News

November 05, 2011 14:00

• Protester who glorified Hitler detained at "Russian March" in Volgograd

  On November 4, over a thousand people took part in the "Russian March" in Volgograd. The police detained a participant who glorified Hitler.

November 05, 2011 13:00

• North-Ossetian MPs offer tougher responsibility for disinformation on the Internet

  Parliamentarians of North Ossetia offer to toughen sanctions for spreading false information on the Internet. This was discussed at the sitting of the Board of the Parliament on November 3.

November 05, 2011 12:00

• Nalchik: people dissatisfied with verdict to Cherkesov block federal highway

  On November 4, an action was held in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria with a demand of a fair sentence to Aslan Cherkesov convicted of murdering the football fan Yegor Sviridov. About three hundred people blocked the Federal Highway Rostov-Baku at the exit from Nalchik at the Arch of Triumph in the "Strelka" District.

November 04, 2011 23:50

• Refugees from Erzi Camp in Ingushetia fear disconnection of utilities

  In the morning on November 3, the forced migrants or internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Ossetia, who have been living for about twenty years in the so-called "temporary accommodation centres" (TACs), located in the territory of Ingushetia, were disconnected from the electricity supply. Around 200 persons, including elderly ones, invalids and children, remained without power. After their complaints, the electricity supply was resumed; however, the refugees fear that all the utilities may be cut off.

November 04, 2011 23:40

• Today is the anniversary of the murder of 12 persons in Kuschevskaya Krasnodar Territory

  Today, it is one year after the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, when the name of the small Russian village became a household word.

November 04, 2011 23:20

• In Azerbaijan, court rejects Zeinalov's appeals

  Today, the Baku Appeal Court considered the appeal complaints against the decisions of the Nizami District Court on the case of the arrested editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. The verdict of the first instance was upheld.

November 04, 2011 23:10

• Azerbaijan: court dismisses lawsuit of advocate Bagirov against the Bar

  On November 3, the Nasimi District Court of Baku, chaired by Judge Etibar Gumbatov, considered the complaint lodged by lawyer Khalid Bagirov against the Azerbaijani Bar Association, in which the lawyer demanded to recognize the decision of the Presidium of the Bar to suspend his lawyer's license illegal. The Court denied his petition.

November 04, 2011 23:00

• "Armenian Panorama" reports about systematic discrimination of Armenians at Mineralnye Vody Airport

  The journalists of the newspaper "Armenian Panorama", which is published in the Stavropol Territory, have addressed their open letter to Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), stating that passengers of Armenian air flights, including citizens of Russia, are regularly insulted at the Mineralnye Vody Airport.

November 04, 2011 22:50

• About 4000 accounts opened in bank "Kartu" in Tbilisi within three days

  On November 1-3, during three days of the solidarity action, 3932 new accounts were opened in the bank "Kartu" owned by the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, Nodar Djavakhishvili, Director General of the bank, said today.

November 04, 2011 22:40

• "Russian March" in Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol and Pyatigorsk was over thousand persons strong

  The participants of the "Russian March" had no problems in walking through the streets of Stavropol and Pyatigorsk; while Rostov-on-Don reports about detention of 30-70 participants of the unsanctioned action.

November 04, 2011 22:20

• Relatives of Abusupyanov, kidnapped in Dagestan, prepare protest actions

  Relatives of Rizvan Abusupyanov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal-Station of the Kirov District of Makhachkala and father of four children, who was kidnapped on October 27, prepare to hold protest demanding to accelerate the search of the missing person.

November 04, 2011 22:10

• Rights defenders urge Volgograd Mayor to help Gypsies in solving land problem

  The Antidiscrimination Centre (ADC) "Memorial" has drawn attention to the situation in the Roma community of the township of Verkhnyaya Elshanka of the city of Volgograd, where residents face a threat of eviction. Human rights activists have sent their appeal to the Mayoralty calling to settle the land problem of the Roma community.

November 04, 2011 22:00

• A serviceman from Azerbaijan killed in the zone of Karabakh conflict

  A lieutenant of Azerbaijani army was killed in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reported.

November 04, 2011 21:00

• Free courses of Russian for migrants opened in Stavropol region

  Free courses of learning Russian for migrants arriving in Stavropol region opened in Pyatigorsk.

November 04, 2011 20:00

• Ex-head of a settlement in Dagestan convicted for misappropriation of pensions

  The court in Dagestan sentenced ex-head of Administration of the settlement of Novosasitly, Khasavyrt district, to three years of custody for misappropriation of pensions to a sum of over one million rubles.

November 04, 2011 19:00

• A meeting of "Women-peacemaker's Alliance of Georgia and Russia" going on in Rostov-on-Don

  A meeting of women participants of a dialogue aimed at returning mutual understanding between representatives of Russian and Georgian communities is going on in Rostov-on-Don.

November 04, 2011 18:00

• The Ministry of Interior Affairs reports: assault at Ibrahim Yaganov detected

  The case of assault at Ibrahim Yaganov, human rights activist from Kabardino-Balkaria and member of Community Council of North-Caucasian Federal okrug (NCFO), has been cleared, official representative of State Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in the okrug Mark Tolchinsky reported.

November 03, 2011 23:50

• Rostov-on-Don's Mayor Mikhail Chernyshov denies accusations of land frauds

  The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) of Rostov Region suspects Mikhail Chernyshov, Mayor of the city of Rostov-on-Don, of involvement in land frauds. Mikhail Chernyshov denies accusations against him and insists on the lawfulness of the alienation of land plots.

November 03, 2011 23:40

• Putenikhin, activist of the Other Russia, was detained because of absence of Moscow registration

  One of the reasons for the arrest of Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of the Other Russia, who splashed water in the prosecutor's face, has been a lack of his registration in the Russian capital. This was reported by Ekaterina Ilyina, Spokesperson of the Tver District Court of Moscow.

November 03, 2011 23:30

• Georgian NGOs demand restoration of Ivanishvili's citizenship

  Today, the Georgian NGOs begin to collect signatures demanding to restore the Georgian citizenship for the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili.