News

November 23, 2011 18:00

• ICRC representatives visit Armenian citizens in Azerbaijani captivity

  Staff members of the Azerbaijani Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited three Armenian prisoners of war and five members of an Armenian family, kept in Azerbaijan, the ICRC Office has reported.

November 23, 2011 17:00

• Writer Rafiq Tagi dies in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, writer and publicist Rafiq Tagi has died. On November 19 he was attacked and got numerous knife wounds.

November 23, 2011 16:00

• Victims of apartment house explosion in Stavropol are in extremely grave condition

  Domestic gas explosion occurred on November 22 at a house in the city of Stavropol. The rescue team reported on five injured persons, two of whom were in grave condition.

November 23, 2011 15:00

• Moscow city court sanctioned prolongation of arrest for the person accused of Budanov’s murder

  Today Moscow city court refused to discharge from custody Magomed Suleimanov accused of murder of ex-colonel Yury Budanov. The court passed a standing judgment on prolongation of Suleimanov’s arrest till December, 10, dismissing the claim of defense.

November 23, 2011 14:00

• Igor Trunov: policemen in Moscow were to detain Zelimkhan Mazaev, wanted for Sulim Yamadaev's murder

  Actions of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who failed to detain a person put in the Interpol's wanted lists, represented a clear violation of the Russian law. This was reported by lawyer Igor Trunov and Gennady Gudkov, the State Duma deputy, Colonel of the FSB in reserve, when they commented on the fact that the man, who was put in the wanted lists for Sulim Yamadaev's murder, came to the police to take a pistol found in Moscow, and the police officers failed to detain him.

November 23, 2011 13:00

• Georgian President pardons 137 prisoners

  Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili granted pardon to 137 prisoners on the occasion of the "Giorgoba" holiday. This was reported by Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, Minister of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance.

November 23, 2011 12:00

• SGS company commissioned with cargo monitoring at the border between Georgia and Russia

  Swiss company SGS was commissioned with control of cargo traffic at the border between Georgia, the Russian Federation, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. International monitoring at the border was arranged within the framework of negotiations on Russia’s joining World Trade Organization (WTO).

November 23, 2011 10:00

• Residents of Tbilisi report obstacles in fulfillment of the program of resettling from houses under the threat of collapse

  Mayor’s office of Tbilisi declarers resettlement of citizens from houses in an emergency state going within the framework of a target project “New Life to Old Tbilisi” one of the priorities in its activities. 450 families have been resettled and 300 thousand square meters of dwellings built within the framework of the program, however residents of Tbilisi state that not all of them have access to the program.

November 22, 2011 23:00

• Krasnodar Territory: court considers whether book of Jehovah's Witnesses is extremist

  On November 22, the Uspenskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory began considering the lawsuit lodged by the district public prosecutor on recognition of the religious book of Jehovah's Witnesses "We Fundamentally Evidence Lord's Kingdom".

November 22, 2011 22:00

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, mother of deceased recruit states investigators' inaction

  The mother of Taulan Gochiyaev, a recruit from Karachay-Cherkessia, who was killed in Volgograd in 2010, complains of inaction of law enforcement bodies and demands a fair investigation.

November 22, 2011 21:00

• Armenian and Turkish businessmen sign memorandum on economic cooperation in Yerevan

  Today, in Yerevan, within the Armenian-Turkish Business Forum, a bilateral Memorandum of Cooperation was signed, which stipulates lobbying the issues related to opening the land border. The document also envisages strengthening of business contacts.

November 22, 2011 20:00

• Azerbaijan: Teleshli villagers complain of low-quality housing, built for them after the flood

  Many houses in the village of Teleshli, located in the Imishli District of Azerbaijan, which was built late last year for the residents of the village, who suffered from the devastating floods of the Kura River, are already in the condition unfit for living, said Oktai Gyulalyev, coordinator of the staff of the public society "Kura".

November 22, 2011 19:00

• In Makhachkala, protesters demand from leaders of Russia and Dagestan to stop "law enforcers' arbitrariness" in the region

  The rally in Makhachkala against "arbitrariness of law enforcers", which was attended on November 21 by about a thousand persons, ended with adoption of an appeal to presidents of Russia and Dagestan Dmitry Medvedev and Magomedsalam Magomedov. The appeal notes that the republic sees a real civil war, as a result of which several hundreds of people perished within the last year only.

November 22, 2011 18:00

• In Azerbaijan, "Khural" reporter sentenced to three years in prison

  The Lenkoran District Court of Azerbaijan has sentenced Aidyn Djanyev, a regional correspondent of the newspaper "Khural", to three years in jail for disorderly conduct in relation to the mosque Akhund. Journalists believe that Djanyev was punished for his newspaper article with criticism of the clergy.

November 22, 2011 17:00

• Armenia presents a new national dog breed at international dog show in Yerevan

  On November 20, Yerevan hosted the third international exhibition of dogs of all breeds of the rank CACIB (candidates for international beauty champions), named "Armenia-2011". One of the main objectives of the event, as stated by the organizers, was promotion of the indigenous Armenian Gampra Wolfhound.

November 22, 2011 16:00

• Rights defenders to investigate death of Armenian native in a police station in Orenburg

  The Orenburg Branch of the Interregional Public Organization "Committee Against Torture" holds a public inquiry into the death of Armen Sargsyan, a local resident, on November 18 in the premises of the operative and investigatory unit of the MIA Department for Orenburg; his father has applied for legal aid to human rights defenders, who do not exclude that he was tortured to death.

November 22, 2011 12:00

• Location of Rasul Magomedov who disappeared in Dagestan is still unknown

  Location of Rasul Magomedov, teacher of the Russian language and literature in a secondary school of Balakhna, who disappeared in Makhachkala on November, 17, under vague circumstances, is still unknown in Dagestan.

November 22, 2011 11:00

• A writer who underwent an assault in Azerbaijan associates the attempt with his writings

  Rafig Tagi, writer of political essays, who underwent an assault on November, 19, in Baku does not rule out that the motive for the attempt might have been his publications in which he touched upon religious issues.

November 22, 2011 10:00

• Astronomers of Armenia will monitor “space debris” with financial support of “Roscosmos”

  In January, 2012, a joint Armenian-Russian astronomic program “Observing space debris” will be launched. This was reported by Aik Arutiunyan, Director of Biurakan Observatory.

November 22, 2011 09:00

• Magomed Markhiev wounded in Ingushetia got his leg dismembered

  Magomed Markhiev, ex-Vice Premier of Ingushetia, Head of republican social insurance fund, was operated on as a result of a robbery assault. His leg was dismembered and he is still in a grave state.