News

February 24, 2012 18:00

• Defrauded housing investors hold protest in Baku

  Today, approximately 50 shareholders of the construction Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) "Kyamran", "Fuad" and "Gen" held a protest in front of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan. The police pushed the demonstrators away from the building.

February 24, 2012 18:00

• There are 12 hunger-strikers in Lermontov now

  Starting from today, because of poor health state of the hunger-strikers in the city of Lermontov, doctors will examine them three times a day. The protesters do not rule out that the prosecutor's office could tell that they were taking food by mistake. Today the number of the participants of the action has increased from 10 to 12 persons.

February 24, 2012 16:00

• Women of Volgograd hold picket demanding from authorities to address the problem of kindergartens

  Today, Volgograd hosted a picket on availability and quality of preschool education. The protesters demanded to increase funding for the network of kindergartens; and in the existing ones – to increase funds per capita and educators' salaries. Natalia Latyshevskaya, a Deputy of the Volgograd Regional Duma, told the audience that the authorities were preparing a bill on compensations to those parents who cannot place their children in kindergarten.

February 24, 2012 15:00

• Workers of Volgograd Shipyard ask to remove them from voters' lists of Russian presidential election

  The workers of the Volgograd Ship-Building Factory (known as "VgSZ") do not want to go to the presidential election on March 4 and ask to delete them from voters' lists. This is stated in the open letter to the workers, which was signed by 63 persons.

February 24, 2012 13:00

• Kalinovskaya: critics of Sochi Olympiad were not let to "Channel One" programme

  A scandal burst out at filming the programme "Freedom and Justice" on "Channel One" of the Russian television. This is asserted by the participants invited from Sochi. The programme was on preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics; however, Natalia Kalinovskaya, the chair of the Sochi Territorial Self-Government Body (TOS) "Psou", could not get into the channel studio, although she arrived in Moscow at the invitation and expense of the programme.

February 24, 2012 12:00

• Armenian singers refused to participate in “Eurovision-2012” in Baku

  Armenian singers declared that they refused to take part in “Eurovision-2012” song contest in the capital of Azerbaijan in connection with “anti-Armenian policy” this state pursued.

February 24, 2012 11:00

• An Armenian soldier killed in the zone of Karabakh conflict

  A serviceman of statutory service of Armenian Armed Forces perished on February, 23, as a result of sniper’s fire from Azerbaijani territory, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported.

February 24, 2012 10:00

• Psychologic testing among the officials started in Volgograd region

  Psychological testing of top managers started in the Administration of Volgograd region. The purpose of the campaign is to analyze professional, business and personal qualities of the employees of the Administration of the region with the help of psychological tests.

February 24, 2012 09:00

• Kurbanov: the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan rejects negotiation with the gunmen who wish to lay down arms

  Part of the management of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan sticks to an erroneous point of view considering a peaceful dialogue with members of paramilitary groups wishing to lay down arms “none of their business”, Rizvan Kurbanov, Head of Committee for adaptation of gunmen in Dagestan, Deputy Chairman of Committee for constitutional legislation and state development of State Duma of the Russian Federation, said in an exclusive interview for the “Caucasian Knot”.

February 23, 2012 23:00

• Dagestan opens field hospital for pelicans

  The hospital aimed to rehabilitate the pelicans, which stay in the Makhachkala Bay was opened in the territory of the repair shipyard.

February 23, 2012 22:00

• Parliamentary elections in Armenia to take place on May 6

  The elections to the National Assembly of Armenia of the fifth convocation will be held on May 6, 2012.

February 23, 2012 21:00

• Wounded bodyguard of Abkhazian President is in coma

  The health condition of Tengiz Pandariya, an employee of the personal security service of the President of Abkhazia, who was seriously wounded in his head at the attempt on President Alexander Ankvab, remains stable grave.

February 23, 2012 20:00

• Gagiev: deportation of Chechens and Ingushes was the largest in Soviet history

  In the years of Stalin's repressions almost all the nations had suffered, said Oleg Kalmykov, a scientific researcher at the State GULAG Museum. Visingirey Gagiev, President of the Ingush National and Cultural Autonomy of Moscow, agrees with him and adds that the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes was not the first one in the history of the Soviet Union; however, the operation "Chechevitsa" (Lentils) in 1944 to evict the Vainakhs was the largest. This was stated at the Conference "68th Anniversary of Deportation of Ingush People to Kazakhstan and Middle Asia".

February 23, 2012 19:00

• In Moscow, about 20 persons came to flash mob in support of Lermontov residents

  In Moscow, near the "Krasnye Vorota" metro station, a flash mob was staged in support of residents of the city of Lermontov, Stavropol Territory, where on February 21 several former city council members and their supporters went on hunger strike right in the building of the Mayoralty.

February 23, 2012 18:00

• Dagestan: Gimry villager asserts that he was kidnapped policemen

  Magomed Gamzatov, a resident of the village of Gimry, Untsukul District, who was kidnapped on February 21 by unidentified armed men in camouflage uniform and masks, said that the crime was committed by law enforcers.

February 23, 2012 17:00

• Two victims of explosion in Volgograd cafe put by doctors in stimulated coma

  Two victims of the explosion in "Bellagio" cafe in Volgograd were put into pharmacological coma. This was done to allow the victims to easier live through the recovery from their bodily burns, experts of the Volgograd City Hospital have explained.

February 23, 2012 12:00

• Employees of the enterprise “Chechenvodocanal” report wage delays

  Employees of the enterprise “Chechenvodocanal” in Grozny have not received their salary for already four months. A representative of the management of the enterprise states that the persons responsible for the present situation are defaulters on housing and communal services.

February 23, 2012 11:00

• The Ministry of Natural Resources of Dagestan reports settlement of the problem of freezing pelicans

  Employees of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Dagestan (MNRD) report that the peak situation with pelicans freezing in Dagestan has passed with minimum losses among the birds. Human rights activists and representatives of local mass media disagree and consider that the danger of mass loss of birds still remains.

February 23, 2012 10:00

• The Labour party of Georgia demands to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan

  The Labour party of Georgia calls for all the oppositional parties to work out a joint national declaration demanding withdrawal of Georgian military forces from Afghanistan.

February 22, 2012 23:00

• Azerbaijani human rights defenders to address participants of "Eurovision-2012"

  In Azerbaijan, participants of the campaign "Sing for Democracy", held to draw attention to the problems of human rights in the country on the eve of the "Eurovision-2012" contest, decided to appeal to the performers who will participate in the contest.