News

January 05, 2010 13:00

• Abkhazia expects recognition from countries of Oceania, Latin America and Middle East

  In 2010, the authorities of Abkhazia expect further recognition of independence of this breakaway republic by the countries of the Pacific basin, Latin America and Middle East. This was stated by Sergey Shamba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, who added that "a whole range of countries are ready to consider the issue."

January 05, 2010 12:00

• Opposition asks UN to supervise elections in Georgia

  The oppositional parties of Georgia have prepared an appeal to the Secretary General of the United Nations asking him to take the forthcoming municipal elections in this country under the aegis of this international organization. The leaders of the opposition are sure that democratic elections in Georgia are possible only with a direct participation of the United Nations.

January 04, 2010 20:00

• Khukhashvili: opening of Armenian-Turkish border will affect the whole of Caucasus

  Georgian experts and politicians believe that possible opening of the Armenian-Turkish border will affect the whole Caucasus and radically change the political picture of the region.

January 04, 2010 19:00

• Ingushetia: another railway explosion

  Today in Nazran, a railway track was blown up under a cargo train. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, there are no victims of the incident.

January 04, 2010 18:00

• Georgian Airways to make three direct flights to Moscow

  As reported by Nino Giorgobiani, head of the PR Service of the Georgian Airways, the airline will make three direct Tbilisi-Moscow flight - on January 8, 9 and 10.

January 04, 2010 16:00

• By 2012, Chechnya will create 3000 new jobs

  The authorities of the Chechen Republic plan to rebuild 13 major industrial enterprises by 2012, which will allow, under their forecasts, to employ about three thousand persons.

January 04, 2010 14:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 28, 2009-January 3, 2010

  Resonant litigation on Mukhrovani mutiny coming to end in Georgia; approval of Sochi civil development rules; Russian-Georgian negotiations on New-Year direct charter flights; New Year celebrations in the regions of the Caucasus, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of December 28, 2009-January 3, 2010, in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 04, 2010 14:00

• Hurricane damage evaluated in Southern Azerbaijan

  As a result of the hurricane, which covered southern areas of Azerbaijan on January 2-3, over 300 power transmission line supports were tumbled down at the distance of several dozens kilometres. Roofs were torn off a number of houses.

January 04, 2010 12:00

• Relatives of Farid Babaev, assassinated in Dagestan: defence tries to ruin the case

  Relatives of human rights activist Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party, who was killed in 2007 "Apple", are sure that defendants' advocates are doing everything to ruin the case, and in the near future the killers will be at large. The main witness of the prosecution, who saw the gunman, has already given up his evidence.

January 02, 2010 20:00

• Elena Isinbaeva from Volgograd is athlete of 2009

  Double Olympic pole vault champion Elena Isinbaeva from Volgograd and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt are recognized the athletes of the year according to the version of the International Association of Sports Journalists (AIPS).

January 02, 2010 18:00

• RwB: Azerbaijan censors the Internet

  The organization named "Reporters without Borders" (RwB) has put Azerbaijan on the list of countries practicing censorship on the Internet.

January 02, 2010 17:00

• Astrakhan oceanologists place artificial coral reefs on Red Sea bottom

  The action of setting up artificial coral reefs to the bottom of Red Sea was held within the agenda of the International Festival "Artificial Reeves-2009" by experts of the Caspian Branch of the Oceanology Institute under the request of Egyptian ecologists.

January 02, 2010 16:00

• Yerevan: new CHPP unit is finished

  The civil works at the Yerevan CHPP (combined heat and power plant) are practically over. Its new power unit will be commissioned in April 2010, Armen Movsisyan, minister for energy and natural resources, told journalists.

January 02, 2010 15:00

• Georgian Airways has no permit from Rosaviation to fly to Russia

  The airline named Georgian Airways is still waiting for a permit from the Aviation Department of Russia (Rosaviation) to make air flights. This was reported by Nino Giorgobiani, head of the airline's PR service. The Russia's decision is anticipated by January 4.

January 02, 2010 14:00

• Abkhazia switchovers completely to Russian telephone codes

  Now, telephone calls to Abkhazia are made entirely by means of Russian area codes.

January 02, 2010 13:00

• Azerbaijan: journalist Fatullaev gets 2-month arrest on new charge

  As ruled late at night on December 31 by the Karadag District Court of Baku, the already imprisoned editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev was awarded a 2-month arrest on a new charge - drug storage. Within the next few days the journalist will be transferred from his colony to the SIZO (pre-trial facility) in Kyurdakhany village.

January 02, 2010 12:00

• In Georgia, author of film about war in South Ossetia is "the Person of the Year"

  On the outcomes of the polling held by the Public Broadcaster of Georgia, Andrei Nekrasov, author of the film about the Russian-Georgian war entitled "Lessons of Russian" was recognized as "the Person of the Year" in Georgia.

January 02, 2010 11:00

• Volgograd Region introduces e-daybooks

  Starting mid-January, pupils' parents in Volgograd will be offered to make use of the new electronic system "Electronic Daybook".

January 01, 2010 18:50

• Azerbaijan starts exporting gas to Russia

  Today, Azerbaijan has started its gas deliveries to the Russian Federation. Official opening of the gate took place in Shirvanovka village, Gusar District.

January 01, 2010 18:00

• DFSB: militants' "cashbook" found on leader of underground in Dagestan

  Among the things of Umalat Magomedov, leader of the armed underground of Dagestan, who was liquidated in Khasavyurt, a notebook was found with records on militants' revenues and expenditures.