 18, 2010 13:00

• Youth rallies at the memorial blown up in Nalchik

  Today, several hundreds of young men held a rally near the memorial "Eternal Flame", located at the entrance to the city park, which was blown up on September 17. The lay down 138 roses - by the number of soldiers buried there - to the survived part of the memorial.

September 18, 2010 12:00

• Capital of Kalmykia marks its 145th birthday

  Today, Elista has started celebrations on the occasion of the 145th anniversary from the foundation date of the city. The celebratory programme includes a festival of national cultures, youth festival "To My Favourite City!", photo exhibitions, inter-regional festival-contest of variety songs "Kind Neighbours-2010" and other events.

September 18, 2010 11:00

• Snake's bites kill people in Nagorno-Karabakh

  This summer, Nagorno-Karabakh fixed 14 cases, when snakes bit humans; two of them were fatal. This was reported by Alen Pogosyan, deputy minister of public health of Nagorno-Karabakh. The reason of snake raised activity was in abnormally hot summer; and sometimes it is not possible to save people because hospitals lack the necessary drugs.

September 18, 2010 10:00

• Bloggers report detention of participant of anti-terror rally in Vladikavkaz

  On September 17 in central Vladikavkaz militiamen detained Azamat Aguzarov, who sharply criticised the authorities at the rally held on September 15. This is reported by the author of the blog "Ossetia and Around: View from Inside", placed on the website of the "Caucasian Knot".

September 17, 2010 23:50

• Two tourists from Rostov Region disappeared in Karachai-Circassia

  Two residents of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, - Albert Galimov, 61, and his wife Natalia Serdyukova, 47, - disappeared in the mountains of Karachai-Circassia, in the vicinity of Arkhyz.

September 17, 2010 23:40

• Armenia drafts bill on invalids' rights

  As explained by Asmik Khachatryan, head of the PR division of the Ministry of Labour and Social Matters, the new law, prepared in Armenia, will guarantee protection of rights of people with limited capabilities.

September 17, 2010 23:20

• Dagestan: detainee Kurbanmagomedov placed in IVS again

  Timur (Suleiman) Kurbanmagomedov, accused of putting kiosks selling alcohol on fire, was transferred from SIZO-1 (investigatory detention facility) of Makhachkala to the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the MIA of Dagestan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Magomed Guchuchaliev, Kurbanmagomedov's advocate.

September 17, 2010 23:10

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan again takes control of the case of pregnant woman who was killed in special operation

  The prosecutor's office of Dagestan has again taken under personal control the case on the fact of execution on November 3, 2006, by law enforcers from the Kazbek ROVD (District Interior Division) of Sapiyat Magomedova, who was in the fourth month of pregnancy. This was reported on September 16 by her husband - Gasan Baisultanov.

September 17, 2010 23:00

• Persons involved in Vladikavkaz terror act established

  As reported today by Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the persons Involved in the terror act in Vladikavkaz had been established. According to his story, "the investigation has moved rather far."

September 17, 2010 22:50

• Warsaw court leaves Ahmed Zakaev at large

  Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, earlier announced by Russia into international search for terrorist activities, who came to the Polish capital for taking part in the World Congress of Chechen People, can be released. This decision was made today by the Warsaw Regional Court.

September 17, 2010 22:40

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports loss of soldier on the border with Azerbaijan

  As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, a serviceman of the Karabakh Army was lost in a skirmish in the contact line of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

September 17, 2010 22:20

• Danish police suspect a Chechen of organizing explosion in Copenhagen

  A native of Chechnya, aged 24, suspected of committing the explosion in one of hotels in Copenhagen on September 10, was detained In Denmark. A map was found on him of the second-largest Danish city of Arhus, where the address of the editorial board of the newspaper "Jyllands-Posten", which published 12 caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in 2005, was marked.

September 17, 2010 22:10

• Isa Yamadaev pardons convicts for his brother's murder in exchange of pardoning his family's feudists

  The reconciliation that took place in the end of August this year between President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the Yamadaev clan, represented by Isa Yamadaev, has received further development. Isa has stated that he is ready to pardon one of the two convicts in Dubai sentenced for murdering Sulim Yamadaev - Makhdi Lorniya, Ramzan Kadyrov's personal horseman.

September 17, 2010 22:00

• Non-government kindergarten in Adygeia fined for mass poisoning of the children

  Maikop municipal court had a session on administrative material from Rospotrebnadzor concerning a non-government educational organization "Beriozka Plus" where a mass poisoning of children had been registered.

September 17, 2010 22:00

• Officer suspected of torturing soldiers is arrested, Armenian media report

  Today, a number of Armenian mass media have published reports that the officer, whose mockeries at soldiers had been videoed and placed on the Internet on September 11, was identified and detained. However, his name is not disclosed yet, while the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia neither confirms nor refutes the information.

September 17, 2010 21:00

• A militiaman killed in Dagestan

  Kaspiysky Department of Interior Affairs reported that a militia officer had been shot down by some strangers in the evening of September, 16, near the reception room of one of the hospitals of Kaspiysk, Dagestan.

September 17, 2010 20:00

• A participant of an anti-raider's action detained on September, 16 in Sochi released

  Irina Kolesnikova who arrived in Sochi together with a group of other women from Krasnodar on September, 16, in order to inform Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on raider's seizures of enterprises in Krasnodar region was released my militiamen four hours after detention.