News

June 12, 2010 21:00

• Mayoralty of Yerevan refused to sanction opposition's protest action

  On June 11, the Mayoralty of Yerevan rejected the application submitted by Karapet Rubinyan, coordinator of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons, on holding a sit-in protest action on June 18 in the Freedom Square.

June 12, 2010 20:00

• Azerbaijan suspends "Leader" money transfer system

  The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has instructed the banks operational in the country to suspend – starting June 11 – their business cooperation with the money transfer system "Leader", which is continuing its activity in Nagorno-Karabakh.

June 12, 2010 19:00

• Saakashvili is not going to be President of Georgia after 2013

  After expiry of his second presidential term, Mikhail Saakashvili will not apply for the post of the state leader, as he said today in Kutaisi.

June 12, 2010 18:00

• In Ingushetia, MIA's motor column shelled

  Today at night a motor column transporting employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was shelled in Ingushetia by unidentified persons: two militiamen were injured. It was reported by the spokesman of the Investigatory Department of the ICPO for Ingushetia.

June 12, 2010 17:00

• Azerbaijan: oppositional protest action dispersed

  Today in Baku the police did not allow activists of the "Musavat" Party and political block "Union for Democracy" to hold their protest action in Gusein Dzhavid Park in the Yasamal District of the capital of Azerbaijan. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 12, 2010 16:00

• Three suspected militants liquidated in Vedeno District of Chechnya

  Three suspected militants were killed in the mountains of the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic. This was reported today to journalists by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who was during the last three days in the special operation area.

June 12, 2010 14:00

• Explosion in Kaspiisk kills one and injures five

  As a result of today's explosion in the city of Kaspiisk in Dagestan, one person was lost also five more wounded, as reported by the spokesman of the republic's MIA.

June 12, 2010 11:00

• Dagestan opens international festival "Mountaineers"

  The 4th International Festival of Folklore and Traditional Culture "Mountaineers" was launched in Makhachkala; its participants will give travel concerts in different districts of Dagestan.

June 12, 2010 10:00

• Female NGO activists of Georgia and South Ossetia meet in Baku to search ways to stop enmity

  Women of Georgia and South Ossetia are capable to bring their contribution into restoration of trust and peace between Georgians and Ossetians. This is the leitmotif of the two-day meeting of female-activists from Georgia and South Ossetia, which is taking place on June 11 and 12 in Baku.

June 12, 2010 09:00

• Imereti residents stop their hunger strike

  After a meeting with officials of the Krasnodar Territory, five residents of the Imereti Lowland of Sochi stopped their hunger strike.

June 11, 2010 23:30

• Relatives of resident of Dagestan accused of drug dealing in Azerbaijan complaint of inquiry protracting

  At the court session on June 8 on the case about drug contraband and use by Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, who is kept, since February 10, at the investigatory insulator in Azerbaijan, policemen gave contradictory evidences. This was stated by Umar Garisov, Usman's brother, a resident of Karanaiaul village of the Kayakent District of Dagestan; he believes that the consideration of the case was deliberately protracted and is preparing a protest action.

June 11, 2010 23:00

• Female accused of Markelov's murder protests against stay in one isolator with Magas

  On Thursday, June 10, Evgenia Khasis, a figurant in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, refused to take prison food in protest against keeping in the same insulator with one of militants' leaders of Northern Caucasus Ali Taziev, also known as Magas.

June 11, 2010 22:50

• Ruslan Yamadaev's murder case sent to the court

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has completed investigating the murder of the Hero of Russia and former State Duma Deputy Ruslan Yamadaev and attempt on Sergey Kizyun.

June 11, 2010 22:20

• Dagestan MPs are sceptical on making conscription commercial

  Khizri Shikhsaidov, Deputy of the Russian State Duma from Dagestan, does not support the idea of the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky who offered to release young men from military service for one million roubles. The Dagestan MP was supported by his colleagues who believe that commercialization of conscription will make bribes still higher.

June 11, 2010 22:00

• Chechen women tell Spanish paper about "hunting" for women without headscarves

  Lately, the capital of Chechnya saw almost two dozens attacks made from paintball rifles on girls without headscarves. One of the victims of these attacks lost her eye as a result of a paintball shot. According to human rights activists, local militiamen may be involved in the attacks.

June 11, 2010 21:00

• Leaflets calling girls to wear headscarves appeared in Gudermes

  In Chechnya, in the city of Gudermes, leaflets appeared on posts near the city bus station and in the vicinity of the marketplace calling Chechen girls to wear headscarves, eyewitnesses report.

June 11, 2010 20:00

• Relatives of Egle Kusaite believe that she confessed of terrorism under pressure

  Today at a press conference, relatives of Egle Kusaite, a native of Klaipeda, said that her confession about intention to commit a terror act in Chechnya was "drawn out" of the girl by means of psychological and physical violence.

June 11, 2010 19:00

• Doctors fear for life of Tsechoev detained in Ingushetia

  Movlat Tsechoev, uncle of brothers Adam and Beslan Tsechoev, who were detained on June 8 in Sagopshi village (Ingushetia), is sure of their non-involvement in the terror act in Sagopshi. Movlat told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the events that preceded detention and about a spontaneous rally in front of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Malgobek.

June 11, 2010 18:00

• ECtHR finds Russia involved in two disappearances in Chechnya

  The federal agents who took away in 2002 brothers Magomed-Salekh and Magomed-Ali Ilyasov failed to present their IDs, behaved rudely and aggressively and threatened their family members. This was reported by their mother Zhugurkhan Ilyasovа, who was defined as victim by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

June 10, 2010 23:50

• In Georgia, leader of Orthodox radicals sentenced in absentia

  The Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia and sentenced in absentia Malkhaz Gulashvili, President of the media holding "Georgian Times" and leader of the Georgian public organization "National Orthodox Movement", and his son David Gulashvili to two months of pre-trial custody.