News

April 05, 2008 12:34

• Armenians of Europe rally in Brussels to protest on events in Yerevan

  Today, representatives of the Armenian Diaspora who live in Holland, France and Belgium will hold a protest action near the buildings of the European Union and European Commission in Brussels. The participants of the action plan to express their protest against the post-election events in Armenia.

April 04, 2008 13:21

• Chief Editor of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" newspaper dismissed in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, Sergey Rasulov, chief editor of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper, was dismissed for breaking labour discipline. The journalist was preparing materials for publication, devoted to violations of the freedom of speech by the founders of the edition.

April 04, 2008 13:09

• MHG expert for Northern Caucasus asks Medvedev for protection against power agents

  Aslambek Apaev, Chairman of the Committee for Defence of Forced Migrants' Rights and an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, has addressed the president-elect Dmitri Medvedev and heads of Russia's power agencies with an appeal to protect him and members of his organization from prosecution by power agents.

April 04, 2008 13:05

• Human rights activists ask Spain not to deport Ingush refugee Gasaev to Russia

  Human rights activists ask Spain "not to deprive Gasaev of the last shelter." This is the topic of the joint statement of human rights organizations "ChCNS", "MAShR" and the Committee for Forced Migrants' Matters on the case of Murad Gasaev.

April 04, 2008 13:00

• Kukava: delay of Georgia's accession to MAP was expected

  Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party of Georgia, has declared that the delay to award MAP to Georgia was not a surprise for their Party.

April 04, 2008 12:56

• Georgian Ombudsman shows video records of falsifications during presidential election

  Today, Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia, has acquainted the audience at the press conference held at the Ombudsman's office with video evidences of the falsifications that took place during the recent presidential election on January 5.

April 04, 2008 11:43

• Pavlova: in Volgograd Region court drags out consideration of Gipsies' murder

  The Volgograd Regional Court is permanently postponing the consideration of the criminal case on the murder of two persons and inflicting heavy bodily injuries to others during a skinheads' attack on April 14, 2006, on the Gipsy camp, located in those days in the vicinity of the city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region.

April 04, 2008 11:40

• In Ingushetia, court upholds claims of Registration Service to ChCNS

  In the evening on April 3, the Nazran District Court of Ingushetia decided that the Chechen Committee for National Salvation had really obstructed to the audit of its activities undertaken by the Department of the Federal Registration service for the Republic of Ingushetia.

April 03, 2008 15:14

• Administrative cases against "Voice of Beslan" closed

  The Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia has stopped the cases on administrative offences against the members of the All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" Emiliya Bzarova and Svetlana Margieva, as Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the organization, has informed today.

April 03, 2008 15:06

• State Duma rejects the bill on punishments for kidnapping brides brought in by Ingushetian parliament

  On April 2, the Russian State Duma refused again to amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as the National Assembly of Ingushetia offered back in 2005, and introduce punishments in the form of imprisonment for kidnappers of brides.

April 03, 2008 15:03

• Five more persons join hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  The number of hunger-strikers in Azerbaijan goes up: today, five new participants have joined the protest action.

April 03, 2008 14:44

• In Armenia, wheel-chair invalid holds hunger strike in support of arrested oppositionist

  Arshavir Bazinyan, a resident of the Armenian city of Razdan, a veteran of Karabakh war and wheel-chair invalid, is on hunger strike demanding to release his former commander Sasun Mikaelyan.

April 03, 2008 14:39

• Picket in defence of human rights in Ingushetia is on in Moscow

  A picket against violations of human rights in Ingushetia has started today at 5:30 p.m. in Novopushkinskiy mini-park of Moscow.

April 02, 2008 11:59

• Lady-journalist who accused Putin of Dubrovka terror act finds refuge in Great Britain

  Elena Tregubova, former journalist of the "Kommersant" newspaper, who accused Putin of the terror act in Dubrovka, received political asylum in Great Britain.

April 02, 2008 11:55

• Ingushetia: two out of eight detained for participation in rally released

  On March 26, 2008, inspector of the Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office released from custody under recognizance not to leave two residents of Ingushetia - Batyr Moshkhoev and Ahmed Izmailov, accused of organizing and participating in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, 2008.

April 02, 2008 11:50

• Lawyers start their hunger strike in Georgia

  Starting from today, advocates have launched their hunger strike in Tbilisi near the office of the National Defender of Georgia in support of the hunger-striker Malkhaz Dzhangirashvili.

April 02, 2008 11:42

• FSB of Ingushetia suspects that Chechen Committee for National Salvation is funded by foreign extremists

  The FSB Department for Ingushetia suspects that the Chechen Committee for National Salvation is financed by foreign extremist organizations. For this reason, in August 2007, the FSBD initiated an off-schedule audit of the activities of the organization by the Department of "Rosregistratsia" for Ingushetia.

April 02, 2008 11:37

• Bagapsh: when taking Georgia to NATO, the Alliance should take into account Abkhazia's opinion

  President of Abkhazia calls Secretary General of NATO and representatives of NATO member-states, to take into account the opinion of Abkhazia when considering at the summit in Bucharest the issue of Georgia's NATO membership.

April 02, 2008 11:34

• In Armenia, 28 arrested oppositionists begin their hunger strike

  On April 2, twenty-eight activists of Armenian opposition, now kept in custody, went on a hunger strike, and eight of them - a termless one, finding the charges against them to be forged.

April 01, 2008 12:53

• Lady-human rights activist joins journalists' hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  On March 31, Arzu Abdullaeva, co-chair of the International Helsinki Civil Assembly, expressed her solidarity with journalists in Azerbaijan by joining their protest hunger strike.