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23:30, 26 January 2011
The utterances of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), about the nations of Northern Caucasus, pronounced on January 20, in Vladimir Solovyov's programme "Poyedinok" (Duel) on "Rossiya-1" National TV Channel, caused an extraordinary sitting of the Council of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia.
23:20, 26 January 2011
On January 25 the European Parliament held a sitting of the Human Rights Commission. The MPs discussed the situation in Northern Caucasus. Heidi Hautala, Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee, drew attention to kidnappings and torture of citizens of Ingushetia.
23:10, 26 January 2011
According to preliminary reports, two persons were killed and five injured in an explosion of as mined car in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan.
23:00, 26 January 2011
Tragedy in Kuschevskaya village continued by massacre in the Stavropol Territory; African swine fever attacks South of Russia; wave of earthquakes covers Southern Caucasus; European Parliament finds Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be occupied territories, - look these and other events in the review of the week of January 17-23, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:00, 26 January 2011
At the Domodedovo Airport, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent received confirmation of the information about the operative actions held in the terminal building and related to the received call about the bomb planted in the airport.
22:20, 26 January 2011
As reported by Radoslav Bashuk, advocate of Akhmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who is now in London and who was put by Russia on the international search list, Poland refused to grant visa to his client.
22:10, 26 January 2011
On January 31, Pyatigorsk plans to host a roundtable with participation of public, mass media and human rights activists with the aim to launch public control over the course of investigations into human rights violations committed by law enforcers of the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Stavropol Territory.
22:00, 26 January 2011
In January 2011, a new public movement named "Open Coast" was founded Russia with the aim to conduct a "broad public monitoring" and inform citizens about "most obvious violations of their fundamental right to unobstructed use of the natural resources of Russia."
21:00, 26 January 2011
Yesterday, on January 25, The Public Observation Commission over Detention Places of Kabardino-Balkaria visited the women's colony located in the village of "Sovietskiy" in the Prokhladnoe District, where 389 women are currently serving their terms. Some of them are seriously ill, many have no jobs.
20:00, 26 January 2011
Sergey Levchenko, Deputy head of Transit Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in North-Caucasian Federal Okrug, is suspected of bribe-taking to a sum of 50 thousand rubles, Press service of Southern Transit Prosecutor's office reports.
19:00, 26 January 2011
At night of January, 29, an explosion of domestic gas took place in one of the back rooms of a unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs dislocated in the settlement of Khankala, in the neighbourhood of Grozny. Five officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia assigned to Chechnya from different regions were taken to hospital with woundings of various extent of gravity.
18:00, 26 January 2011
A next in turn session of the Criminal Court of Vienna, the tenth one, on the case of murder of Umar Israilov, ex-officer of President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov's security guard, took place on January, 19. A witness was interrogated during the session who denied his former evidence out of fear for his people living in Chechnya.
22:20, 25 January 2011
The explosion at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on January 24 became the 26th terror act committed in the Russian capital since 1996, and the first one committed in a Moscow international airport. Since 1996, terrorists attacked various crowded places in Moscow: hotels, public transport stations, trade centres, concert halls, transport means and even residential buildings, killing at least 627 persons and injuring 934 ones. At least 10 of these explosions were carried out by suicide bombers. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on data from open sources.
22:10, 25 January 2011
On January 24, one miner was killed and three more injured in a collapse of the elevator cage in the mine "Rostovskaya" of the city of Gukovo, Rostov Region; one victim is in grave condition, and two have minor injuries, said the spokesman from the Ministry of Public Health of the Rostov Region.
22:00, 25 January 2011
After the terror act in Domodedovo, activists of Russian public organizations, which unite the people who suffered from terror activities, keep reminding that the state resorts only to payment of compensations, but is not responsible for the further fate of the victims, who still need medical care and rehabilitation years after the terror acts, where they suffered.