News

October 05, 2012 20:00

• Conflicts between believers and the police happened in Baku

  Today an action of protest of about 200 believers in Baku against prohibition of wearing hijabs at schools developed into conflicts between the participants and the police personnel. The exact number of people injured as a result of the conflict is yet unknown.

October 05, 2012 19:00

• Policemen in Dagestan are investigating kidnapping of a child and disappearance of a young girl

  Yesterday, October, 4, the police of Dagestan received two statements: about kidnapping of a boy from a children's home in Izerbash and disappearance of a young girl in the settlement of Leninkent, Makhachkala.

October 05, 2012 18:00

• Management of a road-building company in Kabardino-Balkaria suspected of corruption

  Chief engineer of "Road-building department No 1" limited company Alexey Kim and Director General Vladimir Gashtov are suspected of misappropriation of over 9 million rubles budget funds.

October 04, 2012 23:50

• Victim in case on terror act at "Domodedovo" Airport files lawsuit for 10 million roubles

  Dmitry Burykin, one of the victims of the terror act, which was committed at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport on January 24, 2011, filed a lawsuit to oblige the defendants to pay him 10 million roubles for moral damages.

October 04, 2012 23:40

• Georgian CEC announces preliminary results of parliamentary elections

  After the calculation of 100 percent of the votes 3,596,214 persons, who took part in the voting, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia has announced the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections. The block "Bidzina Ivanishvili-Georgian Dream" with 54.92 percent of votes became the leader of the election campaign.

October 04, 2012 23:40

• In Dagestan, case against teenager, who shot dead his father's killer, to be brought to court

  Investigation into the case against a 17-year-old resident of the village of Novo-Kumukh of the Buinaksk District of Dagestan, who shot dead a villager, who killed his father and wounded his mother, is in the final stage. This was reported by investigators. The teenager, against whom criminal proceedings were instituted, is under home arrest, and he faces 5-15 years of imprisonment.

October 04, 2012 23:20

• Director of a coach station in Makhachkala reports beating his employee up by the police

  Today Magomed Askhabaliev, dispatcher of "Severnaya" coach station, was taken to resuscitation unit of the republican clinic in a comatose state being beaten up by officers of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Makhachkala, Director of the coach station Magomed Kudiyavmagomedov reported.

October 04, 2012 23:20

• CEC: "Georgian Dream" wins elections to Supreme Council of Adzharia

  The block "Bidzina Ivanishvili-Georgian Dream" gained at the elections to the Supreme Council of Adzharia 57.6 percent of voters. The second place went to the "United National Movement More Good for People" with 37 percent of the votes. This was reported by a representative of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia.

October 04, 2012 23:20

• In Derbent, explosion occurs near synagogue, nobody hurt

  Last night, an explosion occurred near a synagogue in Derbent, no one suffered. This was reported by a source in the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan.

October 04, 2012 23:10

• ECtHR obliges Armenia to pay compensation to former political prisoner Zhirair Sefilyan

  According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Armenia is to pay Zhirair Sefilyan, the coordinator of the public initiative "Union of Armenian Volunteers", a participant of the Karabakh war, compensation in the amount of 6000 euros.

October 04, 2012 23:00

• Staff member of Russian Branch of "HRW" claims being threatened

  Tatiana Lokshina, Chief of the Moscow Branch of the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" ("HRW"), an expert on Northern Caucasus, complained about received SMS-messages threats filed a complaint about that to the law enforcement agencies.

October 04, 2012 22:20

• In Tbilisi, refugees capture two houses

  On October 3, in Tbilisi, refugees seized two apartment buildings, demanding to return them to their former place of residence.

October 04, 2012 22:00

• An official of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia detained in South Ossetia transferred to the Georgian party

  Policeman Mogeli Tomiashvili detained after an incident near the frontier post of Karzman in South Ossetia was transferred to the authorities of Georgia, a representative of Press Service of the Observer Mission of European Union (OMEU) in Georgia reported.

October 04, 2012 21:00

• Four residents of Dagestan appealed to the police reporting their relatives' disappearance

  On October, 3, four persons, residents of Makhachkala, Buinaksk and Kazbek districts, appealed to the police of Dagestan reporting their relatives' disappearance. Location of two people who disappeared earlier is established.

October 04, 2012 19:00

• Relatives of a person involved in the case of blasting "Nevsky Express" report search in their house

  This morning representatives of law enforcement bodies carried out search in the house of one of the persons involved in the criminal case of blasting "Nevsky Express" in Autumn of 2009 in the settlement of Ekazhevo, Nazran district of Ingushetia. The owners of the house consider the search unlawful because their exact data was not specified in the order.

October 04, 2012 18:00

• CEC of Georgia reported the "Georgian Dream's" pressure on the district electoral committees

  Ekaterina Azarashvili, Press-speaker of Central Election Committee of Georgia, made a statement about pressure from supporters of "Bidzina Ivanishvili - Georgian Dream" electoral bloc on members of the district electoral committees for the purpose of getting the desired results of voting. Bidzina Ivanishvili, in his turn, called for his supporters to stop holding actions of protest.

October 03, 2012 23:30

• Georgian CEC: coalition "Georgian Dream" takes lead with 55 percent after tabulation of 97.03 percent of protocols

  In Georgia, at the parliamentary elections, after 97.03 percent of voting protocols from electoral precincts have been counted, the oppositional coalition "Ivanishvili-Georgian Dream" continues to lead with 55 percent of votes. The "United National Movement" Party gained 40.27 percent of votes.

October 03, 2012 23:10

• First women's madrasa opened in south-eastern Chechnya

  The "Muminat", the first women's madrasa in Chechnya was opened in the foothill Shali District of Chechnya. This religious educational institution has been operating for thirteen years already; however, till recent time, it did not have its own building.

October 03, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijan: at trial in case against editor-in-chief of newspaper "Khural", complainant evidences contradictorily

  On October 2, at the trial on the case against Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", the Baku Court of Grave Crimes listened to the testimonies of Sabir Tariverdiev, one of the complainants against the defendant, the head of the automotive market in Sumgait, Chairman of the National Statehood Party, and his press secretary Gusein Avazoglu.

October 03, 2012 22:50

• "Georgian Dream" wins elections to Supreme Council of Adzharia

  At the elections to the Supreme Council of Adzharia, the coalition "Bidzina Ivanishvili-Georgian Dream" gained 48.5 percents of the votes, and the "United National Movement" Party gained 44.8 percent of votes under the proportional system. This was reported by the Election Commission of the Adzharian Autonomous Republic.