News

September 28, 2010 23:00

• Ingushetia: a frontier unit shelled

  In the evening on September 27, unidentified persons opened fire on the base of the frontier unit deployed in the centre of Nazran. Nobody was hurt.

September 28, 2010 22:50

• Armenian government decides not to amend the Law "On the Language"

  At today's parliamentary hearings at the standing commission of the National Assembly of Armenia on science, education, culture, youth and sports on discussing the draft amendments to the Laws "On the Language" and "On General Education", Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education, said that the government gave up the intention to amend the Law "On the Language".

September 28, 2010 22:40

• The French police detained three natives of Chechnya for suspicion of contacts with terrorists

  On September, 27, operative agents detained three natives of Chechnya within the boundaries of an operation against a supposed terrorist network. DCRI, the French department of counter-intelligence, is carrying out the investigation.

September 28, 2010 22:40

• Court of Lausanne acknowledged lawfulness of Iliumjinov's nomination for the position of Head of FIDE

  International sports court of arbitration has declined Garry Kasparov's and Anatoly Karpov's suits on unlawfulness of nomination of Kirsan Iliumjinov, President of FIDE, by the Russian Chess Federation for the next term at this position and his registration as nominee for FIDE presidency. The news was reported on September, 27 by Kirsan Iliumjinov himself.

September 28, 2010 22:40

• Dokku Umarov names the splitter among militants

  Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian militants, has blamed Arabian mercenary Mukhannad for splitting the command of "Imarat Kavkaz".

September 28, 2010 22:20

• A kadi in Chechnya promised to raise the issue of inadmissibility of compulsion of women to observe Islamic dress-code

  A round table conference was held on September, 17, in the district center of Itum-Kale, Chechen republic. It was devoted to the problems of women in Chechnya and arranged by a regional non-governmental organization "Trust" dealing with protection of women's rights. Abu-Said Aziev, kadi of Itum-Kale district participating in the conference declared that no man who was not a woman's relative had a right to admonish on her appearance.

September 28, 2010 22:20

• Akhilgov: all applications addressed to President of Ingushetia will be checked

  Even if an application of a resident of Ingushetia was not directly sent to the president, but just appeared on the Internet, the republic's leader will automatically appoint a check of the facts and take actions, Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of Ingush President, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

September 28, 2010 22:10

• A bomb exploded near the Teachers' training university in Makhachkala

  A homemade explosive device was activated on September, 27, near V.I. Lenin monument located in front of the building of Dagestan State Teachers' training university (DSTTU) in the capital of Dagestan. A source in the Ministry of interior affairs of the republic reported today there were no victims of the explosion.

September 28, 2010 22:10

• Militiamen and three civilians wounded in Dagestan

  Unidentified persons opened automatic fire on the militiamen, who stood with his friends at the entrance to one of the restaurants in the city of Izberbash. After the incident four persons were hospitalized.

September 28, 2010 22:00

• Seven persons were kidnapped in a special operation in Chechnya, rights defenders say

  The statement of the HRC "Memorial" says that on September 24, 2010, agents of local law enforcement bodies kidnapped seven residents of Davydenko village, Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya.

September 28, 2010 21:00

• Ombudsman wants to help woman from Grozny to preserve her housing

  Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has drawn attention to the problem of Alexandra Tanina from Grozny, now residing in a refugee camp in Nazran, who is afraid of losing her housing in the capital of Chechnya. According to Timur Akiev, head of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", the problem of losing apartments in Chechnya is a systemic one.

September 28, 2010 20:00

• Head of village administration shot dead in Dagestan

  Today in the morning, the head of the village administration of Kakamakhi was killed. As reported by the spokesman of the local MIA, militiamen managed to detain the suspect - a casualty's relative.

September 28, 2010 19:00

• Bastrykin: Estemirova's murderer is known, alive and on federal wanted list

  The killer of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is known; he is in the territory of Russia; and steps are taken to arrest him, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), said today at the meeting with a delegation from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.

September 28, 2010 18:00

• Terror act prevented in Nalchik in the centre of residential area

  Employees of the UVD (Interior Division) for the city of Nalchik have prevented a terror act, the Kabardino-Balkarian MIA has reported today. Simultaneously, two self-made explosive devices with a total capacity of up to one TNT (trotyl) kilogram were found in the heart of a residential district of the capital of the republic.

September 27, 2010 23:50

• In Sochi, official sentenced to 12 years in prison for land frauds

  The court in Sochi has sentenced the head of a rural district to 12 years in prison for stealing more than 300 land plots worth over 1 billion roubles.

September 27, 2010 23:30

• Specialists do not confirm two Siberian plague cases in Krasnodar Territory

  The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has not confirmed the diagnosis of "Siberian plague" in two hospitalized farm workers from the Beloglinskiy District, the head of the territorial agency's department has reported today.

September 27, 2010 23:20

• Azerbaijan amends discipline rules in prisons to ensure inmates' rights

  The collegium of the Ministry of Justice has amended the "Rules of Internal Discipline in Correction Establishments" aimed to ensure prisoners' rights.

September 27, 2010 23:10

• Women of Kabardino-Balkaria fear of extrajudicial execution of their searched sons

  Residents of the city of Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, have addressed their letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and Head of Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov. They ask for help that their sons, who are wanted, were not killed, but arrested alive and tried according to Russian laws depending on the degree of their guilt.

September 27, 2010 23:00

• During three days of special operation in Chechnya one power agent is lost and 10 wounded

  One law enforcement officer perished and ten of his colleagues were wounded during a special operation aimed to search a militant conducted in Chechnya since September 24. This was reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office). Local experts believe that the large-scale operation was a sort of Kadyrov's response to the militants' attack on Tsentoroi village, Kurchaloi District, in late August.

September 27, 2010 22:50

• FSB reports detention of one of "Imarat Kavkaz" leaders

  In Northern Caucasus, on September 25, FSB officers detained one of the leaders of the Ingush branch of "Imarat Kavkaz" acting in Ingushetia, the PR centre of the FSB said today. According to the centre, the name of the detainee is Khashagulgov, Issa Lokhanovich.