News

August 20, 2010 13:00

• Adygea holds a broad-scale action to help disabled children

  On August 19, Adygea launched a charitable action "From Heart to Heart". Its aim is to raise money from citizens of Adygea for targeted charitable help to children-invalids.

August 20, 2010 12:00

• Supposed militants liquidated in the capital of Chechnya buried anonymously

  The bodies of supposed members of the armed underground, who were killed in Grozny on August 8, were not given out to relatives but buried in anonymous tombs without observance of Moslem rites.

August 20, 2010 11:00

• Chechnya cuts working day during Ramadan

  Till the end of the sacred month of Ramadan the leadership of the Chechen Republic has reduced the working day. The respective decree was signed by Odes Baisultanov, Chairman of the Government of Chechnya, who is temporarily acting has as President of the republic, while Ramzan Kadyrov is on vacations.

August 20, 2010 10:00

• Moscow pensioners-heat victims will rest in Sochi free of charge

  Till the end of August, about one thousand pensioners from Moscow will have their rest in sanatoria and rest homes of Sochi on free-of-charge vouchers paid by the Department of Social Protection of the Government of Moscow. The decision was made in the context of unprecedented heat and smog from fires in the vicinities of the Russian capital.

August 20, 2010 09:00

• Killers of tourists and militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria pretended to be power agents

  The unidentified persons, who committed attacks in the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria on militiamen and tourists, were dressed in camouflage and presented themselves as employees of Moscow special agencies. This was reported by the centre of law enforcement bodies of the republic.

August 19, 2010 20:00

• Kidnappers of the son of "Rosneft" deputy head sentenced to 14 and 6 years

  The Gagarin Court of Moscow has found the Chechens Magomed Gorchkhanov and Zarema Dataeva guilty of kidnapping Maxim, son of Mikhail Stavskiy, deputy boss of the "Rosneft".

August 19, 2010 19:00

• Checks of spending funds allotted on restoration of South Ossetia resulted in 11 criminal cases

  The Public Prosecutor's Offices of the Russian Federation and South Ossetia have checked the way the funds allocated from the Russian budget were spent on restoration and social and economic development of South Ossetia; as reported by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, 11 criminal cases have been initiated.

August 19, 2010 18:00

• Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdicts to young bloggers

  Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has rejected the cassation complaint lodged by young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, convicted to 2.5 and 2 years of imprisonment on charges of hooliganism and causing bodily injuries.

August 19, 2010 17:00

• Office and house of leader of "Circassian Congress" of Adygea searched

  On August 18, agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB Department for the Republic of Adygea conducted searches in the house and office of Zaur Dzeukozhev, deputy chair of the Adyg Social Movement "Circassian Congress" and confiscated PC hard drives, documents relating activities of the "Circassian Congress" and several religious books.

August 19, 2010 16:00

• Compensations are paid out to victims of Pyatigorsk terror act

  Today, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Stavropol Territory has started payments from the regional budget of lump sum compensations to victims of the terror act in Pyatigorsk. The regional treasury has allotted 835,000 roubles for the purpose, while 7.4 million roubles more will arrive from the federal budget.

August 19, 2010 15:00

• President of Meskhetian Turks arrested in Georgia

  On July 26, in the city of Akhaltsikh (administrative centre of the Samtskhe-Dzhavakheti District of Georgia), Suleiman Barbakadze, a citizen of Russia and president of the "Vatan", international organization of Meskhetian Turks, was arrested. This was reported today by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

August 19, 2010 14:00

• Volgograd: more first aid calls because of heat

  The abnormally hot weather in Volgograd caused increase by 50-80 percent of the number of citizens' calls to the medical first aid service.

August 19, 2010 13:00

• Exporters from South of Russia cannot sell grains because of embargo and transport fees

  From August 15 on, Russia officially bans any export of grain crops; this decision resulted in material losses of most of the market actors. Exporters lost their market shares, and grain producers lost their profitable contracts. Rostov agrarians are going to hold their grains till the last moment, waiting for exports reopening. However, only financially sound enterprises can afford it.

August 19, 2010 12:00

• 25 terror acts committed against peaceful residents in Northern Caucasus in 15 months

  After May 15, 2009, when the first terrorist-suicide bomber blew himself up in Chechnya after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, Northern Caucasus saw 25 terror acts against civilians committed in crowded places. As a result, at least 11 peaceful residents were lost and 159 more were wounded. From the start of 2010, 23 explosions were triggered and one terror act was committed by a suicide bomber.

August 19, 2010 11:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: unidentified persons open fire on group of tourists

  Today at night, near Kendelen village, Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria, in a large forest, four unidentified persons in camouflage and masks came up to six tourists and opened fire from sub-machine guns.

August 19, 2010 10:00

• Six residents of Chechnya are suspected of complicity to liquidated militants

  On August 17, five persons were detained in the city of Grozny as suspects of helping the members of the armed underground, liquidated on August 8 in the Chechen capital. Another suspect was detained by operative agents in the Sunzha District of Chechnya.

August 19, 2010 09:00

• In Armenia, added higher school vacancies helped to reduce corruption

  This year's entrance exams to higher schools of Armenia have shown a reduced level of corruption in the sphere of education. The main reason was in increased number of vacancies for students by 6000. This was stated at a press conference by Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Science and Education of Armenia.

August 18, 2010 21:00

• A man killed and two women wounded at shelling in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by a source in power bodies of Nalchik, a man was killed and two women - passengers of a fixed-route taxi - were wounded in a shelling.

August 18, 2010 19:00

• 79-year-old refugee from Abkhazia starts hunger strike at memorial in Tbilisi

  Nino Tsindeliani, 79, a woman-refugee from Abkhazia, who remained homeless, has gone on hunger strike in Heroes Square in central Tbilisi, at the memorial of perished fighters for territorial integrity of Georgia.

August 18, 2010 18:00

• In Georgia, two detainees go on hunger strike demanding release of political prisoners

  On August 17, in the Gdlan isolation facility in Tbilisi, Melor Vachnadze, founder of youth social movement "Shemogviertdi" (Join Us), announced a protest hunger strike. Today, Vakhtang Maisaya, convicted for espionage, has joined him.