News

November 04, 2009 21:00

• MIA does not confirm detention of Markelov's killers

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia has denied the information disseminated today that the killers of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were detained.

November 04, 2009 20:00

• In Dagestan, militia violently disperses rally of football fans

  Today in Makhachkala, having defeated "Metallurg" from Lipetsk 3:0, the football team "Anzhi" from Dagestan won the first place in Russian championship in Division One and next season will be relegated to Premier League. The fans who came to the central square of Makhachkala to celebrate the victory were dispersed by the militia.

November 04, 2009 19:00

• Head of Georgian MFA gives up his Russian citizenship

  Grigol Vashadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, wrote an application addressed to the President of Russia about his refusal from Russian citizenship and sent his Russian passport to Moscow.

November 04, 2009 18:00

• Swine flu patient hospitalized in Azerbaijan

  A woman, citizen of this country, was hospitalized with diagnosis of infection with virus A/H1N1. On November 3, she returned to Baku from the Ivan-Frankovsk District of Ukraine, where the swine flu epidemic is at full swing.

November 04, 2009 17:00

• Two persons kidnapped in Chechnya

  On October 31, power agents captured a woman and a young man and took them away in an unknown direction. By now, nothing is known about their fate.

November 04, 2009 16:00

• Two Georgian citizens go on hunger strike in special detention facility of Archangelsk

  Citizens of Georgia N. B. Nikoleishvili and D. S. Khubaniya, who are kept in the special detention facility for serving minor punishments in the city of Archangelsk, awaiting their deportation outside Russia, have gone on hunger strike with a demand to address the problem on their deportation and create proper conditions for those who wait their deportation for long.

November 04, 2009 12:00

• State Duma not to deprive Georgia's MFA head of Russian citizenship

  The State Duma of the Russian Federation has refused to support the initiative of Semyon Bagdasarov, an MP from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" faction, to deprive Grigol Vashadze, Georgian Foreign Minister, of his Russian citizenship.

November 04, 2009 11:00

• Sausoruko offered as symbol of Sochi Olympiad

  The participants of the 4th All-Russian Forum of Young Parliamentarians, which was held on October 22-26 in Anapa, have addressed the Russian authorities and the Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014" with an offer to make the image of Sausoruko - the main hero of the Circassian epos "Narts" - the symbol of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games.

November 04, 2009 10:00

• Volgograd: case of former FSB agent sent to court

  In the Volgograd Region, inspectors have finalized the case of a group of racketeers, which was headed by a high-ranking officer of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB). Their victims were local businessmen, who were forced to pay for the right to peacefully run their businesses.

November 04, 2009 09:00

• Armenia cannot exclude A/H1N1 threat

  So far, no swine flu has been revealed in Armenia. However, the threat of virus penetration into the country cannot be excluded, as Armenia is surrounded by the countries, where infection cases have been already fixed. This was stated by Ara Asoyan, chief infection physician of Armenia.

November 04, 2009 08:00

• Anniversary of Karachai deportation: memoirs of repression victims

  On November 2 and 3, Karachai-Circassia held actions dated to the 66th anniversary of deportation of the Karachai nationals. The residents of the republic, who were victims of political repressions in November 1943, have shared their recollections about the mass resettlement of Karachais to Central Asia with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

November 04, 2009 07:00

• Georgia: strong hailstorm caused huge damage to Kakheti

  Tonight, a strong hailstorm has damaged orchards in Eastern Georgia, in ten villages of the Kakheti Region.

November 03, 2009 23:00

• Russian State Duma considers deprivation of Georgian Foreign Minister of Russian citizenship

  Some deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation believe that that fact that Grigol Vashadze, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, has Russian citizenship allows him to be engaged in "anti-Russian activities."

November 03, 2009 22:00

• Agreement reached on free transportation of patients from Abkhazia to Georgia

  As reported by Shota Utiashvili, head of the information-analytical department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, on November 3, in the city of Gali, at a meeting under the mechanism of incident-prevention in the conflict zone, an agreement was reached on unobstructed transportation of patients across the Georgian-Abkhazian border to the hospitals located in the Tbilisi-controlled territory.

November 03, 2009 21:00

• Special commission to supervise demining in Chechnya

  It is planned to set up a special commission under the government of the Chechen Republic in charge of supervising the process of demining the territory of the republic. Officials and militaries have come to the conclusion that such body is a must.

November 03, 2009 20:00

• "Article 19": no progress in openness of information in Azerbaijan

  Today in Baku, the international journalistic organization "Article 19" has held a presentation of the report on the state of affairs in Azerbaijan in the sphere of the freedom of obtaining information. The report under the figurative title "Time to Reset Code Locks" covers a four-year period (2005-2009). The research studied the issues of receiving answers to requests submitted to state bodies.

November 03, 2009 19:00

• Evkurov nominates would-be Ingush Ombudsman

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has offered Azamat Nalgiev to the parliament as his nominee for the post of national Ombudsman. The candidate will be considered by the MPs within the next few days.

November 03, 2009 18:00

• Five candidates nominated to the post of Abkhazian President

  The nomination, which lasted from October 13 to November 2, of candidates to the post of the President of the republic is over. The candidates are the incumbent President Sergey Bagapsh - from the Party "Edinaya Abkhazia", Beslan Butba - from the "Party of Economic Development", Raul Khadzhimba, Zaur Ardzinba and Vitaly Bganba - from their initiative groups.

November 03, 2009 17:00

• Head of HRC "Memorial" not to challenge criminal case opened against him

  Advocate Genry Reznik, who is representing the interests of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", finds it senseless to appeal against the decision of the Moscow GUVD (City Interior Department) to initiate a criminal case against his client on slander under the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

November 03, 2009 16:00

• Outflow of Russian-speaking population from Dagestan continues

  In the last 20 years, the Russian-speaking population of Dagestan dropped by more than a third. This fact was announced at the session of the governmental commission on the problems of the Russian-speaking population held in Makhachkala.