News

November 12, 2011 17:00

• Khloponin: Ombudspersons in NCFD most often complain of power agents

  Most of the complaints addressed to the Ombudspersons working in the regions of Northern Caucasus deal with violations of citizens' rights by law enforcement bodies, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian President for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said at his meeting with the Ombudspersons, who work in the NCFD.

November 12, 2011 16:13

• In Rostov-on-Don, policemen detain two activists of the "Left-Wing Front"

  Late in the evening on November 11, two activists of the "Left-Wing Front" were detained on charges of hooliganism.

November 12, 2011 16:00

• Entrepreneur shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria

  In the evening on November 11, in the village of Yanikoy, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, entrepreneur Akhmad Gegraev was killed.

November 12, 2011 15:00

• House of Bulat Chagaev, owner of FC "Xamax", searched

  After the searches conducted at the Geneva-based offices of the companies belonging to the Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev and in the office of the Football Club "Xamax", purchased by him in May this year, police inspectors also searched his house.

November 12, 2011 13:00

• Rukman Ediev killed in a special operation in Chechnya

  In the course of a special operation conducted in the Shali District of Chechnya, law enforcers killed Rukman Ediev, which, according to the local MIA, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.

November 12, 2011 12:00

• Zverevo residents get ready to picket Rostov-on-Don Administration

  Pickets with demand to revise the existing tariffs on utilities will be held in Rostov-on-Don near the city administration by residents of the city of Zverevo.

November 12, 2011 11:00

• Azerbaijani rights defenders ask Ashton to help in release of political prisoners

  In Azerbaijan, the organizers of the campaign "Song for Democracy" have sent an appeal to Catherine Ashton, High EU Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, who plans to visit Baku next week.

November 12, 2011 10:00

• Lithuanian football fans decide not to go to Chechnya

  The players of the Lithuanian national football team have disregarded the recommendations of their Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and flew to the capital of Chechnya in the same charter flight with their upcoming opponents – the second national Russian team. However, not a single fan of the Lithuanian team has come to Grozny.

November 11, 2011 23:50

• In Adygea, court sentences former UFSIN division head to 4 years of probation for embezzlement

  Adam Gadagatl, the former head of the operative division of the UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service) for Adygea, was found guilty of an especially large embezzlement committed by an organized group of persons through the use of one's office position, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic reports.

November 11, 2011 23:50

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, two brothers found guilty of killing sister

  In the murder case of the 19 year-old girl in Karachay-Cherkessia, her two elder brothers were found guilty; they were sentenced to 13 and 9 years of imprisonment in a high security colony, the Republic's Supreme Court has reported.

November 11, 2011 23:50

• Leader of People's Party of South Ossetia demands to initiate criminal cases against people who beat him

  On November 10, Roland Kelekhsaev, the unregistered South-Ossetian presidential candidate and the leader of the oppositional "People's Party", submitted an application to the Prosecutor's Office about his beating.

November 11, 2011 23:40

• Resident of Chechnya to stand trial on charges of abducting Doku Zavgaev's sister

  Ruslan Akharashev, a resident of Chechnya, will be tried on charges of abducting back in 1997, the sister of the former head of the republic Doku Zavgaev.

November 11, 2011 23:40

• Van Damme is going to fight Somluck Kamsing in Chechnya

  The Hollywood actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is staying for two weeks in Chechnya at the invitation of Ramzan Kadyrov, said on air of Chechen television that the head of Chechnya had agreed to hold his fight with Somluck Kamsing, the 1996 Olympic boxing champion, in Grozny.

November 11, 2011 23:30

• In Georgia, district head detained as bribery suspect

  Employees of the Department of Constitutional Safety of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained Igor Tkebuchava, the head of the Khobi district administration, on charges of bribery, the MIA has announced today.

November 11, 2011 23:20

• Astrakhan court reinstates dismissed TEC member as school principal

  The Kirov District Court of Astrakhan has restored Nadezhda Gogoleva, Director of School No. 74 and a member of the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) with a decisive vote from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia), in her position. Her employers could not cite any reason at the trial, why the woman had been fired.

November 11, 2011 23:10

• Azerbaijan: gas blast in school burns a teenager

  In Baku, a gas explosion took place in a school; one pupil suffered burns.

November 11, 2011 23:00

• Pre-investigation check is on in Nalchik on students' mass poisoning

  The investigatory division for the city of Nalchik is conducting a pre-investigation check of the fact of poisoning of 48 students and teachers of the Kabardino-Balkar State Agricultural Academy (KBSACA). A service check will be also held with respect to the doctors of the Urvan District Hospital, where a poisoned girl had died.

November 11, 2011 22:40

• Boiler explosion kills a man in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Armen Martirosyan, a resident of the city of Gadruta, was killed in an explosion in the boiler house; another victim was hospitalized.

November 11, 2011 22:30

• Festival "Artisterium" in Georgia attracted 74 artists from different countries

  Georgia has finalized the annual festival of avant-garde art "Artisterium", which was attended by 74 artists from around the world.

November 11, 2011 22:20

• Azerbaijan: SC upholds verdict to journalist Mekhtiev

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), chaired by Judge Fakhraddin Mamedov, dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by Khyakimeldost Mekhtiev, a regional correspondent of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).