News

June 05, 2010 14:00

• Residents of Armenia are ambiguous to opening foreign-language in the country

  A protest action against opening of foreign-language schools in Armenia was held on June 4 in Yerevan. During debates at the parliamentary commission around the draft amendments to the Laws of the Republic of Armenia "On Languages" and "On General Education" some 30-40 activists gathered at the building of the national parliament.

June 05, 2010 12:00

• Five mountain-ski resorts to be built in Northern Caucasus

  The Russian government has stated its intention to erect five modern European-class mountain-ski resorts in the territory of Northern Caucasus within the nearest 10 years.

June 05, 2010 08:00

• AI waits for Azerbaijan's answer to demand to release Fatullaev

  Azerbaijan has failed to submit an appeal against the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) prescribing to release journalist Einullah Fatullaev. The independent international organization Amnesty International (AI) demands from the Azerbaijani authorities to enforce the ECtHR decision.

June 05, 2010 07:00

• Terror act prevented in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria have prevented a terror act in the high-mountainous city of Tyrnyauz. This was reported by the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

June 05, 2010 06:00

• Family advocate of assassinated Armenian journalist Grant Dink found hung up in Turkey

  On June 4, Khakan Karadag, the lawyer who represented at trial the interests of the family of assassinated editor of the Armenian newspaper "Akos" Grant Dink was found hung up in his apartment in Turkey.

June 04, 2010 23:50

• "Krachkists" attacked in Makhachkala mosque, parishioners report

  Today in Makhachkala, after the end of the Friday prayer, at the exit from the mosque located in Aligadji Akushinskiy Avenue, two parishioners were executed.

June 04, 2010 23:40

• Fatima Margieva set free in South Ossetia

  Today, Fatima Margieva, a teacher of the South-Ossetian University, who was accused of illegal arms keeping and was kept in custody until today, was released right from the Tskhinvali City Court.

June 04, 2010 23:30

• Committee against Torture sends a new complaint to ECtHR concerning resident of Chechnya

  With support of the Inter-Regional Committee against Torture (IRCAT), Roman Gastemirov, a resident of Grozny, who was tortured by militiamen and then tried for five years to seek justice in Russia, has addressed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg.

June 04, 2010 23:20

• Day of Republic in Ingushetia was saddened by explosions

  Today, Ingushetia celebrated its Day of Republic, but the holiday was accompanied by explosions, as a result of which three persons were lost and about a dozen - wounded.

June 04, 2010 23:00

• MFA of Abkhazia is concerned of situation in Gali District

  The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia is highly worried of the renewed Georgia's terrorist activity. This is stated in the MFA's document disseminated today on the occasion of the recent casualties of attacks - Gennady Kvitsiniya, an employee of the State Customs Committee, who was killed on June 1, and Dmitri Katsiya, head of the administration of Rep village of the Gali District, who was murdered on June 3.

June 04, 2010 22:40

• Rights defenders and journalists demand from President of Azerbaijan to release journalist Fatullaev

  In the evening on June 3, in front of Azerbaijani embassies in London and Moscow human rights activists held their actions with a demand to release journalist Einullah Fatullaev from his imprisonment. In Azerbaijan, heads of mass media voiced a similar demand.

June 04, 2010 20:00

• Lawsuit filed against Doku Umarov's 'spokesman'

  Prosecutor's office of Chechnya filed a lawsuit against an active rebel Anwar Labazanov, an alleged spokesman of the Caucasian insurgents' leader Doku Umarov, for incitement to national or religious hatred or enmity. Video speech titled "Reminder for militiaman" made by Labazanov and posted on a rebel website encouraged prosecution.

June 04, 2010 19:00

• Chechen residents complain they have to pay for all medical services

  Patients of the Chechen health care institutions assert that despite their medical insurances they have to pay for medical services. According to the ministry of health of Chechnya, about 90% of residents in the region carry the mandatory medical insurances (MMI) to date.

June 04, 2010 18:00

• Ombudsman in Ingushetia intends to network the legal aid centers

  Ombudsman in Ingushetia Jambulat Ozdoev and the Ingush regional department of "Association of Russian Lawyers" jointly intend to render the legal aid to the residents of the republic.

June 03, 2010 22:30

• Pub shelled in Dagestan, no victims

  Today in the morning, unidentified persons shelled the beer pub "Arma" located in Datueva Street in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, from a grenade launcher. Nobody suffered, but the premise was strongly damaged. Local residents link the incident with militants' threats to traders in alcohol.

June 03, 2010 22:00

• Isa Yamadaev pleased with court decision on assassination attempt on his life

  Isa Yamadaev is pleased with the ruling of the Moscow region court that has sentenced today Khavazha Yusupov, a native of Chechnya charged with trying to assassinate Yamadaev in the summer of 2009. After sentencing, the businessman himself said this, having pointed out that only the principal offender was penalized.

June 03, 2010 22:00

• ECtHR fines Russia for death of Chechen resident

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian Federation to pay compensation of 60,000 euros to the widow and mother of a Chechen of 22, who was kidnapped and disappeared in the course of a military operation in Chechnya.

June 03, 2010 22:00

• "Law and Freedom": in Georgia, militaries were forced to vote for party in power

  The Georgian NGO "Law and Freedom", which monitored the voting process at special polling stations for military servicemen at municipal elections on May 30, states that "the servicemen's right to free choice was violated"; they were ordered to vote.

June 03, 2010 21:40

• Beseliya: Georgian prisoners were deprived of their right to vote

  Eka Beseliya, leader of the Public Movement "Solidarity with Illegal Prisoners", demanded explanations in the Ombudsman's office from the Probation Ministry about organization of voting at local elections of pre-trial detainees.

June 03, 2010 21:10

• Journalist Ani Gevorkyan released in Yerevan

  Ani Gevorkyan, a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), who was kept in custody since June 1 was released under recognizance not to leave. This was reported by her advocate Lusine Saakyan.