News

August 27, 2010 19:00

• Human rights organizations raise money for treatment of the teenager beaten by militiamen in Dagestan

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the "Civil Assistance" Committee are organizing a free-of-charge hospitalization of Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, who partially lost hearing after beating by militiamen in Dagestan, and his mother Aishat Guseinova in Moscow clinics. The "Civil Assistance" Committee has opened an account for donations aimed to treat the child.

August 27, 2010 18:00

• Power agents forced resident of Chechnya to confess of links with liquidated militant, rights defenders say

  The resident of the Grozny District of Chechnya, a relative of the owner of the house, where militant Khamzat Shemilev was killed on August 21, was kidnapped by power agents and kept in custody for about 24 hours. They demanded him "to confess" that he was Shemilev's helper; otherwise they threatened to kill him and announce that he was a terrorist-suicide bomber. This was reported by the head of one of local human rights NGOs.

August 26, 2010 23:30

• Militiaman wounded at shelling in Dagestan

  In Batayurt village in Dagestan a car was shelled, and a militia master sergeant was wounded.

August 26, 2010 23:20

• Kadyrov's presence at Sulim Yamadaev's commemoration means complete reconciliation of conflicting parties, observers believe

  On August 25, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, together with Deputy of the Russian State Duma Adam Delimkhanov, visited the commemoration ceremony in the Yamadaevs house in Gudermes. As local observers believe, Kadyrov's and Delimkhanov's presence at the mourning ceremony in the house of the Yamadaev clan indicates the final reconciliation of the parties in conflict.

August 26, 2010 23:10

• HRW: women in Chechnya are instructed how to dress

  The federal centre should put an end to the campaign unleashed in Chechnya, where women are forced to observe Islamic instructions of clothes. This was the topic of the statement of the international Human Rights Watch (HRW), which arrived to the office of the "Caucasian Knot".

August 26, 2010 23:00

• Azerbaijani scientist, released from Iranian prison, plans to sue his Iranian employer

  Rashid Aliev, an Azerbaijani scientist-physicist, recently released from custody in Iran, has declared at a press conference on August 25 that when he was in the prison of the Iranian special service ETTELAT, he permanently felt the support organized in Azerbaijan in his defence.

August 26, 2010 22:10

• Rizvanov and Kurbanmagomedov who disappeared in Dagestan had been shadowed - details of kidnapping

  Three days before their kidnapping in Dagestan, Abubakar Rizvanov and Timur (Suleiman) Kurbanmagomedov, employees of the Media Centre "Khuda-Media", noticed that they were shadowed; the young men managed to make a video of the cars, which - as they thought - were pursuing them.

August 26, 2010 22:00

• Three boys injured by explosion in children's playground in Rostov Region

  Three boys aged 9, 10 and 12 years suffered from an explosion that happened in a children's playground in the city of Belaya Kalitva, Rostov Region. The children received the necessary medical aid. Now militiamen try to understand what exactly was blown up by the children. This was reported by the press service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Rostov Region.

August 26, 2010 21:00

• Six persons died from WNE in south of Russia

  The number of victims of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE) in Russia has reached six: five persons died in Volgograd and one in the Rostov Region, said Gennady Onischenko, Chief State Sanitary Inspector of Russia.

August 26, 2010 20:00

• Protests against gay parade in Batumi

  In the city of Batumi, Georgia, an action of opponents of the gay parade is held. The organizers of the protest action are the parishioners of the St Barbara Church, who call the local authorities to take into account the statement of the Patriarchy of Georgia and not to admit the gay parade in an Orthodox country. The city mayoralty says that they know nothing about the organizers, place and time of the gay parade.

August 26, 2010 19:00

• Baku: journalist Fatullaev's appeal complaint considered

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court, chaired by Mirashi Guseinov, has started a preparatory session on consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by journalist Einullah Fatullaev. The judge provided the journalist's advocates with the time till September 2 for getting acquainted with the protocols.

August 26, 2010 18:00

• Attackers on tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria looked for militiamen, inspectors assert

  The unidentified persons, who attacked tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria on August 9 and 19, were looking for militiamen, said an informed source from local investigatory bodies and added that both crimes had been committed by one and the same grouping.

August 25, 2010 16:36

• Houses are demolished in Imereti Lowland

  Currently, in the Imereti Lowland of Sochi, in the place, where the stadium for the opening ceremony of the Olympiad-2014 will be built, private households are being demolished.

August 25, 2010 16:13

• After 1998, Nagorno-Karabakh received 25 million US dollars less than Congress planned

  Since 1998, the volume of the US financial help to Nagorno-Karabakh has made 36 million dollars, that is, by 25 million dollars less than it was pre-planned by the Congress. This was announced on August 24 by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

August 25, 2010 14:42

• Oppositional electoral block "Karabakh" created in Azerbaijan

  On August 25, two oppositional parties of Azerbaijan – "Umid" (Hope) and the Democratic Party – declared creation of electoral block named "Karabakh" with the aim to jointly run for the parliamentary elections, forthcoming on November 7.

August 25, 2010 13:05

• EU calls Azerbaijan to release imprisoned bloggers

  Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU), made a statement, criticizing the decision of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan of August 19, which upheld the verdict to bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

August 25, 2010 12:29

• In Chechnya, four girls join militants, their relatives complain of power agents' pressure

  Recently, four young women from the Sunzha District of Chechnya left their homes and joined the ranks of the armed underground.

August 25, 2010 12:28

• Tbilisi: street traders create their professional league

  The aim of the new league will be to fight for cancellation of the street trade ban. "To have the street trade ban cancelled, the league will use all the methods permissible within the bounds of the Constitution. We'll hold protest actions and file respective applications to the Sacrebulo (local government body), Public Prosecutor's Office and Parliament," Lasha Chkhartishvili, one of the leaders of the oppositional Conservative Party of Georgia, who helped to create the league, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 25, 2010 11:29

• Turkish ship "Dafne" leaves Abkhazia's territorial water

  The Turkish cargo ship "Dafne", which stood idle for about two months near Sukhumi, has safely left Abkhazia. This was reported today by Valery Papba, head of the State Authority of the Republic of Abkhazia for Transports and Communications.

August 25, 2010 11:14

• Four Russia-Abkhazia sea runs fulfilled

  So far, sea boats with Russian tourists sailing from Sochi to Abkhazia reach as far as Gagra. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it today by Valery Papba, head of the State Authority of the Republic of Abkhazia for Transports and Communications.