News

November 12, 2010 22:50

• In Dagestan, a Muslim convert complains of militiamen's pressure

  Sirazhuddin (Sergey) Pigarev, a resident of the capital of Dagestan, who worked in one of Makhachkala polyclinics, asserts that he lost his job because of harassment by law enforcers.

November 12, 2010 22:40

• Mayor of Dagestanskie Ogni apologizes for beating "Chernovik" journalist by his staff

  Galim Galimov, Mayor of the city named Dagestanskie Ogni has apologized to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Blueprint), for the incident on November 9, when employees of the city Mayoralty attacked the journalist in the building of the city administration. According to Galimov, he was not aware of what was happening.

November 12, 2010 22:10

• Isa Yamadaev officially renounces his claims to persons accused of murdering his brother Sulim

  Advocates of the convicts for murdering Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev have presented a letter to the court of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed by Isa Yamadaev, in which he renounces his claims against all those accused of attacking his brother within all the civil and criminal cases.

November 12, 2010 22:00

• Office of Helsinki Civil Assembly began legal action against Armenian Minister of Defense

  On November, 11, a trial in camera on a suit of Wanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly against the Minister of Defense Seiran Oganyan was held in the Administrative Court of Armenia.

November 12, 2010 21:00

• District militia officer's house fired upon in Dagestan

  In the evening of November, 11, some unidentified persons fired upon the district militia officer's house in the settlement of Sergokala, Sergokala district of Dagestan, no one was injured, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

November 12, 2010 19:00

• Khashagulgov's children in Ingushetia still do not attend school because of a threat of kidnapping

  Pyatimat Khashagulgova, resident of Karabulak, wife of Issa Khashagulgov suspected of terrorism, told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot" that she still could not take her children to school and was also concerned about her relatives' security.

November 12, 2010 18:00

• Imprisoned journalist Pashinyan declares he has been beaten up in prison

  Zaruii Postanjyan, Deputy of the parliamentary fraction of "Heritage" party, visited Nicola Pashinyan, Editor-if Chief of "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper condemned in connection with post-election events of 2008, in prison. During the visit Pashinyan told her that at night when he was asleep two masked people wearing black clothes attacked him and started beating him up.

November 11, 2010 23:50

• Group of information terror counteraction to be set up in Volgograd Region

  The Antiterrorist Commission of the Volgograd Region has decided to set up a counter-terror information group, comprised of representatives of scientific and creative intellectuals, public figures, clergymen, special agents and administrative officials.

November 11, 2010 23:30

• In Armenia, AIDS-infected inmates hold protest action

  On November 10 in Yerevan, a group of prisoners with AIDS aiming to express their protest against their custody, climbed onto the roof of the penal institution "Hospital for Convicts" of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

November 11, 2010 23:20

• Ecological action held on Azov Sea coast in Krasnodar Territory

  On November 10, in the Krasnodar Territory, young deputies of the Slavianskiy District held an ecological action "Clean Beach" on the coast of the Azov Sea.

November 11, 2010 23:10

• Businessman reports pressure after his report on corruption schemes in Sochi build-up

  Valery Morozov, head of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Moskonversprom", who stated earlier about corruption schemes used in construction of Olympic objects in Sochi with participation of Kremlin officials, believes that he is under pressure in the form of unjustified claims of tax authorities. The Tax Inspection has moved a bill of 113 million roubles to him.

November 11, 2010 23:00

• South Ossetia delivers teenager detained for border-crossing to Georgia

  Yesterday, on November 10, the South-Ossetian party handed a citizen of Georgia, 15, who was detained on November 9 at crossing the border, in the official order to representatives of the Georgian MIA.

November 11, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 1-7

  Georgia found spies again; parties in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict exchange casualties and captives; more than 50 percent of voters took part in parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan; mass celebrations of the National Unity Day in southern Russia have been massive celebration, - look these and other events in the review of the week of November 1-7, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

November 11, 2010 22:50

• Attacks on militiamen in Makhachkala take eleven lives

  Seven militiamen were killed; seven more persons, including one militiaman and six occasional passers-by, were wounded in a series of attacks on various objects in Makhachkala. Four attackers also perished; the car, in which they tried to escape, blew up.

November 11, 2010 22:40

• Ombudsperson visits resident of Dagestan, who complained of beating by militiamen

  On November 10, Ummupazil Omarova, Ombudsperson in Dagestan, visited Murtazali Adukhov, a patient of the trauma ward of the central city hospital Khasavyurt, who, according to his story, was severely beaten on November 8 by militiamen of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division).

November 11, 2010 22:20

• Azerbaijani SC fulfils ECtHR's decision but leaves Fatullaev in custody

  Today, the Plenum of the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has considered, at its extraordinary sitting, the issue of implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in relation to imprisoned journalist Einullah Fatullaev.

November 11, 2010 22:10

• Georgia: eight Tbilisi principals sacked after schoolchildren's protest action

  For several days in a row, senior pupils of several Tbilisi schools were holding actions with a demand from the Ministry of Education and Sciences to cancel the eight certification exams introduced during this school year. The last action of this sort was held on November 9.

November 11, 2010 22:00

• Georgia asks IMO for help in freeing captured sailors

  Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, met in London with the heads of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and asked for help in saving the Georgian sailors, for more than two months kept by Somalia pirates.

November 11, 2010 21:00

• A case connected with threats of reprisal over Russian-speaking residents referred to court in Stavropol

  An investigation of a criminal case against a resident of the settlement of Demino accused according to part 1, clause 282 "Fomentation of hatred and animosity and derogation of human dignity" of Criminal code of the Russian Federation has been accomplished in Stavropol. This news came from Olga Naumenko, Aid Head of Stavropol inter-regional investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation in the district, on November, 10.

November 11, 2010 20:00

• Militia searched the flat of an organizer of an abandoned documentary show devoted to Anastasia Baburova

  Yesterday, November, 10, militia personnel searched the flat of Mikhail Piskunov, student of Novosibirsk State University and one of the organizers of an abandoned show of a documentary about murdered journalist Anastasia Baburova.