News

September 30, 2010 23:30

• Telephone terrorists detained in Chechnya and North Ossetia

  Chechen law enforcers have detained a young man who had called the "Beeline" security service and said that a passenger bus stuffed with bombs was on its route from Moscow to Novosibirsk. And the neighbouring North Ossetia found a malefactor who had reported that a school in Beslan was mined.

September 30, 2010 23:10

• Abkhazia marks Victory and Independence Day

  September 30 is the Victory and Independence Day in Abkhazia. On this day in 1993 the Abkhaz armed forces ousted the troops of the State Council of the Republic of Georgia away from its territory and hoisted the national banner over the state border along the Inguri River. In Abkhazia, the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhazian conflict is treated as the Patriotic War.

September 30, 2010 23:00

• Bombs neutralized in Stavropol contained about 90 kilos of explosive matter

  In total, the two explosive devices neutralized today in Stavropol contained about 90 kilograms of explosive substance.

September 30, 2010 23:00

• Chechen resident sentenced to 10 years in colony for preparing terror act in Moscow

  The Moscow City Court has sentenced Turko Bataev, 23, a resident of Grozny, to ten years in a high security for preparing a terror act in Moscow in summer of 2009. This was reported today by the press service of the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office without specifying the date of sentencing.

September 30, 2010 22:50

• Court extends custody of Ingush native accused of aircraft hijacking attempt

  The court has ruled to keep Magomed Patiev, a native of Ingushetia, accused of trying to hijack a Tu-154 aircraft at Domodedovo Airport in late July this year, said Tatiana Morozova, spokesperson of the Moscow Interregional Investigatory Department for Transports.

September 30, 2010 22:40

• ECtHR satisfies Azerbaijani singer's complaint against violation of her rights to free election

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has released its decision against the government of Azerbaijan on the claim of pop singer Flora Karimova, who had claimed violation of her rights at the 2005 parliamentary elections. The ECtHR has ruled that the government should pay 50,000 euros to the applicant as material compensation, 7500 euros for moral harm and 1600 euros of judicial expenses.

September 30, 2010 22:20

• In Dagestan, relatives are unaware of detainee's whereabouts

  Moussa Nasukhov, a resident of Tyube village, Kumtorkal District of Dagestan, has reported that he cannot find the whereabouts of his brother Ibrahim Nasukhov, a resident of Vitsiyatli village, Tsuntin District, who was taken away on September 28 from his home by local militiamen and unidentified persons in camouflage.

September 30, 2010 22:10

• Gadzily: in Azerbaijani courts protocols are often contrary to what defendants say

  At the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), where today consideration of the complaint lodged by journalist Fatullaev was postponed indefinitely, Rashid Gadzily, Director of the Media Rights Institute (MRI) said that there are no audio and video recordings of Fatullaev's trial.

September 30, 2010 22:00

• Criminal proceedings against four Jehovah's Witnesses in North Osetia have been stopped

  Legal actions brought after searches in the houses of Jehovah's Witnesses in North Osetia in June, 2010, carried out for suspicion of keeping printed matter acknowledged by the court as extremist have been stopped.

September 30, 2010 21:00

• Customs officers in Astrakhan will be brought before the court for accusation of contraband

  Eleven employees of the Astrakhan customs, four people from the broker's company "Rostech-Astrakhan" and two entrepreneurs will be brought before the court for accusation of contraband as members of an organized group.

September 30, 2010 20:00

• A wounded investigator died as a result of firing in Kabardino-Balkaria

  A lady investigator who got wounded during fire at a car with officers of the Criminal Investigation Department, Department of Interior affairs of Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria, died, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

September 30, 2010 19:00

• Two men wounded in a night explosion in Nalchik

  Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria reported that one of the three militiaman inside a car and the driver of another car passing by were injured as a result of an explosion in Nalchik last night.

September 30, 2010 18:00

• Physicians in Dagestan are concerned about the lives of two militiamen wounded in Kaspiisk

  The state of two militiamen wounded in Dagestan as a result of an explosion on September, 29, is estimated as a grave one, our source in the investigation bodies reported. After the explosion 17 militia officers asked for medical aid in the hospitals of Kaspiisk and Makhachkala. According to another source, 16 people were injured.

September 29, 2010 23:40

• Krasnodar: entrepreneurs of LLC "Promavtomatika Invest" face trial

  In Krasnodar, at the trial of entrepreneurs Sergey Kolesnikov and Evgeniy Konovalov, accused of misappropriation and embezzlement of a large sum of money belonging to the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Promavtomatika Invest", Judge Roman Shakitsko from the Lenin District Court of Krasnodar removed rights defender Tatiana Rudakova away from the session, because she had explained the rights of defendants' advocates.

September 29, 2010 23:30

• Creation of MIA's special unit treated ambiguously in Dagestan

  The information about formation of a special unit of interior troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Dagestan was differently taken by the local people. Denga Khalidov, head of the Centre of Strategic and Ethno-Political Studies of Russia, believes that Dagestan has pretty plenty of other power structures. On the other hand, the authorities of the republic hope that local residents will be better protected from those who want to destabilize the situation.

September 29, 2010 23:20

• FIDE Vice-President believes that Ilyumzhinov is a fair winner

  Georgeos Makropoulos, Vice-President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), has stated, in response to accusations put forward by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov that the today's election of FIDE President were unfair, that it was an attempt to blacken the name of the President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

September 29, 2010 23:10

• In Georgia, opponents of new Constitution send letter to EU bosses

  On September 28, fourteen leaders of various oppositional forces of Georgia sent a joint statement to the President of the Council of Europe, Chairman of the Venice Commission and to David Bakradze, Chairman of the Georgian Parliament, demanding to take action against adoption by the parliament of the new Constitution.

September 29, 2010 23:00

• Alexander Khloponin: there is no more inter-confessional and interethnic discord in the Caucasus

  On September 28, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said, speaking at the inauguration ceremony of President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, that the Caucasus is no longer the area of inter-confessional and interethnic conflicts, but is becoming a united and economically prosperous region.

September 29, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 20-26

  Suicide bombers blow themselves up in Northern Caucasus at the background of deepened split in "Imarat Kavkaz"; Vice-President of Abkhazia survives after another attempt; and the head of Ingushetia loses his advisor, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 20-26, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 29, 2010 22:50

• Krasnodar: suspect of spreading rumours about terror acts detected

  Law enforcers of the Krasnodar Territory have revealed a person who spread of rumours about terror acts to be committed in Krasnodar on the Day of the City - September 25. It is Nikolai Evenko, 27, a former leading specialist of the Municipal Institution "City Bureau of Outdoor Advertising and Information".