News

November 15, 2010 18:00

• Militia officer murdered in a hospital of Khasavjurt

  In the afternoon of November, 14, a militia officer in Dagestan who was undergoing treatment connected with arm fracture in Khasavjurt municipal hospital was killed by unidentified people, standby unit of Khasavjurt Department of Interior Affairs reported.

November 13, 2010 20:00

• Three suspected militants liquidated in Dagestan

  Today, in a special operation, conducted by law enforcers in the city of Buinaksk, Dagestan, three militants were killed. This was reported by law enforcement structures of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

November 13, 2010 19:00

• "Voice of Beslan" holds picket in Vladikavkaz

  Today, activists of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" have held a picket in Vladikavkaz with a demand to pass a law on the status of victims of terror acts and investigate the terror acts committed in the territory of the republic.

November 13, 2010 18:00

• Contest of anti-corruption social ads held in Rostov-on-Don

  Young artists, designers, journalists and students of the Rostov Region have presented several dozens of works on the topic of fighting corruption within the contest of social advertisements "Clean Hands", said the spokesperson of the press service of the Committee on Youth Politics of the regional capital.

November 13, 2010 17:00

• Historian who justified deportation of Caucasian nations was beaten in St Petersburg

  Unidentified persons attacked Igor Pykhalov, author of books on Soviet history and Internet project "For Stalin!" whose work on Stalin's deportation of Chechens and Ingushes caused mixed reaction, including in the Caucasus.

November 13, 2010 16:00

• North-Caucasian MIA opens telephone helpline

  The Chief Department of the MIA in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has organized the work of the telephone "trust line" to be used by citizens to report information about prepared or committed crimes, as reported by Vladislav Prokofiev, head of the department of records and regime of the above Department.

November 13, 2010 15:00

• Rostov Region: car factory workers were on strike for a few hours because of unpaid wages

  On November 12, workers of the Taganrog Automobile Factory, located in the Rostov Region, stopped their work for several hours, demanding payment of outstanding wages.

November 13, 2010 14:00

• Book on conflicts in Southern and Northern Caucasus presented in Georgia

  On November 12, in Tbilisi, the book by Thomas de Vaal, a senior expert on the Caucasus at the Carnegie Centre "The Caucasus: Introduction to Conflict" was presented.

November 13, 2010 13:00

• Bill to ban offshore registration of media companies brought to Parliament of Georgia

  The Legal Committee of the Parliament of Georgia has drafted a bill "On Free Media Outlets", which refers to transparency of media ownership.

November 13, 2010 12:00

• Former Mufti of North Ossetia Evteev leaves Russia

  Ali-Hadji Evteev, ex-Mufti of North Ossetia, who resigned after his scandalous interview about his vision of Islam, has left Russia, as reported on November 12 by a source from the Ministry for Nationalities of North Ossetia.

November 13, 2010 10:00

• Georgian-Russian spy scandal to appear as plot of computer game

  The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is creating a computer game named "Police", where the main heroes will be policemen, fighting against the crime, including a Russian spy acting in Georgia.

November 13, 2010 09:00

• Karachay-Cherkessia opens medrese for orphans

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, in the village of Uchkeken, Malokarachaev District, a Republic's medrese for orphans and children from poor families was opened.

November 13, 2010 07:00

• Azerbaijani CEC reviews appeals related to past elections

  At its regular meeting held on Saturday, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan considered 31 applications received in connection with the recent parliamentary elections.

November 12, 2010 23:50

• Rostov Region strengthens control of detention facilities

  The Prosecutor's Office and the regional branch of the Penitentiary Service have stepped up their control over the detention facilities located in the Rostov Region. Local human rights activists mark changes for the better with observance of human rights in local prisons and jails.

November 12, 2010 23:40

• Militiamen shelled in Dagestan

  As reported by the spokesman of the republic's MIA, tonight unidentified persons opened fire on militiamen in the Lakskiy District of Dagestan; there were no casualties or victims.

November 12, 2010 23:30

• "Beslan Mothers" against repairs in School No. 1

  Today, the members of the organization named "Beslan Mothers" have expressed their protest against the repair and construction works carried out in School No. 1, which was attacked by terrorists in September 2004.

November 12, 2010 23:20

• Somalia pirates capture ship with Georgian citizen on board

  Somalia pirates have captured the tanker "MV Hannibal II" under the guise of Panama, which was sailing from Malaysia to Egypt. There are 31 persons on board of the vessel, a native of Georgia and a Russian citizen among them.

November 12, 2010 23:20

• Krasnodar Territory: fourth suspect of murdering 12 persons arrested

  As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation, today the court has satisfied the petition of the investigation and sanctioned arrest of the fourth suspect in the murder case of 12 persons committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.

November 12, 2010 23:10

• Decision of Azerbaijani SC on journalist Fatullaev will be re-appealed to the ECtHR

  The defence of journalist Einullah Fatullaev and some public figures of Azerbaijan believe that the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan on enforcement of the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the case of the journalist was illegitimate.

November 12, 2010 23:00

• Georgia: poisonous gas leakage at Rustavi factory harms 14 persons

  Several persons were hospitalized after a leakage of poisonous gas in the city of Rustavi (Eastern Georgia). The victims work at the "Dzheostil" Factory in the territory of the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant.