News

March 12, 2011 16:00

• Sochi holds job fair "Employment Service to Women"

  About 20 enterprises and organizations of Sochi took part in the job fair "Employment Service to Women", where the highest demand for specialists was demonstrated by municipal health care and education institutions.

March 12, 2011 13:00

• Georgian "Resistance Movement" to hold pickets in defence of prisoners' rights

  Starting from March 14, the public organization "Nationwide Resistance Movement" will hold protest actions in defence of prisoners' rights of detainees in prisons, and now encourages the public to rally around this problem.

March 12, 2011 10:00

• Adygea debuts at international tourist fair in Berlin

  The delegation of Adygea is for first time participating in the ITB international tourism fair held in Berlin on March 9-12.

March 11, 2011 23:50

• Twice in two days Stavropol evacuated its students because of explosion threats

  On March 10, in Stavropol, they had to evacuate students and personnel of the North-Caucasian State Technical University after a report that a bomb had been planted in the building. The threat proved to be false. It was the second within two days message about a threat of a terror act in higher schools of Stavropol.

March 11, 2011 23:30

• International filming group detained in Armenia

  On March 10, at the Yerevan International Airport "Zvartnots", an independent international group of journalists and producers, who planned to film a documentary in Armenia about armed conflicts in the Caucasus, was detained without any explanations.

March 11, 2011 23:20

• Azerbaijan continues arresting activists of March 11 action

  In Azerbaijan, on the eve of the "Great People's Day", scheduled on March 11 by the group of the Facebook, detentions of youth activists continue. On March 9, Orkhan Bayramov, a member of the youth movement "Nida" (Cry) was detained and taken to the 18th station of the Nariman District Police Division.

March 11, 2011 23:10

• Head of ID of ICRF for Kabardino-Balkaria equates "Black Hawks" to militants

  The "Chornye Yastreby" (Black Hawks) are "same criminals as the bandit underground", whatever principles they are guided by. This was stated today by Valery Ustov, head of the Investigatory Department (ID) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Kabardino-Balkaria, at a press conference in Nalchik.

March 11, 2011 23:00

• Resident of Dagestan reports kidnapping of his son

  On March 9, unidentified armed persons in masks abducted Rustam Kurbanaliev, born in 1971, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan. Dagestani rights defenders were informed about it by his father Kurbanali Kurbanaliev.

March 11, 2011 22:40

• Nine persons lost within a week in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from February 28 to March 6, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least nine lives; at least four persons were injured during this period. These are the count results of the "Caucasian Knot", based on its materials and information from other open sources.

March 11, 2011 22:30

• UN Security Council puts Dokku Umarov on list of dangerous terrorists

  The Committee of the UN Security Council on sanctions against Al-Qaeda, Taliban and persons and organizations associated therewith has put the North-Caucasian militants' leader Dokku Umarov on its consolidated list. It was reported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

March 11, 2011 22:20

• 43 young persons detained at protest actions in Baku

  They were detained today in the centre of the capital of Azerbaijan in the course of the youth anti-government action in response to the call of the social network Facebook "Great People's Day".

March 11, 2011 19:00

• Merab Kolbaya, a kidnapped resident of Abkhazia, is still being forcibly kept in the territory of Georgia

  Merab Kolbaya, resident of Gali district of Abkhazia, is still being forcibly kept in the territory of Georgia. "Caucasian Knot" received this news from law enforcement bodies of Abkhazia.

March 11, 2011 18:00

• Stolen property confiscated from the suspects of a triple murder in Stavropol region

  Stolen money and valuables have been confiscated from the suspects of a murder of three persons in Mineralniye Vodi district of Stavropol region. According to the investigation's data, they are acquaintances of a murdered woman. They have already confessed the fact of committing the crime.

March 10, 2011 23:50

• Bonde: Azerbaijani Human Rights House was deprived registration for political reasons

  The reasons for cancellation by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Azerbaijan of registration of the Azerbaijani Human Rights House are sooner political than technical, believes Ane Tusvik Bonde, the regional manager for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus of the Norwegian Foundation "Human Rights House".

March 10, 2011 23:40

• Baisaev: refusal to grant residence permits to Chechens in Norway looks like political order

  Refusals to grant residence permits by Norway to refugees from Northern Caucasus are politically motivated. This was stated by Usam Baisaev, a human rights defender and a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

March 10, 2011 23:30

• Freight train blown up in Dagestan

  Today, an explosive device went off en route of a freight train in Dagestan, said the spokesman for the Republic's Interior Department for Transports. There are no casualties and victims.

March 10, 2011 23:20

• Ingush Govt forced to resign

  Alexei Vorobyov, Chairman of the Government of Ingushetia, was dismissed on his own will because of going to some other job, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said today at a sitting in Magas, Ingushetia. Together with the Prime Minister, the entire government was sacked.

March 10, 2011 23:10

• In Dagestan, roundtable participants state poor efficiency of Kremlin's regional policy

  Today, the newspaper "Chernovik" hosted the last roundtable with participation of candidates for Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan on the topic "Regional Policy and Dagestan". According to the participants, the measures to help in solving regional problems include changes of the tax system, update of draft laws on regional policy and development of legal framework for strategic planning.

March 10, 2011 23:00

• Family in Stavropol Territory was massacred by two gunmen, surviving boy said

  According to preliminary data, the family of three persons from the farm yard Vozrozhdenie, Mineralovodskiy District of the Stavropol Territory, was assassinated by two unidentified criminals. This became known after questioning of the surviving child.

March 10, 2011 22:50

• AHRH de-registered in Baku

  Today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has annulled registration of the Azerbaijani Human Rights House (AHRH), which is a representative office of the Norwegian Human Rights Foundation.