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18:00, 18 March 2009
Today, the defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, have challenged the court. The court retired to the consultation room. The decision on the claimed challenge will be announced tomorrow.
21:00, 17 March 2009
Russian Army Sergeant Alexander Glukhov who ran away from his military unit in South Ossetia has asked for political asylum in Georgia, as Shota Utiashvili, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, has stated.
21:00, 17 March 2009
Today, the Parliament of Azerbaijan has adopted the Amnesty Act, which was submitted as a legislative initiative by MP Mekhriban Alieva, wife of President Ilham Aliev. The amnesty is dated to the spring holiday of Novruz. Meanwhile, human rights activists believe that this is no solution to the problem of political prisoners.
20:00, 17 March 2009
During the time in power of President Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and he took the office in the end of October 2008, the special reconciliation commission managed to reconcile 19 feudists (blood feud avengers), as Ruslan Neiriev, office manager of the Spiritual Centre of Ingush Moslems, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
18:00, 17 March 2009
The investigatory group of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for the South Federal District (SFD), which dealt with the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, is now trying to identify body No. 82, which until recently was considered to be Murat Kardanov, a resident of Zolukokoazhe village. For this purpose they take blood again for genetic examination from mothers of some casualties and searched persons.
23:00, 16 March 2009
The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are investigating the circumstances of kidnapping and subsequent assassination of a resident of Roshni-Chu village, Urus-Martan District, accomplished last Saturday, March 14. In the opinion of Chechen power agents, most likely, this crime was committed by members of IAFs.
22:00, 16 March 2009
In the village of Prigorodnoe, Grozny District of Chechnya, unidentified persons kidnapped a young man, who had earlier worked as inspector. His mother was killed. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by employees of the Information Centre of the Union of NGOs of Chechnya.
21:00, 16 March 2009
Musa Pliev, advocate for the Evloevs family, has reported that the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia initiated a criminal case on the fact of illegal arrest of Magomed Evloev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" at the airport of the city of Magas.
19:00, 16 March 2009
Deputies of Russian State Duma Mikhail Grishankov and Ivan Melnikov have positively appreciated the offer moved by President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov to declare amnesty to those militants who were not involved in grave crimes. Thus, Mr Grishankov, first deputy chair of the State Duma's Security Committee, believes that Evkurov's offer to amnesty militants in Ingushetia is an indication of his desire to understand the situation and stabilize it.
18:00, 16 March 2009
Today, Ali Insanov, former Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, was transferred from the medical establishment of the Penitentiary Service back to Colony No. 13, where he serves his 11 years of imprisonment after being sentenced for committing economic crimes.
16:00, 14 March 2009
Employees of the Dagestan Department of the FSB (DFSB) have conducted an operation aimed to detain those militiamen who extorted bribes from residents of Makhachkala under a threat of criminal prosecution.
12:00, 14 March 2009
The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya report that near the Roshni-Chu village, Urus-Martan District, the body of earlier kidnapped local resident was found.
22:00, 13 March 2009
Sergey Arakcheev, a former officer of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, convicted for murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya, is now calling Russians, in the pages of his Internet website, to sign his appeal to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. As of today, the letter has been signed by 1284 persons.
20:00, 13 March 2009
On March 10, Dagestan hosted a meeting of Republic's leader Mukhu Aliev with the members of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for Interethnic Relations and Freedom of Conscience and a group of well-known Russian human rights activists. The delegation held a session of public hearings in the Republic, however, in the opinion of Nikolai Svanidze, Chairman of the Commission, the parties failed to start a dialogue.
23:30, 12 March 2009
On Tuesday, March 10, Dashgyn Gyulmamedov, President of the National Assembly of Georgian Azerbaijanis (NAGA) was arrested in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.