News

July 18, 2011 14:00

• In Stavropol Territory, Victor Dvorakovskiy arrested by court statement

  In the Stavropol Territory the pre-trial restrictions in the form of custody were imposed on Victor Dvorakovskiy, suspected of involvement in terrorism, the press service of the Investigatory Committee of Russia reported.

July 18, 2011 13:00

• Armenia: more than 800 prisoners amnestied

  In connection with the amnesty announced by the Armenian authorities 533 inmates were released from prisons and 283 convicted faced reductions of sentences.

July 18, 2011 12:00

• Journalists in Nakhichevan report physical pressure on the part of the policemen

  In the evening of July, 15, a group of independent journalists underwent an assault on the part of police personnel and people wearing civilian attire in the settlement of Jalill, Sharur district of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). This was reported by regional correspondent of the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) Khiakimeldostu Mehtiev. In connection with this IRFS asked President Ilham Aliev to step in the situation with freedom of mass media in Nakhichevan.

July 18, 2011 11:00

• A policeman perished as a result of an explosion in Kaspiisk

  As a result of an explosion which took place at about two o’clock at night one police officer perished and two others were wounded and taken to hospital, a source in the Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Dagestan reported.

July 18, 2011 10:00

• An action “Disaster is never alien” will be held in Volgograd region

  An action of memory of the tragedy in Kuibyshev pool “Disaster is never alien” will embrace several districts of Volgograd region.

July 16, 2011 23:00

• Woman from KBR states abduction of her nephew

  Magomed Lokyaev, 23, a resident of the city of Tyrnyauz, was kidnapped in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). This was reported by his aunt Khava Tekaeva, who lives in the village of Verkhni Baksan, the Elbrus District of the KBR.

July 16, 2011 22:09

• Two churchmen wounded in Dagestan

  At night on July 16, unidentified person shelled a car with the imam of the village mosque and the deputy imam of the Untsukul District; both churchmen were hospitalized.

July 16, 2011 22:00

• In Azerbaijan, oppositionists' custody extended for two more months

  On Friday, July 15, the Sabail District Court of Baku ruled to extend for two months the arrest of Arif Gadjily, the head of the central office of the "Musavat" Party; Tural Abbasly, chairman of the "Musavat" youth organization; and Muhammed Medzhidli, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

July 16, 2011 21:00

• Inclusion of pre-Caspian Dagestan into North-Caucasian tourist cluster remains in question

  At the sitting in Makhachkala on July 15 on the issue of the project of a tourist cluster in Northern Caucasus, the federal authorities did not yet give their consent to include the Dagestani seashore into the project. The main reason was in the absence of the final conclusion on supposed financial expenses.

July 16, 2011 20:00

• Already eight casualties of gas cylinder explosion in Vladikavkaz

  Today at 6:40 a.m., Boris Khudalov, 61, a victim of the gas cylinder explosion in Vladikavkaz on 25 June, died at the Military Medical Academy in St Petersburg. This was reported by Irbek Doev, head of the press service of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania under the Russian President in Moscow.

July 16, 2011 19:00

• Abkhazia: Shamil Adzinba runs with Sergey Shamba as vice-president

  Together with Prime Minister Sergey Shamba, who is running for President of Abkhazia, Shamil Adzinba, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Youth Affairs and Sports of Abkhazia, will run for the post of vice-president. Today, Sergey Shamba, and Shamil Adzinba filed their consent to run for to the Central Election Commission (CEC).

July 16, 2011 16:00

• Invalids start making components for AvtoVAZ at factory in Rostov Region

  The Rostov Region has launched an enterprise to make clamps for domestically-made passenger cars. Three million roubles were spent to create the facility, where 36 visually impaired invalids are employed.

July 16, 2011 15:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdia transferred to correction establishment in Rustavi

  In Georgia, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of the first President of Georgia, who is serving his sentence on charges of attempting to commit a premeditated murder, was forced in the morning of July 14 from the prison in Gldani to the Rustavi prison No. 17.

July 16, 2011 14:00

• Abkhazian authorities disagree with HRW's report on refugees

  The report "Living with Uncertainty" about the refugee situation in the Gali District of Abkhazia, prepared by the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) does not reflect the real situation, Maxim Gvindzhiya, the Abkhazian Foreign Minister, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 15, 2011 23:00

• Rally against kidnappings and killings of Muslims held in Dagestan

  150 people came to the rally against kidnapping, torturing and killing of Muslims, which was held today near Toturbiykala village of Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.

July 15, 2011 22:00

• Moscow hosts memorial party on Natalia Estemirova

  On July 15 in Moscow in the second anniversary of the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, about 100 people gathered in the premises of the international NGO "Memorial" on the evening of her memory.

July 15, 2011 22:00

• Archaeologists find ruins of royal residence in Tbilisi

  In the course of the diggings on the territory of the church of 40 Saint Martyrs of Sebaste in Abanotubani District of the city of Tbilisi Georgian archaeologists discovered the ruins of the residence of Vakhtang Gorgasali, First King of Georgia, and kitchen utensils, crypts and Roman baths-thermae.

July 15, 2011 21:00

• Houses of militants' relatives again burned down in Chechnya, Sulim Yunusov asserts

  According to journalist Sulim Yunusov, a native of Kurchaloi District, who had been granted political asylum in Germany, about three weeks ago in Chechnya the houses of parents whose sons joined illegal armed formations, have been burned.

July 15, 2011 20:13

• Georgia: rally in support of detained photographers held at German Embassy

  The next action of solidarity with three arrested press photographers was held in Tbilisi. Its organizers, representatives of the media holding "Aliya", submitted an appeal to the German Ambassador to Georgia to exert influence on the Georgian authorities. Representatives of the opposition also participated in the event.

July 15, 2011 20:00

• 70 refugee families evicted from buildings in Tbilisi

  In Georgia about 70 refugee families from South Ossetia and Abkhazia received a written warning from the Ministry of Internally Displacement Persons, Resettlement and Refugees to leave the building they occupied till July 18. In case of disobedience they are threatened to be evicted forcibly.