News

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.

October 23, 2010 12:00

• In Georgia, Appeal Court upholds verdict on Mukhrovani mutiny

  The Tbilisi Appeal Court has upheld the verdict of the lower instance on the case dealing with events on May 5, 2009, in the Mukhrovani tank battalion.

October 23, 2010 11:00

• Actions in memory of journalist Larisa Yudina held in Kalmykia and Moscow

  In Kalmykia, the opposition held a memorial party on the birthday of journalist Larisa Yudina: on October 22, Larisa Yudina, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Sovietskaya Kalmykia Today", who was murdered in July 1998, would have turned 65 years old. A similar action in Larisa's memory was held in Moscow.

October 23, 2010 10:00

• Several earthquakes registered in the Caspian Sea near Azerbaijan

  On October 22, to the south-east of the Astara District of Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea, in the Iranian sector, a number of earthquakes were registered, said the Republic's Seismology Service of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.

October 23, 2010 09:00

• Festival of ecological films "Green Carnation" is on in Sochi

  Sochi has opened the first festival of ecological films "Green Carnation". Its main topic is the links of humans with nature, and its main objective is to form a new vision of the society on environmental problems.

October 23, 2010 08:00

• International human rights organizations are concerned about the situation with freedom of speech in Azerbaijan

  In the run-up of the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, scheduled on November 7, nine international human rights and journalist organizations have promulgated a new joint report entitled: "Freedom of speech in Azerbaijan is under threat - deterioration of media environment".