News

September 01, 2010 23:50

• "First Ring" in Chechen schools is held under strengthened security

  Today, the schools of Chechnya started their new school year with the "First Ring". On the eve, all the general educational establishments and adjacent territories were inspected, and round-the-clock securities were deployed.

September 01, 2010 23:40

• Sports journalist attacked in Azerbaijan

  The Baku police have started investigating an attack on the well-known sports observer Rasul Shukyursoy (Allahverdiev). As reported by the 4th branch of the Binagadin district police division, currently investigatory actions are underway to reveal the suspect and attract him to responsibility.

September 01, 2010 23:30

• Coordination board of Balkar organizations starts preparing Congress of Balkar People

  On August 31, the coordination board (CB) of Balkar NGOs made a decision to convoke a congress for deciding on the issue of self-determination of the Balkar people. Bakhaudin Etezov was unanimously elected to be the chairman of the organizing committee of the congress. The organizing committee includes all the CB members and will invite experts - Balkar historians, economists and lawyers.

September 01, 2010 23:10

• In Armenia, ecologists hold protest action in front of EBRD office

  On August 31 in Yerevan, the "Group of Tekhut Protection" held a protest action near the Yerevan office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Activists-ecologists are concerned of possible financing by Russian VTB of the disputable programme on development of the Tekhut deposit.

September 01, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 23-29

  Reappointment of President of Kabardino-Balkaria; reconciliation of the clans of Chechen President and the Yamadaevs; heat of pre-election situation in Dagestan; violation of refugees' rights in Georgia, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 23-29, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 01, 2010 23:00

• Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev killed in Kabardino-Balkaria reject his involvement in IAFs

  Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev, who was killed on August 27 in the course of a special operation in Nalchik, disagree with the official version about his involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and are convinced that Aslan became an occasional victim of the operation.

September 01, 2010 23:00

• MoD of Nagorno-Karabakh refutes losses in the fight with Azerbaijani militaries

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh asserts that the losses of Azerbaijan during the combat clash on August 31 made at least seven killed and wounded persons. The Armenian party, as the department reports, had no losses; one soldier was wounded.

September 01, 2010 22:20

• In Abkhazia, investigation into beating of "Abaza" board chairman is fruitless

  The preliminary investigation in underway on the fact of beating of Mussa Takushinov, chairman of the board of the public organization of Abasins of the Karachai-Circassian Republic named "Abaza". The criminal case was initiated under the article of deliberate causing of medium-gravity harm to one's health by a group of persons out of hooligan intentions."

September 01, 2010 22:10

• Volgograd Region: number of WNE patients is over 200

  Within the week the number of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE) patients in the Volgograd Region went up by 36 persons, the local "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) Department has reported.

September 01, 2010 22:00

• MCC upholds verdict to militiaman who beat Abkhazian native to death

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected the cassation of ex-militiaman Anver Ibragimov, who was convicted for beating Eduard Gurtskaya, a native of Abkhazia, to death in Moscow.

September 01, 2010 20:00

• Leonid Roshal is ready to treat the boy beaten by power agents in Dagestan in his clinic

  Doctor Leonid Roshal, Director of the Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology, said that his hospital is ready to take Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, beaten by militiamen in Dagestan, for further treatment. The case about beating the teenager is under supervision of President of Dagestan, the republic's government has reported.

September 01, 2010 19:00

• Yerevan mayoralty bans oppositional rally in Freedom Square

  Having banned the oppositional rally in the Freedom Square on September 17, the mayoralty offered to hold the action in the territory adjoining Matenadaran. The Armenian National Congress (ANC) believes this decision to be "obviously illegal".

September 01, 2010 18:00

• Court awards 30,000 roubles of compensation to resident of Chechnya for inspector's actions

  On August 31, the judicial panel on civil cases of the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision of the Leninskiy District Court of Grozny of May 15, 2010, on awarding compensation to local resident Muslim Kulaev of the moral harm caused to him by actions of the inspector of the inter-district investigatory division (IDID) at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic.

August 31, 2010 23:50

• New district started in Sochi for "Olympic" resettlers

  In the vicinity of Yan Fabritsius Street in the Hosta District of Sochi, a new residential area was launched for the residents of the city-resort, whose houses get into the zone of Olympic construction.

August 31, 2010 23:40

• Georgia: refugees from Abkhazia to pass free-of-charge medical examination

  An action will be held in Western Georgia of free-of-charge medical examination of refugees from Abkhazia.

August 31, 2010 23:30

• "Strategy-31" activists detained in Rostov

  As reported by Valentina Tolkachova, an activist of the "Solidarity" Movement, participants of the action "Strategy-31" were detained in Rostov-on-Don.

August 31, 2010 23:20

• Bomb planted in garbage blows up in Sergokalin District of Dagestan and wounds people

  In the evening on August 30, a self-made explosive device was triggered in a suburb of Verkhneye Makhargi village, Sergokalin District, which was placed in a heap of garbage. This was reported by a source in the local MIA.

August 31, 2010 23:10

• One casualty and two wounded militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria

  According to local law enforcement bodies, a suspected member of a bandit formation was liquidated in Stary Cherek village in the Urvan District; two militiamen were injured.

August 31, 2010 23:00

• In Dagestan, militiaman suspected of beating teenager asks to make his parents criminally responsible

  Magomed Magomedov, a district inspector of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division) of Dagestan has addressed the magistrate judge of judicial constituency No. 93, Shamil District of Dagestan, claiming to bring the parents of Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, who was beaten by militiamen, to criminal liability.

August 31, 2010 22:00

• ECtHR to consider claims of Azerbaijani citizens to Armenia and vice versa

  On September 15, the High Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will consider the claim of an Armenian citizen against Azerbaijan and the claim of six Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The applicants claim violations of their civil rights during the Karabakh War in 1991-1992.