News

September 07, 2010 22:10

• Forests are still on fire in Dagestan

  The forests located near the dwelling settlements of Khelaturi and Alak, Botlikh District, and of Anchikh, Akhvakh District, are captured by fire. Local residents find the efforts of the authorities to liquidate the calamity insufficient.

September 07, 2010 22:00

• Evkurov reports prevention of suicide bomber's terror act in Ingushetia

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia have prevented a large terror act planned by militants with use of a terrorist-suicide bomber. This was stated today by Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov in his speech addressed to parliamentarians and the government.

September 07, 2010 21:20

• Muftiyat of Chechnya: special commission reconciles 18 blood feudists

  The special commission for reconciliation of families in the state of blood feud, which was set up in Chechnya in August, has reconciled 18 blood feudists. According to the republic's Muftiyat, the commission still has 40 more cases pending consideration.

September 07, 2010 21:10

• Father of assassinated oppositionist Aushev says he knows killers' names

  Magomed-Hadji Aushev, 80, father of Maksharip Aushev, an Ingush oppositionist and human rights activist, who was killed in autumn of 2009, asserts that he knows the assassins. The father is himself engaged in active public work in Ingushetia and does not exclude that he can become the next victim of gunmen.

September 07, 2010 21:00

• In Azerbaijan, consideration of Fatullaev's appeal postponed

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court has again reappointed the preparatory session on the case of journalist Einullah Fatullaev on September 17.

September 07, 2010 20:00

• RF's AC is concerned of waste disposal in Sochi

  The ecological situation in Sochi is close to critical - this is the conclusion of the auditors of the Russian Federation's Audit Chamber, who have revised expenditures on ecological monitoring and nature protection, which had been allocated by the 2009 federal budget in the sum of 208.3 million roubles.

September 07, 2010 19:00

• Dagestan restores traffic in blown-up railway section

  As stated today by the spokesman of the Chief Department for Dagestan of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) the traffic in the railway section, which was interrupted today by an explosion in front of a cargo train, has been completely restored.

September 07, 2010 18:00

• Abkhazia urges UN General Assembly to listen to it on refugees

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia has called the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN GA) to make, when considering the issue of refugees from this republic, "well-balanced and wise decisions as necessary to prevent conflict escalation and address humanitarian problems."

September 06, 2010 23:50

• Georgia holds action against Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival

  On September 5, a protest action was held in Tbilisi on the eve of the arrival of the ex-head of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in Georgia. The protesters demanded to arrest him right after arrival.

September 06, 2010 23:30

• Man wounded in Azerbaijan by mine explosion

  In Nargiz-tepe, Khodzhavend District, Ali Mirzaev, a resident of the Neftchalin District, blew himself on a land mine, as reported on September 4 by the press service of the local MIA.

September 06, 2010 23:20

• Rostov-on-Don holds motor march of deceived shareholders

  On September 5, the investors who had placed their money in a number of construction companies, which later deceived them, as the protesters assert, organized a sort of a protest march in their cars.

September 06, 2010 23:10

• Power agents attacked in south of Chechnya

  On September 5, militiamen and soldiers engaged in operative-search actions were shelled in the high-mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya. Nobody of them suffered; later, they found two knapsacks with foodstuffs in the place of the incident and then detained a suspected militants' helper.

September 06, 2010 23:00

• Woman from Penza asks Dagestan human rights activists for help

  Irina Rezanova, a resident of Penza and mother of Andrei Rezanov, arrested soldier of the Botlikh Mountain-Rifle Brigade, suspected of involvement in murdering Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan on June 5, 2009, has addressed her letter to the Dagestan regional public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" and asked for help.

September 06, 2010 22:20

• Militiamen shelled in Kabardino-Balkaria; no victims

  On September 5, in the city of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria, unidentified persons shelled a car with militiamen inside; nobody suffered, a source in law enforcement bodies of the region has reported today.

September 06, 2010 22:10

• Explosion happened in principal's yard in Ingushetia

  An unknown person threw a grenade into the yard of the house of the principal of High School No. 3 of the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, as reported by a source in local law enforcement bodies of the republic.

September 06, 2010 22:00

• Volgograd regional authorities start paying out compensations to fire victims

  Today, the residents of the Volgograd Region, who suffered from fires, began receiving lump sum material aid at the rate of up to 10,000 roubles per person, but no more than 50,000 per family, Anatoly Brovko, local governor, said at the today's press conference.

September 06, 2010 21:00

• Car blows up in capital of Dagestan and wounds people

  Today, at about 5:45 p.m., a powerful explosion happened in central Makhachkala near the "Dynamo" Stadium. One person is wounded, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

September 06, 2010 20:00

• Death roll of Buinaksk terror act goes up to four

  The number of casualties of the terror act committed on September 5 near Buinaksk has increased up to four persons; the number of those wounded makes 35 persons, as reported by lieutenant colonel of justice Albert Kokoev, head of the military investigatory division of the military unit.

September 06, 2010 19:00

• Semneby: EU is concerned of armed clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Today, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev received a delegation headed by Peter Semneby, Special Representative of the European Union (EU) for Southern Caucasus. Among other issues, the meeting discussed aggravation of the situation in the border with Karabakh.

September 06, 2010 18:00

• Beslan opens a boarding school built within international project

  Today, a boarding school with sporting specialization, built under the joint project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) with support of the governments of the Kingdom of Norway and the Greek Republic was opened in Beslan.