News

August 20, 2011 14:00

• Moscow theatres are ready to cooperate with Georgian stage director Sturua

  A number of popular Moscow theatres have expressed their readiness to cooperate with the Georgian stage director Robert Sturua, said Alexander Pudin, advisor of Deputy Moscow Mayor Liudmila Shvetsova.

August 20, 2011 13:00

• Electricity will be supplied to Georgian section at Swiss Embassy in Russia on August 22 for 2 months

  Electricity supply to the Moscow business centre, which houses the consular division of the section of Georgia's interests at the Embassy of Switzerland in the Russian Federation will be resumed on Monday, August 22, for the period of two months under the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia.

August 20, 2011 12:00

• "Gruzpatent" has adjudged brands "Khvanchkara" and "Kindzmarauli" from American company

  The Georgian party has reached agreement with the American company "Dozortsev and Sons" about the return of the brands of Georgian wine "Khvanchkara" and "Kindzmarauli".

August 19, 2011 22:00

• The underage girl in Dagestan who reported gang rape rejected the psychologists’ aid

  The fourteen-years-old resident of Khasavyurt who formerly reported that she had undergone gang rape altered her evidence and rejected the psychologists’ aid. The “Caucasian Knot” correspondent received this information from representatives of one of the local human rights organizations who referred to the girl’s mother and wished to remain anonymous.

August 19, 2011 21:00

• Georgia starts evicting refugees out of Zugdidi

  The refugees inhabiting Block No. 1 of the kindergarten, located in the city of Zugdidi in Gamsakhurdia Street, are leaving the building. Twelve families are resettled into the new residential area in the city of Poti.

August 19, 2011 20:00

• The gunman killed in the capital of Chechnya had formerly been kidnapped by unknown persons

  Leader of one of the human rights centers working in Chechnya declared that Albert Osupov killed on August, 18, in Lenin district of Grozny together with three other supposed participants of armed underground by members of the top brass had formerly been kidnapped by unidentified personnel of power ministries.

August 19, 2011 19:00

• Tehran answered the note of protest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan

  Tehran answered the note of protest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan concerning a statement of Head of General Staff of Armed forces of Iran, brigadier general Seiid Hasan Firuzabadi who predicted a “bad fortune” to Azerbaijan in connection with its contacts with Israel. The exact contents of the answer has not yet been made public however officials of the Iranian party in their comments condemn strongly-worded statements of Azerbaijan.

August 19, 2011 18:00

• Medvedev in Sochi called for returning gunmen to peaceful life

  During a meeting between President of Russia and Head of Dagestan which took place in Sochi last week Dmitry Medvedev emphasized the necessity to “return people from paramilitary groups to peaceful life and reestablish their normal mentality”.

August 19, 2011 17:00

• Appeal Court of Armenia releases three oppositionists

  On August 19, the session of the Appeal Court of Armenia decided to release from custody opposition activists Sargis Gevorkyan, Vaagn Gevorkyanov and Artak Karapetyan, who had been arrested by the court of first instance of the communities Centre-Nork Marash.

August 19, 2011 16:00

• In South Ossetia, leader of "Rukhs Fidan" suspected of beating an MP

  Law enforcers have detained Alan Kochiev, the leader of the South-Ossetian public-political movement "Rukhs Fidan" (Bright Future), who is suspected of beating Alik Pliev, a member of parliament (MP) of South Ossetia from the People's Party.

August 19, 2011 15:00

• Georgian authorities to resettle villagers of Vedzatkhevi cut off from outside world

  The administration of the Dusheti District (Georgia), where the village of Vedzatkhevi is located, which was cut off from the outside world by a landslide in autumn of 2010, are going to fully resettle the villagers.

August 19, 2011 14:00

• Zverevo residents dissatisfied with tariffs decide to hold protest in Rostov-on Don

  Residents of the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, have decided to hold a rally in Rostov-on-Don, where they want to demand from regional officials to review public utility tariffs. However, the city administration claims that the increase in utility bills has nothing to do with tariff growth.

August 19, 2011 13:00

• Court rules to collect 80,000 roubles from military unit in Tskhinvali in favour of soldier injured during service

  Today, the Mamadysh District Court of Tatarstan passed a ruling in absentia on the suit and obliged the Military Unit No. 66431, stationed in the capital of South Ossetia, to pay out 80,000 roubles to Danis Zakirov as compensation of moral harm in connection with injuries that he received during his service.

August 19, 2011 12:00

• Volgograd Region: fire victims from Kamensky farm ask authorities for help

  Local authorities have received five applications asking to provide material help from the residents of the farm named Kamensky, Ilovlin District, Volgograd Region, who suffered from wildfire on August 11.

August 18, 2011 21:00

• Dagestan: adaptation commission to urge court to release convicts for shop arsons

  In Dagestan, the commission for assisting in adaptation to peaceful life of the persons who have decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities was approached by three residents of Dagestan who had been convicted for burning down the outlets, where alcohol was sold.

August 18, 2011 20:00

• Demolition of IPD building in Baku causes international resonance

  The demolition in Baku of the one-storey building at No. 38 Shamsi Badalbeyli Street, which housed the offices of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), headed by the well-known human rights defender Leila Yunus, aroused great international resonance.

August 18, 2011 19:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh starts the programme "Computer to Every Child"

  Each pupil of forms 1-4 of the cities of Stepanakert and Shushi will be provided with a computer that has been specially designed and developed for educational purposes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computers are provided to schoolchildren free of charge.

August 18, 2011 18:00

• Rights defenders report new cases of persecution of militants' relatives by power agents in Chechnya

  The married couple Abdulazizi and Zargan Osupov, residents of the village of Elistanzhi, Vedeno District of Chechnya, fear that their house may be burnt down by power agents as punishment for their son's joining militants. They shared their fears with the staff of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny.

August 18, 2011 17:00

• In Abkhazia, Sergey Shamba's election office denies charges of "black PR"

  Sergey Shamba's election office has a statement, where the presidential candidate rejects allegations of using the so-called "black PR". This reaction followed, after another presidential candidate Alexander Ankvab accused Shamba's staff of organizing the scandalous interview with former head of the Georgian Defence Ministry.

August 18, 2011 16:00

• Abdullaev: IPA has no intention to establish Sharia state

  On August 17, at the trial of activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA), the defendants went on evidencing and categorically rejected any accusations of an attempt to forcibly overthrow the power.