News

April 02, 2011 23:00

• Armenia: court leaves boxer Khachatryan in custody

  The Court of Appeal of Armenia has dismissed the petition lodged by the defence of Samson Khachatryan, a multiple USSR champion in boxing and an opposition activist, asking to change his freedom restriction measure, and upheld the decision of the first instance to arrest Khachatryan for two months.

April 02, 2011 21:00

• Clashes in central Baku between oppositionists and police

  According to preliminary data, more than 50 oppositionists were detained during a rally in the capital of Azerbaijan. The opposition rally turned into clashes with law enforcers.

April 02, 2011 19:08

• Baku: five rally participants suspected of crime

  As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan, at today's rally in downtown Baku five persons were detained as suspects of criminal activities; 70 more were punished administratively.

April 02, 2011 19:00

• In Rostov, defrauded shareholders demand help from authorities

  Today, a rally of defrauded housing shareholders was held in Rostov-on-Don. The action was about one hundred persons strong.

April 02, 2011 18:00

• Armenian intellectuals to go on hunger strike

  Following Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the "Heritage" Party, Armenian intellectuals plan to hold a hunger strike in Freedom Square in central Yerevan.

April 02, 2011 17:00

• Suspect of murdering a boxer in North Ossetia pleads guilty

  As reported by Sergey Khamitsaev, the investigator running the case, Soslan Abaev, suspected of murdering Khetag Kozaev, a youth world champion in boxing, made a confession.

April 02, 2011 16:00

• Leader of armed underground killed in Dagestan, NAC asserts

  Yakhya Aslanov, who was killed in a shootout in Dagestan, was the leader of the armed underground and was involved in several terror acts and attacks committed in the territory of the republic. This was announced by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

April 02, 2011 14:00

• Residents of Chechnya, detained in Astrakhan as suspected IAF members, sentenced

  The Court of the Astrakhan Region has passed a verdict of guilty to residents of Chechnya Aina Sidgalieva and Bekmagomed Saigatov, detained in Astrakhan in November 2009. They were accused of an attempt on MIA employees and sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison accordingly.

April 02, 2011 13:00

• Municipal kindergartens in Yerevan become free of charge for parents

  From April 1 on, more than 160 kindergartens in the capital of Armenia, which are under the jurisdiction of the Mayoralty, became free of charge for children's parents. The decision was made by the city Board of Elders at the sitting held on March 15.

April 02, 2011 06:00

• April 1 action named "Monstration" held in Astrakhan by the opposition

  On April 1, in Astrakhan, activists of oppositional parties and movements held an action named "Monstration".

April 01, 2011 23:50

• Water Pollution MAC near city beach of Makhachkala exceeded by 14,000 times

  Examination of water samples near the city beach of Makhachkala has shown that the content of dissolved petroleum products is 991.15 mg per litre, which exceeds the maximum allowable concentration (MAC) in water bodies by more than 14,000 times, reports the Centre for Laboratory Analysis and Technical Measurements of the Republic of Dagestan.

April 01, 2011 23:40

• Ingushetia starts resettling refugees from barracks

  The temporarily displaced persons living in Ingushetia in kasernes, barracks and garages have received prescriptions to abandon these facilities before April 15.

April 01, 2011 23:30

• UN Court refuses to consider Georgia's claim to Russia

  The Hague Court (the UN International Court of Justice) has decided that it has no jurisdiction to consider the claim of Georgia versus Russia, in which Georgia accuses Russia of non-fulfilment of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

April 01, 2011 23:20

• Earlier kidnapped Magomed Taisumov, Sulim Yamadaev's associate, found dead in Chechnya

  Former Chief of Staff of the "Vostok" battalion Magomed Taisumov, who was kidnapped on March 28 by unidentified persons, was found dead. According to his relatives, his body has signs of torture.

April 01, 2011 23:10

• In Astrakhan, court marshals demand Teplischev to move out within ten days

  This morning the house of the Astrakhan journalist Oleg Teplischev was visited by court marshals with the aim to notify about the court's decision to evict the journalist and his mother out of their two apartments in the building in central Astrakhan. They were given ten days to do it.

April 01, 2011 23:00

• Georgian Ombudsman presents his annual report on human rights to Parliament

  On March 31, Giorgi Tugushi, Ombudsman in Georgia, passed his report on the situation with human rights in Georgia in 2010 over to David Bakradze, Speaker of the Georgian. The 600-page document presents general trends in the area of defence of human rights and civil liberties, and specific violations at the level of state authorities, local self-governments and law enforcement bodies.

April 01, 2011 22:00

• Azerbaijan: jailed journalists Fatullaev transferred from dungeon to general colony

  On Thursday, March 31, the imprisoned journalists Einullah Fatullaev was taken out of the dungeon of the penitentiary establishment No. 1 and sent to its general area. The journalist fears for his life, but refutes the information that he had applied to the President for pardon.

April 01, 2011 21:00

• Armenia decides to early relieve convicted oppositionist Baregamyan

  The commission on CER (conditional early relief) has decided to apply this measure to the oppositional activist Aram Baregamyan. Today, the respective documents have been sent to the penitentiary institutions "Razdan", where Baregamyan is serving his sentence.

April 01, 2011 20:00

• Dokku Umarov's wife identified among casualties of special operation in Ingushetia

  According to the latest examination data, Dokku Umarov's wife, a doctor and a few close associates of the leader of "Imarat Kavkaz" were identified among those killed in bombardment of the militants' camp in Ingushetia.

April 01, 2011 19:00

• DDOS-attack upon "Voice of Ingushetia" web-site

  On March, 31, an Ingush web-site "Voice of Ingushetia" underwent a DDOS-attack. It was rather powerful and the server is unable to cope with the great number of requests, administration of the web-site reports.