News

May 06, 2011 18:00

• A resident of North Osetia who abducted a bride in Volgodonsk detained in Rostov region

  The police personnel of Rostov region detained three young "abductors of a bride". The kidnapped girl, resident of Volgodonsk, was returned home safely.

May 05, 2011 23:55

• French Armenians protest against rejection of bill on criminalization of Genocide denial

  On May 4, hundreds of people held a demonstration in front of the French Senate in Paris in support of the bill assuming criminal liability for denial of the Armenian Genocide. The action was attended by about 500 persons.

May 05, 2011 23:50

• US increases maximum term of visas for Georgians to 10 years

  The US government has increased the maximum term of visas for certain categories of Georgian citizens to 5 and 10 years. Earlier, the maximum term for all citizens was one year.

May 05, 2011 23:40

• Activists of "Mothers of Beslan" fail to meet Dmitry Medvedev

  As reported by Aneta Gadieva, one of the members of the "Mothers of Beslan", the meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the victims of the terror act in September 2004 did not take place.

May 05, 2011 23:30

• In Dagestan, schoolgirl convicted conditionally for reporting about terror act during "direct line" with Putin

  A verdict of guilty has been passed to a schoolgirl: on December 14, 2010, a 16-year-old pupil called the office of the programme "Conversation with Vladimir Putin" and reported to the operator knowingly false information about an impending terror act in the Moscow Region, said the spokesman of the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office.

May 05, 2011 23:20

• In Ulan-Ude, court re-examines the case of journalists, who spread leaflets about deportation of Caucasian nations

  On April 14, the Sovietskiy District Court of the city of Ulan-Ude started reconsidering the case of the Buryat journalists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura on charges of inciting social hatred to employees of law enforcement bodies in their article about deportation of Caucasian nations. On April 29, another session took place, where the prosecution witnesses were questioned.

May 05, 2011 23:10

• Oppositional rally held in Yerevan

  A rally of the People's Party is over in the capital of Armenia near the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran; however, the announced march along the route: Mashtots Avenue - Amiryan Street - Square of the Republic, was not held. The date of the next action was not announced.

May 05, 2011 23:00

• Baburova's parents claim to collect 5 million roubles from Tikhonov as moral compensation

  Today, the suffered party - Larissa Baburova and Eduard Baburov - moved a petition at the trial on the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova about bringing a civil action against Nikita Tikhonov. They want to receive 5 million roubles in compensation for their moral harm and 40,000 roubles - for their material damage.

May 05, 2011 22:40

• Former Deputy Mayor of Astrakhan convicted for death of 5 persons

  They perished in a collapsed building of a hostel, where they had been illegally placed two years before the tragedy, runs the verdict.

May 05, 2011 22:30

• In Adygea, journalists' attempts to clarify inquiry details of road accident involving high-ranking official are fruitless

  After in November 2008 journalists and public figures of Adygea sent a letter to President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev about the investigatory of the road accident involving the head of the Republic's "Rospotrebnadzor", on April 26 this year an answer came from the Chief Investigatory Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) saying that the inquiry is within the competence of the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea. The Office, however, had stated earlier that journalists cannot interfere into the inquiry since they had nothing to do with the case.

May 05, 2011 22:20

• Action "Electric Grid in Defence of Environment" held in Karachay-Cherkessia

  Today, power engineers of Karachay-Cherkessia have planted, in the course of the action "Electric Grid in Defence of Environment", 360 young trees.

May 05, 2011 22:10

• Unidentified people committed an explosion and fired upon a police car in Dagestan, one person perished

  An explosive device was activated on May, 4, in the highway near the settlement of Nizhnie Makharhimahi, Dagestan, while a police car was passing, then unidentified people opened fire upon the policemen, one person perished, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported today.

May 05, 2011 22:00

• Investigation on the case of murder of Politkavskaya prolonged till September

  The investigation of the criminal case of murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", has been prolonged till September, 7, 2011, official representative of Committee of Inquiry Vladimir Markin reported.

May 05, 2011 20:00

• The Committee of the USA for international religious freedoms advices the USA to block Ramzan Kadyrov's bank accounts

  On May, 1, the Committee of the USA for international religious freedoms (constituted by the US Congress in 1998) issued its annual report on religious freedoms in 28 countries of the World.

May 05, 2011 20:00

• A requiem for the victims of terror passed off at school No 1 of Beslan

  On Tuesday, May, 3, the religious holyday All Souls' Day ("Radonitsa") in North Osetia, a commemoration requiem for the lost hostages and special squad soldiers, victims of terror of September, 2004, passed off at school No 1 of Beslan.

May 05, 2011 19:00

• Transparency International: the police and the court are the most corrupt bodies in Armenia

  According to a survey undertaken by the organization "Transparency International", a slight progress was registered in the sphere of struggle against corruption in Armenia in 2010. The experts of the organization state that the police and the courts still remain the most corrupt bodies in Armenia.

May 05, 2011 18:00

• Operative agents confiscated 5 kg explosives from a detained man in Moscow

  On May, 4, during search in a suspected man's flat the personnel of law enforcement bodies confiscated a trotyl block of 200 gram weight, about five kilogram explosive on basis of cyclonite, a detonating cord, 15 mobiles, four passports, two portable radio transmitters and different seals and warrants on driving vehicles, law enforcement bodies of the capital reported.

May 04, 2011 23:20

• Georgia holds flash mob in defence of media independence

  On May 3, the World Press Freedom Day, human rights defenders held an action in support of independence of mass media near the building of the parliament in Tbilisi.

May 04, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 25 to May 1

  Bad weather has once again arranged a transport blockade of the resort city of Sochi; Deputies of Karachay-Cherkessia amend the Republic's Constitution; May Day was marked both in the South of Russia and in Transcaucasia, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 25 to May 1, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 04, 2011 23:00

• Georgian opposition demands dismissal of Minister for Corrections

  In Georgia, the social movement "Solidarity with Illegal Prisoners" demands resignation of Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, Minister for Corrections, Probation and Legal Aid of Georgia, because of death of a prisoner.