News

July 08, 2009 17:00

• Number of victims from terror act in Grozny is now 9

  The investigation into the circumstances of the explosion in the Chechen capital continues. The number of victims of the terror act has reached nine. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at law enforcement bodies of the republic.

July 08, 2009 16:00

• Abkhazian MFA claims new flights of Georgian drones

  On July 7, at 10:00 p.m., in the vicinity of Saberio village, Gali District of Abkhazia, frontier guards fixed two drones (unmanned aircrafts) flying from Georgia deep into the District. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia adds that at 11:35 p.m. near Khukhun village, Tkuarchal District, another pair of drones was registered.

July 08, 2009 15:00

• Two military helicopters shelled in Shatoy District of Chechnya

  Two helicopters were shelled in the mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya; one soldier was wounded. As reported by the Republic's law enforcement bodies, the helicopters had to make an emergency landing.

July 08, 2009 11:00

• In Dagestan, a militia tour shelled, some members wounded

  In the evening on July 7, in the centre of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in the crossing of Dakhadaeva and Malygina Streets, not far from the central building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, unknown persons shelled an on duty militia tour.

July 08, 2009 10:00

• Chechen militia is actively against tinted car glasses

  Highways of Chechnya are again at "war" on cars with tinted glasses. GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) agents stop cars and right in situ remove tinting film from glasses. This is the way local GIBDD bosses react to President Kadyrov's command of July 6 to get tougher in fighting against car tinted glasses.

July 07, 2009 23:00

• South Ossetia asks US President to help in freeing its prisoners kept by Georgia

  As reported today by David Sanakoev, representative of the President of South Ossetia on human rights, mothers of South-Ossetian residents kidnapped by Georgian special agencies have sent an electronic letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to help to liberate their sons.

July 07, 2009 20:00

• Explosion in Chechen capital: eyewitnesses' evidences

  The data on the number of victims of the explosion, which happened today at about 1:20 p.m. Moscow time in the city of Grozny, is contradictory. According to the ID for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO, six persons received wounds. As to eyewitnesses and militiamen, who were in the place of the incident, they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there were no casualties and wounded persons.

July 07, 2009 19:00

• Anna Politkovskaya's murder case re-arrived to court

  The murder case of the observer of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya has arrived to the Moscow Regional Military Court for repeated consideration, as reported by Alexander Minchanovskiy, press secretary of the Court.

July 07, 2009 18:17

• Murder case of the owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" sent to court

  As reported by Rashid Gaisanov, Acting President of Ingushetia, the murder case of the owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" Magomed Evloev has been delivered to the court.

July 07, 2009 16:22

• A strong explosion in Grozny with wounded persons

  An explosion took place in the Leninskiy District of the capital of Chechnya and wounded, according to different sources, from one to six persons.

July 07, 2009 16:00

• Russian Prosecutor's Office: law-enforcement bodies of Dagestan work inefficiently

  The inspection conducted by a team of the Russian GPO in the law-enforcement bodies of Dagestan as to their efficiency in disclosing terrorist and extremist crimes and encroachments on life of law enforcers concluded their low efficiency.

July 07, 2009 15:00

• Georgia refuses to deport sergeant Glukhov to Russia

  The Ministry of Justice of Georgia has rejected the petition submitted by the Russia's GPO with the request on extradition of Russian sergeant Alexander Glukhov, who deserted in January from his unit in South Ossetia and ran away to Georgia.

July 07, 2009 13:00

• Verdict on the case of bus explosion in Nevinnomyssk has come into force

  The judicial panel on criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict of the Stavropol Territorial Court passed to residents of Ingushetia Ruslan Kostoev and Zurab Tsuroev accused of blowing up the passenger bus "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" at the bus station in the city of Nevinnomyssk on December 9, 2007.

July 07, 2009 12:00

• Head of criminalistic centre of Ingushetia's MIA heavily wounded

  Today in the morning, in the centre of Nazran, unidentified persons have shelled a car with Militia Colonel Magomet Gadaborshev, head of the expert-criminalistic centre of the MIA of Ingushetia. This was reported by the press service of the Russian ICPO for Ingushetia.

July 07, 2009 11:00

• Oppositionist arrested in Yerevan goes on protest hunger strike

  Tigran Arakelyan, arrested activist of the youth wing of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), who was among the young men, attacked on July 1 by the police for dissemination of leaflets about an oppositional rally, has announced a hunger strike.

July 07, 2009 10:00

• International flower festival held in Armenia

  On July 6, the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in the capital of Armenia hosted the international flower festival and contest of florists "Brabillion is a Flower of Peace" with participation of professionals from Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

July 07, 2009 09:00

• In Chechnya, suspected militant commits suicide at detention

  According to a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic, on July 5, a suspected member of the armed underground committed suicide not to get arrested.

July 06, 2009 23:30

• Azerbaijan: indictment announced at the trial on explosion in "Abu-Bekr" Mosque

  On July 6, the Azerbaijani Court on Grave Crimes continued considering the case of the grouping named "Forest Brothers" and accused of a series of crimes, including the act of terror "Abu-Bekr" Mosque. The state accuser Murvet Gasanov announced the indictment.

July 06, 2009 23:00

• Exercises "Kavkaz-2009" are over in the south of Russia

  The operative-strategic exercises "Kavkaz-2009", held in the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) in the south of Russia since June 29, are over.

July 06, 2009 22:00

• In Armenia, deputy Sukiasyan is ready to quit the underground

  Khachatur Sukiasyan, a deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, who was announced into search last March under charges of organizing mass disorders on March 1, 2008, could not exclude his exit out of the underground, where he remained for 16 months.