News

August 28, 2009 19:00

• President of Georgia pardons 238 prisoners

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has signed a decree on pardoning 238 prisoners. As reported at today's press conference by Dmitri Shashkin, Minister of Punishment Enforcement, Probation and Legal Aid, 169 prisoners will be set free.

August 28, 2009 18:00

• Three could-be militants liquidated in CTO in KBR

  In an armed clash near Karagach village, Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced tonight, three IAF (illegal armed formation) members are killed and one law enforcer wounded, as reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.

August 27, 2009 23:40

• Abkhazian delegation to visit Nicaragua

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh plans to send an official delegation to the Republic of Nicaragua, "being guided by the desire to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all areas of modern life." This is stated in the letter sent on August 26 by Sergey Bagapsh to the President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega Saavedra.

August 27, 2009 23:30

• Stavropol: boss of building company who deceived 350 would-be dwellers sentenced to 12 years in jail

  The Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol has found director of the building company LLC "Spas-XXI" and his two subordinates guilty of a swindle and causing 200-million roubles damage to citizens.

August 27, 2009 23:00

• Militia lieutenant wounded in Ingushetia

  On August 26 in the evening, in Sunzha District of Ingushetia, five unknown persons in masks, armed with automatic firearms, rushed into the house of a militia lieutenant, where he lived with his family, and wounded him from a pistol.

August 27, 2009 22:10

• Officials' bodyguards were dispersing rally on March 1, 2008, in Armenia, oppositionists assert

  Bodyguards of oligarchs and high-ranking officials of Armenia, including Ovik Abramyan, speaker of the parliament, Mger Sedrakyan, prefect of the community Erebuni, and Suren Khachatryan, governor of Syunik, took part in dispersing the peaceful rally on March 1, 2008. This was reported on August 27 at a press conference by the members of the fact-finding group about the March 1 events, which was disbanded by President's decree.

August 27, 2009 22:00

• Ex-judge from Volgograd: I was sacked for "wrong" decision on "ordered" case

  Judge Marianna Lukyanovskaya, who was dismissed from the Volgograd Regional Court, has filed a complaint to the cassation panel of the Supreme Court of Russia. It is her last resort among Russian instances to achieve restoration in her position; further, she is going to apply to Strasbourg. The judge asserts that she was sacked for making a "wrong" decision on an "ordered" case.

August 27, 2009 22:00

• Person found in burned down car in Dagestan identified

  In Dagestan, one of the three persons, whose bodies were found yesterday, on August 26, in a burned down car, has been identified. Father of Arthur Butaev - Yuri - could recognize his son only by his personal belongings, as the body was strongly scorched. The earlier identified young man had been kidnapped by unidentified persons.

August 27, 2009 21:00

• Defendant in Nalchik attack case petitions on returning the case to public prosecutor

  Today, at the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the criminal case about the events on October 13, 2005, the parties in the process discussed the petition filed by defendant Azamat Akhkubekov in favour of returning the criminal case to the public prosecutor, since, in his opinion, there are significant discrepancies between the indictment and the materials of the criminal case.

August 27, 2009 20:00

• Armenia: court extends custody of oppositional editor

  The court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan community Tsentr-Nork-Marash has passed a decision to extend by two month the pre-trial custody of Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" and activist of the "Armenian National Congress" who voluntarily surrendered to law enforcers on July 1.

August 27, 2009 19:00

• In Dagestan, NGOs ask Russian President to "pacify" power agents

  Today an extraordinary session of the Union of NGOs "Homeland" was convoked to discuss actions in defence of constitutional rights of Dagestan citizens.

August 27, 2009 18:00

• Khazbiev: militiamen-victims of Nazran terror act lack help

  On August 26, in Ingushetia, local representative of Russian Ombudsman Magomed Khazbiev was approached by relatives of the Ingush militiamen injured by the terror act in Nazran on August 17 and sent to take their treatment to Rostov-on-Don. According to their story, the militiamen receive insufficient health care; and the conditions, in which they are treated, are "awful".

August 26, 2009 23:30

• Member of Board of Elders of Balkar People was forced to the Prosecutor's Office of Nalchik

  On August 25 in the morning, Tamara Gerieva, a member of the Board of Elders of Balkar People (BEBP), was violently delivered by militiamen to the Prosecutor's Office of Nalchik, where Anatoly Tkhagapsoev, public prosecutor of the city, offered her to sign a warning on inadmissibility of extremist activity. Ms Gerieva herself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 26, 2009 23:10

• Chechen suicide bomber was convicted earlier as IAF member

  Magomed Shakhidov who committed on August 25 a terror act in the Shali District of Chechnya, in 2004 was sentenced to imprisonment for taking part in illegal armed formations (IAFs).

August 26, 2009 23:00

• South Ossetia marks its Independence Day

  The concert under the motto "To Russia with love!" will be the final event of the Tskhinvali's meaningful day of the first anniversary of South Ossetia's independence. An "Open lesson of peace, friendship and arts" is another Russian-South-Ossetian action dedicated to one year after Russia's recognition of South Ossetia's independence.

August 26, 2009 22:30

• Ingush MIA: hospital evacuation in Nazran was caused by threat of terror act

  The republic's MIA has confirmed that the evacuation of the Ingushetian Republic's Clinical Hospital (IRCH) in Nazran was not an exercise, but a reaction of power agents to real information about a prepared explosion with participation of a woman-suicide bomber.

August 26, 2009 22:10

• Dagestan resident complains of illegal actions of the militia

  Abdulbadyr Abdulzhaparov, a resident of Rakhata village, Botlikh District Dagestan, has addressed his complaint against Labazan Derbishev, head of the criminal investigation division of the Botlikh ROVD, to Interior Ministers of Russia and Dagestan Rashid Nurgaliev and Ali Magomedov. Mr Abdulzhaparov believes that he has fallen victim of the militiaman's persecution because of aversion.

August 26, 2009 22:00

• In the wake of Nazran terror act, Evkurov accuses his officials of criminal negligence

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has accused, in his video address to the Ingush people, his officials of negligence and irresponsibility, which led to the terror act at the Nazran ROVD building.

August 26, 2009 21:10

• Human rights activists demand from Azerbaijani authorities to investigate Novruzali Mamedov's death

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has sent appeals to the General Public Prosecutor and Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan, urging them to objectively investigate the death on August 17 in the prison hospital of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh).

August 26, 2009 20:00

• Ingush woman states extrajudicial execution of her son

  Relatives of Shamil Makhloev, 21, a resident of Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, state another extrajudicial punishment by power agents.