News

April 20, 2010 18:00

• In Ingushetia, relatives of inmates kept in Omsk colony complain of cruel treatment

  Saiv Toshkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, has stated, with reference to his brother Mikhail and his fellow countryman Islam Tsechoev, who serve their terms in the Omsk Region, that prisoners are violently brought to the medical-corrective establishment in Beregovoi settlement of the Omsk Region, where they are tortured.

April 20, 2010 17:00

• Explosion of deputy minister's car injures six persons

  According to latest information, six militiamen suffered in the morning on April 19 as a result of blowing up the car belonging to Beslan Shadiev, acting deputy head for logistics of the MIA of Ingushetia.

April 20, 2010 16:00

• Heavy showers cause flood in Georgia

  Downpours became the reason of flooding in the Kakheti District of Georgia. The stormy nature paralysed the traffic for several hours in the Gurdzhaani-Lagodekhi-Tbilisi highway.

April 20, 2010 15:00

• Miners in Georgia start their warning strikes

  Today, the united trade unions of Georgia begin miners' warning strikes in Zestafoni and Chiatura, in western Georgia. The trade unions demand increase of wages and longer vacations.

April 20, 2010 14:00

• Chechen authorities plan to pay compensations for lost housing to over 5000 residents by the end of this year

  Chechnya goes on with the process of paying monetary compensations for the housing lost in the course of the warfare, which was started back in 2003. The authorities of the republic promise to pay out, till the end of this year, the sums as established by the law - 350,000 roubles (300,000 for destroyed houses and 50,000 - for lost property) - to 5300 families.

April 20, 2010 13:00

• Hacker who threatened Kadyrov is in SIZO in Grozny

  A hacker Albert Saaev, condemned to two years of imprisonment for hacking governmental websites of North-Caucasian republics, is now in SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Grozny; within the next few days a new charge will be presented to him, as reported by the spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya.

April 20, 2010 11:00

• Russian seamen detained in Georgia to be fined by USD 37,000

  Most likely, in the near future, the Russian ship detained by Georgian frontier guards on April 17 in the water area of the port of Batumi, will be fined by 65,000 laris (about 37,000 US dollars) for "polluting the water area of the Black Sea."

April 20, 2010 10:00

• Pakhomov: red roofs will give harmonic image to Sochi

  The authorities of Sochi plan to bring the city-resort to the uniform architectural style by having repainted red all the roofs in the city and its vicinities.

April 19, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 12-18

  Power agents state detention of suspects of committing terror acts in Moscow; explosions and shelling accompany one year's anniversary of CTO regime cancellation; Sochi residents are on duty round the clock in cut-down green zones, but IOC commission continues naming the preparation of Olympiad-2014 successful; Lithuania goes on prosecuting the large Chechen family of Gataevs; Armenians prepare for the Memory Day of genocide victims and its recognition by local authorities of Georgia and Kuban; PACE delegation studied the situation in Georgia and Abkhazia, but "got stuck" on the border of South Ossetia, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of April 12-18, 2010, in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 19, 2010 22:33

• Dagestan: detained Kara-Tyube residents are at large

  Today, Isa Magomedov, a resident of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the 17 villagers detained on April 15 have been released from the Babayurt ROVD.

April 19, 2010 21:00

• Cloud of volcanic ash approaches Georgia

  Today, the United Transport Administration (UTA) of Georgia has disseminated a statement intended for all airlines and airports of the world that the Tbilisi Airport has problems because of the approaching ash cloud from the Iceland volcano.

April 19, 2010 20:00

• Constitutional Court finds cancellation of juries compliant with Russian Constitution

  Today the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has announced its decision on the case, which entailed check of the constitutionality of part 2, Article 30, and part 2, Article 325, of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP) the Russian Federation, according to which crimes of terrorist character cannot be tried by juries. The Court has found no contradiction of the above provisions with the Russian Constitution.

April 19, 2010 19:00

• Death of Georgian sledge racer in Whistler found accidental

  The death of the Georgian athlete - sledge racer Nodar Kumaritashvili - in the Olympic track in Whistler was an "unforeseeable fatal accident," which was a result of a chain of events, runs the conclusion of the International Luge Federation (FIL), placed today in the website of the organization.

April 19, 2010 18:00

• Lithuanian power agents deny any links of their investigation with terror acts in Moscow

  The investigation of preparation of a possible terror act in Lithuania has nothing to do with the explosions in Moscow metro, said Algimantas Klyunki, chief prosecutor of the department for fighting corruption and organized crime, who explained that the investigation of the case about the terrorist activity in the republic was conducted since August 2009.

April 19, 2010 17:00

• Ex-journalists of "Imedi" sue Georgian authorities at ECtHR

  Former journalists of the TV Company "Imedi" have sent a claim against Georgia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the context of events on November 7, 2007, when special troops of the Georgia's MIA attacked the premises of the Company. Then, according to journalists, a pogrom was made in the building; and the employees were down on the floor for several minutes with firearms pointed at them.

April 19, 2010 16:00

• Explosion at Ingushetia MIA building wounds two persons

  Today in the morning in Nazran, a self-made explosive device was triggered under the bottom of the Niva car belonging to Beslan Shagiev, acting deputy minister of the MIA of Ingushetia for logistics.

April 19, 2010 12:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh stops registering candidates for MPs

  April 18 in Nagorno-Karabakh was the deadline for registering candidates for members of the local Parliament of the 5th convocation; the elections will take place on May 23.

April 19, 2010 08:00

• Dagestan resident reports mass detentions in Kara-Tyube

  Today, Khanmagomed Magomedov, a resident of Kara-Tyube village, Babayurt District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the Babayurt ROVD (District Interior Division) illegally holds 17 persons for several days, including two women detained during searches.

April 19, 2010 07:00

• Sochi residents demand restoration of resort's green zones

  On April 17, some 200 residents of the city-resort Sochi went out to hold their three-hour picket in the Plane-Tree Alley, where over 3000 persons signed-in "in defence of general use green zones against corruption actions of the authorities and businesses."

April 17, 2010 21:12

• Lithuanian woman suspected of involvement in Moscow terror acts

  In Lithuania, a girl of 20 is arrested as a suspect of complicity in terror acts in Moscow metro on March 29. The version of her involvement in these crimes is now checked by the Lithuanian Department of State Security and State Office of Public Prosecutor.