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22:00, 22 September 2009
Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has published a statement with accusations addressed to Moscow of ignoring the norms and principles of the international law in the context of the entrance of the Russian coast guard ship "Novorossisk" into Abkhazian waters area and intention to deploy more frontier guarding boats there.
21:00, 22 September 2009
On September 21, Hadjimurad Gatsalov, a sportsman from Vladikavkaz, won the first golden medal for the national team of Russia at the world championship in free-style wrestling, held in Danish city of Hoerning. After defeating Khetag Gozyumov, Azerbaijan, a prize-winner of the Beijing Olympiad, Gatsalov became the quadruple world champion.
20:00, 22 September 2009
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has expressed his resolute discontent, while making comments on the conclusion of the unpublished report of the European Union's independent commission set up for investigating the reasons of the armed conflict in August 2008 in South Ossetia that Georgia was the initiator of the war.
19:29, 22 September 2009
The situation around Deni Baisarov, son of the Chechen businessman Ruslan Baisarov and singer Christina Orbakaite, will be considered at parliamentary hearings of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on October 5.
19:00, 22 September 2009
For three hours on September 21 residents of Makhachkala blocked the highway in protest against electric power cut-off, as a source in law enforcement bodies has reported today. The protesters demanded to restart electricity supply, which failed after an accident at the power plant caused by pouring rains.
18:00, 22 September 2009
Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman in Armenia, said, in his comments on the report, published on September 17, of the interim parliamentary commission for studying the events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan, when the authorities dispersed mass actions of the opposition, that the actions of power agents had been approached too mildly.
17:00, 22 September 2009
In the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan and in the city of Derbent the recent downpours have flooded more than 500 houses. Because of incessant rains, in a number of villages of the Sergokalin District, rivers have overflowed the banks and flooded power substations, transmission lines and transformers.
15:00, 22 September 2009
Mayor of Elista Radiy Burulov has offered himself to local members of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party as a candidate to the post of Kalmykia's Premier. Mr Burulov said that he would like to share the power in the republic among the Prime Minister and the President and offered the latter to deal exclusively with political matters and not to interfere with operation of the government.
13:00, 22 September 2009
The new law on gambling business in Batumi will be discussed at the autumn session of the parliament of Georgia. According to the bill, all the hotels with more that 100 rooms will be exempted for 10 years from the annual license fee, which in Batumi makes 250,000 laris.
12:00, 22 September 2009
The believing Moslems of Chechnya celebrated their Uraza-Bairam ('Id al-Fitr) yesterday, on September 21. Like in recent years, the celebrations in the republic passed later than in other Russian regions and other Moslem countries. The believers blame local clergy for these discrepancies and doubt the reason of their actions.
11:00, 22 September 2009
In total, 238 contracts to the sum of 481.8 billion roubles have been signed at the 8th International Investment Forum in Sochi. The organizers of the Forum report that the majority of them were signed by representatives of the Krasnodar Territory, which will accumulate more than two thirds of the total involved investments.
22:00, 21 September 2009
Reshad Gasanov, Judge of the Azizbek District Court of Baku, has refused to replace the imprisonment of Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) for a more lenient punishment, not related to deprivation of liberty. The respective petition of Zakhidov's advocates was considered on September 18 at the travel session of the court held at Penitentiary Establishment No. 17, where the editor-in-chief is serving his term.
21:10, 21 September 2009
Four militiamen have suffered today from a shelling of an UAZ patrol car in central Nazran, as reported by sources in law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia. The victims were hospitalized.
21:00, 21 September 2009
School No. 1 in Beslan, where terrorists 5 years ago took children as hostages, should become a memorial complex of the federal value; and its conservation should be done for the funds of the Russian Federation. This is the opinion of Ella Kesaeva, head of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan".