News

September 01, 2010 20:00

• Leonid Roshal is ready to treat the boy beaten by power agents in Dagestan in his clinic

  Doctor Leonid Roshal, Director of the Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology, said that his hospital is ready to take Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, beaten by militiamen in Dagestan, for further treatment. The case about beating the teenager is under supervision of President of Dagestan, the republic's government has reported.

September 01, 2010 19:00

• Yerevan mayoralty bans oppositional rally in Freedom Square

  Having banned the oppositional rally in the Freedom Square on September 17, the mayoralty offered to hold the action in the territory adjoining Matenadaran. The Armenian National Congress (ANC) believes this decision to be "obviously illegal".

September 01, 2010 18:00

• Court awards 30,000 roubles of compensation to resident of Chechnya for inspector's actions

  On August 31, the judicial panel on civil cases of the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision of the Leninskiy District Court of Grozny of May 15, 2010, on awarding compensation to local resident Muslim Kulaev of the moral harm caused to him by actions of the inspector of the inter-district investigatory division (IDID) at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic.

August 31, 2010 23:50

• New district started in Sochi for "Olympic" resettlers

  In the vicinity of Yan Fabritsius Street in the Hosta District of Sochi, a new residential area was launched for the residents of the city-resort, whose houses get into the zone of Olympic construction.

August 31, 2010 23:40

• Georgia: refugees from Abkhazia to pass free-of-charge medical examination

  An action will be held in Western Georgia of free-of-charge medical examination of refugees from Abkhazia.

August 31, 2010 23:30

• "Strategy-31" activists detained in Rostov

  As reported by Valentina Tolkachova, an activist of the "Solidarity" Movement, participants of the action "Strategy-31" were detained in Rostov-on-Don.

August 31, 2010 23:20

• Bomb planted in garbage blows up in Sergokalin District of Dagestan and wounds people

  In the evening on August 30, a self-made explosive device was triggered in a suburb of Verkhneye Makhargi village, Sergokalin District, which was placed in a heap of garbage. This was reported by a source in the local MIA.

August 31, 2010 23:10

• One casualty and two wounded militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria

  According to local law enforcement bodies, a suspected member of a bandit formation was liquidated in Stary Cherek village in the Urvan District; two militiamen were injured.

August 31, 2010 23:00

• In Dagestan, militiaman suspected of beating teenager asks to make his parents criminally responsible

  Magomed Magomedov, a district inspector of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division) of Dagestan has addressed the magistrate judge of judicial constituency No. 93, Shamil District of Dagestan, claiming to bring the parents of Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, who was beaten by militiamen, to criminal liability.

August 31, 2010 22:00

• ECtHR to consider claims of Azerbaijani citizens to Armenia and vice versa

  On September 15, the High Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will consider the claim of an Armenian citizen against Azerbaijan and the claim of six Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The applicants claim violations of their civil rights during the Karabakh War in 1991-1992.

August 31, 2010 21:00

• In North Ossetia, suicide bomber who blew himself at militia post identified

  The investigatory bodies of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) for North Ossetia have establish the person of the suicide bomber, who blew himself up on August 17 at the militia check point in the administrative border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

August 31, 2010 20:00

• MoD of Nagorno-Karabakh reports injury of its soldier by Azerbaijani servicemen

  An armed clash of the Armenian and Azerbaijani parties burst out in the northeast of Nagorno-Karabakh. According to Karabakh militaries, both parties suffered losses, while their Azerbaijani counterparts did not confirm their losses.

August 31, 2010 19:00

• Militiaman lost, and suspected militant assassinated in special operation in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, a suspect of involvement in the armed underground took three hostages at an attempt of detention, but was shot dead by militiamen. As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, local interior minister, the skirmish caused losses also among employees of his Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

August 31, 2010 18:00

• University student disappears in Ingushetia

  On August 25, 2010, at about 3:00 p.m., in the city of Karabulak, Republic of Ingushetia, Magomed Kureishovich Aushev, born in 1988, left his home and never returned. As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", his whereabouts are still unknown.

August 30, 2010 23:20

• Information about attack on Tsentoroy remains contradictory

  Two days after the attack, in the morning on August 29, of militants on Tsentoroy village in Chechnya, there is no exact data on the number of casualties and victims among power agents and peaceful residents, as well as on the number of attackers. The family village of the president of Chechnya is completely blocked; and local residents cannot leave it yet.

August 30, 2010 23:10

• Azerbaijani soldier lost his way and got in captivity, his relatives say

  Roman Novruz ogly Husseinov, junior sergeant of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, who crossed the contact line in the evening on August 27 and was captured by Karabakh troops, had just lost his ways while returning to his unit, as his father Novruz Husseinov asserts.

August 30, 2010 23:00

• In RNO-A, woman from exchequer extorted bribes from prosecutor's office

  In the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) a verdict has been passed to a woman-employee of the exchequer, who extorted a bribe from the head of one of the departments of the prosecutor's office. The offender was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment.

August 30, 2010 23:00

• Dagestan: followers of Turkish scholar complain of power agents' pressure

  Ibragim Mutrazaliev, a resident of Makhachkala and a follower of the Turkish scholar Said Nursi, whose written works were forbidden in Russia by the court in 2007, said that he was summoned to the Department of the Russian FSB for Dagestan, where he was asked to evidence against another Said Nursi's follower - Ziyavdin Dapaev. The latter, against whom a criminal case was opened under the article of the Russian Criminal Code dealing with "organizing the activity of an extremist organization", told about pressure on his relatives.

August 30, 2010 22:20

• Dagestan law enforcers assert that kidnapped Abdurakhmanov is among militants

  The missing Abdurakhman Abdurakhmanov, son of Shamil Abdurakhmanov, a federal judge of the Leninskiy District of Makhachkala, was recruited by members of the extremist underground and was a member of the grouping engaged in purchase and delivery to militants of regimentals, appliances, components for producing self-made explosive devices. This was stated by the united press centre of law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

August 30, 2010 22:10

• In Riga, organizers of dispersed picket for renaming Dudaev Street will go to court against police actions

  The picket "For Riga without Dudaev", which was planned by activists of the Party "For Human Rights in United Latvia" (FHRUL) on August 25 at the building of the Riga City Duma, was dispersed by municipal police soon after some two dozens of local residents grouped around the picketers. Its organizers are going to sue the police and the mayoralty.