News

March 09, 2012 21:00

• Residents of Imereti Lowland in Sochi have 3-day electricity outage

  About three thousand people – residents of the streets named Nizhnyaya Imeretinskaya, Imeretinskaya, Staroshkolnaya, Staroklubnaya, Uritskogo Tsimlyanskaya, Tavricheskaya and Polevaya in Sochi – are without electricity since March 7 and get ready to protests.

March 09, 2012 20:00

• Relatives of Akhmetgiri Tsechoev, killed in special operation, deny his links with militants

  Relatives and friends of Akhmetgiri Tsechoev, who perished in Malgobek at night on March 4 during a special operation, are categorically denying his association with militants. They do not believe that the retired lieutenant colonel, whose two brothers and a son are also professional militaries, was a militant, and talk about an extra-judicial execution.

March 09, 2012 19:00

• Dagestanis treat March 8 celebrations differently

  Like throughout Russia, March 8 was announced a day-off in Dagestan; however, people treat this holiday differently: some celebrate it, others believe it is a routine day.

March 09, 2012 18:00

• ICPJ condemns threats against journalists in Azerbaijan

  The International Committee to Protect Journalists (ICPJ) has resolutely condemned the threats addressed to Khadidja Ismailova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty.

March 09, 2012 17:00

• Defenders of Yerevan Mashtots Park present ultimatum to government

  In the Armenian capital, ecologists and public activists, campaigning in defence of the Mashtots Park against construction, have demanded from the Mayoralty and the government to make an immediate decision and start dismantling the kiosks installed in the park. Otherwise, they will intensify their protests.

March 09, 2012 12:00

• Deputies of the Georgian Parliament suggest toughening liability for xenophobia-related crimes

  Georgian authorities will toughen liability for crimes out of religious, race, lingual, national or ethnic intolerance. The respective amendments to the Criminal Code are planned. Deputies from the ruling party Kakhaber Anjaparidze and Zviyad Kukava became their originators and authors.

March 09, 2012 09:00

• Amnesty International and Ingush NGOs demand to stop pressure on “MASHR”

  International human rights organization Amnesty International expressed its concern about intimidation of members of human rights organization “MASHR” by the authorities of Ingushetia. Coordination Council of non-governmental organizations of Ingushetia also put forward a demand to stop persecution of the organization and its Head Magomed Multsogov.

March 09, 2012 06:00

• The participants of a mourning meeting in Nalchik declared that the authorities ignored the “land question”

  The participants of a meeting in Nalchik devoted to the 68th anniversary of deportation of the Balkar people stated that the officials of Kabardino-Balkaria ignored their demands. The participants of the action consider that the main problem of the Balkars is unsettled land question.

March 08, 2012 23:00

• North Ossetia begins trying suspect of blowing up people at wedding

  On March 5, the Soviet District Court of Vladikavkaz held initial hearings on the case of explosion of a gas cylinder at a wedding in June 2011. The prisoners' dock keeps Vadim Vazagov, a resident of North Ossetia.

March 08, 2012 22:14

• Tbilisi holds conference in memory of deportation of Balkars

  Today, in Tbilisi, in the building of the Sukhumi State University, the NGO "Free Caucasus" and the teachers of the university held a conference in memory of the deportation of the Balkar people.

March 08, 2012 22:00

• In Adygea, liturgical building of Jehovah's Witnesses attacked

  In Adygea, an act of vandalism against the liturgical building of the Jehovah's Witnesses was committed.

March 08, 2012 20:00

• Armenia not to vote at song contest "Eurovision-2012"

  Refusal of Armenian performers' participation in the international song contest "Eurovision-2012", which will be held in Baku in May, will result in the impossibility for voting for participants. Yerevan has explained the reasons for the boycott of the song contest by the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

March 08, 2012 19:00

• Father of perished student from Georgia to attend trial against Anders Breivik

  The father of Tamta Liparteliani, the student from Georgia perished in the terror act committed at the youth camp in Norway, will attend the trial against Anders Breivik accused of commitment of terror act and massacre of 77 persons.

March 08, 2012 18:00

• Grozny residents report on serious problems with water supply

  For several weeks, there is no water supply in two villages of the Staropromyslovsky District of the Chechen capital. According to local residents, the city authorities and the community services of the city, show complete indifference to the problem.

March 08, 2012 16:00

• Two Dagestani wrestlers win European championship

  At the European Championships in freestyle wrestling, held in the Serbian capital Belgrade, three athletes from Dagestan have already top places, including two gold medals.

March 08, 2012 12:00

• A boy from a family group in Volgograd taken to hospital with traumas recovered consciousness

  On March, 7, a six-years-old boy taken to resuscitation unit two weeks before emerged out of a coma. According to the investigators, he was beaten up by a teacher of a family group.

March 08, 2012 11:00

• 16 persons injured in an explosion in “Bellagio” café are still in hospitals of Volgograd

  One more person injured in an explosion in “Bellagio” café left hospital in Volgograd. So, 16 injured persons are still staying in hospitals of Moscow, Volgograd and Cologne (Germany).

March 08, 2012 09:00

• Journalist Khadija Ismailova in Azerbaijan reports that she is receiving threats

  Unidentified people in Azerbaijan threaten a well-known journalist Khadija Ismailova, correspondent of Azerbaijani service of “Radio Freedom”. This was reported by Ismailova herself. She associates the threats with her journalist’s activities.

March 07, 2012 23:00

• Editor-in-chief of Islamazeri.az sentenced in Azerbaijan

  Today, in Azerbaijan, the Absheron District Court concluded the trial against Ramin Bairamov, the editor-in-chief of the website Islamazeri.az. The Court found him guilty of illegal purchase and possession of weapons and drugs and sentenced him to 1.5 years of imprisonment.

March 07, 2012 22:00

• Participants of conference "Enough to crackdown Caucasus" report on continuing disappearances of people

  During the press conference "Enough to crackdown Caucasus" held in Moscow, human rights defenders from different regions of Northern Caucasus have discussed the problems of election fraud, continuing kidnappings of people, and the situation with natives of the Caucasus serving their sentences in prisons in Russia.