News

April 20, 2010 10:00

• Pakhomov: red roofs will give harmonic image to Sochi

  The authorities of Sochi plan to bring the city-resort to the uniform architectural style by having repainted red all the roofs in the city and its vicinities.

April 19, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 12-18

  Power agents state detention of suspects of committing terror acts in Moscow; explosions and shelling accompany one year's anniversary of CTO regime cancellation; Sochi residents are on duty round the clock in cut-down green zones, but IOC commission continues naming the preparation of Olympiad-2014 successful; Lithuania goes on prosecuting the large Chechen family of Gataevs; Armenians prepare for the Memory Day of genocide victims and its recognition by local authorities of Georgia and Kuban; PACE delegation studied the situation in Georgia and Abkhazia, but "got stuck" on the border of South Ossetia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 12-18, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 19, 2010 22:33

• Dagestan: detained Kara-Tyube residents are at large

  Today, Isa Magomedov, a resident of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the 17 villagers detained on April 15 have been released from the Babayurt ROVD.

April 19, 2010 21:00

• Cloud of volcanic ash approaches Georgia

  Today, the United Transport Administration (UTA) of Georgia has disseminated a statement intended for all airlines and airports of the world that the Tbilisi Airport has problems because of the approaching ash cloud from the Iceland volcano.

April 19, 2010 20:00

• Constitutional Court finds cancellation of juries compliant with Russian Constitution

  Today the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has announced its decision on the case, which entailed check of the constitutionality of part 2, Article 30, and part 2, Article 325, of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP) the Russian Federation, according to which crimes of terrorist character cannot be tried by juries. The Court has found no contradiction of the above provisions with the Russian Constitution.

April 19, 2010 19:00

• Death of Georgian sledge racer in Whistler found accidental

  The death of the Georgian athlete - sledge racer Nodar Kumaritashvili - in the Olympic track in Whistler was an "unforeseeable fatal accident," which was a result of a chain of events, runs the conclusion of the International Luge Federation (FIL), placed today in the website of the organization.

April 19, 2010 18:00

• Lithuanian power agents deny any links of their investigation with terror acts in Moscow

  The investigation of preparation of a possible terror act in Lithuania has nothing to do with the explosions in Moscow metro, said Algimantas Klyunki, chief prosecutor of the department for fighting corruption and organized crime, who explained that the investigation of the case about the terrorist activity in the republic was conducted since August 2009.

April 19, 2010 17:00

• Ex-journalists of "Imedi" sue Georgian authorities at ECtHR

  Former journalists of the TV Company "Imedi" have sent a claim against Georgia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the context of events on November 7, 2007, when special troops of the Georgia's MIA attacked the premises of the Company. Then, according to journalists, a pogrom was made in the building; and the employees were down on the floor for several minutes with firearms pointed at them.

April 19, 2010 16:00

• Explosion at Ingushetia MIA building wounds two persons

  Today in the morning in Nazran, a self-made explosive device was triggered under the bottom of the Niva car belonging to Beslan Shagiev, acting deputy minister of the MIA of Ingushetia for logistics.

April 19, 2010 12:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh stops registering candidates for MPs

  April 18 in Nagorno-Karabakh was the deadline for registering candidates for members of the local Parliament of the 5th convocation; the elections will take place on May 23.

April 19, 2010 08:00

• Dagestan resident reports mass detentions in Kara-Tyube

  Today, Khanmagomed Magomedov, a resident of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the Babayurt ROVD (District Interior Division) illegally holds 17 persons for several days, including two women detained during searches.

April 19, 2010 07:00

• Sochi residents demand restoration of resort's green zones

  On April 17, some 200 residents of the city-resort Sochi went out to hold their three-hour picket in the Plane-Tree Alley, where over 3000 persons signed-in "in defence of general use green zones against corruption actions of the authorities and businesses."

April 17, 2010 21:12

• Lithuanian woman suspected of involvement in Moscow terror acts

  In Lithuania, a girl of 20 is arrested as a suspect of complicity in terror acts in Moscow metro on March 29. The version of her involvement in these crimes is now checked by the Lithuanian Department of State Security and State Office of Public Prosecutor.

April 17, 2010 20:00

• Azerbaijan and Russia agree on border demarcation and Caspian Sea water division

  Azerbaijan and Russia have agreed on state border demarcation and water division on the border Samur River; thus, the work on demarcation of the Russian-Azerbaijani frontier at the level of the intergovernmental commission is actually over. This was stated by Khalaf Khalafov, deputy minister of foreign affairs and Azerbaijani co-chairman of the above commission.

April 17, 2010 19:00

• In Lithuania, house of relatives of Gataevs, natives of Chechnya, searched

  In the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the house of relatives of Malik and Khadizhat Gataev was searched; human rights activists find it to be illegal.

April 17, 2010 19:00

• Schoolchildren of different nationalities to exchange families for a while in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On April 19, Kabardino-Balkaria starts an all-republic youth project "Kunachestvo" (from the Turkic word meaning "guest", - note of translator). Its participants - schoolchildren of different nationalities from 11 villages and cities - will exchange families for a while and become "kunaks".

April 17, 2010 15:00

• Youth of Nagorno-Karabakh holds action in memory of victims of Armenians' genocide

  Nagorno-Karabakh has started a series of actions devoted to the 95th anniversary of the genocide of Armenian people which falls on April 24, 2010.

April 17, 2010 13:00

• Sochi International Airport to start servicing passengers on April 19

  The Sochi International Airport will be commissioned in the testing mode on April 19, 2010, said Anatoly Pakhomov, Sochi Mayor.

April 17, 2010 12:00

• In Georgia, Labourites give their quotas in electoral commissions to other parties

  The Labour Party of Georgia does not take part in municipal elections, but plans to redistribute its quotas in electoral commissions among other opposition parties. In particular, the "Alliance for Georgia", the National Council and the "Party of Industrialists" will benefit.

April 17, 2010 11:00

• Audit Chamber revealed violations in spending budget money by Ingushetia

  The Audit Chamber of Russia has made a check in Ingushetia and revealed violations in use of budget funds. In particular, contracts worth 208.8 million roubles were concluded without tendering.