News

February 24, 2009 20:00

• Dagestan: editor-in-chief of "Chernovik" accused of kindling ethnic hostility

  Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint), was charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code ("Kindling of ethnic, racial or religious hostility").

February 24, 2009 19:00

• Court rejects moral compensation to Beslan victims

  Today, the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia has considered the cassation complaint of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" and again rejected the right of those who had suffered from the actions of Interior Ministries of North Ossetia and Russia to claim moral compensation.

February 24, 2009 18:00

• St-Petersburg City Court sends "Memorial" search case to reconsideration

  On February 24, the City Court of St-Petersburg satisfied the cassation presentation of the Prosecutor's Office against the decision of the Dzerzhinskiy District Court of January 20, which had concluded that the search conducted on December 4, 2008, in the office of St-Petersburg-based Scientific and Information Centre (SIC) "Memorial" was illegal, and prescribed the Prosecutor's Office to return the confiscated materials back to the SIC "Memorial".

February 23, 2009 23:00

• Teenagers wounded in South Ossetia sent to Vladikavkaz

  The teenagers who were wounded by a shell explosion in Tskhinvali are in a grave condition. They were sent to North Ossetia to get their treatment.

February 23, 2009 22:00

• Victims of Vainakhs' deportation commemorated in Russia and abroad

  On February 23, 2009, Chechens and Ingushes, as well as Russian and international community, were grieving over the 65th anniversary of deportation of Chechen and Ingush people to Middle Asia and Kazakhstan.

February 23, 2009 22:00

• Polish agents detain Umar Israilov's suspected killer

  Polish special services have detained a Chechen who is suspected of murdering, earlier in Vienna, Umar Israilov, a former security of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

February 23, 2009 21:00

• In Chechnya, unidentified person who killed three militiamen is searched

  Chechen law enforcers are actively searching an unknown man who opened fire last Saturday, on February 21, in the afternoon, three fighters of the Buryat OMON (Special Militia Unit), after which two of them died. This incident took place in Urus-Martan.

February 23, 2009 19:00

• Azerbaijan: oppositionists sentenced to conditional terms

  On February 20, the Sabirabad District Court put a full stop in the trial of two activists of the local branch of the Party of the People's Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA) Movsum Askerov and Rovshan Sadykhov.

February 23, 2009 18:00

• In Armenia, property of oppositional newspaper "Aik" arrested

  The Agency for Enforcing Judicial Decisions (AFJD) of Armenia has imposed arrest on the property and money of the oppositional newspaper "Aik", as the press service of the Agency has reported.

February 23, 2009 18:00

• Woman from Kabardino-Balkaria wants to bury her son killed in special operation

  Maria Mameeva, a resident of Khasanya village, Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed the Chegem District Court with a complaint against the decision of the inspector of the Baksan Inter-District Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on refusal to give out the body of her son Rustam Mameev for burial according to Muslim traditions.

February 23, 2009 17:00

• Chechnya commemorates victims of Chechens' and Ingushes' deportation in 1944

  This very day 65 years ago, on February 23, 1944, deportation of Chechens and Ingushes began. Then, during several days practically all the population of the then Checheno-Ingushetian Republic was deported by Stalin's regime out to Kazakhstan and Middle Asia, charged with complicity to Hitlerites.

February 21, 2009 19:00

• Krasnodar holds rally against renaming

  At the rally held today in Krasnodar, over 200 persons moved a demand to the authorities to stop campaigning for return of the historical name - Ekaterinodar - back to the city.

February 21, 2009 18:00

• Dagestan under counterterrorist operation again

  Today, the second time within 24 hours, the counterterrorist operation regime was announced in the capital of Dagestan. It is already the fourth counterterrorist operation in the territory of Republic in February.

February 21, 2009 16:00

• Hundreds welcome Patriarch Elias II in Tbilisi

  On February 19, several hundreds of believers came to the Tbilisi International Airport to welcome back Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Elias the Second who returned from Germany after medical treatment.

February 21, 2009 15:00

• In Armenia, opposition asks Ombudsman to challenge the emergency decree

  On February 21, the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) officially addressed Armenian Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan with a request to challenge at the Constitutional Court the decree of the President of Armenia on introduction of the state of emergency in Yerevan starting March 1, 2008.

February 21, 2009 13:00

• Georgian Vice-Premier calls opposition not to occasion Russia's new aggression

  Vice-Premier of Georgia Giorgiy Baramidze has called all the political forces of the country to consolidation in the face of possible new intervention of Russia.

February 21, 2009 12:00

• In Makhachkala, power agents block three streets

  Today, starting from 5 a.m., three streets - Makhmudova, Mursalova and Khizroeva - in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, have been blocked by numerous armed law enforcement agents and armoured troop-carriers with decocooned machine guns.

February 21, 2009 10:00

• In North Ossetia, fairs will help to confront the crisis

  On February 20, the Republic's government adopted the regulations on organization of fairs in the territory of North Ossetia. In the opinion of the Ministry of Economy, fairs can help to counteract the implications of the global crisis.

February 21, 2009 08:00

• Residents of Molodyozhny settlement move to safe locations

  Residents of the settlement of Molodyozhny, Astrakhan Region, where houses were repeatedly set on fire in the last week, are leaving their apartments and move to safer locations. Many of them take away their children to relatives. All this time, they live in constant fear for lives their family members.

February 21, 2009 06:00

• Kalmyk authorities hope to start the WPP despite the crisis

  As of today, the project of installing several windmills in Kalmykia has been suspended for a while because of financial difficulties. However, the authorities of Kalmykia plan to make everything possible, even under current force-majeure circumstances, to make a successful launch of the Kalmyk Wind Power Plant.