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14:00, 4 August 2011
On August 3, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of Georgia appealed to the Department of Punishment Executives, Probation and Legal Aid to immediately provide detention facilities with a ventilation system, creating adequate conditions for prisoners serving their terms.
13:00, 4 August 2011
In the Azerbaijani capital, the total number of victims of heat stroke comprised 107 people, including 39 people who were hospitalized. Most of the victims suffered in the last three days of July – 59 people.
12:00, 4 August 2011
Starting August 1, Muslims began a month of strict fasting, called Ramadan. This is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, when Muslims should to keep fasting starting from morning namaz (prayer) at dawn till the time of the evening namaz after sunset.
11:35, 4 August 2011
In Ingushetia, the residents of the rural dwelling settlement of Plievo urged the republic's authorities to respect their right to elect a head of the municipality.
23:00, 3 August 2011
The Federal Court of Lenin District of the city of Makhachkala started hearings on the appeal of Ziyavdin Dapaev, a follower of Turkish theologian Said Nursi. Ziyavdin Dapaev had been sentenced to two years of conditional imprisonment on charges of organizing an extremist organization "Nurdzhular".
22:00, 3 August 2011
The Ministry of Finance (MF) of the Russian Federation has refused to agree on the state programme "Development of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) for the period up to 2025" in the amount of 3.9 billion roubles, as the Ministry of Regional Development proposed.
21:00, 3 August 2011
Today, the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) has fined the football club (FC) "Anji" by 600 thousand roubles for failing to ensure order during the match with the FC "Zenit". In case of repeated violations the football club from the city of Makhachkala will have to play two matches on a neutral field, the RFU's official website reports.
20:00, 3 August 2011
On August 3 the Constitutional Court of Georgia has registered the lawsuit on declaring unconstitutional Article 314 of the Criminal Code of Georgia ("espionage"). According to the authors of the lawsuit, the unclear expressions in the above article gave the Georgian authorities a right to arrest the photographers accused of espionage for Russia.
19:00, 3 August 2011
The Moscow City Court has formed the jury for the case on the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the football club "Spartak", who was killed last December in Moscow. According to the press service of the court, the jury consists of 12 main jurors and eight substitute jurors.
18:00, 3 August 2011
On August 2 the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia and South Ossetia obtained a meeting at the Tbilisi Office of the United Nations. Now they hope that the UN will listen to their demands to stop their eviction from the temporary accommodation centres (TACs) in Tbilisi. According to experts, the demand to draw the attention of the Georgian UN office to the refugees' problem is well-timed.
17:00, 3 August 2011
Today in the Nagorno-Karabakh, the circuit court of general jurisdiction of Syunik Region of Armenia has sentenced Manvel Azroyan to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of the murder of his four colleagues.
15:00, 3 August 2011
At present, four victims of the mass brawl, which occurred between airborne soldiers and natives of the Caucasus on August 2, remain at the medical institutions of Astrakhan. This was reported by Oleg Svirin, Acting Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Astrakhan Region, at the special briefing on the incident.
13:00, 3 August 2011
People’s Defender Georgi Tugushi in Georgia submitted his recommendations to Kobe Subeliani, Minister of Affairs of persons replaced from occupied territories, refugees and settlement, demanding to provide the refugees with proper dwelling conditions and inspect the objects which must be transferred to their possession.
12:00, 3 August 2011
Reconstruction works in the central street of Chechen capital, Ahmat Kadyrov avenue, are going much behind of schedule. The authorities intend to speed up the process by means of organizing large-scale subbotniks (days of unpaid work on the weekend).
11:00, 3 August 2011
On July, 28, the UN Committee on sanctions concerning “Al-Qaeda” and physical and juridical persons connected with it adopted a decision of including “The Caucasus Emirate” into the sanction list. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its approval of this decision of UN Security Council.