News

November 11, 2010 19:00

• Residents of Chechnya report kidnapping by members of the top brass

  A 24-year-old resident of Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya was kidnapped last night not far from "Caucasus" federal highway. This news has been reported by the kidnapped young man's relatives who are still unable to find out where he is.

November 11, 2010 18:00

• A forester blown up by a mine in Chechnya

  A worker of an enterprise "Chechenlesprom" was blown up by a trip-wire mine during timber harvesting works in the South of Chechnya. The man remained alive only by a lucky chance and even got no missile wounding.

November 10, 2010 23:55

• ECtHR upholds complaints of violated rights of convicts for attempted putsch in Azerbaijan

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has promulgated its decisions on the cases of the former minister for economic development of Azerbaijan Farkhad Aliev and former president of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Academician Eldar Salaev.

November 10, 2010 23:50

• Citizen of Georgia detained in the border with South Ossetia

  In South Ossetia, near the settlement of Grom, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, a border infringer was detained. This was reported by the press service of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia. The Georgian party asserts that the detention was illegal.

November 10, 2010 23:45

• Azerbaijani authorities find Western criticism of elections ungrounded

  The official Baku believes that the statements of US and EU officials that the November 7 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan failed to meet international standards, suffer from real grounds, since the elections, according to the country's leadership, took place in democratic environment.

November 10, 2010 23:40

• Two suspects of murdering 12 persons in Kuschevskaya village detained

  In the Krasnodar Territory, two men have been detained, whom the investigation believes as being involved in the mass murder on November 5 in the house of a farmer in the village of Kuschevskaya. According to preliminary data, personal enmity could be the motive of the massacre.

November 10, 2010 23:35

• Adygea hosts youth creativity festival, dated to Tolerance Day

  The folk arts festival, dated to the Tolerance Day, is held in Adygea for the third year in a row. This time, the festival on November 10-12 has attracted dozens of students not only from Maikop, as it was before, but from districts of Adygea - representatives of various nationalities. The Tolerance Day is annually marked worldwide on November 16.

November 10, 2010 23:30

• Abkhazian GPO: fire in Sukhumi hospital stems from broken safety regulations

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia is clearing out the reason of the fire that burst out in the Sukhumi Clinical Hospital on November 9 and caused human deaths. According to GPO officials, the ignition was a result of breaching fire safety regulations.

November 10, 2010 23:20

• Court dealing with Sapiyat Magomedova's case rules to examine documents presented by inquiry

  Today, the court has considered the complaint of lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by militiamen on June 17 in the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Khasavyurt. The court has satisfied the petition lodged by Magomedova's advocates and asking to conduct a forensic examination of the records presented by the investigation. According to the defence, the documents have attributes of a service forgery.

November 10, 2010 23:10

• MCC confirms further detention of suspect in "Neva-Express" train explosion case

  Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled to leave Timur Kartoev, one of the defendants in the case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2009, in custody, although he had filed a complaint against the ruling to extend his detention.

November 10, 2010 23:00

• Committee Against Torture: efficient investigation into Umarpashaev's abduction by local investigators is impossible

  The Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture insists on transferring the criminal case on kidnapping of Islam Umarpashaev in Chechnya to an investigator in some other subject of the Russian Federation or of the central office of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), claiming violations in the course of investigations conducted in the Chechen Republic.

November 10, 2010 22:40

• In Dagestan, victim reports that militiamen sneered over his religious feelings

  Today, Murtazali Adukhov, a resident of Khasavyurt, who is taking his inpatient treatment at the trauma ward of the central city hospital of Khasavyurt because of multiple injuries, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the militiamen who had detained him not only beat him, but made a mockery over his religious convictions.

November 10, 2010 22:30

• Conference of authorities and human rights defenders planned in Northern Caucasus

  The upcoming winter in Northern Caucasus will see a big conference, dedicated to drafting proposals on further regional development. It assumes to be attended by officials from Russian government, leaders of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), law enforcement agencies, human rights and other public organizations.

November 10, 2010 22:10

• Editor-in Chief of a newspaper died in prison in Azerbaijan

  Zohrab Sadygov, Editor-in-Chief of a newspaper "Cadre and Prosperity" died in prison in Baku.

November 10, 2010 22:00

• A driver who has knocked down journalist Bella Ksalova to death in Karachaevo-Cherkesia sentenced to 3,3 years of prison

  A court in Karachaevo-Cherkesia has pronounced a sentence on a driver who had knocked down to death Bella Ksalova, reporter of "Caucasian Knot". Arsen Abaikhanov will spend three years and three months in a penal colony settlement. Abaikhanov has acknowledged his guilt entirely saying he was ready for punishment for what he had done.

November 10, 2010 21:00

• A man perished and several more persons wounded during fire upon a militia squad in Dagestan

  A militiaman perished, a local woman and from four to five militiamen by different data sources got wounded during fire upon a militia squad committed by unidentified people last night in Kizlyar district of Dagestan.

November 10, 2010 20:00

• A serviceman wounded in Dagestan because of an explosion on the way of movement of a military motorcade

  A homemade bomb was activated in the evening of November, 9, not far from the village of Inchkhe, Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported. As a result of the explosion a serviceman got wounded.

November 10, 2010 19:00

• Court session on the case of judge Novikov in Sochi delayed because of the defendant's illness

  Next in turn hearings of the case of ex-judge Dmitry Novikov accused of fraud with 17 land estates in Khosta district court of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar region, were held on November, 8 and 9.

November 10, 2010 18:00

• A Russian serviceman perished as a result of an explosion in the South-West of Chechnya

  A serviceman of Inner troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia perished on November, 9, in the piedmont Urus-Martan district of Chechnya as a result of an explosion of a fougasse.

November 09, 2010 23:50

• First festival of Russian films ended in Tbilisi

  The organizers of the First Russian Film Festival, which ended in Tbilisi on November 8, said that the results surpassed all their expectations.