News

April 05, 2010 22:00

• Case on blowing up "Neva-Express" train in 2007 has lots of confusion, lawyers and convicts' relatives say

  The advocates of the convicts for transportation of explosives to the place of explosion of the "Neva-Express" train in 2007 plan to appeal against the verdict of guilty and to apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Their relatives state that the litigation and the verdict were absurd, while detention of the defendants looked more like kidnapping and robbery.

April 05, 2010 21:00

• Sign-in campaign in Internet for cancellation of Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code

  An appeal to President of Russia with a demand to cancel Article 282 of the Criminal Code (CC) of the Russian Federation ("Kindling hatred or enmity and humiliation of human dignity") was placed in the Internet page of the Party "Homeland: Common Sense". The appeal already has some five hundred subscriptions, said Mikhail Delyagin, chairman of the organizing committee of the Party, at the press conference held at the Independent Press Centre.

April 05, 2010 21:00

• In Moscow metro, unidentified persons made inscriptions "Allah Akbar!" and "Death to Russians!"

  Inscriptions "Allah Akbar!" and "Death to Russians!" appeared on the wall of the metro station "Planernaya" in Moscow. Now, the power agencies of the capital try to find the authors of this graffiti, who, according to eyewitnesses, were natives of the Caucasus.

April 05, 2010 20:00

• Cherkasov: wrong treatment of Caucasians gives rise to terrorism in Russia

  In the opinion of Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the board of the International Society "Memorial", one of the roots of terrorism in Russia is that residents of the Caucasus are treated not like other citizens of Russia, moreover, not like Muscovites. And in the opinion of political scientist Sergey Markedonov, today the war on terror is seen exclusively as a police action; but the problem cannot be solved by police operations only.

April 05, 2010 19:00

• 13 persons injured by terror act in Ingushetia

  Under the latest data, as a result of the terror acts committed today in Karabulak, two persons were lost and 13 more wounded. President of Ingushetia asked the Kremlin to render material aid to the casualties and victims.

April 05, 2010 18:00

• Shlegel: news on militants should just report their liquidation

  Robert Shlegel, a Russian State Duma Deputy and a member of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, has brought to consideration of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament a draft amendment to the law on the mass media, assuming a ban on any citing of terrorists' statements.

April 03, 2010 20:14

• 66 prisoners to be early relieved in Georgia

  In Georgia, 66 inmates will be at large before term and welcome Easter in their families. The respective decision was made by the commission on conditional-early relief at its sitting on April 2.

April 03, 2010 19:00

• Alekseeva is not going to pardon her attacker at the action in memory of terror victims

  Today, the court has released under recognizance not to leave a muscovite Konstantin Pereverzev, who struck the famous human rights defender Liudmila Alekseeva at the action in memory of the victims of the terror act committed at the Park Kultury metro station. Pereverzev admitted his guilt and repented. But Alekseeva is not going to forgive him.

April 03, 2010 17:00

• Armenians and Turks to discuss genocide's causes and implications in Ankara

  The meeting of Armenian and Turkish intellectuals, forthcoming on April 24-25 in Ankara, will discuss the issues related to causes and consequences of Armenians' genocide in the Ottoman Turkey.

April 03, 2010 16:00

• 36 parties to run for local governments in Georgia

  On April 3, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Georgia stopped accepting applications from the parties willing to take part in the elections to institutions of local self-government to be held on May 30. In total, the CEC received applications from 36 parties.

April 03, 2010 15:00

• AI: Georgia bought torture appliances in Germany

  The Amnesty International (AI) asserts that Georgia had purchased in Germany tools for torturing people. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia denies the accusations.

April 03, 2010 14:00

• Dagestan: power agents search relatives of Jennet Abdurakhmanova

  A special operation is on in the village of Stary Kostek, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. Power agents are searching relatives of Jennet Abdurakhmanova, suspected of committing a suicidal terror act on March 29 at Park Kultury Moscow metro station.

April 03, 2010 13:00

• Ombudsman of Armenia refuses to take part in FIDH forum

  Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, stood against the offered format of his participation in the forum of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) to be held in Yerevan on April 6-8. He sent a letter to the organizers asking to exclude him from the list of participants, as "he would not be given a chance to express his viewpoint alternative to the authorities' one."

April 03, 2010 11:00

• Insurance Fund: patients are happy with medical institutions of Chechnya

  The Territorial Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance in the Chechen Republic has held a sociology poll and announced by its outcomes that the overwhelming majority (76 percent) of Chechen residents are satisfied with the medical aid available.

April 03, 2010 10:00

• Business Centre of Italy opened in Sochi

  It is expected that the new Business Centre will promote Italian-Russian business cooperation, growth of trade and expansion of contacts between the two countries.

April 03, 2010 09:00

• Azerbaijani Ombudsperson reports to parliament, opposition is critical

  On April 2, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan listened to the report of Elmira Suleimanova - the national Ombudsperson - for 2009.

April 02, 2010 23:50

• Russia's ambassador to Armenia denies Caucasians' deportation from Russia

  Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, has called not to put trust in rumours about deportation of Caucasus natives from Russia after the terror acts in Moscow metro stations Park Kultury and Lubyanka. President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev called not to offend people, when waging war on terror, by their nationalities or geographical origin.

April 02, 2010 23:30

• In Dagestan, a militiaman's car shelled and a powerful bomb neutralized

  On April 1 in the evening, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified opened fire on the service car of the head Aksai settlement police station at the local ROVD (District Militia Division). And on the day of terror acts - on March 31 - a powerful bomb was neutralized in the Kizlyar District. In both cases there were no casualties and victims.

April 02, 2010 23:20

• Russia's MoD has no plans to send recruits to Chechnya

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation does not plan to send its recruits to Chechnya. This was stated by Colonel Alexei Kuznetsov, head of the department of the press service and information of the Ministry, in his comments on the rumours that newly-drafted soldiers would be sent to the units deployed in Chechnya.

April 02, 2010 23:00

• Baku hosts protest action against infringement of Azerbaijanis' rights in Iran

  Today in Baku, at about midday, a group of activists of the World Congress of Azerbaijanis (WCA) has held a non-authorized protest action in front of the embassy of Iran in Azerbaijan. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the participants of the action came there to express their discontent with the actions of the authorities of Iran, who are damaging the ecology in the north of the country, where Azerbaijanis live. The point is in economic activities around Lake Urmia.