News

January 03, 2011 23:10

• Shakhinoglu: appointment of US Ambassador to Azerbaijan will not solve all bilateral problems

  Elkhan Shakhinoglu, head of the Research Centre "Atlas", has treated the fact of appointment of the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, after the post was vacant for 18 months, as a positive fact for bilateral relations. However, as he said, it does not mean that all the problems between the two countries will be solved.

January 03, 2011 23:00

• About 300 employees of Armenian Pension Fund lose their jobs

  On December 29, the Government of Armenia signed an agreement with the Company "AiPost", under which pensions will be paid out at post offices. This caused discontent among hundreds of employees of the Pension Fund, who lost their jobs as a result of such arrangements.

January 03, 2011 22:50

• In Georgia, police disperses hunger-striking war veterans

  In Tbilisi, the Police of Georgia has used force to disperse the protest action of war veterans. Several persons were detained.

January 03, 2011 22:20

• Azerbaijani Muslims sign-in for President to allow wearing hijabs in schools

  In the settlement of Nardaran, about 2500 signatures were collected under the petition to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev with a request to lift the ban on wearing hijabs in schools.

January 03, 2011 22:10

• Kitsmarishvili refuses to pay debts of "Maestro" Georgian TV Channel

  Erosi Kitsmarishvili, political secretary of the "Georgian Party", denies that he has any debts to or for the "Maestro".

January 03, 2011 22:00

• Power agents' data on militants' losses in Chechnya differs significantly

  The numbers on the members of the armed underground liquidated and detained in 2010 in the territory of Chechnya announced by the federal forces and the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) differ from each other.

January 03, 2011 21:00

• Murdered student's family will receive 150 thousand rubles from Rostov authorities

  The authorities of Rostov region have granted financial aid to the family of Maxim Sychev, student of Rostov State Building University (RSBU), who died as a result of a conflict with a student of the same year, resident of Ingushetia.

January 03, 2011 21:00

• Two women and a baby died in a road accident in Krasnodar region

  Two women and a nine-months-old girl perished as a result of a road accident with the participation of three cars in Krasnodar region.

January 03, 2011 20:00

• The number of internet users in Armenia in 2010 increased twice

  Last year the number of internet users in Armenia increased twice. It has come to 173 thousand people and taking into consideration the users of mobile internet there are 1,5 million.

January 03, 2011 19:00

• A food store exploded in Dagestan

  A food store in Khasavyurt was destroyed as a result of an explosion of an unidentified explosive device. There are no victims.

January 03, 2011 18:00

• Orthodox church in Ingushetia fired upon from a grenade launcher

  In the evening of January, 2, unidentified people fired upon the building of an Orthodox church in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya. There were no victims.

January 01, 2011 22:00

• "Sova": in 2010, 37 persons became victims of xenophobia in Russia

  As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Sova", in 2010, more than 400 persons suffered in Russia as a result of racism- and xenophobia-based attacks. The HRC links a particular surge of violence with the clashes in Manege Square in Moscow.

January 01, 2011 21:00

• Three young men kidnapped in Ingushetia, one is not found yet, a local says

  In the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, three young men have been kidnapped supposedly by power agents. Two of them came back home with bruises - results of beatings, while the fate of the third one is still unknown, runs the statement of Musa Khamkhoev, his father, addressed to the Ombudsman of Ingushetia and human rights activists.

January 01, 2011 19:00

• Owners of "near-Olympic" housing facilities in Sochi will not be able to use them during the Games

  The owners of the apartments in the city-resort of Sochi, located near the future Olympic objects, will be restricted in their rights to use their real estate property during the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. In January-March 2014, their apartments will be handed over to the Sochi-2014 Organizing Committee.

January 01, 2011 18:00

• Head of Maikop Forestry to face trial in Adygea

  The Prosecutor's Office of Adygea has approved the indictment against Madzhit Khatukai, head of the Maikop Forestry. He is accused of negligence entailing damage to the state caused during the works in the territory of the Nature Monument "Upstream Sections of Pshekha and Pshekhashkha Rivers".

January 01, 2011 17:00

• Five SFD ports to be put on sale in February and March

  The "Rosimuschestvo" (Federal Property Management Agency) has announced auctions on a number of ports and shipping companies, including those located in the Southern Federal District (SFD): in Rostov-on-Don, Azov (Rostov Region), Tuapse and Eysk (Krasnodar Territory) and Volgograd.

January 01, 2011 16:00

• Residents of Krasnodar Territory make series of video appeals to Medvedev

  On the eve of the New Year, in the evening on December 31, a total of 38 video appeals of residents of the Krasnodar Territory to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev under the title "Kuban - to Russian President" were posted on the Internet.

January 01, 2011 15:00

• Student from Dagestan is M-1 World Champion

  Movlid Khaibulaev, a 3rd year student of the North-Caucasian Branch of the Russian Law Academy under the Russian Ministry of Justice, located in Makhachkala, has become World Champion in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA, or M-1) among adults in the 64 kg weight category.

January 01, 2011 14:00

• Director General of "Maestro" Georgian TV Company resigns

  Kakha Bekauri has left the post of Director General of the "Maestro" TV Company. According to his version, he took this decision to allow the founders to find some easier solution in their critical financial situation.

January 01, 2011 13:00

• Head of Criminal Search of Untsukul ROVD shot dead in Dagestan

  On the New Year night, an identified person shot dead from automatic firearms the Acting Head of the Criminal Search of the Untsukul ROVD (District Interior Division) of Dagestan.