News

January 24, 2011 22:00

• More than 150 persons suffered from explosion at Domodedovo Airport

  The explosion was triggered near the customs control at Domodedovo; therefore, according to eyewitnesses, there are many foreign nationals among the victims of the terror act. According to the statement posted on the website of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), the total count of victims went up to 152, 58 of them were hospitalized, and 31 persons died. According to other sources, 35 persons were killed.

January 24, 2011 22:00

• "Memorial": Chechen authorities evict refugees from hostels and put resettlers from the new buildings in Argun instead there

  Hostels in Grozny are liberated for internally displaced persons (IDPs), who lost their housings during the war in Chechnya and who were provided flats in 2007 in two high apartment buildings in the city of Argun at 111 Kadyrov Street and 9a Titov Street. Human rights activists assert that the authorities are conducting a "chain reaction" of evicting people from flats into hostels, and from hostels into the street.

January 24, 2011 21:00

• Woman from Rostov-on-Don complains to Medvedev of negligence of Moscow hospital

  Elena Kolosova, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, states that employees and bosses of medical institutions have disregarded the rights of the mother and the child and neglected her personal dignity. She appealed to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in connection with the surgery made on her son Yaroslav, as she believes, badly, and with the bad attitude of the medical personnel of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (RCCH) in Moscow to their patients.

January 24, 2011 19:00

• Armenian rights defenders and politicians wait for Hammarberg's objective report

  Now, in the aftermath of the visit to Armenia of Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, local human rights activists and politicians expect that his report on the visit will reflect the real situation with human rights in Armenia.

January 24, 2011 18:00

• In Georgia, refugees getting ready to apply for asylum in the West

  The displacement persons are going to lodge petitions for political asylum to the Embassies of the USA and European countries. This was announced today at a briefing, organized by the "Refugees' Civil Movement" in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

January 24, 2011 17:00

• Norwegian police arrests North-Ossetian Maria Ameli before deportation

  Following the decision of the kingdom's authorities, today the Norwegian police have arrested Madina Salamova, a native of North Ossetia, better known under the pseudonym of Marie Ameli, who will be soon deported to Russia because of problems with her documents.

January 22, 2011 23:00

• Picket against civil rights violations held in Sochi

  Today in Sochi about 50 persons came out to hold another protest action against violations of citizens' rights by local authorities.

January 22, 2011 22:00

• Kalitsov: ban on sale of border land to foreigners is aimed at protecting these territories

  According to Sergey Kalitsov, Deputy Minister on Property and Land Relations of North Ossetia, the main idea of the ban on sale of land to foreign persons introduced in several regions of Russia is to ensure safety of these territories.

January 22, 2011 21:00

• Dagestani authorities condemn Zhirinovsky's utterances on North-Caucasian nations

  Today, the department of information policy and the press service of Dagestan have spread a statement condemning the utterances of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the LDPR (Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia) and Vice-Speaker of Russian State Duma, on the situation in the country and about nations of Northern Caucasus.

January 22, 2011 19:00

• Militiamen detain two local residents in Dagestan

  Zulfiya Magomedova, a resident of the village of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, has reported that local law enforcers took away - without any explanations - her two brothers: Abdurakhman and Magomed Gaziev.

January 22, 2011 17:00

• Explosion in Georgian mine kills one person and injures four

  Today at night, one person was killed and four others injured in an explosion in the coal mine in Tkibuli (Western Georgia).

January 22, 2011 16:00

• Russian citizen convicted for smuggling uranium released in Georgia

  Oleg Khintsagov, a Russian citizen and a resident of North Ossetia, has been released after serving his term for uranium contraband. Thanks to the presidential amnesty he spent in custody four years instead of eight.

January 22, 2011 14:00

• Subeliani: refugees in Georgia may get compensation instead of resettling

  As stated by Koba Subeliani, Minister for Matters of Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Accommodation of Georgia, the refugees who were evicted on January 20-21 would be able to get their housing in the countryside or monetary compensation. According to other sources, compensations are not paid out now.

January 22, 2011 13:00

• Revenge and theft are among versions of massacre in Stavropol

  As reported by law enforcers, the mass killing on January 21 in one of private houses of Stavropol may have been committed out of revenge or with the aim of robbery.

January 22, 2011 12:00

• World Cup football matches not to be held in NCFD

  In 2018, matches of the World Cup will not be held in the cities of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) for security reasons. At the same time, three cities of the Southern Federal District (SFD) want to receive matches: Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Volgograd.

January 22, 2011 11:00

• Over 120 bodies to be exhumed in Kuschevskaya

  In the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where a massacre of 12 persons was committed, exhumation of more than 120 bodies will be undertaken, since they had been buried with violations, and the cause of their death raises questions.

January 22, 2011 08:00

• Plane-tree alley cut down in Sochi

  Felling of the alley of 50-year-old plane-trees was launched in Tchaikovsky Street in Sochi at midnight on January 22. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by residents of the neighbourhood who heard noise of falling trees and chain saws.

January 21, 2011 23:50

• Russian Audit Chamber reveals violations in rendering financial help to Abkhazia

  As a result of the audit of the use of funds allocated from the Russian budget on rendering assistance to Abkhazia, the Audit Chamber (AC) of the Russian Federation revealed violations amounting to the total sum of 346,759,000 roubles. This is stated in the report published by the AC on January 20.

January 21, 2011 23:45

• Farmer detained in Kalmykia on suspicion of abduction and use of slavery labour

  In the Chernozemelskiy District of Kalmykia, law enforcers detained an owner of a private cattle farm, who illegally detained residents of Astrakhan and Stavropol Territory and forced them to work for him.

January 21, 2011 23:40

• Dagestan: three detectives detained on suspicion of bribe extortion

  Three operative agents of the Department of Criminal Search of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan were detained during a joint operation of the MIA's own security service and the FSB Department on suspicion of extorting a bribe.