News

April 09, 2010 23:30

• FSB: militants liquidated in Ekazhevo were involved in Karabulak terror act

  The militants liquidated as a result of the operation conducted in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo have been identified. According to the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), they are Korigov, Adam Magomedovich and Tsaloev, Ahmed Alikovich.

April 09, 2010 23:00

• Russian militaries ban doctors to examine Perevi residents

  Georgian doctors were stopped by Russian militaries at a block post and could not get into Perevi village, Sachkher District, where they wanted to conduct medical examination of the villagers; therefore, they were forced to do it and spread medicines in the neighbouring village of Dzhriya, controlled by the Georgian party.

April 09, 2010 22:20

• LDPR demands bringing terrorists' relatives to material liability

  Today, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, vice-speaker of the Russian State Duma from the faction of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and the group of MPs from this party brought into the State Duma draft amendments to the law "On Counteracting Terrorism", suggesting to impose legislative responsibility for the damage caused by terror acts on terrorists' family members who live together with them.

April 09, 2010 22:00

• Terrorist-suicide-bomber blows herself up in Ingushetia

  In the course of a special operation in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, a woman suicide-bomber rushed to the militia cordon and fatally wounded a militiaman from her pistol. This was reported by law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia.

April 09, 2010 21:00

• FIDH Forum participants worry that frequently under pretext of war on terror human rights are restrained

  Dictator regimes make use of war on terror as a pretext for neutralizing human rights activist and political opponents. Struggle against terrorism is used for destruction of democratic freedoms. This was a conclusion made by the participants of the Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) within the discussion on the topic of observance of human rights in the context of fighting terrorism.

April 09, 2010 20:00

• Kidnapped resident of Dagestan found in custody in Shali ROVD in Chechnya

  Lawyer Ruslan Datsaev from the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt managed to meet Zakhar Labazangadjiev, a resident of settlement Novaya Tsoloda, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on March 31 by unknown armed persons from his own house. The meeting took place at the temporary custody facility (the so-called "ISO") of the Shali ROVD in Chechnya. The "Caucasian Knot" was told today about it by Mr Datsaev.

April 09, 2010 19:00

• Another kidnapping in Chechnya

  As reported by an employee of one of the local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), engaged in human rights defence and legal aid to citizens, last week, two city dwellers of Shali were detained and taken away to some unknown location by employees of some unidentified power agency.

April 09, 2010 18:00

• Georgian residents commemorate victims of 1989 Tbilisi tragedy

  Today residents of Tbilisi came to the Memorial of April 9 casualties in the Rustaveli Avenue, erected in the place, where 21 years ago - in April 1989 - peaceful demonstrators perished at dispersal by Soviet authorities of a multi-thousand-strong rally.

April 08, 2010 23:50

• Two militiamen shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria

  As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria, in the evening on April 7, in the city of Baksan, unidentified persons shot dead two militiamen.

April 08, 2010 22:50

• Moscow City Court refused to toughen punishment to Ryno and Skachevskiy

  Today, the Moscow City Court has found the leaders of a skinhead grouping Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy guilty of new episodes of nationalism-motivated attacks; however, the court decided not to toughen the punishment appointed in the first verdict - 10 years of imprisonment. The verdict is based on the jurymen's conclusion.

April 08, 2010 22:50

• Kadyrov asserts Umarov is incapable, people abroad worry for safety of Sochi Olympiad

  Some experts believe that Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian underground, has managed to unite Islamic rebels and organized their respective infrastructure; however, in the opinion of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Umarov is incapable and "dies from famine." Along with that, after the terror acts committed in the country with participation of suicide-bombers, opinions are expressed that because of the terrorist activity, the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi located in the centre of the Caucasian Mountains are under threat; while sources in Chechnya report new traffic of military columns in various directions.

April 08, 2010 22:20

• Case on attempt on Isa Yamadaev in Moscow sent to court

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has sent the case about the attempt on July 28, 2009, on Isa Yamadaev, brother of ex-MP Ruslan Yamadaev and the ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev. This was reported by the ICPO. According to the investigation, the attempter on Yamadaev was Khavazh Yusupov, 24, a native of Chechnya.

April 08, 2010 21:40

• Six oppositionists detained in Georgia

  Today in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, two clashes happened of the opposition united into the "National Council" with the police. Oppositionists, while asserting that the authorities exert pressure on printing houses, tried to enter the sealed up building of the printing house "Tbilisilebi" aiming to take their propaganda literature, which was prepared for the local elections appointed on May 30.

April 08, 2010 21:20

• UCF and LWF activists detained in Rostov-on-Don before March 31 action

  On March 31, activists of the United Civil Front (UCF), Left-Wing Front (LWF) and other public organizations went out to their pre-applied action held under the all-Russian "Strategy 31" campaign in defence of Article 31 of the Constitution that assumes the freedom of assembly.

April 08, 2010 20:00

• At FIDH forum, human rights activists from "Memorial" share experiences of working in Chechnya

  Within the section "Role of regional systems of human rights defence in strengthening national justice systems" of the 37th Congress of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), which is now on in Yerevan, human rights activists from the "Memorial" shared their practical experience of defending human rights in Chechnya.

April 08, 2010 19:00

• European Court finds Russia responsible for kidnapping and probable murder of two residents of Chechnya

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has passed a decision on the complaint "Abaeva et al versus Russia", having ruled that Russian government should pay compensation of moral damage of 60,000 euros to relatives of the kidnapped citizens of Chechnya Magomed-Ali Abaev and Anvar Shaipov.

April 08, 2010 18:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdia sentenced to 9.5 years in prison

  Today, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of ex-president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was found guilty of illegal keeping of firearms and a murder attempt.

April 07, 2010 23:50

• Gachechiladze to sue President of Georgia

  Leval Gachechiladze, leader of the oppositional public movement "Defend Georgia", prepares an action against President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in the context of the scandalous TV programme "Chronicle" broadcast by the "Imedi" TV Company. The report showed a simulated invasion of Russian troops and assassination of the President.

April 07, 2010 23:20

• Body of one of missing children found in Rostov Region

  On April 6 inspectors found the body of one of the children who disappeared in March. The search of the two remaining ones continues with the help of a drone.

April 07, 2010 23:10

• Denisova: I was deprived of opportunities to be engaged in human rights activities

  Anastasia Denisova, a human rights defender from Krasnodar and head of public organization "ETnIKA", whose criminal case was delivered from the court to the prosecutor's office for elimination of drawbacks, believes that the organizers of her criminal and judicial prosecution have hit their true target - deprived her of opportunities to work properly.