News

April 28, 2012 10:00

• ICG: Azerbaijan makes progress in treating IDPs

  In recent years, Azerbaijan has made progress in satisfying the needs of approximately 600,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) forced out of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions by ethnic Armenians almost twenty years ago, says the report of the International Crisis Group (ICG) "Burden of Azerbaijani IDPs: Search for Solution".

April 27, 2012 23:50

• Residents of TAC in Ingushetia are prescribed to abandon the territory

  In the morning on April 25, the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) in the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia was visited by a group of local officials, who demanded from the tenants of "Promzhilbaza" to free the territory within three days. The residents are in shock and assert that they have nowhere to go. The officials, in their turn, claim that the tenants who have the refugee status will not be evicted.

April 27, 2012 23:20

• Kabardino-Balkaria: local resident asserts that he confessed of keeping grenade under power agents' torture

  Nuraed Erizhokov, a resident of the city of Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed human rights defenders asking to help to restore his rights violated by power agents. The man alleges that policemen planted a grenade into his pocket and then tortured him into confession of complicity with militants and possession of weapons.

April 27, 2012 23:10

• Sochi residents rally demanding to stop Olympic construction

  On April 26, the village of Razdolnoye in Sochi hosted an assembly of about one hundred citizens, who demanded to stop the Olympic and commercial construction in their territory.

April 27, 2012 23:00

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, GIBDD inspectors are suspected of beating driver and his wife

  The investigatory authorities have initiated a case against an inspector of the GIBDD (traffic police) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria and his colleague from the city of Perm, who are both suspected of beating a resident of Nalchik and his wife. This was reported by the Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the ICRF.

April 27, 2012 22:40

• Journalist Khadidja Ismaylova accuses Baku Prosecutor's Office of violating her rights

  Investigators not only fail to hold inquiry into the fact of intrusion into the privacy of Khadidja Ismaylova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty, but have also committed such intrusion themselves, said the journalist's advocate Adil Ismaylov. The journalist herself does not rule out that investigatory authorities may be associated with criminals.

April 27, 2012 22:10

• Father of Kartoev brothers killed in 2010 in Ingushetia seeks to get their bodies for burial

  Umatgirey Kartoev, a resident of Ingushetia, has come to Moscow hoping to meet Mr Uschakovskiy, Senior Investigator of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), and seek assistance in receiving the bodies of his four sons, who were killed on March 2, 2010, during a special operation in the village of Ekazhevo.

April 27, 2012 22:00

• OSCE/ODIHR fixes violence during election campaign in Armenia

  On April 27, the observatory mission of the OSCE/ODIHR (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) published the second interim report on the parliamentary elections in Armenia that covers the period of April 3-25. According to the report, despite the fact that the campaign is generally calm, a number of incidents with application of violence there were registered.

April 27, 2012 19:00

• Mayor of Novoshakhtinsk suspected of abuse of authority

  Investigators are carrying out inquiry concerning Igor Sorokin, Mayor of the town of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, who, according to local Public prosecutor's office, infringed upon the town's independent water supply for the population, regional department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR) reports.

April 27, 2012 18:00

• A local resident Timur Danilin disappeared in Dagestan, his relatives report

  Relatives of resident of Dagestan Timur Danilin report inaction of law enforcement bodies who are not searching for the missing man who, in their opinion, may be kept in the police department of Navolaksky district.

April 26, 2012 23:50

• Volgograd: GIBDD inspector accused of setting up network of illegal gambling clubs

  In Volgograd, four local residents, including a state GIBDD (road traffic police) inspector, are accused of organizing a network of underground gambling clubs in the city.

April 26, 2012 23:30

• Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya gets repayment of salary debts in excess of 53 million roubles

  For three months of this year, the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic revealed - in the course of checks for compliance with the labour legislation of municipal utilities, and entities of construction, educational and medical sphere - about five thousand violations. 32 officials were brought to administrative responsibility. However, at some enterprises of the republic salary debts range from several months to several years.

April 26, 2012 23:20

• Nizhnevartovsk: Chechen natives state protraction of inquiry into their beating by local OMON fighters

  In the city of Nizhnevartovsk, natives of Chechnya claim that last September they were beaten by local OMON (riot police) agents. Six weeks after the incident, a criminal case was initiated on this fact, which is still under investigation. According to the victims, their attempt to achieve identification of the attackers turned into mockery on them; and their advocate was repeatedly threatened.

April 26, 2012 23:10

• Three residents detained in Dagestan sent to forensic examination for no valid reason, advocate believes

  The fact of detention in the village of Tsatanikh, Untsukul District of Dagestan, of Ibragim Saipulaev and his direction to psychiatric examination was reported by his brother Shamil Saipulaev, who turned to human rights activists with a request to restore his brother's violated rights. The detainee's advocate finds the appointment of examination ungrounded.

April 26, 2012 23:00

• Stavropol: Gubarev accused of mass murder sentenced to life imprisonment

  Roman Gubarev, accused of murdering eight people, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gubarev refused to plead guilty.

April 26, 2012 22:30

• Makhachkala court fines editor-in-chief of "Nastoyascheye Vremya" by 10,000 roubles

  Today, the Kirov Court of Makhachkala has found Milrad Fatulaev, editor-in-chief of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) weekly guilty of non-taking measures to prevent defamation of the President of Dagestan and fined him by 10,000 roubles.

April 26, 2012 22:10

• IRFS: lawyer not admitted to arrested journalists of "Khayal" TV Channel

  Azerbaijani law enforcers are preventing the lawyer Elchin Sadygov from meeting his clients - Vugar Gonagov and Zaur Guliev, the executive director and editor-in-chief of the regional TV Channel "Khayal", respectively, accused of events in the city of Guba. This was reported by the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS). The penitentiary service denies this information.

April 26, 2012 22:00

• In Volgograd, policeman is suspected of abusing detainee

  A criminal case has been opened in Volgograd against a company commander of the patrol and post service of the UVD (Department of Interior), who is suspected of abusing a detainee.

April 26, 2012 21:00

• A law of liability for race and religious intolerance came into effect in Georgia

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a law of amendments to the Criminal Code of the country toughening punishment for crimes committed on the grounds of intolerance towards different social groups.

April 26, 2012 21:00

• Figurant in case of terror act in Vladikavkaz marketplace sentenced to 24 years in prison

  The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Islam Khashagulgov, accused of committing the terror act in the marketplace of Vladikavkaz on September 9, 2010, to 24 years of imprisonment.