News

December 21, 2010 19:00

• ECtHR fines Russia by 137,500 euros on claims of Chechen residents

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has fined the Russian Government by 137,500 euros for disappearance of a resident of Chechnya and for ineffective investigation into the death of two children from Chechnya at missile attack.

December 21, 2010 18:00

• Ingushetia: suspect of murdering women refers to their immoral behaviour as motive

  Tarkhan Ozdoev, a suspect of murdering his cousin and her two daughters confessed of the crime and said that he found the women's behaviour as immoral.

December 20, 2010 23:50

• Construction of "Cherkessk-Sukhumi" Highway across the reserve is illegal, ecologists say

  As reported by activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", the construction of the Inter-Regional Highway "Cherkessk-Sukhumi" across the territory of the Teberda State Biosphere Reserve is illegal and could cause irreparable harm to the ecosystem of Northern Caucasus.

December 20, 2010 23:40

• 42 nationalist marchers arrested in Volgograd

  Law enforcement authorities of Volgograd have stopped an attempt of nationalist-minded youth to hold a march in the city centre on December 18. 193 would-be participants were detained. No retaliatory actions by the members of the Caucasian Diaspora were registered.

December 20, 2010 23:10

• A defendant in Nalchik attack case released from custody

  Zalim Ulimbashev, one of the figurants in the case dealing with the attack on Nalchik in 2005, was released right in the courtroom under recognizance not to leave because of his health problems.

December 20, 2010 22:40

• Resident of Dagestan searched for shooting at passers-by in Moscow

  Operative agents managed to identify the suspect of shooting at passers-by in Moscow on December 17. It was a 26-year-old resident of Derbent, a city in Dagestan.

December 20, 2010 22:30

• Two persons suffer in explosion in Dagestan

  As a result of an explosion of a homemade explosive device near a trading house in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala, two persons were injured.

December 20, 2010 22:20

• District Court Chairman sacked after check in Kuschevskaya

  The powers of Alexander Yatsenko, Chairman of the Kuschevskiy District Court, have been terminated before term. This was announced today by Alexander Chernov, Chairman of the Krasnodar Territorial Court.

December 20, 2010 22:10

• Criminal case opened against inspectors who released participants of the fight where Yegor Sviridov was killed

  The Investigatory Committee has initiated prosecution of the inspectors, who had decided to release the detainees suspected of the mass brawl, in which Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, was shot dead.

December 20, 2010 22:10

• Authorities of Maikop cancel New Year mass celebrations

  The members of the antiterrorist commission of Adygea have stated that the republic's capital will see no organized mass festivities on the New Year night. Residents of the city reacted differently to the decision.

December 20, 2010 22:00

• Georgia's MIA is investigating Amiko Gulordava's kidnapping

  The law enforcement bodies of Georgia are now collecting evidences on abduction of Amiko Gulordava, a resident of Chkadua village, Zugdidi District.

December 20, 2010 21:00

• Rostov Regional GUFSIN bosses recruit prison psychologists and priests

  Soon, psychologists and priests, having special training for working with prisoners, will appear in prisons and colonies of the Rostov Region. As stated today by Major-General of Internal Troops Sergey Izmalkov, head of the Rostov Department of the Chief Federal Penitentiary Service (known as "GUFSIN"), the decision was caused by suicides in prisons.

December 20, 2010 20:00

• The number of people who perished in a road accident increased to six

  Today, December, 20, one more of the people injured in a road incident in Kalmykia died in hospital. So the number of victims of the collision between a regular bus and "Gazel" truck increased to six persons.

December 20, 2010 19:00

• The body of a militiamen who was shot down found in Dagestan

  Local residents found a shot down militiaman's body in the forest of Kumtorkale district, near the settlement of Sernoe. On their own initiative they reported the accident to law enforcement bodies, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs informed.

December 20, 2010 18:00

• 24 forged birth certificates found in Chechnya

  During public prosecutor's inspection in the town of Argun (Chechnya) facts of illegal issue of 24 birth certificates by the registry office have been discovered. A maternity nurse of the municipal hospital has been acknowledged guilty of this swindle. 20 criminal proceedings were started on the fact at once.

December 18, 2010 23:00

• 500 persons detained in Moscow for participation in unsanctioned actions

  Today, in the course of unauthorized actions, about 500 persons were detained for various offences, committed in the Russian capital. It was reported by Viktor Biryukov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

December 18, 2010 20:00

• Seven hunters assassinated in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today in the afternoon, in the forest near the city of Baksan in a blindage (dugout), seven bodies with gunshot wounds were found. The casualties are hunters from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the Stavropol Territory. Another two of them managed to escape from the hands of criminals.

December 18, 2010 19:00

• In Nalchik, lawyer holds picket in defence of Caucasians detained in Moscow

  Today, advocate Larisa Dorogova held a solo picket in Maria Square in Nalchik in protest against the mass detention of Caucasian young people during riots in Moscow.

December 18, 2010 18:00

• Azerbaijan: new protest action against ban on hijabs in schools

  Today, the settlement of Nardaran, located 30 km off to the north-east of Baku, hosted already the third within the last nine days Azerbaijani protest action against the ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs) in schools.

December 18, 2010 17:00

• Krasnodar: participants of actions in memory of slain fan claim unjustified detentions

  Today, most of the detentions during the unsanctioned public action in memory of Yegor Sviridov, assassinated Moscow Spartak fan, were unjustified. This was stated by protesters, while militiamen stress that this was the way to prevent riots.