News

July 13, 2009 12:00

• Chechnya: captured separatists' leader calls Doku Umarov to surrender

  In the evening on July 12, one of Chechen TV Channels showed a video report with Rustam Makhauri, the militants' field commander captured in the end of last week by power agents in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. He said that he had understood his misbehaviour and called the leader of separatists Doku Umarov to surrender to the authorities.

July 13, 2009 03:00

• MIA: 12 militants liquidated in Chechnya in two days

  On July 11-12, in several districts of the republic and in the capital Grozny, fighters of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Chechnya killed in total 12 suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), who rendered armed resistance.

July 11, 2009 20:00

• Georgian parliament toughens rules on street actions

  At their extraordinary session, Georgian MPs have passed in the first reading a legislative package, initiated by the party in power and aimed to toughen the rules on holding protest actions.

July 11, 2009 19:00

• Ex-Russian ambassador to Georgia is now in Armenia

  Vyacheslav Kovalenko, former ambassador of Russia to Georgia, has been appointed a new Russia's plenipotentiary in Armenia, as reported in the official statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

July 11, 2009 18:00

• Four suspected militants killed on Ingush-Chechen border

  In the forest between the villages of Chemulga (Ingushetia) and Achkhoy-Martan (Chechnya), today in the course of a special operation conducted by the MIAs of these two republics, four suspected militants were liquidated.

July 11, 2009 17:00

• More complaints on quantity and quality of potable water in Dagestan

  The government of Dagestan has held a special sitting dedicated to the problems with drinking water in the republic and convoked because of an increased number of complaints from the population on deficit or poor quality of the water they have to use.

July 11, 2009 16:00

• WorleyParsons to manage construction of a new NPP in Armenia

  Armenia has signed a contract with the international consortium WorleyParsons to the sum of 500 million US dollars on organizing and managing the construction of a new nuclear power unit. The contract will be implemented in four stages, as reported by Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy of Armenia.

July 11, 2009 15:00

• Suspects of attempt on Evkurov detained in Moscow

  Two Moscow residents, who had sold the number plates from the Lexus car hijacked in Moscow to the Toyota, which was used by the suicide bomber to blow up the cortege of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, were detained in Russian capital.

July 11, 2009 14:00

• Chechnya opens an aquapark

  The first aquapark in Chechnya was opened in Gudermes, the second largest city of the republic.

July 11, 2009 13:00

• EU allocates 12 million euros to Georgia to help refugees

  The European Union has decided to provide a 12.1-million euros tranche to Georgia for improving the living conditions of the forced migrant, who have been living as refugees back from early 1990s. This was announced by the European Commission's representative office in Georgia. The tranche is a part of the total help of 51.5 million US dollars.

July 11, 2009 11:00

• FIDH to hold its 37th Congress in Armenia

  The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) will hold its 37th Congress in Armenia. With the aim to start its preparation, a delegation of this human rights organization, headed by president Souyer Belassen, visited this country in June.

July 11, 2009 10:00

• UN observers to leave Abkhazia by the end of next week

  Michelle Montas, official representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, said at the briefing that the UN military observers and policemen will leave Abkhazia by the end of the next week.

July 11, 2009 09:00

• Organizers of July 7 terror act in Grozny not established yet

  Chechen law enforcers have failed so far to identify the persons involved in committing the terror act on July 7 in Grozny. Then, as a result of an explosion nine persons suffered including two children and two militiamen.

July 10, 2009 23:00

• New oppositional movement appears in Georgia

  On July 10, prominent public figures of Georgia made a presentation of a new oppositional public movement named "Defend Georgia" ("Daitsavi Sakartvelo"), a peaceful change of power being its target.

July 10, 2009 22:00

• Georgia to ban foreign films dubbed into Russian

  Foreign films will be on in Georgia only dubbed into the Georgian language, or with captions in Georgian.

July 10, 2009 20:00

• ECtHR accepts complaint of family of "Ingushetia.Ru" owner to consideration

  The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted the complaint lodged by the family of Magomed Evloev, assassinated owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" to consideration, as reported by Musa Pliev, a lawyer, who represents the family's interests.

July 10, 2009 19:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh residents are disturbed with refusal of OSCE's mediators to visit the republic

  The co-chairs of the Minsk OSCE Group for settling Nagorno-Karabakh conflict refused to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, making reference to bad weather.

July 10, 2009 18:00

• Amnesty International is concerned of Maskhud Abdullaev's fate

  The Amnesty International (AI) is expressing its concern of the fate of Maskhud Abdullaev, a son of Chechen field commander Supyan Abdullaev, deported from Egypt. Human rights activists doubt that he is at large.

July 10, 2009 17:00

• Krivenko: Russia still sends regular soldiers to "hot spots"

  When Vladimir Putin, as President, promised not to send regular soldiers to "hot spots", he relied on incorrect data provided by militaries; therefore, the promise is still unfulfilled. This is the opinion of Sergey Krivenko, coordinator of the Public Initiative "Citizen and Army" and coordinator of the All-Russia Coalition of Public Associations "For Democratic Alternative Civil Service".

July 10, 2009 14:00

• In Armenia, Dzhermuk to be a year-round tourist centre

  In the near future, a concept of a tourist centre in the city of Dzhermuk will be submitted to the government of Armenia; according to the concept, this resort will become an international-standard year-round tourist centre. The concept was designed by local and foreign specialists.