News

April 26, 2012 20:00

• An observer from the Council of Europe gave up his attempts to visit Azerbaijan

  Observer from the Council of Europe Christopher Shtresser declared that he would no longer try to get Azerbaijani visa after he was refused its issue in Baku once again.

April 26, 2012 19:00

• A charge against policemen involved in the "case of Merekha" brought in Stavropol region

  The investigation in Stavropol region brought a charge against four ex-district militia officers of the Department of Interior Affairs in Predgorny district of Stavropol region. They are suspected of using violence against a forty-four-years-old local resident Viacheslav Merekha. The case caused a wide public response.

April 26, 2012 18:00

• Astrakhan court dismissed Shein's motion to recuse the judge on the case of annulment of Mayor's election

  During the first hearing on the lawsuit of the action for invalidation of the results of election of Mayor of Astrakhan the court dismissed Oleg Shein's motion to recuse the judge.

April 25, 2012 23:50

• Armenians mark the Day of Genocide Victims

  Yesterday, on April 24, on Day of victims of Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire of 1915-1922, all towns of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and of foreign countries, where the Armenian Diaspora resides, held mourning ceremonies.

April 25, 2012 23:20

• Krasnodar Territory institutes one more criminal case against ecologist Suren Gazaryan

  Suren Gazaryan, the activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", accused of damaging the fence near the object, which ecologists consider to be the summer cottage belonging to Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, face one more criminal case instituted against him. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Suren Gazaryan himself.

April 25, 2012 23:10

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, police suppresses actions on Circassian Flag Day

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, upcoming events on Circassian Flag Day were stopped by the police. This was reported from place by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 25, 2012 23:00

• Teenager seriously wounded by policeman dies in Dagestan

  The 16-year-old Imadibir Makhiev, a resident of the village of Karata, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, who was shot in his head on April 16 by a policeman of the local OVD, has died tonight in the intensive care unit of the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Makhachkala, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

April 25, 2012 22:50

• MIA: persons detained in the course of storming Elista Mayoralty are at large

  After drawing up protocols on administrative offences, the police have released the four persons detained at the storming of the Mayoralty of Elista. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Elvira Namrueva, the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kalmykia.

April 25, 2012 22:00

• SC of Azerbaijan upholds guilty verdict to three opposition activists

  The Azerbaijani Supreme Court (SC) has rejected the complaints and upheld the guilty verdicts to oppositionists Shakhin Gasanli, Arif Gadjily and Fuad Gakhramanly, convicted in connection with the rally on April 2, 2011, in Baku.

April 25, 2012 21:30

• Azerbaijani oppositional leaders tell foreign diplomats about human rights violations

  On April 24, the socio-political situation in Azerbaijan was subject of discussion at the meeting in Baku of the diplomatic corps with the leaders of the oppositional Civil Movement for Democracy" Public Chamber" (CMDPC). The participants of the meeting refer to its confidential character and refuse to comment on diplomats' statements, but note that such contacts are always useful.

April 25, 2012 21:00

• Volgograd: high-ranking official suspected of large-scale fraud

  According to the investigation, the head of one of the departments of the Volgograd City Mayoralty has embezzled 750,000 roubles through fraudulent actions. The bureaucrat himself denies his guilt.

April 25, 2012 20:00

• Public prosecutor's office in Nalchik detected abuse of authority by an official of Mayor's office

  Public prosecutor's office of Nalchik detected a fact of abuse of authority by an official of Nalchik municipal Administration, i.e. Head of the Department of Communal services and utilities, the supervisory office reports.

April 25, 2012 19:00

• A local resident kidnapped in Dagestan

  This morning armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms who introduced themselves as officers of the Department of Interior Affairs of Magaramkent district carried away resident of the settlement of Kiuchhiur, Kurakh district, Ramazan Saidhanov. Location of the kidnapped man is unknown at the moment. This was reported by the man's brother Abdulhamid Saidhanov.

April 25, 2012 18:00

• A peacemaker from Georgia perished in Afghanistan

  Sergeant Valerian Khudjadze, representative of Georgian peacemaking contingent in Afghanistan, blasted on a mine, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported today. The time of the accident was not specified.

April 24, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijan: arrested journalist complains about inhuman treatment at GUBOP

  The journalist Zaur Guliev, arrested after the events in the city of Guba, told about torture and inhuman treatment applied to him during his stay at the country's Chief Department for Combating Organized Crime (known as GUBOP) of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). This is stated in his complaint, sent from the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) to the NGO "For Human Rights".

April 24, 2012 22:00

• GPO: suspects of attempt on President of Abkhazia give confessions

  Anzor Butba, Ramzi Khashig and Alkhas Khutaba, arrested under the case of an attempt on the president of Abkhazia, have confessed that twice – in November 2011 and on February 10, 2012 – they attempted, together with Rushbey Bartsits, who is now searched, to kill the president, said the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Republic.

April 24, 2012 21:00

• Moscow hunger-strikers in support of Oleg Shein stop their action

  The participants of the Moscow solidarity hunger strike have decided to stop their action, after Oleg Shein's statement that he would quit his hunger strike as soon his supporters, arrested for staging a flash mob "For Fair Elections", were released.

April 24, 2012 19:00

• Journalist Ruslan Gereev attacked in Dagestan

  Today, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in Makhachkala, in Akushinsky Avenue, five unidentified men attacked and beat Ruslan Gereev, the deputy director general and editor of the political division of the newspaper "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), said Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief.

April 24, 2012 18:00

• In Elista, candidate not approved as city manager tries to storm Mayoralty

  Supporters of Arthur Dordjiev, who was not approved for the post of city manager, blocked the Elista Mayoralty and tried to storm the building, said Mingiyan Yashaev, the incumbent acting city manager of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.

April 24, 2012 17:00

• "Memorial" asks ICRF Chairman to take control of the case of policemen who tortured resident of Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has sent an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), asking him to take the criminal case initiated against the policemen who tortured Inal Berov, a resident of Nalchik, under his special supervision.