News

December 12, 2009 14:00

• Case of convicted oppositionist Atspanyan is in European Court already

  The case of Sarkis Atspanyan, an activist of the opposition of Armenia, who is serving his term in the Yerevan prison of "Vardashen", was sent to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported by Asmik Pogosyan, Sarkis' wife.

December 12, 2009 13:00

• Militants searched in southwest of Chechnya

  The foothill Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan Districts of Chechnya are under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime after December 11, and militants are searched there.

December 12, 2009 12:12

• Volgograd residents complain of Artemiy Lebedev to prosecutor's office

  The initiative group of the project named "Volgograd Breakthrough" has filed a claim to the prosecutor's office of Volgograd against the well-known Runet designer and thousand-reader-blogger Artemiy Lebedev in the context of his permanent use of obscene language in his blog. The applicants see it as offence of all Russians.

December 12, 2009 11:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh rejects Baku's accusations of breaking ceasefire

  Senor Asratyan, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, has refuted the accusations announced on December 10 by his Azerbaijani counterpart Eldar Sabiroglu that the Karabakh party breaks the ceasefire regime at the contact line on the everyday basis.

December 12, 2009 10:00

• First frontier boats of Russian FSB arrive to Ochamchira

  On December 11, two frontier sentry boats of the Russian FSB Border Department in Abkhazia - named "Mangust" and "Sobol" - arrived for permanent deployment to the Abkhazian port of Ochamchira.

December 12, 2009 09:00

• Human rights defenders urge authorities to dialogue with North-Caucasian radicals

  The delegates of the Fifth Reporting-Election Congress of the Public Movement "For Human Rights", which took place in Moscow on December 10-12, called authorities to dialogue with those oppositional radical forces in Northern Caucasus, which essentially reject violence in politics. Human rights activists also called to lift the ban on professing certain religious trends, including the so-called "Wahhabism".

December 11, 2009 23:50

• This year, Dagestan Ombudsman received 940 applications

  On the International Day of Human Rights, which was marked on December 10, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the office of the Ombudsman of Dagestan that as of December 1, 2009, they received 940 applications.

December 11, 2009 23:30

• Natalia Estemirova and Maksharip Aushev posthumously decorated with Russian Ombudsman's medals

  On the eve of the International Day of Human Rights, Moscow hosted a ceremony of awarding the medals of the Ombudsman of the Russian Federation "Hurry Doing Good". Two of the laureates were rewarded posthumously - human rights defenders Natalia Estemirova from Chechnya and Maksharip Aushev from Ingushetia.

December 11, 2009 23:30

• In 2009, Georgia mostly complained to the Ombudsman of legal proceedings

  The Ombudsman of Georgia and a number of local NGOs mark that in 2009 citizens of the country submitted their complaints most often with regard to legal proceedings, investigation of criminal cases and violations of prisoners' rights.

December 11, 2009 23:10

• In Baku, police disperses protesters against mosques demolition

  Today, over a hundred activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan held an action in front of Mosque "Fatmei-Zakhra" in Eni Guneshli settlement in a Baku suburb in protest against court decision to demolish this temple. According to the protesters, policemen did not let them to the mosque and detained about 50 activists.

December 11, 2009 22:50

• Georgia states that Abkhazian agents kidnapped 10 Georgians

  Today, in the course of an emergency sitting of the parliament of Georgia, MPs have accused Russian and Abkhazian power agents of terror against the Georgian population.

December 11, 2009 22:20

• Lawyer Gandarov: court on Evloev case refused to interrogate main witnesses

  Today, at the trial on the murder case of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Evloev, his relatives left the courtroom after they learnt that the main witnesses would not be interrogated. This was reported by the Evloevs' advocate Magomed Gandarov.

December 11, 2009 21:00

• 15 years ago Russian troops entered Chechnya

  On December 11, 1994, under the decree of the then president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, federal troops were brought to the territory of the Chechen Republic, and the first military campaign, called "restoration of the constitutional order" began.

December 11, 2009 20:10

• Fire-fighting authorities check all New Year festivity sites in North Ossetia

  Specialists of the fire supervising service of North Ossetia will examine, together with local militiamen, all the places, where the New Year cultural and mass actions are planned. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt that the count of such places is about a hundred, including ten night clubs, of them seven are round-the-clock ones.

December 11, 2009 20:00

• Resident of Chechnya kidnapped several months ago announced to be liquidated militant

  Employees of Chechen power agencies have handed over the body of a 21-year-old citizen of the city of Argun to his relatives. He was kidnapped by armed persons several months ago after he had been released from a militia station. The militia asserts that the young man was killed in the recent armed clash with members of the armed underground. However, human rights activists and his relatives are sure that he fell victim of an extrajudicial execution.

December 11, 2009 18:00

• Ingushetia: indictee in Magomed Evloev's murder case sentenced to 2 years in colony-settlement

  Judge Murat Tungoev from the Karabulak City Court has sentenced Ibragim Evloev, accused of murdering Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru", to two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement. Magomed Evloev's family is going to appeal against the verdict.

December 10, 2009 23:40

• Bloggers' appeal to be considered on December 22

  The consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan, was appointed for December 22 at the Baku Appeal Court under presidency of Gail Mamedov.

December 10, 2009 23:10

• Case on Nalchik attack may be continued by a new bench

  Today, at the process on the case on the attack on Nalchik at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, it became known that Galina Gorislavskaya, who was chairing the trial, was appointed, by the order of Russian President, to the position of a judge of the Moscow Regional Court.

December 10, 2009 23:10

• Kabardino-Balkaria sees more complaints sent to Ombudsman

  Boris Zumakulov, Ombudsman of Kabardino-Balkaria, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the number of complaints and applications addressed to him is on the rise. At the same time, according to his story, the republic sees a positive trend towards greater openness and transparency of the work of various law-enforcement bodies.

December 10, 2009 23:00

• AI: fate of Ingush native detained in Egypt still unknown

  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) possesses information that Russia has sent an extradition request to Egypt in relation to Ibragim Mankiev, a native of Ingushetia, because he was slandered by someone under torture. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Natalia Prilutskaya, an AI employee.