News

May 23, 2009 18:00

• First President of Armenia wrote a book on Armenian-Turkish relations

  The book named "Armenian-Turkish Relations" by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, first President of Armenia and leader of the Armenian National Congress, has come off the press. It deals with Mr Ter-Petrosyan's approaches to Armenian-Turkish relations, presented in his presentations, interviews and publications in 1989-2009.

May 23, 2009 15:00

• International peacemaking centre to be set up in Northern Caucasus

  Currently, a number of international organizations are coordinating the issue of creating, in the territory of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus, of an international civil peacemaking centre. In the near future, the project of such centre will be submitted to Presidents of Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.

May 23, 2009 14:00

• Blind residents of Chechnya can study Koran

  For the first time ever, the vision invalids who live in Chechnya have an opportunity to study the Koran. The Republic now has ten copies of the Moslem sacred book with relief-dot typesetting.

May 23, 2009 13:00

• Ombudsman of Armenia blames General Prosecutor's Office for prosecuting witnesses

  Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has put responsibility on the State Office of Public Prosecutor for incessant violence and prosecution by law enforcement bodies of witnesses on the case about the events on March 1, 2008.

May 23, 2009 11:00

• Ingushetia: 15 persons with sub-machine detained in special operation

  In the Nazran District of Ingushetia, 15 persons with sub-machine guns and pistols were detained, as reported by Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of Ingushetian President.

May 23, 2009 10:00

• Politicians and human rights activists: amnesty of political prisoners in Armenia is a must

  Politicians and human rights activists in Armenia believe that the amnesty of political prisoners will take the authorities out of the deadlock.

May 22, 2009 23:40

• Speaker of Armenian Parliament confirms amnesty of oppositionists

  On May 28, the Day of First Republic, President of Armenia will make a statement on announcing amnesty to those who were sentenced under the case on events in March 1, 2008, in Yerevan. This was stated to journalists by Ovik Abramyan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, in his answer to the question about any possible amnesty to opposition's activists.

May 22, 2009 23:10

• In Ingushetia, court starts trying Evloev's murder case

  The Nazran Court of Ingushetia has started considering on the merits the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru".

May 22, 2009 23:00

• Armenia: clash burst out again between supporters of ruling parties

  At night on May 21, in the Southwest District of Yerevan another clash took place between the members of pre-election offices of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Party "Prospering Armenia" (PA).

May 22, 2009 22:10

• Stavropol Territory: criminal case opened on child's death in hospital

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case on the fact of death of a newborn in one of the hospitals in the Stavropol Territory.

May 22, 2009 22:00

• Ambassador of South Ossetia to Russia: picket in Moscow was held not by opposition, but by people feeling offended by authorities

  In the opinion of Dmitri Medoev, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation, opposition exists in the republic, but all of them are in Tskhinvali; however, those people who hold actions in Moscow are not opposition.

May 22, 2009 21:00

• Criminal case opened in Dagestan against militiaman accused of murdering pregnant woman

  On May 21, Usman Amaev, Senior Inspector of Russian Prosecutor's Office for Dagestan, signed a statement to open a criminal case against a militiaman on the fact of injuring Gasan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, and murdering his wife Saniyat Magomedova, who was in her fourth month of pregnancy.

May 22, 2009 20:00

• Ingushetia: special operation goes without violating civilians' rights

  The broad-scale special operation against members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), launched by power agents on May 16 in villages of the pre-border Sunzha District of Ingushetia and then extended to the whole territory of the republic, continues. Residents assert that no rights of civilians are broken in the course of actions.

May 22, 2009 19:00

• The Grozny suicide bomber was a prominent athlete

  Beslan Chagiev, the terrorist-suicide-bomber who blew himself up on May 15 near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic in Grozny, some time ago was a well-known wrestler. The reasons on Chagiev's suicide are still unclear.

May 22, 2009 18:00

• Mosque "Ilakhiyat" in Baku reopened, but access restricted

  Mosque "Ilakhiyat", located in the Yasamal District of Baku, which was closed on May 20 for visitors, has reopened for visitors. However, the access for believers will be restricted. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that today the traditional Friday namaz took place there, attended by more than one thousand persons.

May 21, 2009 23:40

• Yamadaevs' relative: authorities of Chechnya are behind Atlangeriev's kidnapping

  Movladi Atlangeriev who was kidnapped in Moscow more than a year ago paid by this for his friendship with the Yamadaevs and for his intractability with the present authorities of Chechnya. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by a member of Yamadaev's clan in his interview.

May 21, 2009 23:30

• Eight suspected militants detained in Chechnya within two days

  On May 20, in the course of special operations conducted in Chechnya against members of armed formations employees of law enforcement bodies detained three suspected militants' helpers. Four helpers and one former militant were detained on the previous day, on May 19, as asserted by law enforcement bodies of the republic.

May 21, 2009 23:00

• In Georgia, condition of two officers-suspects of mutiny is stable

  The health condition of two militaries Koba Otanadze and Levan Amiridze, suspected of organizing a mutiny, wounded today during a special operation, is currently stable; they are in hospital, as reported by an advocate of one of the officers.

May 21, 2009 23:00

• "Fourth power": President of Armenia is ready to amnesty convicted oppositionists

  On May 20, the oppositional newspaper named "Chorrord Ishkhanutyun" (Fourth Power) reported with reference to its sources that President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who was in Nagorno-Karabakh at celebration of the Victory Day, said during one of his meetings in a narrow audience that in the near future he would announce amnesty for the imprisoned oppositional activists.

May 21, 2009 22:10

• Kaziahmedov assassinated in Makhachkala once headed investigation of Kaspiisk terror act

  Seifudin Kaziahmedov who was killed today in Makhachkala was once the head of the investigatory group in charge of the criminal case about the terror act committed in Kaspiisk on May 9, 2002. In the end of 2008, he was appointed deputy head of the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia.