News

November 02, 2009 06:00

• Novorossisk human rights activists hold a picket on International Black Sea Day

  On October 31, human rights activists from Novorossisk held a picket dated to the Black Sea Day. The picket took place despite the ban of the city administration.

November 02, 2009 02:00

• In Dagestan, Imam of rural mosque assassinated

  Tinamagomed Ramazanov, 34, Imam of a rural mosque, was shot dead in the evening on November 1 by unidentified persons in Bavtugai village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan.

October 31, 2009 20:00

• MIA reports liquidation of Emir of flatland Chechnya

  Ali Khasanov, Emir of flatland Chechnya and close ally of Chechen militants' leader Doku Umarov, was killed in Grozny. According to Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov, President Ramzan Kadyrov took his personal part in the special operation.

October 31, 2009 19:00

• In Dagestan, Koran phrases appear on baby's body

  The phenomenon of the nine-month-old Ali Yakubov from the Dagestan village of Krasnooktiabrskoe, on whose body phrases from the Koran appear, are seriously discussed by local representatives of Muslim clergy and politicians. The house of the Yakubovs is visited by pilgrims who wish to see the wonderful child and touch him.

October 31, 2009 18:00

• Four suspected militants liquidated in Dagestan

  In a special operation held in the Sergokalin District of Dagestan four members of illegal armed formations were killed, as reported by the local ROVD.

October 31, 2009 16:00

• Karachai-Circassia sees high demand for winter rest in Dombai and Arkhyz

  Tourism was on decline in mid-season in Karachai-Circassia; however, demand for winter rest in Dombai and Arkhyz is already noticeable. Kazim Uzdenov, director general of the "Everest" travel company, told about it in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 31, 2009 15:13

• On November 7, Georgian opposition to hold protest actions in several places of Tbilisi

  On October 30, the Georgian opposition notified the Tbilisi Mayoralty about the protest actions planned for November 7. The organizers hope to invoke hundreds of participants.

October 31, 2009 13:00

• Five swine flu cases registered in Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, five swine flu patients (virus А/Н1N1) have been revealed, one of them was hospitalized, as reported by the Republic's branch of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision).

October 31, 2009 12:11

• Abkhazia commemorates victims of Stalin repressions

  Every year on October 30, Abkhazia marks the memory of Stalin's victims. According to historians, in 1930-1940s a thousand persons were repressed in Abkhazia, first of all, intellectuals and the political elite.

October 31, 2009 11:00

• Defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia appeals against his pre-trail custody

  Ketevan Bekauri, advocate of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has appealed against the two-month pre-trial custody of her trial.

October 31, 2009 10:00

• Rally held in Moscow on the Day of Political Prisoners

  On October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, Moscow held a rally in defence of victims of political prosecutions in Russia. Despite cold weather, over two hundred persons came to take part in the event. The protesters demanded to immediately release the "prisoners of conscience" and reconsider the cases of all political prisoners.

October 31, 2009 09:00

• Participants of press conference in Moscow on situation in Ingushetia detect shadowing

  After the press conference of the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Liudmila Alekseeva, assistant of the President of Ingushetia Musa Pliev and the leader of the Ingush opposition Magomed Khazbiev on the current situation in Ingushetia in the context of the recent murder of Maksharip Aushev, its participants found that they were shadowed.

October 30, 2009 23:50

• Georgian Ombudsman states violation of human rights and freedoms in his country

  Georgiy Tugushi, Ombudsman of Georgia, has characterized the situation in the sphere of human rights in the country as grave. This is stated in his first report, for the first half of 2009, placed in the web site of the Ombudsman.

October 30, 2009 23:10

• UN criticizes work of law enforcement bodies in Northern Caucasus

  The situation with human rights and persecutions of journalists in Russia has deserved a special report, prepared by the respective profile committee of the United Nations. The results of the work of the experts of the UN Human Rights Committee were reported today in Geneva. Russian law enforcement bodies operating in the Chechen Republic and other subjects of Northern Caucasus were subjected to the sharpest criticism.

October 30, 2009 23:00

• Protest action dated to the Day of Political Prisoners held in Yerevan

  Today in Yerevan, on the Day of Political Prisoners, which for the first time was marked in the former USSR 35 years ago, a protest action was held at the building of the State Public Prosecutor's Office with a demand to release the remaining 17 political prisoners.

October 30, 2009 22:50

• Azerbaijani IRFS states pressure on NGOs

  Today, the Institute on Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has made a statement, which regards the sudden inspection of the Institute initiated by the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan to be a "start of a new campaign of frank pressure."

October 30, 2009 22:30

• In Dagestan, six-form pupil sent out of school for wearing hijab

  Rizvan Abusufyanov, a resident of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his daughter Patimat Abusufyanova, a pupil of the sixth form, was sent away from school today because she is wearing an Islamic headscarf (hijab). Abusufyanov said that school director Patimat Magomedova was behind the incident.

October 30, 2009 22:10

• Georgia: court refuses to release Tsotne Gamsakhurdia for the period of investigation

  Georgia: court refuses to release Tsotne Gamsakhurdia for the period of investigation

October 30, 2009 22:00

• Homeless Dagestan teenager kidnapped from Moscow hospital

  On October 29, a source from law enforcement bodies reported that employees of the Moscow GUVD were searching a teenager of 14, kidnapped from the reception ward of the Morozov Children's Hospital.

October 30, 2009 21:10

• Russia loses three more ECtHR cases on Chechen residents' claims

  Russia has lost three more cases at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg on the claims lodged by residents of the Chechen Republic and will have to pay 130,000 euros for disappearances in 2000.