News

July 21, 2011 20:00

• During the week of July 11-17, 15 persons were lost in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of July 11-17, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 15 human lives; at least 24 more persons were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

July 21, 2011 19:00

• In Georgia, arrested photographer Kurtsikidze agreed to cooperate with prosecutors

  Zurab Kurtsikidze, one of the Georgian photographers, accused of espionage, agreed to a procedural deal. This was reported today by Shalva Shavgulidze, one of Kurtsikidze's lawyers.

July 21, 2011 18:00

• In Georgia, lawyers intend to appeal Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's sentence at ECtHR

  Lawyers and human rights activists will not accept the sentence imposed by the Tbilisi Court of Appeal on Tsotne Gamsakhurdia and after taking an appeal on the case from the Supreme Court of Georgia they will lodge a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported today by Katie Bekauri, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's lawyer.

July 21, 2011 17:00

• In Kalmykia, initiative group asks US President to take jurisdiction over children's hospital in Elista

  The initiative group "Hospital – for children!" urged residents of Kalmykia to start collecting signatures under the collective letter to US President Barack Obama to take jurisdiction over the only Republican Children's Hospital in the region.

July 21, 2011 16:19

• Bastrykin commissioned the investigation with verification of all the versions of Natalia Estemirova’s murder

  Chairman of Committee of Inquiry (CI) of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin ordered to verify all possible versions of the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, including the ones offered by “Memorial” Human Rights Center, official representative of CI Vladimir Markin reported today.

July 21, 2011 16:00

• In Georgia, residents of Gonio resort prepare lawsuits to Supreme Court hoping to regain lands confiscated by authorities

  At present, only 8 people of 271 families of the inhabitants of Gonio village of Khelvachauri District of Autonomous Republic of Adzharia of Georgia, whose lands, given to them in private ownership by the authorities' decision several years ago, have been seized, are at litigation with the authorities.

July 21, 2011 15:00

• Participants of Nagorno-Karabakh conference proposed to institute criminal proceedings against members of non-traditional confessions

  Participants of the conference "Motherland and Faith" in Stepanakert city (Nagorno-Karabakh) have accused a number of non-traditional Christian religious movements in violation of human rights and implementation of "undermining the political system with financing from abroad". In turn, believers offered to compose a list of features defining the concept of the "sect".

July 21, 2011 11:00

• Russia is planning to allot a new tranche to almost seven billion rubles to South Osetia

  The Russian Federation is planning to allot 6,81 billion rubles on realization of an Investment program of assistance to South Osetia in 2011. This was reported by Minister of Regional Development Victor Basargin at a session of Intergovernmental Committee of the Russian Federation and South Osetia on July, 19.

July 21, 2011 10:00

• The men suspected of sexual rape of an underage girl in Kabardino-Balkaria deny using violence to her

  The suspects of a rape of an underage girl in the settlement of Nartan, Kabardino-Balkaria, state that they had sexual relationship with her by her approbation, Chegem District Department of Interior Affairs reported. The girl’s mother says that the reason for this torture was her being a newcomer and does not deny that her daughter is a “screwed-up kid”.

July 20, 2011 23:00

• Public Council of NCFD condemns beating of Ibragim Yaganov

  Members of the Public Council of North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) expressed their indignation about beating of Ibragim Yaganov, a member of the Council and a leader of the public movement "Khase", in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and appealed to the leader of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) to take the investigation into the incident under his personal control.

July 20, 2011 22:00

• Murders committed on March 1, 2008, in Armenia must be solved, PACE co-rapporteur asserts

  At a meeting with the leaders of the Special Investigatory Service of Armenia Axel Fischer, a co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee, stressed the importance of creating an atmosphere of confidence around the investigation of events of March 1, 2008.

July 20, 2011 21:00

• Sergey Klimuk convicted of exploding Cherkizovo marketplace files complaint to Constitutional Court

  Sergey Klimuk, a former FSB agent, serving a sentence for organizing an explosion at Cherkizovo marketplace in 2008, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, requests to declare unconstitutional the provision of law prohibiting an appeal against a guilty verdict of the jury court.

July 20, 2011 20:00

• In Dagestan, two local residents detained on suspicion of murdering school principal

  In Dagestan power agents detained brothers Ibragim and Salman Seferbekov on suspicion of murdering on July 9 the principal of the school in Sovietskoe village. In the houses of the suspected explosives and ammunition were found, which, according to the brothers' relatives, had been "planted".

July 20, 2011 19:00

• Two out of three Gafurov brothers, accused of riots in Zelenokumsk, convicted

  The Soviet District Court of the Stavropol Territory passed a sentence upon three brothers named Gafurov, who were figuring in the case on engagement in a conflict with Cossacks in the city of Zelenokumsk in November 2010. Two brothers were sentenced to imprisonment terms, and the third one was acquitted.

July 20, 2011 17:00

• In 2011, 30 militants liquidated in Chechnya, MIA reports

  During the first six months of this year in Chechnya 30 members of the armed underground were killed, 79 militants and their accomplices were detained, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

July 20, 2011 16:00

• In Armenia, independent "GALA" TV Company stands for broadcasting right

  The independent TV Company "GALA", which broadcasts from the city of Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia, will not fulfil the decision of the Court of Cassation to dismantle the equipment from the TV tower, until the company gets a possibility to operate from another TV tower, said Vaan Khachatryan, the owner of the TV Company.

July 20, 2011 12:00

• A trial on the case of the oppositional activists detained at a meeting on April, 2, started in Baku

  On July, 19, hearings on the case of six activists of the opposition accused of violation of public order during an unauthorized meeting of Civil Movement for Democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) on April, 2, in the center of Azerbaijani capital started in Sabaiil court of Baku.

July 20, 2011 11:00

• Former street traders in Armenia intend to go on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of the authorities

  On July, 20, former street traders held a new action of protest in the capital of Armenia, near the Mayor’s office. They state that after prohibition of street trading it has become difficult to support their families because of outrageous prices on the city market tolls. The traders are going to hold a series of hunger strikes near governmental buildings of Yerevan.

July 20, 2011 09:00

• Medics in Chechnya register an increase of recourses of the citizens to physicians caused by heat

  During the last several days a growth of the number of recourses of the citizens to medical institutions was registered in Chechnya. Physicians explain it by the heat that established in the republic. Republican Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that a heat of 40 degrees is expected in the nearest three days in the territory of Chechnya which may result is extraordinary accidents.

July 19, 2011 23:00

• Azerbaijan: repeated judicial inquiry of PFPA activist's case

  Today, the Sumgait Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Lyatifa Mamedova, has continued considering the complaint of Jabbar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).