News

July 09, 2011 23:00

• Refugees are still evicted in Tbilisi

  The internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia, who had been accommodated in two temporary accommodation centres (TACs), kindergarten No. 204 in micro-district No. 2 in the district of Varketili, and the religious boarding school in Lotkin district in Tbilisi, received their eviction notification.

July 09, 2011 22:00

• Georgian MIA: detained photographer Gedenidze confesses of spying

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia has circulated a video record of confessional evidences given by Irakli Gedenidze, one of the photographers, detained on suspicion of spying.

July 09, 2011 21:00

• Mass brawl with use of firearms bursts out in North Ossetia

  In the evening on July 8 a mass brawl of young people with use of traumatic pistols and cold weapons took place in the Mozdok District of North Ossetia; as a result, two persons were injured and hospitalized, said the regional press service of the MIA.

July 09, 2011 20:00

• FMBA experts to check rejection to grant disability to girl from Krasnodar Territory

  Vladimir Ujba, the head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia, has ordered to send a team of experts to the Krasnodar Territory to make a final decision regarding the girl, who was denied disability status by doctors from the Medical-Sanitary Examination (MSE).

July 09, 2011 19:00

• Human Rights Council under Russian President calls to investigate murder of Dagestani school principal

  The members of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation have urged law enforcement bodies to strain all their efforts to investigate the murder of a headmaster in Dagestan; and the government officials – to do everything to normalize the situation in the village of Sovietskoe, where at night on July 9 Sadikullah Akhmedov, 59, the principal of the local secondary school, was shot dead.

July 09, 2011 18:00

• 12th International Organ Festival opened in Sochi

  The Festival programme contains names of performers from 11 countries. For the first time, organ music ensembles will be presented.

July 09, 2011 17:00

• Residents of Volgograd hold "picket of despair"

  In Volgograd, on July 8 in Lenin Square residents held a "picket of despair", which was sanctioned by the authorities. Its participants were eight activists of the initiative group of the social movement "Volgograd Mothers" and the townspeople, who lost their homes by court rulings.

July 09, 2011 16:00

• Coalition parties of Armenia set up group for dialogue with opposition

  The Armenian coalition parties have formed a group fore holding a dialogue with the opposition and are ready to meet them within the next ten days, said Armen Arzumanyan, the press secretary of the President of Armenia.

July 09, 2011 15:00

• Ilham Amirov: "Taliban" may be involved in crash of Azerbaijani Il-76

  The probability that the accident with the Azerbaijani cargo plane Il-76 in Afghanistan had to do with the movement of "Taliban" is high, said Ilham Amirov, the head of the commission to investigate the reasons of the accident.

July 09, 2011 14:00

• Tbilisi court leaves photographers accused of spying in custody

  Today, the Tbilisi City Court has ruled to appoint pre-trial detention to the photographers detained on espionage charges.

July 08, 2011 23:00

• RWB urges Georgian authorities to be "transparent" in "photographers' case"

  The international human rights organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) urges the authorities of Georgia to clarify the circumstances of detention of the photographers, who were arrested on suspicion of espionage. This was reported by Johan Bihr, the head of the European and Central-Asian Branch of the RWB.

July 08, 2011 22:00

• Georgia: oppositional "sextet" creates coalition "For Free Choice"

  Today six Georgian oppositional parties issued a statement on creation of the coalition "For Free Choice", aimed at achieving the power change through elections.

July 08, 2011 21:00

• Grozny: youth protests against extremism

  On July 7 a large-scale rally of youth organizations, aimed against extremism and radical movements in religion, was held in the centre of the Chechen capital. About three thousand people marched along Putin Avenue, the central street of the city, chanting slogans "No terrorism!" and "No Wahhabism!"

July 08, 2011 20:00

• Armenia: film festival "Golden Apricot" to receive 30 thousand dollars from "CIS Fund"

  The Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund of the CIS Member States "CIS Fund", headed by Armen Smbatyan, the Armenian Ambassador to Russia, has provided for the program "Cinema of CIS: 20 years of independence," which would be held during the festival "Golden Apricot", 30 thousand dollars. This was reported at the press conference on July 8 by Arutyun Khachatryan, the festival's director.

July 08, 2011 19:00

• South Ossetia not to discuss refugees' problems at Geneva talks

  South Ossetia has decided to withdraw from the negotiations on refugees, held in within the Geneva talks. This was reported by Boris Chochiev, the presidential envoy in South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement issues.

July 08, 2011 18:00

• Resident of Makhachkala reports her brother's disappearance

  Today Sidrat Akhmedova, a resident of the village Shamkhal of Kirov District of Makhachkala told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the disappearance of her brother Khalid Akhmedov, a 43-year-old resident of the village of Kara-Tyube of the Babayurt District of Dagestan.

July 08, 2011 17:00

• Initiative group nominates Sergey Shamba as Abkhazia's presidential candidate

  The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has registered the initiative group to nominate acting Prime Minister Sergey Shamba as a presidential candidate. The initiative group consists of 23 members, representatives from all areas of the country.

July 08, 2011 16:00

• Magomedsalam Magomedov and Rizvan Kurbanov discuss Dagestan's problems with bloggers

  On July 6 at the initiative of Rizvan Kurbanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, a meeting with bloggers was held in Makhachkala. To the complete surprise of Livejournal's users, Magomedsalam Magomedov, the President of the republic, and Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), also came to take part in the meeting.

July 08, 2011 15:00

• Adygea: mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011" has started

  More than 120 racers from all over Russia and near abroad arrived at the base camp of the mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011", which is located on the southern outskirts of the village Khamyshki of the Maikop District of Adygea. The athletes will have to overcome the 240 kilometres in the mountains within two days.

July 08, 2011 12:00

• Georgian opposition demands transparency in the “case of photographers”

  Oppositional parties of Georgia called for the authorities of the country to make transparent the investigation on the case of press photographers detained for accusation of espionage.