News

October 30, 2010 13:00

• Sochi residents are offered to get fingerprinted

  The bosses of Sochi UVD (Interior Department) have urged citizens to pass a voluntary fingerprint registration.

October 30, 2010 12:00

• Rostov Region: director of building company suspected of embezzlement

  The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Bataisk, Rostov Region, has sent to the court the criminal case initiated against the builder Larissa Tarasenkova, accused of embezzlement of equity holders' money in the sum of more than 30 million roubles.

October 30, 2010 11:00

• Best brewer defined in North Ossetia

  The first nationwide cultural contest of Ossetian beer is over in the republic. Out of 500 participants the winner was chosen - Elena Margieva, a resident of Zmeiskaya village, who received her prize money of 50,000 roubles.

October 30, 2010 10:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria bans selling strong alcohol at night

  On October 29, the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria passed the final wording of the republic's law, restricting the retail sale of spirits.

October 30, 2010 09:00

• Part of Dagestani pilgrims will not be able to go to Hajj this year

  As reported on October 29 by President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov at the regular session of the Republic's Parliament, it would not be possible to send all the wishing local Moslems to the Hajj.

October 30, 2010 08:00

• In Ingushetia, Khashagulgov's relatives keep children away from school for fear of power agents

  Four children from the Khashagulgov family are missing their school in Karabulak for a week already. Their mother Pyatimat says that she received threats addressed to her family.

October 29, 2010 23:50

• Detainee reports about bomb in Grozny; later it was neutralized

  Today a powerful explosive device was neutralized by Chechen law enforcers in the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny. The republic's MIA asserts that the location of the hideout with a fougasse was shown by a local resident detained on suspicion of helping militants.

October 29, 2010 23:40

• Defender of convict in "White Wolves" case satisfied with verdict

  Vyacheslav Kireev, advocate of Dmitri Ufimtsev, convicted member of the neo-Nazi grouping called "White Wolves", was pleased that his client was not sentenced to life-long imprisonment and believes that the verdict was passed in line with the law.

October 29, 2010 23:30

• Federal soldier killed in Chechnya by fougasse explosion, another one injured

  On October 28, an explosion of a land mine in the foothill Urus-Martan District of Chechnya killed a soldier from Interior Troops of the Russian MIA; another one was seriously wounded.

October 29, 2010 23:20

• Refugees and street traders rally in Tbilisi

  Two protesting groups at a time - refugees and street traders - are holding their actions near the building of Tbilisi City Council. The former group is demanding solution of their housing problems, while the latter one protests against the ban on street trading.

October 29, 2010 23:10

• Moscow hosts action in memory of victims of Stalin's purges

  As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the memory action "Return of Names" of victims of 1937-1938 political repressions in Moscow was organized by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

October 29, 2010 23:00

• Two militiamen accused of murdering civilians face trial in Chechnya

  The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic has started considering the criminal case opened against two militiamen accused of killing two persons.

October 29, 2010 22:50

• Georgian Parliament discusses a bill aimed to combat corruption among doctors

  This week the Parliament of Georgia began considering the bill, aimed to address the problem of conspiracy between doctors and pharmaceutical companies, when a doctor is bribed to prescribe medications of a certain company with which he or she has a secret contract.

October 29, 2010 22:40

• Azerbaijani Supreme Court to consider Fatullaev's case on November 11

  Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is kept in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), and his colleagues who support him at large have stopped their joint hunger strike, because the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan had fixed the date of the plenary session on Fatullaev's case.

October 29, 2010 22:30

• In Georgia, 20 persons arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia

  Law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested 20 persons on suspicion of spying in favour of Russia.

October 29, 2010 22:10

• Figurant in Markelov's murder case confesses of trading in arms

  Nikita Tikhonov, who is accused of resonant murders, has confessed of trading in arms but still rejects the main charges - of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

October 29, 2010 20:00

• A meeting passed off at the place of a former fascist concentration camp in Volgograd

  A meeting of memory was held on October, 28, the day of the 68-th anniversary of the beginning of mass prisoner transfer of peaceful residents of Stalingrad (now bearing the name of Volgorgad) to the fascist concentration camps, near a small memorial at the place of a former camp of compulsory confinement No 205 in the territory of the settlement of Gorkovsky, Volgograd region.

October 29, 2010 19:00

• Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports a loss of a soldier in the zone of Karabakh confrontation

  Telman Mustafayev, a nineteen-year-old soldier of Azerbaijani army, was killed on October, 28, as a result of violation of cease-fire regime in the zone of Karabakh confrontation. Azerbaijani party blames the Armenian one for that.

October 29, 2010 18:00

• The first case of violating prohibition of kidnapping brides registered in Chechnya

  The prohibition of kidnapping brides recently established in Chechnya has been violated. On October, 28, a nineteen-year-old young man kidnapped a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl for marriage. The kidnapper may be sentenced to imprisonment and his family will possibly be fined for one million rubles. Commenting on the incident local residents express an opinion that the custom of kidnapping brides will hardly be eradicated in the republic.

October 29, 2010 18:00

• HRC "Memorial": residents of Ingushetia disappear in Rostov and Voronezh Region

  Relatives of two residents of Ingushetia worry about absence of information about whereabouts of their relatives, who disappeared in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh Region on October 27. This is stated in the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that arrived to the office of the "Caucasian Knot".