News

July 02, 2010 13:00

• Volgograd prosecutor's office requests access to the sight offering "Mein Kampf" should be blocked

  The prosecutor's office of the Volgograd Central district has revealed facts of placing in Internet of offers to purchase the book by A.Hitler "Mein Kampf", included into the federal list of extremist materials.

July 02, 2010 12:00

• Employees of "Vodocanal" in Rostov oblast convicted for poisoning people with water

  On July 1, the Novoshakhtinsk district court of Rostov oblast passed a sentence to four functionaries of the municipal company "Vodocanal", finding them guilty of violating the sanitary and epidemiological regulations which resulted in a mass poisoning of the town residents with potable water.

July 02, 2010 11:00

• Investigation of the circumstances of terrorist act by suicide bomber in Grozny continues

  The power of the explosive device used by the suicide terrorist, which exploded in the evening of June 30 in the center of the Chechen capital, was one-and-a-half kilogram of trotyl equivalent. The law enforcement agencies think that the aim of the suicide bomber could be the republic's president Ramzan Kadyrov.

July 02, 2010 10:00

• Place of train derailing in Dagestan studied by mine pickers

  In the course of today's explosion on the railway in Dagestan, two engine drivers have received shocks and leg wounds, 12 railway cars have been derailed and overturned. The place of the accident is now studied by mine pickers and dog specialists.

July 01, 2010 23:20

• Rostov opposition to hold Day of Anger

  The opposition-minded community of Rostov-on-Don has announced its intention to hold a city action, Day of Anger. The event is planned for June 7 at 18.00 p.m, reports political scientist Sergei Reznik, one of the event organizers, independent journalist, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 01, 2010 23:00

• Fotov detained in Nalchik complains of torture

  Ratmir Fotov held in a pre-trial prison of Nalchik has filed a complaint at the KBR public human rights center, in which he claims that he has been tortured already in the pre-trial facility.

July 01, 2010 22:10

• Ecologists doubt legitimacy of destroying pesticides on Georgian territory

  In 2011, the Georgian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources plans to destroy more than 500 tons of pesticides. The toxic chemicals are going to be exterminated in cement kilns. However, ecologists doubt the legitimacy of such actions because the project and the expert opinions have not been made public.

July 01, 2010 22:10

• Exploded car with bodies of victims found in Dagestan

  On June 30, an exploded car with fragments of three human bodies was found in Dagestan near Makhachkala.

July 01, 2010 22:00

• Abkhazia militia and Russian border guards claim not taking part in shooting at Georgian territory

  Abkhazia denies having taken part in the shooting at the post in Ganmukhuri on the Georgian bank of the river Ingur, which resulted, according to Georgian media, in wounding one policeman.

July 01, 2010 21:00

• Dwelling area in Sochi to be constructed on the fields of selection varieties of tea and hazel-nut

  Dwelling houses and cottages are prepared to be built on the territories of the All-Russia research institute of horticulture and sub-tropic plants in Sochi, used for cultivating selection varieties. In the course of clearing them, bulldozers have already entered a plot with the best selection varieties of tea and hazel-nut.

July 01, 2010 20:00

• Eight persons wounded during explosion of suicide bomber in Grozny

  The Chechen MoI names of law enforcement officers and local residents who suffered from the yesterday's terrorist act in Grozny. According to new information, eight people suffered from the explosion.

July 01, 2010 19:00

• FSS expert finds signs of extremism in Markelov's article

  FSS criminal expert has found signs of extremism in the article by the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov "Patriotism as a Diagnosis", published in autumn 2009 in the "Avtonom" magazine.

July 01, 2010 18:00

• Deputy accused of pedophilia in Volgograd pleads partially guilty

  Yuri Babin, ex-member of Volgograd city council and former teacher of family ethics, suspected of perverting 20 schoolchildren, has partially pleaded guilty but refuses to give evidence.

June 30, 2010 23:20

• Human rights activists submit complaint to the European Court on torture of Chechen Ganaev

  The Inter-regional Committee against Torture has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on the torture of Amur Ganaev, resident of Chechnya, who was detained by Chechnya operational service officers in January 2006 and brought to the ОRB-2 (criminal investigation bureau).

June 30, 2010 23:00

• Representatives of Azerbaijan ombudsman claim pressure on inmates of Gobustan prison

  Employees of Azeri ombudsman's office have made "a long-term - two-day visit" of Gobustan prison "with the aim of preventing torture and other cases of inhuman or degrading treatment", in the course of which they have revealed facts of exerting pressure on inmates.

June 30, 2010 22:50

• Ex-judge from Sochi appeals against decision to bring him to criminal responsibility

  Dmitri Novikov, former judge of Khosta district court in Krasnodar Krai, accused of organizing embezzling of 17 "Olympic" land plots in Sochi, has appealed against the permission of the Krasnodar Krai judges' qualification board for bringing him to criminal responsibility on the case of illegal recognition of title for a land plot which is now within the zone of Olympic construction.

June 30, 2010 22:40

• Manzhikova claims there are virtually no women in Kalmykia authorities

  Russia occupies 83rd place by the number of women in the bodies of power, with virtually no women in Kalmykia authorities, claimed Natalia Manzhikova, president of non-profit foundation "Gender Equality", at the forum on consolidating women's movement.

June 30, 2010 22:10

• Local resident killed by explosion in Dagestan

  Today, during the night, a car was exploded in the village of Mitaghi-Kazmaliar of Derbent district, Dagestan. A twenty-year-old resident was killed.

June 30, 2010 22:00

• Identity of terrorist who exploded himself in Grozny established

  According to preliminary data, the suicide bomber who exploded himself near the concert hall in Grozny was an Adam Khamidov, resident of Grozny.

June 30, 2010 21:00

• Human rights activist Danielian states that Armenia has turned into a military police state

  The assessments given to Armenia by the international organization Freedom House in its annual report fully coincide with the opposition assessments. This has been noted to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Levon Zurabian, coordinator of the Armenian National Congress, who states that "cleptocratic dictatorship rules Armenia".