News

May 02, 2011 18:00

• IFSR called for Obama to demand release of Azerbaijani journalist Fatullaev

  Azerbaijani Institute of Freedom and Safety of Reporters (IFSR) wrote a letter to President of the USA Barack Obama asking him to mention the name of convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev in the speech of Head of the USA devoted to World Press Day.

April 30, 2011 23:00

• Speaker of Armenian Parliament asks President to pardon Mikaelyan

  On April 29, Chairman (Speaker) of the National Assembly of Armenia Ovik Abramyan addressed President Serzh Sargsyan asking him to pardon Sasun Mikaelyan, an opposition activist and a veteran of the Karabakh War.

April 30, 2011 22:11

• Picket of the Movement "Accessible preschool education for Russian children" held in Volgograd

  Activists of the movement "Accessible preschool education for Russian children" held a picket in Volgograd demanding to solve the problem of shortage of kindergarten places. The action took place within the nationwide day of protest.

April 30, 2011 22:00

• KBR: suspected militant blows himself up at detention

  In the evening on April 29, Ruslan Dolov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), suspected of involvement in IAFs (illegal armed formations), triggered a grenade in his car, when power agents tried to detain him.

April 30, 2011 21:00

• Baku commemorates victims of massacre in ASOA

  Today, activists of oppositional political parties and youth organizations of Azerbaijan have managed, despite the obstacles erected by the police, to hold in Baku an action in memory of the casualties of the mass murder committed at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA).

April 30, 2011 20:19

• Congress of "Adyge-Khasse" held in Sochi

  Today, the township of Lazarevskoye in Sochi hosted the seventh congress of the public organization "Adyge-Khasse" of the Black Sea Adygs-Shapsugs. More than 180 delegates listened to the report of the chairman of the Organization Madzhid Chachukh.

April 30, 2011 20:00

• Astrakhan journalist Oleg Teplischev to appeals against his sentence

  The journalist's defence stated violations in the course of his trial, which resulted in a sentence to 180 hours of corrective work under the charge of beating the local Deputy Rifkat Shabanov; therefore, hi advocates intend to appeal against the verdict.

April 30, 2011 19:00

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, Orthodox Church set on fire

  As reported by the local MIA, in the village of Costa-Khetagurov, Karachay-Cherkessia, unidentified persons set fire to the church and destroyed the stela of St George Victorious.

April 30, 2011 18:00

• In Russia, journalist-refugee from Georgia goes on hunger strike demanding to return home

  On April 29, the Georgian journalist Levan Gudadze, who had first fled to South Ossetia and then to Russia, went on hunger strike at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow with a demand to send him back to Georgia. He explains his action by absence of safety guarantees for him and his family.

April 30, 2011 17:00

• Azerbaijan: literature of Jehovah's Witnesses confiscated from a local woman

  In the house of Gyulnaz Nasirova, a resident of Lyankaran, 19 books of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses were found and confiscated.

April 30, 2011 16:00

• Tbilisi's authorities appoint places for invalids to park

  The Tbilisi City Council has decided to allocate special parking places for drivers with disabilities. The places will be used only by them.

April 30, 2011 15:00

• In Georgia, people seek protection from wolves

  Wolves are attacking people in rural areas. Such reports come from different parts of the country.

April 30, 2011 14:00

• Georgian-Russian talks on Russia's accession to WTO to continue in late May

  The third round of talks between the delegations of Georgia and Russia on Russian Federation's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is scheduled on late May. The agreement was reached after the second round of talks held on April 28-29 in Geneva.

April 29, 2011 23:50

• Panteleichuk: Ismajlov, detained in Kislovodsk, had been earlier ordered to leave KMV

  The Islamic scholar Kurman Ismajlov, in whose power agents had earlier found an object looking like a piece of explosive, had earlier been abducted; kidnappers took him to the forest and demanded by threats that he left the region named Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KMV - Caucasian Mineral Waters). This was reported by human rights activist Rikhard Panteleichuk.

April 29, 2011 23:40

• Gandzha Court refuses to release Bakhtiyar Gadjiev from custody on intellectuals' bail

  In Azerbaijan on April 28, at its next session, the Nizami District Court of the city of Gandzha, which is considering the case of the young activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, accused of evasion from military service, listened to witnesses' evidences. However, at the beginning it was announced that the defence's challenge of the composition of the court chaired by Akhundov was rejected. The next court session was scheduled on May 5.

April 29, 2011 23:30

• Sheikh Kurman Ismajlov complained of law enforcers' actions to Prosecutor's Office

  In the Stavropol Region, Sheikh Kurman Ismajlov was not detained and nor abducted; he was at the local Prosecutor's Office - writing a complaint against actions of power agents. This was announced by his advocate Rasul Kubanov.

April 29, 2011 23:30

• Next session on teenager's beating case in Dagestan to be held on May 3

  Today, the Shamil District Court held the first session on the case of beating by militiamen in July 2010 of a 14-year-old boy in the premises of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division). The employees of the MIA Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov and Shamil Magomedov are facing the trial. The litigation will continue on May 3.

April 29, 2011 23:20

• Advocates of Tikhonov and Khasis are sure that jurors passed their guilty verdict under pressure

  The party of the defendants - Nikita Tikhonov and Eugenia Khasis - believes that the guilty verdict passed by the jury is illegal because of the violations admitted in the course of the trial on the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

April 29, 2011 23:20

• Russia protests to Georgia after Russian woman's complaint of searches in Tbilisi Airport

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation has sent a protest to Georgia - through mediation of Swiss diplomats - against searches at the airport of Tbilisi of a woman-citizen of Russia, a close relative of Nino Burdjanadze, ex-speaker of the Georgian parliament.

April 29, 2011 23:10

• Rostov Prosecutor's Office checks "Yabloko" leaflet for extremism

  The Prosecutor's Office of Rostov-on-Don has started an investigation following a demand of Victor Deryabkin, Chairman of the Regional Legislative Assembly to prosecute the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party "for inciting social hatred against members of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party.