News

April 05, 2013 22:00

• Seminar on adaptation of immigrants from Syria held in Nalchik

  Nalchik has hosted a training seminar for the compatriots from Syria living in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The event was organized to help the repatriates to get adapted to the life in the republic.

April 05, 2013 21:00

• Inspectors consider three versions of fire in "Grozny City"

  The version that the fire of a skyscraper in the territory of "Grozny City" was caused by carelessness is the inspectors' priority. They also study the version of an arson and non-compliance of the building with fire safety requirements.

April 05, 2013 20:00

• Two men disappear in Dagestan

  Yesterday, on April 4, two residents of Makhachkala – Abdullah Ibragimov and Magomed Kadilov – did not return home; and their relatives still do not know where they are.

April 05, 2013 19:00

• In Azerbaijan, Araz Guliev, editor-in-chief of religious website sentenced to 8 years in prison

  The court has sentenced Araz Guliev, the editor-in-chief of the religious website xeber44.com, who was detained at a protest rally of believers, to 8 years in prison. Seven other defendants in this case received from 3 to 8 years, said the lawyer Fariz Namazly.

April 05, 2013 18:00

• Georgia's Parliament to cut mandatory military service down to one year

  The Parliament of Georgia has approved by a majority of votes in the third reading the amendments to the law "On Military Duty and Military Service". Now, the term of mandatory military service will be reduced down to 12 months.

April 05, 2013 17:00

• "Rospotrebnadzor" has completed second inspection of Georgian wineries

  The second group of specialists of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision), which was engaged, since April 2, in inspecting Georgian wineries, wishing to supply their products to the Russian Federation, has completed its work.

April 05, 2013 15:00

• Power agents search for militants near Chechen-Ingush administrative border

  Law enforcers of Chechnya are conducting a special operation against militants in the mountains and forests of the Achkhoi-Martan District, near the administrative border with Ingushetia.

April 05, 2013 14:00

• Georgia's MIA: South-Ossetian authorities release six Georgian villagers

  As reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, six Georgian citizens detained at the administrative border with South Ossetia have been released.

April 05, 2013 13:00

• Political and public organizations in Azerbaijan start campaigning in support of arrested "Nida" activists

  Activists of the opposition and the country's democratic public of the country have decided to campaign in defence of the rights of the arrested activists of the "Nida". They arrests were also condemned by the Human Rights Watch.

April 05, 2013 11:00

• International Centre "GROSS" opens courses of Russian in Georgia

  In the region of Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), the international centre for cultural, humanitarian and economic Georgian-Russian cooperation named "GROSS" has opened free courses for studying the Russian language. First groups have already been formed. The centre plans to open similar courses throughout the country.

April 05, 2013 10:00

• Third issue of almanac "Southern Caucasus" presented in Stepanakert

  On April 3, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh hosted a presentation of the third issue of the literary and journalistic almanac, which includes the works of writers and poets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

April 04, 2013 23:00

• Court blames website "Ingushetiyaru.org" as extremist one

  According to the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, the website "Ingushetiyaru.org", owned by the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, was recognized as extremist by the court.

April 04, 2013 22:00

• Georgia's Parliament adopts amendments to the Law "On General Courts"

  Today, the Georgian MPs have approved by a majority vote in the third reading the amendments to the Law "On General Courts".

April 04, 2013 21:00

• Advocate: Tolmachov's case to come to court within a month

  In the Rostov Region, Alexander Tolmachov, a journalist, editor and publisher, accused of extortion, has signed documents about the of his familiarization with the materials of the criminal case against him. The case should arrive in the court within a month, said Sergey Karpov, Tolmachov's advocate.

April 04, 2013 20:00

• Belaya Rechka residents announce unresolved problems of their village

  Local residents gathered in the village of Belaya Rechka in Kabardino-Balkaria and stated that the authorities Nalchik fail to address their problems.

April 04, 2013 19:00

• Case on tourist's death in "zorb" in Karachay-Cherkessia gets to court

  Today, the Deputy Public Prosecutor of Karachay-Cherkessia has approved an indictment against Ravil Chekunov on the case of organizing in Dombai the entertainment named "zorb", where a tourist perished.

April 04, 2013 18:00

• Armenia: two brothers are suspected of killing Proshyan village headman

  Brothers Artak and Araik Petrosyan are suspects in the murder case of Grach Muradyan, the head of the administration of the village of Proshyan, Kotayk Region of Armenia. They were arrested.

April 04, 2013 17:00

• In Krasnodar, share tenants block court marshals' demolition of illegal construction

  About 50 people, who had bought flats in the newly-built house in Kadetskaya Street in Krasnodar, blocked the work of the court marshals, who are trying to fulfil the court's ruling to demolish the building, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

April 04, 2013 16:17

• In Moscow, at trial on Yuri Budanov's murder, a witness has identified the defendant

  At the Moscow City Court (MCC), the witness Anatoly Zatsarenko has identified the defendant in Yuri Budanov's murder case as "the man running away from the scene of the crime."

April 04, 2013 15:17

• Three people detained in Tbilisi on suspicion of selling radioactive substance

  In the capital of Georgia, three persons were detained on the fact of trading the highly radioactive material 241-Am (isotope of americium).