News

July 24, 2010 16:00

• Downpours flood dwelling houses in Karachai-Circassia

  As a result of strong torrential rains, six houses in Kamenomost aul, Karachai District of Karachai-Circassia, were flooded, as reported by Azret-Ali Karaev, head of the administration of the rural settlement.

July 24, 2010 15:00

• Georgia: opposition bags subscription for amending electoral legislation

  The oppositional "National Forum" starts bagging subscriptions in support of its bill on amending the Electoral Code of Georgia.

July 24, 2010 14:00

• 100 trucks of forbidden things confiscated from Rostov prisons

  In total, 100 trucks of forbidden things were confiscated from the inmates kept in the prisons and colonies of the Rostov Region. As stated by Alexei Velichko, deputy head of the Federal Service of Punishment Enforcement (known as "FSIN"), who announced today the outcomes of the check of the Rostov FSIN Department, the prisoners' rights were not broken.

July 24, 2010 12:00

• Tenants of burnt-down hostel in Kaspiisk complain of absence of help

  The tenants of the burnt-down family hostel of Kaspiisk have lost their housing and property and now live in tents in the street. According to their version, they get no help from the authorities.

July 24, 2010 11:00

• Abkhazia to take part in the next round of Geneva negotiations

  As stated on July 23 by Sergey Shamba, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, his republic would take part in the next round of Geneva negotiations on safety and stability in the Caucasus to be held on July 27.

July 24, 2010 10:00

• Nino Burdzhanadze sues three mass media

  On July 23, Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament of Georgia, filed a claim to the Tbilisi City Court against the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, the newspaper Prime Time and the Internet edition "Droni.ge" for dissemination, as she asserts, of false information.

July 24, 2010 08:00

• Two supposed militants liquidated in special operation in Ingushetia

  Today in the afternoon, in the course of a special operation conducted in the vicinity of Ekazhevo and Surkhakhi villages, Nazran District of Ingushetia, two suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were assassinated.

July 23, 2010 23:00

• Head of rural settlement shot dead in Dagestan

  As reported by a source in the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Rasul Magomedov, head of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, was shot dead.

July 23, 2010 21:00

• Refugees from Abkhazia hold rally at the Ministry of Economy

  Abkhazian refugees came to hold a rally near the building of the Ministry of Economy in Tbilisi, demanding a meeting with Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, to address the problem of their worthy housing.

July 23, 2010 20:00

• Orlov petitions to close the criminal case initiated by Kadyrov

  Today, Oleg Orlov, chairman of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and his advocate Genry Reznik signed a protocol that they had got acquainted with the materials of the slander criminal case initiated against Orlov by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

July 23, 2010 19:00

• Dagestan: locals block "Kavkaz" Federal Highway

  Near the city of Izberbash residents of Karanaiaul village blocked the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway demanding that the authorities of Dagestan interfere with the date of their fellow villager Usman Garisov, convicted in Azerbaijan for drug contraband and use.

July 23, 2010 18:00

• Kozak: Sochi Olympiad will cost 185 billion roubles

  As reported today by Dmitri Kozak, Russian Vice-Premier, during his working trip to Sochi, the 2014 Winter Olympiad will cost 185 billion roubles, of which the budget will allot 80 billion, and the rest will come, as they plan, from private investors.

July 23, 2010 17:00

• Azerbaijan rejects the Hague Court's verdict on Kosovo independence

  Despite the advisory opinion of the UN International Court in The Hague of July 22 on legitimacy of Kosovo's independence, Azerbaijan is still recognizing the territorial integrity of Serbia.

July 23, 2010 17:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria sums up youth forum "Kavkaz-2020"

  The main outcome of the youth forum "Kavkaz-2020", held in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accumulation of the "bank of projects" for developments of Northern Caucasus. About 20 such projects were presented by the participants of the forum.

July 23, 2010 16:00

• "Committee in Defence of Freedom of Speech": less attacks on journalists in Armenia

  As compared with last year, in 2010 the number of cases of physical violence over journalists in Armenia has more than halved, Ahsot Melikyan, head of the "Committee in Defence of Freedom of Speech", told journalists.

July 23, 2010 15:00

• Final charges are presented to figurants in Markelov's murder case

  In the near future, the figurants in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova - Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis - will start studying the materials of the case.

July 23, 2010 13:00

• Dagestan: Chief Engineer of "Sulak Hydropower Cascade" kidnapped

  In Shamilkala village, Untsukul District of Dagestan, unidentified persons kidnapped Vladimir Redkin, Chief Engineer of the Company "Sulak Hydropower Cascade".

July 23, 2010 12:00

• Malgobek resident asks rights defenders to help his son detained by militia

  Bersnako Nalgiev, a resident of Ingushetia, has addressed human rights activists with a request to help in defending the rights of his son Alaudin, 19, who was detained on July 14 in Malgobek as a suspect of helping militants. As he said, his son was beaten at detention.

July 23, 2010 11:00

• Seven casualties in road accident in Georgia

  On July 22, a minibus fell down into the Argun River from a mountain road. Out of 10 persons inside, 7, including 2 children, were lost.

July 23, 2010 10:00

• Dagestan: explosion in railway, one person wounded

  A self-made explosion device was triggered today in the railway section Inchkhe-Kayakent in Dagestan. As a result of the explosion an employee of the extradepartmental security service was wounded.