News

July 20, 2012 01:00

• Sochi: negotiations between local residents and TPP builders end fruitless

  On July 18, in Sochi, villagers of Kudepsta flatly refused - in the course of their meeting with the builders of the Kudepsta TPP (Thermal and Power Plant) - to compromise and allow building the facility.

July 19, 2012 23:00

• Prosecutor's Office of Stavropol Territory claims authorities' inaction during high water

  A check conducted in the city of Mineralnye Vody has shown that the city infrastructure is not ready to confront the spread of high water, says the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory.

July 19, 2012 21:00

• Ingushetia: policeman injures child of nine by negligence

  Today, a nine-year-old boy was hospitalized in Ingushetia after a policeman occasionally shot at him from a submachine gun, said the spokesman of the Investigatory Department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

July 19, 2012 15:00

• A lawyer in Dagestan reports her client's illegal holding in custody

  Lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova reports that her client, resident of Dagestan Abdurahman Djakaev suspected of illegal storage of arms, was unlawfully kept in custody. According to her, her client's custody term expired yesterday, July, 18, but he has not yet been released.

July 19, 2012 14:00

• All the district courts of Astrakhan dismissed Shein's lawsuits of annulment of Mayor's election

  Sovietsky and Trusovsky district courts of Astrakhan dismissed the lawsuits of annulment of the election of Head of the city of Mach, 4, submitted by ex-candidate for Mayor's office, member of "Fair Russia" party Oleg Shein, Shein himself reported today. So, the lawsuit of annulment of municipal election was dismissed by all the four district courts of Astrakhan.

July 19, 2012 14:00

• The court in Tuapse sentenced a local resident accused of blowout of a car belonging to "Environmental Watch" to one year of custody

  On July, 18, the court in Tuapse acknowledged local resident Maxim Butov accused of blowout of a car belonging to activists of "Environmental Watch on North Caucasus" guilty during a trial on Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko's case.

July 19, 2012 12:00

• Sabsabi: Public prosecutor's office of Dubai and Interpol stopped search of Adam Delimkhanov

  Prosecutor General's of Dubai exonerated Deputy of State Duma of the Russian Federation Adam Delimkhanov who in 2009 on the initiative of Dubai party was declared a wanted person by Interpol from all the charges. This was reported by Senator Ziyad Sabsabi.

July 19, 2012 08:00

• Advocate: investigators protract with forensic examination of Aushev detained in special operation in Nazran

  The advocate Luiza Isaeva has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her petition filed more than a week ago and requesting to hold a medical examination of Akhmedhan Aushev, a resident of Nazran, detained during a special operation in Ingushetia and exposed, according to the defence, to torture by power agents, has not been considered yet.

July 19, 2012 06:00

• Search for missing 11-year-old girl is on in Adygea

  Angelina Belova, an 11-year-old girl has disappeared in the settlement of Tabachny, Maikop District of Adygea. The investigation does not rule out that the girl could be murdered.

July 19, 2012 04:00

• Policeman accused of fatal road crash in Volgograd has partly pled guilty

  Alexander Burdenko, an employee of the investigatory division of the MIA, accused of committing a traffic accident in Volgograd, has put part of responsibility on the driver of the second car, which participated in the accident.

July 19, 2012 03:00

• Krymsk residents have to go to court to prove the fact of their residence in disaster zone

  By July 18, 700 local residents-flood victims managed to prove the fact of their residence in the flood area in Krymsk without registration. However, local courts also fix a wave of applications, which seem "doubtful" to them, local authorities report.

July 19, 2012 01:00

• False alert about 9-point earthquake disseminated in Sochi

  On July 18, residents of Sochi received a false message about an impending earthquake with a power of 9 points, expected around the midday. The Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov has treated this information as a provocation.

July 19, 2012 01:00

• Two climbers from Ukraine perish in Georgian mountains

  Two Ukrainian mountain climbers Dmitry Voloshin and Alexander Tarenin broke down and died during their descent from Mount Ushba in Georgia, Alexander Dikusarov, the spokesman of the Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has reported.

July 19, 2012 01:00

• Servicemen fight with villagers in Stavropol Territory

  At night on July 18, in the village of Sernovodskoe, Kursk District of the Stavropol Territory, a conflict burst out between servicemen of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and local residents, which escalated into a fight.

July 18, 2012 23:00

• Well-known Chechen singer Liza Umarova seeks political asylum in Finland

  Liza Umarova, the well-known Chechen singer, asked for political asylum in Finland. Liza Umarova explains her decision by the fact that she is afraid to live in the country that does not protect its citizens.

July 18, 2012 22:00

• In Dagestan, policemen accused of beating teenager are in prisoner's dock

  The Prosecutor of the Khunzakh District of Dagestan has approved an indictment against two employees of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division) Shamil Magomedaliev and Gamzat Nurudinov, accused of beating a teenager. Today, the case was transferred to the Khunzakh District Court.

July 18, 2012 21:00

• Moskalenko: bureaucracy delays money payment to Krymsk residents

  Residents of the city of Krymsk, affected by the flood, report that they receive their compensations, despite the bureaucracy. Those who have confirmed their right to get assistance for loss of property in the amount of 150,000 roubles will receive money to their accounts until the end of the week, Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, has promised.

July 18, 2012 19:00

• Kondratenko: so many casualties in Krymsk were caused by distrust in "Rosgidromettsentr" warnings

  The large amount of water was brought to Krymsk by a whirlwind, suggested Nikolai Kondratenko, a member of the committee on agro-food policy and nature management of the Russian Council of Federation (CoF) and the former governor of the Krasnodar Territory, who was included into the commission of the CoF set up for studying the reasons of the tragedy. He believes that the large number of victims was caused by people's distrust in the warnings of the Russian Hydrometeorology Centre ("Rosgidromettsentr"), because earlier storm warnings announced in the region did not always come true.

July 18, 2012 17:00

• Ministry of Public Health of Adygea: three locals and six Turkish citizens hospitalized with poisoning

  The condition of six Turkish citizens and three residents of Adygea, taken to hospitals of the cities Adygeisk and Maikop with a suspected acute intestinal poisoning, is satisfactory, said the republic's Ministry of Public Health.

July 18, 2012 16:00

• A resident of Dagestan is dissatisfied with the actions of law enforcement bodies on his statement of rape of his daughter

  Resident of the settlement of Karabudakhkent, Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, Magomednabi Nazhmudinov reports inaction of law enforcement bodies in investigation of the case of rape of his underage daughter. Representatives of the investigation report that the question of initiating a criminal case on Nazhmudinov's statement will be taken only after getting the results of forensic medical examination.