News

March 08, 2010 23:00

• Georgia and EU to create united air space

  Georgia and the European Union have signed the agreement on united air space. The document assumes to build, within 2 years after signing, the united Georgian-EU aviation space.

March 08, 2010 23:00

• Chechnya celebrates Eighth of March

  In honour of the International Women's day Chechnya held mass festivities. In the streets of cities and large settlements women are presented flower and CDs with congratulation on behalf of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

March 08, 2010 22:40

• Chechnya: car race postponed for a week because of rain

  The first legitimate night car race in Chechnya appointed for the night of March 7 was postponed for a week because of rains which made the track dangerous for fast driving, as reported by Ibragim Dzhamaldinov, president of the Federation of Motor Racing of Chechnya.

March 08, 2010 22:30

• Woman from Dagestan gets into Guinness Book of World Records

  In Dagestan, Sakinat Khanapieva, 76, a resident of Sultan-Yangiyurt village, has been recognized to be the strongest grandmother in the world. The woman was registered in the Guinness Book of World Records.

March 08, 2010 22:10

• Resident of Chechnya brings his lost brother's sub-machine gun to militia

  A resident of the Shelkovskoi District of Chechnya (in the north of the republic) has voluntarily given out a Kalashnikov that he had hid for more than ten years to law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a local MIA employee.

March 08, 2010 22:00

• Supposedly, a businessman was the aim of explosion in Tbilisi

  A remotely triggered bomb planted near an apartment block caused an explosion in Tbilisi. Most probably, the culprits watched the entrance and triggered the explosive when a businessman who lives there was entering the house.

March 08, 2010 21:00

• Georgia voices readiness to restore air traffic with Russia

  If accord is reached by private airlines, the official Tbilisi is ready to resume regular air flights between Georgia and Russia, said Nino Kalandadze, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Georgia.

March 08, 2010 20:00

• Chechen residents treat Bastrykin's idea to fingerprint all NCFD residents differently

  The offer of Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia, to enforce mandatory fingerprinting for all citizens of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), caused extremely negative reaction in public and human rights activists. However, President Ramzan Kadyrov has treated this initiative as "normal".

March 08, 2010 19:00

• Valery Etezov, suspected of attacking power agents, shot dead in Nalchik

  As reported by law enforcement bodies, in the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Valery Etezov, helper of one of regional militants' leaders - Anzor Astemirov, - was liquidated.

March 08, 2010 18:00

• Five years after death of Chechen separatists' leader Aslan Maskhadov

  Five years ago, on March 8, 2005, it was announced that in the plain Grozny District of Chechnya, as a result of successful operation of Russian special agencies Aslan Maskhadov, President of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), was liquidated. Some people in Chechnya still believe that Maskhadov was killed on other day and in other place, while the special operation in Tolstoy-Yurt village, where he was allegedly liquidated, was just an imitation.

March 06, 2010 21:00

• FSB: 2009 "Neva-Express" train explosion case solved

  The case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, committed in 2009, is solved. The FSB (Federal Security Bureau) of Russia reports that the Kartoevs' grouping headed by Said Buryatskiy was in charge of the crime.

March 06, 2010 20:00

• Sochi voters ask Russian President to cancel early elections

  On March 5, individual voters, observers and candidates from CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), LDPR (Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia), "Edinaya Rossiya" United Russia), and self-nominees began and continue sending their collective and individual applications to the President of the Russian Federation demanding to cancel early elections in Sochi. They find them illegal.

March 06, 2010 18:00

• Charitable women's hospital reopened in Dagestan

  The charitable hospital has started receiving patients in its new building.

March 06, 2010 17:00

• Said Buryatskiy's liquidation in Ingushetia officially confirmed

  As confirmed today by Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB, among the suspected militants killed in the course of the special operation on March 3 in Ingushetia, one of their leaders known as Said Buryatskiy has been identified.

March 06, 2010 16:00

• Residents of Ingushetia state that militia used force against participants of spontaneous rally

  Participants of the rally held in Plievo village after its resident Mikail Pliev was kidnapped on March 5 on his way from Nazran to Pyatigorsk complain that militiamen dispersed the rally and applied force to some of the protesters.

March 06, 2010 15:00

• In Azerbaijan, journalists meet relatives of arrested colleagues

  On Friday, March 5, the office of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety of reporters (IRFS) hosted a meeting of journalists with families of arrested journalists Einullah Fatullaev and Ganimat Zakhidov, and of bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

March 06, 2010 11:00

• David Ovannisyan: Armenian-Turkish dialogue grows into bargaining and speculations

  The present stage of negotiations on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations has the character of imitation. As stated by Professor of the Yerevan State University David Ovannisyan on March 5 at the roundtable "Dialogue Armenia-Turkey: Relation Recovery Process", the parties use any occasion to push negotiations into the track of deal-making and gambling.

March 06, 2010 10:00

• Parliament of Catalonia recognizes Armenians' genocide

  As reported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Armenia, the legislative body of the Autonomous Community Catalonia has unanimously voted for recognition of Armenians' genocide in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.

March 06, 2010 09:00

• Chechen religious website attacked by hackers

  The religious website "Way of Truth" launched last year by the republic's Centre of Spiritual and Moral Enlightenment was exposed to hackers' attack. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from a source from the Chechen Muftiyat.

March 06, 2010 08:00

• After Burdzhanadze, other Georgian oppositionists are ready to come to Moscow

  After the visit on March 5 to Moscow of Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the Georgian parliament and leader of the "Democratic Movement - United Georgia", activists of other oppositional parties - Labourites and Conservatives - have expressed their readiness to go to Moscow to establish relations.