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23:00, 19 February 2010
Zulfagar Heyirkhabar, a reporter of the news agency "Salamnews", who was beaten yesterday, on February 18, when he was making a report in Baku about gas explosion in cafe "Karvan", told about the details of the incident at today's press conference held in the office of the Institute of Reporter's Freedom and Safety (IRFS).
22:40, 19 February 2010
The annual report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) "Attacks on Press in 2009: Armenia" asserts that Armenian authorities continue to control most of the media, while private TV Companies belong to those politicians and businessmen who have close ties with the authorities; manifestations of violence against journalists continue.
22:10, 19 February 2010
The Russian Federation has lost two more cases at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on complaints of residents of Chechnya on disappearances of their relatives. The statement of the ECtHR prescribes that Moscow shall pay out 120,000 to the applicants, plus legal costs.
22:00, 19 February 2010
Today, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was the venue of a youth protest action in defence of the rights of Elmin Badalov, a student of the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA), who was dismissed from the higher school after his publication in the press of an article about corruption in the academy. Bosses of the ASOA assert that the young man was dismissed for poor progress in training.
21:30, 19 February 2010
Activists of some NGOs have stated that checks of passports conducted by law enforcers during night hours are roughest violations of the law. This was their comment on power agents' actions in the settlement Mayakovsky, Staropromyslovskiy District. The militia, in its turn, reports that no complaints arrived from the local population.
21:10, 19 February 2010
Russia calls the Supreme Commissioner of the United Nations on Human Rights to classify the report about secret detention centres, which criticizes Russia for its prisons in the Caucasus. Vladimir Zheglov, Russia's representative, called the report "confrontational" and stated that the document should be removed from the UN's official website, where it was placed last month.
20:00, 19 February 2010
Residents of the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, report about two explosions, which happened, when the delegation of the UK Parliament, headed by Lord by Frank Judd was visiting the republic. However, local law enforcement bodies assert that there were no accidents in Grozny during these days.
19:00, 19 February 2010
Galib Muvlanov, 24, a resident of Dagestan, who disappeared nine months ago in Makhachkala, is in the local SIZO (pre-trial isolation facility). According to his advocate, the preliminary investigation is over. Muvlanov is accused of encroaching on the life of law enforcers and illegal storage and manufacture of explosives.
18:00, 19 February 2010
The data about the number of today's explosions in Nazran differs. Local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about six, not two, explosions. According to the latest information, 35 persons suffered.
23:50, 18 February 2010
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Republic of Abkhazia has expressed its serious concern of the speech of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili at the Royal Institute of International Relations in London, where he reconfirmed the intention of the Georgian party to solve the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetian conflicts by force of arms.
23:40, 18 February 2010
In the period from February 25 to March 1, the Don State Public Library of Rostov-on-Don will host a charitable action of the International Festival of Human Rights Films "Stalker". The organizers of the action are the Moscow Guild of Theatre and Cinema Actors, Rostov Regional Branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia, supported by the European Union. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it on February 18 from Igor Stepanov, General Producer of the Festival and a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.
23:20, 18 February 2010
The presidency in the European Union (EU), which is now carried out by Spain, is worried of the situation in Azerbaijan, where "journalists and other persons, who implemented their right to freedom of self-expression, were convicted on doubtful motives." This is said in the EU's statement that arrived to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the representative office of the European Commission in Baku.
23:00, 18 February 2010
Yesterday and today the Republic's Central Infectious Hospital of Makhachkala received 79 children - aged from newborns to 6 years - with the diagnosis of acute intestinal disease. Under preliminary data, the outbreak could be caused by recent failures of potable water supplies by the pumping station.
22:40, 18 February 2010
Residents of Sochi refuse to work as attendants in hotels and restaurants built in the city for the Olympiad-2014. In the opinion of townspeople, for the period of the Olympic Games it is better to invite workers from other regions and countries, for example, from China.
21:30, 18 February 2010
Zulfugar Heyirkhabar, a reporter of the Azerbaijani News Agency "Salamnews", was beaten today in Baku at performance of his professional duties. It happened in the morning in the crossing of the Istiglaliyat Avenue and Adyl Babaev Street, where the journalist was filming his report about gas explosion in the cafe "Karvan."