News

August 24, 2009 18:00

• In Chechnya, human rights activists fear repressions against terrorists' relatives

  Experts of some Chechen NGOs stick to the opinion that relatives and family members of the two suicide bombers, who blew themselves in the afternoon on August 21 in Grozny killing four employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya and a young woman, are under threat of punitive and repressive measures.

August 22, 2009 22:00

• President of Ingushetia: I'd have forgiven my attempters

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said, at his first press conference after his return to the republic that would have been ready to pardon the terrorist who had attempted on him, should the latter have remained alive.

August 22, 2009 18:12

• Georgia is ready to accommodate Guantanamo inmates

  Georgia has expressed its readiness to accept prisoners from the American base in Guantanamo within its territory. This information was disseminated today by some Georgian and American media.

August 22, 2009 18:00

• Evkurov interrupts treatment and returns to Ingushetia

  Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who interrupted his rehabilitation course at a sanatorium near Moscow, has arrived in his republic. He made this decision because of aggravated situation in Ingushetia.

August 22, 2009 12:00

• In Azerbaijan, court accepts NGO's suit against Ministry of Justice on the fourth try

  On August 21, after a triple rejection, the Yasamal District Court of Baku has accepted the claim of the NGO "Centre for Election Monitoring and Teaching Democracy" (CEM&TD) against the Ministry of Justice.

August 22, 2009 11:00

• Power agents hold exercises at hospital in Ingushetia, human rights activists are indignant

  Human rights activists have condemned the actions of power agents of Ingushetia under a simulated evacuation from the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Nazran. The training alert was announced there on August 21; however, at first, only law enforcement bodies knew about it, while ordinary people took the mess for the reality and were strongly frightened.

August 22, 2009 10:00

• Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office forces 25 TB patients into treatment

  Employees of the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, have revealed 25 local residents sick of tuberculosis. They had evaded examination and treatment; therefore, now they will be forced into treatment.

August 22, 2009 09:00

• In Ingushetia, 11 evicted families manage to get back to their barracks

  Eleven families, ten of them being forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia and Chechnya, who had been earlier evicted by the decision of the Malgobek District Court from their barrack-type houses in Yuzny settlement of the Malgobek District, received a chance to get back into their barracks. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a member of the Public Commission of Human Rights at the President of the Republic.

August 22, 2009 08:00

• Georgia: trial on Mukhrovani revolt postponed till September 1

  The trial of the defendants in the case on the military revolt in Mukhrovani has been postponed from the earlier appointed August 21 to September 1.

August 22, 2009 06:00

• Isaeva: arson in office of "Mothers of Dagestan" has to do with organization's activities

  The arson in the Makhachkala-based office of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights was caused by the work of this NGO. Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the "Mothers of Dagestan", said that this was a sort of a warning to employees that they interfere with someone.

August 22, 2009 03:00

• Ecologists who blocked highway in Sochi fined

  On August 21, the magistrate court fined the ecologists detained at blocking the construction in Sochi of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway by 500 roubles each.

August 21, 2009 23:50

• Seifutdin Kaziakhmedov's killer established in Dagestan

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has stated that Seifutdin Kaziakhmedov, head of the department for investigation of especially important cases of the investigatory department for Dagestan, was killed by Omar Ramazanov, leader of the "Makhachkala Jama'at" who was liquidated on June 12 in the course of a special operation in Makhachkala.

August 21, 2009 23:10

• Medvedev offers changes in the existing system of power in the Caucasus

  On August 19, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev expressed his extreme discontent with the system of power existing in Northern Caucasus and offered to optimize the structures of interdepartmental interaction by involving staff from other regions for this purpose.

August 21, 2009 23:00

• MIA: suicide bombers who made explosions in Grozny identified

  As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, local law enforcement bodies have identified the today's suicide bombers, who committed explosions in central Grozny.

August 21, 2009 22:30

• Today, President Evkurov returns to his republic

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has decided to interrupt his post-injury rehabilitation course and fly to the republic today because of the aggravation of the situation there.

August 21, 2009 22:10

• Moscow categorically rejects any involvement of Chechen separatists in HPP explosion

  The Kremlin has called "idiotic" the version about involvement of militants under command of their leader in Northern Caucasus Doku Umarov in the accident at the Sayan-Shusheno Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) and refused to make any comments.

August 21, 2009 22:00

• In Rostov Region, miners-pensioners picket the railway

  In the Rostov Region, miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo continue their protest action by picketing the North-Caucasian Railway. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, a deputy of the City Duma of Zverevo.

August 21, 2009 20:00

• Ecologists who blocked Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway will spend the night in Sochi KPZ

  Ecologists Andrei Rudomakha and Suren Gazaryan, detained in the construction site of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway in Sochi, will spend this night in the remand cell (known as "KPZ"). Their mobile phones were taken away.

August 21, 2009 19:00

• IRFS: responsibility for Novruzali Mamedov's death is on Azerbaijani authorities

  The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has made the statement, in which it imposed the political responsibility for the death on August 17 in custody of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), on the authorities of the country.

August 21, 2009 18:00

• Estemirova's killers not established, witnesses fear to evidence

  More than a month after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the investigation still has no idea of the organizers and executors of the crime. Witnesses are afraid to evidence on the case.