News

February 04, 2010 22:00

• Quality of health services in Chechnya: polls and reality

  The territorial Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance (FMMI) of the Chechen Republic has summed up a sociology poll, conducted in 2009 in treatment-and-prophylactic establishments (T&PEs). According to these data, over 60 percent of respondents-hospital patients expressed their satisfaction with the quality of services.

February 04, 2010 21:20

• In Moscow, Azeri student beaten for forum statements on Nagorno-Karabakh

  On January 23, Ali Aslanly (Aslanov), a 1st year student of the Russian State Medical University (RSMU), was hospitalized to the in neurosurgery ward of Pirogov Hospital No. 33 in Moscow after he was beaten by his classmates. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has found out that the conflict burst out because of the debate in the Internet of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

February 04, 2010 20:00

• Power agents accuse Dymovskiy of links with drug business

  Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy, who placed his video appeal in the Internet with criticism of the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was subsequently accused of a swindle, can now face another criminal case, this time - on charges of drug dealing.

February 04, 2010 19:00

• Strasbourg Court demands from Russia to urgently find the resident kidnapped in Chechnya

  The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded from Russia to present the inquiry materials of the criminal case on Islam Umarpashaev, kidnapped in Chechnya, and inform about the course of investigation of other similar cases in the republic.

February 04, 2010 18:00

• Azerbaijan: Prosecutor's Office confirms charges of drug storage presented to journalist Fatullaev

  According to the joint statement of the Baku City Prosecutor's Office and the Central Police Administration of Baku, the inquiry of the criminal case against Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan", accused of storing drugs, is near its end.

February 03, 2010 23:50

• In Ingushetia, power agents make photos of drivers' documents

  Today in Nazran, agents of the DFSB for Ingushetia and the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Russia, also known as "GIBDD") are inspecting motor vehicles because a terror threat. In the opinion of Magomed Mutsolgov, a well-known Ingush human rights activist and expert of the office of Russian Ombudsman, who was exposed to such procedure, power agents are exceeding their powers and break the Russian legislation.

February 03, 2010 23:40

• Georgia demands from South Ossetia to set Malkhaz Akhvlediani free

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia demands immediate release of Malkhaz Akhvlediani, a resident of the Georgian city of Chiatura, who was detained on January 31. According to South-Ossetian power agents, Akhvlediani illegally crossed the border.

February 03, 2010 23:20

• CoE receives report on human rights violations in Nakhichevan

  The international human rights organization "Norwegian Helsinki Committee" (NHC) has prepared a special report for the Council of Europe (CoE) on violations of human rights in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan. Last week, the report entitled "Azerbaijani 'Black Island': Violations of Human Rights in Nakhichevan" was widespread in Strasbourg at the PACE winter session by the special delegation organized by the "Rafto" Norwegian Foundation.

February 03, 2010 23:00

• Ingush President scarifies his power agents and local bureaucracy

  In his comments on the recent terror acts committed in his republic, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has treated the work of power agents and local administrations as very poor.

February 03, 2010 22:30

• Moscow plans to build monument to Georgians who perished in WWII

  Instead of the ruined Memorial of Glory, a monument to Georgian soldiers who perished during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (World War II) will be erected on the Poklonnaya Mount in Moscow. This was announced by Mikhail Khubutiya, a member of the Board of Guardians of the future monument, President of the Union of Georgians in Russia, who explained that the decision was made on February 2 at the first sitting of the working group on creation of the monument.

February 03, 2010 22:10

• Norwegian Refugee Council goes on building houses in Abkhazia

  The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) plans to carry out a project "Minor Hothouse Farms" aimed to help people in Eastern Abkhazia who suffered in 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhazian war, and to go on building and repairing apartment houses for refugees. Ana Povrzenic, regional manager of the NRC, told about it on February 1 when she met Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, in Sukhumi.

February 03, 2010 22:00

• Moscow City Court upholds arrest of Peter Vince, founder of Sakharov Prize

  Today, a trial of Peter Vince, founder of Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as a Deed", was held. Among others, editions from the Caucasus and journalists covering Caucasian topics were laureates, finalists and nominees of the Prize. The Moscow City Court has upheld the decision of the district court, which had sanctioned Mr Vince's arrest.

February 03, 2010 21:00

• Improvised memorial in the place of Markelov's murder desecrated

  In Moscow, unidentified persons desecrated the improvised memorial installed by anti-fascists in the place, where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were assassinated - in the arch of White Chambers in Prechistenka.

February 03, 2010 20:00

• DFSB of Dagestan: the killed Egyptian had organized terror act at Makhachkala DPS

  Citizen of Egypt Mohmad Mohammad Shakhban, also known as "Safe Islam", who was liquidated in Dagestan, was the founder of the al-Qaeda network in Northern Caucasus and main organizer of the explosion on January 6 in Makhachkala. This was reported by the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Dagestan.

February 03, 2010 19:00

• Knuth Vollebek is concerned of Georgian schools in Abkhazia

  Today in Sukhumi, Knuth Vollebek, Supreme Commissioner of the OSCE on National Minorities, and Indira Vardaniya, Minister of Education of Abkhazia, discussed the issues of teaching the Georgian language in schools of the Gali District and situation with Armenian schoolchildren.

February 03, 2010 18:00

• Kokoity demands to accelerate restoration works in Tskhinvali

  On February 2, President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity held a working meeting with representatives of subcontracting organizations. This time as well, the agenda comprised the issues of restoration rates and timely financing of construction projects. Mr Kokoity promised to take work-in-progress away from dishonest contractors. City dwellers, in their turn, continue complaining of the quality of erected houses, as well as schools, hospitals and kindergartens; residents of Tskhinvali need the infrastructure same as roofs over their heads.

February 02, 2010 23:50

• In Azerbaijan, Fatullaev's advocate demands independent examination

  The results of the blood and urine analyses of Einullah Fatullaev, imprisoned editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan", became known in Azerbaijan. In the end of 2009, a new charge of illegal drug storage was presented to him. Isakhan Ashurov, his advocate, treats the analyses results as ambiguous and demands an independent expert's appraisal.

February 02, 2010 23:40

• In Abkhazia, five border infringers fined

  Today, the City Court of Gali released five persons detained on Sunday, January 31, in Saberio village, Gali District of Abkhazia, for illegal crossing the Georgian-Abkhazian border.

February 02, 2010 23:20

• Railway track blown up in St Petersburg, operator wounded

  Today, at 4:15 a.m., in the section Bronevaya-Ligovo of the St Petersburg-Vitebsk Department of the Oktiabr Railways an explosion took place and injured the operator of the rail car that ran at the moment on the track.

February 02, 2010 23:10

• Two officers arrested in Azerbaijan after soldiers' skirmish

  In Azerbaijan, in the context of the tragic incident on January 28 in an army unit, deployed in the Dashkesan District in the country's west, two officers are arrested: Major Valad Gurbanov, deputy commander of the battalion, and Senior Lieutenant Rustam Ahmedov, a platoon commander.