News

December 08, 2009 23:00

• All Makhachkala educational institutions stopped for quarantine

  Today, by the decision of the chief sanitary physician for the Republic of Dagestan, all higher and secondary schools, and kindergartens of Makhachkala are closed for quarantine because of flu epidemic.

December 08, 2009 22:00

• Azerbaijani bureaucrats want to preserve criminal punishment for defamation

  The Azerbaijani Committee in Defence of Journalists named "Ruh" has held a poll aiming to reveal the attitude to responsibility for defamation among ministries, state bodies, establishments, enterprises and organizations.

December 08, 2009 21:00

• All chief physicians in Grozny are put off-staff

  All the chief physicians of medical establishments in the capital of Chechnya will have to pass re-attestation in the near future; and on the outcomes thereof decisions will be made on their service match. This decision was made by the authorities after on December 7 the city Mayor Muslim Khuchiev checked the first aid station.

December 08, 2009 20:00

• Public of Abkhazia concerned of situation in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Representatives of the public of Abkhazia express their concern of the recent situation in Kabardino-Balkaria and demand to stop attacks on the leaders of Adyg organizations.

December 08, 2009 19:00

• Prosecution demands sending Evloev's killer to colony, defence is for acquittal

  The Karabulak Court of Ingushetia, which runs the process on the murder case of Magomed Evloev, an oppositionist and the owner of the site "Ingushetia.Ru", plans to announce the verdict on December 11.

December 08, 2009 18:00

• Ingushetia: fate of three missing persons still unknown

  Relatives of three residents of Ingushetia, supposedly kidnapped by power agents, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they were still unaware of their fate.

December 07, 2009 23:50

• Karachai-Circassian drugstores have violations in drug storage, the prosecutor's office asserts

  The check conducted by the prosecutor's office of Karachai-Circassia jointly with the local department of the Federal Service for Supervising Public Health and Social Development revealed violations by chemist's entities of the Federal Law "On Pharmaceuticals".

December 07, 2009 23:10

• Bloggers discuss blocking of access to sites by Yota provider

  The WiMax-operator named "Skartel", working under the brand of Yota, blocked for several days the access of its users to a number of Internet-based resources. Messages of indignant users started to appear in the Internet on December 2. Some subscribers from different Moscow districts failed to load several oppositional websites.

December 07, 2009 23:00

• Evkurov supports Ingush Premier in his conflict with administration head

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has dismissed Vladimir Borschov, head of his administration. Under the official version, the bureaucrat had asked for resignation himself, having referred to poor health. By another version, Mr Borschov has retired because of his conflict with Alexei Vorobyov, head of the republic's government.

December 07, 2009 22:00

• Detained Zviad Gamsakhurdia's son stops his hunger strike

  Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of the first President of Georgia, arrested on the charge of a murder attempt, has decided to stop his protest hunger strike because of sharp deterioration of his health.

December 07, 2009 21:00

• Markelov posthumously rewarded by European lawyers

  The Board of European Bars and legal societies, which unites over 0.7 million lawyers of the European Union, has posthumously awarded their 2009 prize to lawyer Stanislav Markelov, assassinated this January.

December 07, 2009 20:00

• In Sochi, Imereti residents protest against sums for their real estate

  The residents of the Imereti Lowland (Sochi, Krasnodar Territory), whose houses are within the Olympic construction zone, have held a rally in protest against a significant decrease of the earlier declared prices on their bought-out real estate, and against the absence of reliable and timely information about their forthcoming resettlement.

December 07, 2009 19:00

• Ingushetia: father reports execution of his son by power agents

  According to Hasan Tsoroev, father of Beslan Tsoroev, a resident of Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, assassinated today, his son fell victim of extrajudicial execution.

December 07, 2009 18:00

• Lawsuit of Major Dymovskiy's colleagues sent to Primorskiy District Court of Novorossisk

  Today, the Oktiabrskiy District Court of Novorossisk has held a preliminary session on the claim lodged by the bosses of the city UVD (Interior Department) against Major Alexei Dymovskiy, known for his video appeal with criticism of his bosses placed in the Internet.

December 07, 2009 16:00

• Vasilieva: Volgograd enterprise "Plastcard" poisons the air

  In Volgograd, the FSB bodies investigate the criminal case initiated against the managers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Plastcard". The factory was disposing its Hazard Class 1 wastes as Class 3 wastes, having caused harm estimated as 370 million roubles. Ecologists assert that the main harm was rendered to human health. Defenders of the factory, on the other hand, assert that all the factory operations were coordinated with the "Rostechnadzor" (Federal Agency for Technical Supervision).

December 05, 2009 23:26

• Militiaman lost in a clash in Dagestan

  On December 5 in the evening, a combat clash of militiamen with a group of militants burst out in a large forest in the territory of the Sergokalin District of Dagestan. A militiaman perished, and another one was wounded.

December 05, 2009 22:00

• Georgian MFA treats deployment of Russian boats in Abkhazia as piracy

  As stated by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, the deployment by the Russian Federation of frontier motor boats in Abkhazian waters is qualified as piracy and pursues the aim "of strengthening of the occupational military contingent."

December 05, 2009 21:00

• In Armenia, imprisoned journalist registered as deputy candidate

  In Armenia, on December 5, at the sitting of the Central Electoral Committee (CEC), a decision was made to register the inmate Nikol Pashinyan, an activist of the opposition and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Armenian Time", accused of organizing mass disorders on March 1, 2008, as a candidate for deputy.

December 05, 2009 20:00

• Rostov Region enacts "curfew" for children

  Now, in the Rostov Region, children in the age under 16 have no right to appear without adults at night in public places. The respective law was passed on December 3 by the regional parliament.

December 05, 2009 19:00

• Convicted oppositionist hospitalized from prison in Armenia

  Sasun Mikaelyan, an activist of the opposition, who was deprived of his deputy's mandate after the charges moved against him of organizing mass disorders on March 1, 2008, was urgently transferred from prison "Yerevan-Centre" to the Republic's Hospital of Armenia because of sharp deterioration of his health condition.