News

September 05, 2009 23:00

• In Moscow, unknown persons gather information about "Memorial" employees

  On September 3, certain strangers, who presented themselves as tax inspectors, came to the registration addresses of Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and Alexander Cherkasov, a member of Board, and tried to find out details of their life.

September 05, 2009 20:00

• Georgia releases Azerbaijanis from detained "Buket" tanker

  Georgia has received fines from the company – owner of the ship "Buket", which was detained in the neutral waters, and released the citizens of Azerbaijan who were onboard.

September 05, 2009 19:00

• Article 19, HRW and IPC call to stop suppressing the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan

  The heads of three international organizations – Article 19, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and International Pen Committee (IPC) – have addressed their open letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, asking him to ensure the supremacy of law at the trial of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, and calling him to stop suppression of the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan.

September 05, 2009 18:00

• Georgia wants to deprive Russian delegation of its vote at the PACE

  The delegation of Russia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) may suspend its work, if the autumn session will see the majority of delegates support deprivation of its vote on the issue of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

September 05, 2009 17:00

• Woman from Ingushetia reports her son's kidnapping by power agents

  Khadishat Chebieva, a resident of Ingushetia, is afraid for the life of her son, who was kidnapped, as she asserts, by employees of some power agencies.

September 05, 2009 16:00

• Tsagareishvili: in Georgia, inmates of Rustavi prison go on hunger strike

  Georgiy Tsagareishvili, a Georgian MP, asserts that already for more than a week up to 10 prisoners, who serve their terms in the Second Rustavi Prison, are holding their hunger strike. However, the Ministry for Punishment Enforcement, Probation and Legal Aid, denies this information.

September 05, 2009 14:00

• Ecologists: building small HPPs in Armenia harms the environment

  Aram Gabrielyan, head of the Environment Department of the Ministry for Nature Protection of Armenia, said that construction of small Hydroelectric Power Plants (HPPs) breaks the ecological balance and results in appearance of problems in the environment.

September 05, 2009 13:00

• After meeting Mayor, wedding saloon owners in Grozny fear bankruptcy

  Owners of the wedding saloons in the capital of Chechnya were imperatively advised, at a meeting at the city Mayoralty, to stop selling wedding dresses, made not in the traditional Chechen style. The city authorities assure that this measure is of only "recommendatory character." However, the shop owners talk about "demand" and "prohibition" and are afraid of going bankrupt.

September 05, 2009 12:00

• DFSB: organizer of attempt on Evkurov liquidated in Ingushetia

  Rustam Dzortov, who was killed during a special operation conducted in the Ingush village of Barsuki, was in command of all the militants in Ingushetia and one of the organizers of the murder attempt on President of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov. This was reported by a representative of the press service of the Department of the Federal Security Bureau (DFSB) for Ingushetia.

September 04, 2009 23:50

• Kabardino-Balkaria: trial on Nalchik attack case makes a break

  The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced a two-week break in litigation on the Nalchik attack. The last court session on September 3 listened to evidences of Alik Shorov, an employee of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was, on October 13, 2005, the head of the service of district militiamen.

September 04, 2009 23:30

• CPJ supports additional inquiry into Politkovskaya's case

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the decision to return the case of three suspects of murdering Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", to additional investigation before its repeated delivery to the court. This is said in the statement of Nina Ognianova, coordinator of the programme for Europe and Middle Asia, which has arrived to the "Caucasian Knot".

September 04, 2009 23:10

• Tskhinvali: Georgian journalist asks political asylum in South Ossetia

  The family of the Georgian journalist Levan Gudadze, who criticized the regime of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, applied for political asylum in South Ossetia. This was reported by Murat Dzhioev, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.

September 04, 2009 23:00

• Native of Azerbaijan, figurant in "Black Hawks" case, killed in Moscow

  In northeast of Moscow, an unidentified gunman shot dead Rasul Khalilov, a native of Azerbaijan, a student of the Moscow Institute of Economy and Culture and a figurant in the case about an attack in spring last year of a group of nationalists from the organization named "Black Hawks" on two Moscow students. This was reported by Sergey Loginov, advocate of one of the defendants.

September 04, 2009 22:00

• Check point "Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars" opened on Russian-Georgian border

  In Kazbegi, on Georgia's border with Russia, the renovated check point "Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars" was opened. It was modernized with the financial help of the United States of America under the programme "Strengthening of Safety of Georgian Borders".

September 04, 2009 21:00

• Employee of the Chechen Ombudsman's office detained for bribery attempt in Novosibirsk Region

  Said Yashuev, an employee of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, is accused of an attempt to bribe an officer of the UFSIN (Federal Administration for Punishment Enforcement) for the Novosibirsk Region. Friends and colleagues of the detainee believe that his detention was a provocation.

September 04, 2009 21:00

• Gorlov: trial of opponents of the "children's curfew" in Krasnodar Territory was held with violations

  The actions of the Novorossisk Court in the case of appealing against the acts of the prosecutor's office, which had passed at the same time a presentation, a caution and a warning to the supporters of cancellation of the "children's law" in the Krasnodar Territory, were accompanied by rough violations; therefore, the human rights activists' complaint was denied. This was stated by Stanislav Gorlov, a lawyer of the Moscow ANO "YURIX", who defended the interests of the Novorossisk human rights activists.

September 04, 2009 20:00

• Trial of bloggers starts in Baku

  Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, under chairmanship of Judge Araz Guseinov, opened a preparatory session on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and rendering of bodily injuries.

September 04, 2009 19:00

• Kesaeva: the state failed to learn how to prevent terror acts

  Terror acts are committed in Russia, because the state cannot prevent them. This is the opinion of Ella Kesaeva, head of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan".

September 04, 2009 18:00

• Video about arrested "shahids" ambiguously perceived in Chechnya

  In the evening on September 3, one of the republic's TV channels showed a report about the young men detained in the southeast of Chechnya, who planned to commit terror acts by self-explosion. The report caused contradictory reaction of the population and local observers.

September 03, 2009 23:10

• Russia commemorates Beslan victims

  Today, cities of Russia mark the Solidarity Day in the war on terror. Russian temples held requiems in memory of the victims of the acts of terror committed in Beslan and Moscow.