Results of your search

Today the fifth meeting between the ruling coalition and Armenian National Congress was held. The leaders of the delegations refused to answer the journalists’ questions explaining that the discussion of the incident of August, 9, between the police and ANC activists would be continued at the next meeting, August, 19.

Armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms in Chechnya kidnapped and carried away in an unknown direction a teacher of a men’s madrasah of Gudermes and three of his pupils, “Memorial” Human Rights Center reports.

A fourteen-years-old resident of Khasavyurt who formerly reported that she had undergone gang rape suddenly altered her evidence. Now she states that all the events took place by her consent, a source in the Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry (ID CI) of the Russian Federation in Dagestan reports.

Four supposed terrorists whose detention was reported on July, 18, were planning to organize an explosion of a passenger “Sapsan” train following from Moscow to Sr. Petersburg which enjoys great popularity with the politicians and businessmen.

In August publishing of the newspaper “Mestnaya” (“Local”) with a video application will be recommenced in the health resort of Sochi. It was held up about a year and a half ago after an attempt at its Editor-in-Chief Arkady Lander.

Upon the decision of Law Chamber of Armenia, a rapid response team will be formed in the nearest future. It will deal with unlawful actions of law enforcement bodies against the lawyers and protect their rights.

As reported by the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, seven servicemen were wounded, when a column of Internal Troops were shelled on the Chechen-Ingush border.

Third anniversary of August 2008 events in South Ossetia; wildfires in southern Russia; mass brawls in Dagestan with casualties and dozens of detainees; trials of oppositionists in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 8-14, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Arthur Badalyan, an Armenian citizen, who was captured in Azerbaijan, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The complaint concerns the very fact of his capture, inhuman treatment and torture.

In general, keeping conditions in IVS (temporary isolation facilities) and SIZO (pre-trial prisons) of Ingushetia are satisfactory; however, there are some problems in air-conditioning and lighting of the wards, where prisoners are kept. This was found out by the commission of human rights activists and members of the Public Chamber.

Khaibula Khaibulaev, a resident of the village of Karata of the Akhvakh District, appealed to Alexei Savrulin, Chief of the Investigatory Department of Dagestan, and Andrei Nazarov, Prosecutor of Dagestan, demanding to bring to criminal liability Labazan Derbishev, the head of the criminal investigation department of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Botlikh District, who beat him.

Today in the afternoon, in the city of Khasavyurt, two unidentified persons have opened automatic fire at the people who were coming out of the local mosque and wounded two persons who later died.

As reported by the Chief Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, mass checks conducted by policemen in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, within the last 24 hours resulted in 11 solved crimes and two detainees who had been on the federal search list.

Today, the Tver Moscow Court announced decision to keep figurants on the case of riots at Manezhnaya Square in last December under custody till January 26, 2012. Dmitry Agranovsky, the lawyer of the defendant Igor Berezyuk, reported about his intention to challenge the court's decision.