News

February 06, 2010 13:00

• Volgograd scientists offer new method of waste neutralization

  On February 5, Volgograd hosted a sitting on safe neutralization of environmentally hazardous substances. A microbiological preparation named "Bioglauconite", created by Volgograd scientists, was presented to the audience.

February 06, 2010 12:00

• Residents of Stavropol Territory stand up to protect mineral source

  Residents of the Mineralovodskiy District of the Stavropol Territory stand in defence of the mineral source, located in the place, where local authorities plan to build a landfill for domestic wastes. People are afraid that garbage from the whole vicinity will be brought here.

February 06, 2010 11:00

• All-Russian action "Healthy Hearts" held in Rostov-on-Don

  Today in the morning, the Rostov Musical Theatre hosted a solemn opening of the All-Russian educational action "Healthy Hearts". The aim of the action is to draw attention of people to their health, in particular, to vascular diseases.

February 06, 2010 10:00

• Georgian opposition demanded to release political prisoners

  On February 5, activists of Georgian oppositional parties held a march of protest with a demand to release political prisoners. They stuck posters to the wall of buildings in the Rustaveli Avenue with photos of political prisoners.

February 06, 2010 09:00

• Feature film on Karabakh War shot in Nagorno-Karabakh

  In Nagorno-Karabakh, the first in the region's history feature film about the Karabakh War - "House which Shot" - was made. It is planned that it will launch the cycle of feature films based on real facts.

February 06, 2010 07:00

• Unique zoo to be built in Azerbaijan

  The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has defined the winner of the tender, held on designing, building and further development of the Zoological Park, intended to house endangered animal species. The German-Turkish company will build a zoo in the territory of more than 200 hectares.

February 05, 2010 23:50

• Two levels of unfinished house collapse in the capital of Adzharia

  Four persons, including two children, suffered in Batumi, when two floors of the 14-storey building, which is in construction, cracked down at night on February 4.

February 05, 2010 23:40

• Felling boxtrees near Sochi continues, ecologists assert

  When the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) mission was in Sochi, Red Book trees were still cut down along the joint road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana. This is stated by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus.

February 05, 2010 23:30

• Three TB patients died this year in Karachai-Circassia

  The phthisiology service in Karachai-Circassia is in a pitiable condition. It is recognized by Khusei Kurdanov, Minister of Public Health. He marks that conditions in the republic's TB clinic are below all sanitary standards.

February 05, 2010 23:10

• Settlement for residents of landslide zone in Ingushetia to be finished by end of February

  All the building and communication works for commissioning of the cottage settlement of 507 houses in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia for resettled residents of the landslide zones will be over this month and the houses will be turn-key ready, said President Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

February 05, 2010 23:00

• Orthodox human rights defenders indignant with actions against Prayer Crosses in Adygea

  The Human Rights Centre of the World Russian People's Council has expressed its indignation with the "continuing acts of vandalism against Prayer Crosses installed in the territory of Adygea."

February 05, 2010 22:20

• South Ossetia-Russia visa-free regime to start in March

  The agreement on mutual visa-free travels between citizens of South Ossetia and Russia will be in force since March 2010. This was stated by Murat Dzhioev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.

February 05, 2010 22:00

• In Azerbaijan, bloggers' case reappointed to February 12 because of snowfall

  The consideration of the appeal complaint filed by young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade was again postponed by the Baku Appeal Court today. The reason was a strong snowfall that prevented their transportation to the trial.

February 05, 2010 21:00

• Dagestan: bad weather leaves 10,000 without electricity

  Snowfalls and wire icing in the north of Dagestan crushed down power line supports made of reinforced concrete. Ten thousand residents remain without electric power, while specialists promise to completely restore supplies by February 8-9.

February 05, 2010 19:00

• Prosecution asks 10 years for figurant in Politkovskaya's case

  The prosecution has demanded to sentence Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, who was acquitted in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case but accused of extorting 350,000 US dollars from the main prosecution's witness in this case, to 10 years of imprisonment.

February 05, 2010 18:00

• In Moscow, film "Aldy. With No Limitation Period" shown to public

  On the eve of the 10th anniversary of "zachistka" (clean-up) in the Chechen village named Novye Aldy, where 56 peaceful residents were murdered on February 5, 2000, Moscow hosted a press conference dedicated to the anniversary of those tragic events. During the event a documentary entitled "Aldy. With No Limitation Period", based on video evidences and video documents, was demonstrated.

February 04, 2010 23:50

• Chechnya to hold action "Clean Water"

  Chechen ecologists plan to hold a broad-scale operation in the districts of the republic scale operation "Clean Water", aimed to prevent pollution of water bodies. The responsibility for observance of the nature protection legislation will be assigned to heads of municipal formations.

February 04, 2010 23:20

• In Azerbaijan, editor-in-chief of "Themis-007" sentenced to corrective works

  On February 3, the Yasamal District Court of Baku satisfied the claim of Ramil Usubov, head of the MIA of Azerbaijan, to Eyub Kerimov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Themis-007".

February 04, 2010 23:00

• Abkhazian leader: attitude to national minorities shows country's level of democracy

  In Abkhazia, there is understanding that attitude to national minorities is among basic parameters of a country's development level as a democratic state. This was stated by President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh on February 3 in Sukhumi, in the course of his meeting with Knuth Vollebek, OSCE Supreme Commissioner on National Minorities.

February 04, 2010 22:20

• Witness in Nalchik attack case opens details on how defendants are convoyed

  Today, at the court session, where the attack on law enforcement bodies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, evidences of Mohammed Mirzoev, a lawyer of the Bar of Kabardino-Balkaria, were heard. At the moment of the events, he worked as an operative agent of criminal investigation at the 1st OVD of Nalchik and was engaged in delivering defendants from the investigatory insulator to the UBOP (division for fighting organized crime) for interrogations.