News

November 02, 2010 12:00

• Chechnya dismantles bridge built from tombstones

  The automobile bridge, built from the tombstones, removed from Chechen cemeteries after Stalin's deportation of 1944, was dismantled in the Shali District of Chechnya.

November 02, 2010 11:00

• According to Armenian experts, Turkey is seeking to improve its relations with Armenia

  Political scientists Alexander Iskandaryan and Stephan Grigoryan express their opinion that removing Armenia from the list of the countries constituting a menace for Turkey by the Turkish Security Council indicates that Turkey is seeking ways to improve its relations with Armenia as well as with its other neighbours.

November 02, 2010 10:00

• The first volume of "Memory Book of victims of political repression of Abkhazia" is ready for publishing

  The first volume of Memory Book of victims of political repression of Abkhazia out of fifteen is ready for publishing, Yury Lataria, compiler of the book and Deputy Chairman of Association of Memory of victims of political repression of Abkhazia, reported.

November 02, 2010 09:00

• Georgia simplifies the procedure of getting labor permits for international organizations of Abkhazia and South Osetia

  According to Temur Yakobashvili, State Minister of Georgia, the Georgian Government is simplifying the procedure of getting labor permits for international organizations of Abkhazia and South Osetia.

November 02, 2010 08:00

• The majority of North Caucasian bloggers are registered in Dagestan

  A census of blog owners in "LiveJournal" has been carried out on the initiative of North Caucasian bloggers. Dagestani bloggers have become leaders: out of 538 North Caucasian bloggers 185 fall on this republic.

November 02, 2010 07:00

• Imam of one of the mosques of Khasavyurt killed in Dagestan

  In the evening of November, 1, some unidentified people killed the Imam of one of the mosques in the town of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, a representative of the municipal law enforcement bodies reported.

November 01, 2010 21:00

• Dagestan: rally demands resignation of Tabasaran District head

  Today, in Khuchni village, centre of the Tabasaran District, several hundreds of local residents rallied to express distrust to district head Nurmagomed Shikhmagomedov.

November 01, 2010 20:30

• Armenia starts considering applications of TV companies to broadcasting tender

  At its sitting on November 1, the National Television and Radio Commission of Armenia considered tender packages of eight bidders-applicants for the right to broadcast: "Kaim", "Paradise", "Dar-21", "Ar", "Shark", "Tavush TV", "Armnews" and "A1".

November 01, 2010 20:00

• "Memorial" Human Rights Center: Tsoloyev kidnapped in Ingushetia had had a militia record

  The editorial board of "Caucasian Knot" has got a message from "Memorial" Human Rights Center informing that Arthur Tsoloyev, brother of Zurab Tseloyev (Tsoloyev) kidnapped on October, 29, by armed people wearing masks and camouflage uniform from his home in Nazran, who according to official information had installed a fougasse in the center of Nazran, perished in 2008. After that Zurab got a militia record.

November 01, 2010 19:00

• In Dagestan, Shamkhal resident reports illegal detention of 33 citizens

  On October 29, in the settlement of Shamkhal, Kirov District of Makhachkala, law enforcers detained pretty plenty of citizens. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by local resident Shamsudin Magomedov.

November 01, 2010 18:25

• Krasnodar Territory: case of children's death in "Azov" camp sent to the court

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory has sent to the court the criminal case against the teachers accused of the death of six pupils during bathing this summer in the Yeysk Spit, the Office has reported.

November 01, 2010 18:00

• "Strategy-31" activists are fined in Rostov-on-Don

  Under decisions of magistrate courts, the organizer and two protesters of the "Strategy-31" action held on October 31 in Rostov-on-Don were found guilty under the article of the Administrative Code: "disobedience to lawful order of a militiaman" and fined.

November 01, 2010 17:00

• Ex-head of Armenian community arrested in Georgia as Russian spy

  Armen Gevorgyan, former head of Armenian community in Adzharia, is among the 20 persons arrested by Georgian law enforcers on charges of spying for Russia. However, the members of his community believe that the latter came under suspicion only because of his ties in Russia.

November 01, 2010 16:30

• "Patriots of Russia" believe that Dagestan needs two-house parliament

  The October 29 session of Dagestani Parliament passed amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan (RD) and the Law "On Elections of People's Assembly of Dagestan". Under the amendments, the number of seats in the parliament will go up from 72 to 90.

November 01, 2010 16:00

• The court prolonged the term of arrest for those suspected of Markelov's murder

  Today the Moscow municipal court prolonged the term of arrest for 3,5 months, till February, 2011, for Eugenia Khasis, figurant of the case of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova and the defendant on the same case Nikita Tikhonov.

November 01, 2010 15:15

• Gelendzhik opens free "legal clinic"

  The city of Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Territory, has started its "legal clinic". Free legal consultations to everyone will be provided by law students of the Kuban State University.

November 01, 2010 15:00

• Unidentified persons set fire to three Christian churches in Karachai-Circassia

  Last night some unknown people set fire to three Christian churches in Karachai-Circassia. The Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported that two churches had caught fire in the town of Karachayevsk and the third one in stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya.

November 01, 2010 14:00

• Two Georgian residents in Malaysia may be sentenced to death penalty for accusation of drugs contraband

  Darejan Kokhtashvili and Babutse Gordadze, two women natives of Georgia, may be sentenced to death penalty if they are acknowledged guilty of contraband of 10 kilogram of drugs. The trial is appointed for November, 2.

November 01, 2010 13:00

• 40 new private houses are ready for commission in Tskhinval

  New private houses restored after the events of 2008 will be commissioned in the capital of South Osetia in the nearest future. This news was reported by Soslan Bekoyev, Director of State Unitary Enterprise "Directorate of Implementation of Priority National Projects" during his circuit round the municipal objects under restoration.

November 01, 2010 12:00

• Ten militiamen suffered in special operation in Grozny

  Ten law enforcers received wounds and contusions in the course of a special operation aimed to neutralize a supposed member of the armed underground in the Oktiabrskiy District of Grozny.