News

October 25, 2010 23:40

• Hot-water boiler caused explosion in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Zaragizh village school suffered from an explosion. According to the principal, who referred to the experts studying the circumstances of the night explosion, the reason was in the canteen hot-water boiler. Thus, the initial statement about a terror act was not true.

October 25, 2010 23:20

• Suicide bombers who attacked Chechen Parliament came in a taxi

  Two of the three suicide bombers who attacked the building of the Chechen Parliament in Grozny in the morning of 19 October are still unidentified. The procedure is difficult, because their bodies torn into fragments by explosives belts are not subject to visual identification. Inspectors continue revealing new details of the incident.

October 25, 2010 23:10

• Armenia: WWF to protect brown bears

  In the south of Armenia, employees of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) plan to start night on duty shifts near the gardens, where brown bears come for nutrition. This was announced by the PR Department of the WWF.

October 25, 2010 23:00

• Bodies of two Russian contract militaries found in Armenia

  As reported by the press service of the Armenian Police, the bodies of two contract servicemen of the Frontier Department of Russia's FSB were found in a military unit stationed in the city of Gyumri, in the northern part of the country.

October 25, 2010 22:50

• Alleged Chechen rebels liquidated in Dagestan were medrese students

  The two residents of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, assassinated on October 20 in a special operation of power agencies in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, were medrese students, listed as missing since October 8 this year.

October 25, 2010 22:40

• Former high-ranking SFD prosecutor sentenced to eight years for fraud

  The Serpukhov Court of Moscow has sentenced Senior Adviser of Justice Sergey Abrosimov, former head of the division for supervising inquiry and operational-search activities of the Chief Department of Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) in the Southern Federal District (SFD), guilty, according to the investigation, of taking huge bribes, to eight years in a minimum security colony.

October 25, 2010 22:30

• Georgia introduces new rules for organizations working in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Under a new decree of the Georgian government, the humanitarian international organization, which are rendering help to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, shall fill in a special form and send it into the office of the Georgian State Minister for Reintegration, who is obliged then to present, within 21 working days, his comments or sanction the project. His refusal to implement the project may be appealed against in court.

October 25, 2010 22:20

• Prosecutor demands life imprisonment for "White Wolves" leader

  Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the Moscow City Court to sentence Vasily Krivtsov, a former student and a resident of Moscow, who is regarded by the investigation to be the leader of the grouping "Belye Volki" (White Wolves) and who was found guilty by the jury of committing 15 murders on the motive of ethnic hatred and enmity.

October 25, 2010 22:10

• Journalist from Dagestan complains to rights defenders about pressure from power agents

  Zarema Khasanova, a Dagestani female journalist, addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with her statement giving facts of threats against her, telling also about increased interest of power agents in her work. The journalist has linked these facts with her reports revealing militiamen's human rights violations.

October 25, 2010 22:10

• Former South-Ossetian captives assert that they saw Ikaev, registered as missing, in Georgian prison

  There are witnesses in South Ossetia, who saw and talked with Rodion Ikaev, who was kidnapped on August 8, 2008, and since then was regarded as a person who had disappeared in the territory of Georgia. The Georgian party has never recognized these facts.

October 25, 2010 21:00

• A Month of children's rights going on in Azerbaijan

  A Month of children's rights is going on in Azerbaijan on the initiative of Elmira Suleimanova, the Children's Ombudsman. The Month started on October, 20 and will last till November, 20, in connection with the 21-rst anniversary of accepting the Convention of Children's Rights, Press Service of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman reported.

October 25, 2010 20:00

• A serviceman suspected of murder of his brother-soldier detained in Chechnya

  A serviceman suspected of murder of his collegue, a soldier of federal forces, was detained in the mountainous district of Itum-Kale in the South of Chechnya.

October 25, 2010 19:00

• Six militiamen and a local woman wounded as a result of an explosion near a Road Patrol Service post in Ingushetia

  The number of injured people in the explosion of October, 24, at the roadside near a Road Patrol Service post in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia has come to seven. Six militiamen and a local woman got wounded, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

October 25, 2010 18:00

• A bomb exploded near a shop in Malgobek, Ingushetia, nobody was injured

  A homemade explosive device was activated in the town of Malgobek, Ingushetia, near a food store, on October, 24. Nobody was injured, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

October 25, 2010 17:00

• Explosion in a school canteen in Kabardino-Balkaria

  A report of a strong blast in the school building of the village of Zaragizh came to the standby unit of the Department of Interior Affairs of Circassian district of Cabardino-Balkaria this early morning, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

October 23, 2010 23:00

• Figures on victims of terror act in Khasavyurt vary

  As a result of the terror act committed by a suicide bomber in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, one militiaman was lost, and some 8-12 more persons, including civilians, soldiers and militiamen, were wounded and hospitalized.

October 23, 2010 22:00

• European Parliament concerned about the situation in Northern Caucasus

  In the course of debates about the situation in Northern Caucasus, deputies of the European Parliament called on Russia to observe its international obligations on human rights and put an end to impunity in the region.

October 23, 2010 19:00

• Suicide bomber blows himself up in Dagestan

  A suicide bomber who drove an UAZ van triggered an explosion at the entry to the militia base in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan, the local GOVD (City Interior Department) reports.

October 23, 2010 17:00

• Ecological rally and march held in Krasnodar

  Today, the territorial capital hosted an ecological rally, after which its participants marched with slogans and posters along the city streets.

October 23, 2010 13:00

• Georgian Parliament sets up cooperation bureau with NGOs

  In Georgia, with the aim of better relations between the Parliament, non-governmental sector and civil society, the bureau for cooperation with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) will be created.