News

October 29, 2010 23:00

• Two militiamen accused of murdering civilians face trial in Chechnya

  The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic has started considering the criminal case opened against two militiamen accused of killing two persons.

October 29, 2010 22:50

• Georgian Parliament discusses a bill aimed to combat corruption among doctors

  This week the Parliament of Georgia began considering the bill, aimed to address the problem of conspiracy between doctors and pharmaceutical companies, when a doctor is bribed to prescribe medications of a certain company with which he or she has a secret contract.

October 29, 2010 22:40

• Azerbaijani Supreme Court to consider Fatullaev's case on November 11

  Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is kept in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), and his colleagues who support him at large have stopped their joint hunger strike, because the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan had fixed the date of the plenary session on Fatullaev's case.

October 29, 2010 22:30

• In Georgia, 20 persons arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia

  Law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested 20 persons on suspicion of spying in favour of Russia.

October 29, 2010 22:10

• Figurant in Markelov's murder case confesses of trading in arms

  Nikita Tikhonov, who is accused of resonant murders, has confessed of trading in arms but still rejects the main charges - of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

October 29, 2010 20:00

• A meeting passed off at the place of a former fascist concentration camp in Volgograd

  A meeting of memory was held on October, 28, the day of the 68-th anniversary of the beginning of mass prisoner transfer of peaceful residents of Stalingrad (now bearing the name of Volgorgad) to the fascist concentration camps, near a small memorial at the place of a former camp of compulsory confinement No 205 in the territory of the settlement of Gorkovsky, Volgograd region.

October 29, 2010 19:00

• Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports a loss of a soldier in the zone of Karabakh confrontation

  Telman Mustafayev, a nineteen-year-old soldier of Azerbaijani army, was killed on October, 28, as a result of violation of cease-fire regime in the zone of Karabakh confrontation. Azerbaijani party blames the Armenian one for that.

October 29, 2010 18:00

• The first case of violating prohibition of kidnapping brides registered in Chechnya

  The prohibition of kidnapping brides recently established in Chechnya has been violated. On October, 28, a nineteen-year-old young man kidnapped a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl for marriage. The kidnapper may be sentenced to imprisonment and his family will possibly be fined for one million rubles. Commenting on the incident local residents express an opinion that the custom of kidnapping brides will hardly be eradicated in the republic.

October 29, 2010 18:00

• HRC "Memorial": residents of Ingushetia disappear in Rostov and Voronezh Region

  Relatives of two residents of Ingushetia worry about absence of information about whereabouts of their relatives, who disappeared in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh Region on October 27. This is stated in the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that arrived to the office of the "Caucasian Knot".

October 28, 2010 23:50

• Journalists who wrote about Chechens' deportation and accused of extremism defend themselves

  The Buryat journalists Tatiana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkina, who had written about the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes and later were accused of extremism, rejected their appointed advocates and decided to self-defend at the trial, According to Nadir Fatov, a rights defender from Moscow, the case against the journalists is an experiment, in which the FSB refers any criticism of the authorities to Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred against a social group).

October 28, 2010 23:40

• Two persons killed in Armenia proved to be Russian border guards

  At the disposition of Russian frontier troops in Yerevan, two guards from Russia were found dead. Earlier, the press service of the Armenian Police had mistakenly treated them as contract servicemen from the Russian military base stationed in Armenia.

October 28, 2010 23:20

• During attack on Parliament in Grozny more than 20 power agents were lost, a source says

  The data about the casualties among power agents during the attack of three suicide bombers on the parliament building in Grozny on October 19 were significantly understated, said a source from local law enforcement bodies. According to his version, there were more than 40 wounded and 20 lost law enforcers.

October 28, 2010 23:10

• Chechen MIA: report of Russia's Deputy Prosecutor General on militants' actions is non-objective

  Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic refute the data presented yesterday by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, about the activities of illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the region. According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), not a single terror act was committed in the first nine months of this year in the territory of the republic.

October 28, 2010 23:00

• In Dagestan, POC members state obstacles in access to IVSs

  On October 27, the local Public Chamber hosted a meeting of the officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Public Prosecutor's Office, Supreme Court and NGO activists with the members of the Public Observatory Commission (POC) over the places of detention and custody.

October 28, 2010 22:50

• "White Wolves" leader sentenced to life imprisonment

  Vasily Krivets, 22, leader of the criminal grouping named "Belye Volki" (White Wolves), found guilty of 15 ethnically motivated murders on ethnic grounds, was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to life imprisonment. The second figurant of the case - Dmitri Ufimtsev, who confessed of five murders, was sentenced to 22 years of high security colony.

October 28, 2010 22:40

• Khashagulgov faces charges: no Vladikavkaz terror act included

  Issa Khashagulgov, who was detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of organizing the terror act in the central marketplace in Vladikavkaz, is charged under two Articles of the Russian Criminal Code - Article 208 (organization of an illegal armed formation) and Article 222 (firearm storage). No charges of organizing the terror act were presented, said Musa Pliev, Mr Khashagulgov's advocate.

October 28, 2010 22:30

• Krasnodar: hunger-striker Irina Kolesnikova hospitalized

  Today in the evening Irina Kolesnikova, wife of the businessman Sergey Kolesnikov, a figurant in the resonant case of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Promautomatika-Invest", who held her protest action in front of the territorial administration, was hospitalized. Her husband is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for more than ten months already.

October 28, 2010 22:10

• Litigation on beating Caucasian schoolchildren starts in St Petersburg

  On October 28, the Kalinin District Court of St Petersburg started considering on the merits the case on beaten school children - natives from the Caucasus.

October 28, 2010 20:00

• A Committee of European Parliament approved the agreement on simplification of visa system with Georgia

  At its session on October, 27, the European Committee of Liberties, Justice and Internal Affairs approved an agreement between European Union and Georgia on simplification of the procedure of issuing visas for the citizens of the republic signed by the parties on June, 17.

October 28, 2010 19:00

• A Fund of persons desiring to return to Abkhazia established in Georgia

  Georgian Ministry of Justice has registered a Fund of persons desiring to return to Abkhazia.