News

July 31, 2009 19:00

• In Azerbaijan, convicted editor Mamedov complains of absence of treatment at prison hospital

  Despite the transfer of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), to the hospital of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice, he is still deprived of duly qualified medical aid. This is the topic of the statement of the Committee in Defence of Novruzali Mamedov's Rights that has arrived to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent; last summer Mamedov was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for treason.

July 31, 2009 18:00

• Advocates of arrested Azerbaijani bloggers file complaints against MIA and Prosecutor's Office

  Isakhan Ashurov and Elton Guliev, advocates of arrested youth activists and bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism, have laid an action to the Sabail District Court of Baku against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the State Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan. In the opinion of the advocates, these bodies have broken the presumption of innocence principle.

July 30, 2009 23:30

• Human rights activists from Kazan tell about pressure from power agencies

  In the afternoon on July 29, the Independent Press Centre hosted a press conference "Searches, interrogations, provocations, charges of tax crimes and terrorism against human rights defenders in Kazan", related to persecution by law enforcers of the Kazan Human Rights Centre and the inter-regional human rights association named "Agora".

July 30, 2009 23:20

• In Chechnya, three versions exist of attempt on Isa Yamadaev

  The absence of any trustworthy information about the details of the attempt on Isa Yamadaev, committed in the evening on July 28 in Moscow, gives rise to various versions of the incident. Isa's relatives are sure that the attempt was initiated by the authorities of Chechnya, while the republic's law enforcers believe that it was staged. There is also an opinion that the attempt was a part of scenario aimed to discredit the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

July 30, 2009 23:10

• Georgia and South Ossetia accuse each other of shelling

  In reply to this night's information from South Ossetia about bombardment of Tskhinvali, the Georgian party has reported that Ossetians have shelled the Georgian MIA's post in the village of Zemo Nikozy.

July 30, 2009 23:00

• Melkumyan: in Karabakh settlement we must raise issue on return of Armenian refugees to Azerbaijan

  Grant Melkumyan, leader of the Communist Party of Nagorno-Karabakh, finds it illogical that in debates on Karabakh settlement they talk about Azerbaijani refugees, while there are more than half-million refugees-Armenians from Azerbaijan. In his opinion, it is also necessary to raise the issue about a similar return of Armenian refugees to Azerbaijan and Shaumyan and Martuni Districts of Karabakh.

July 30, 2009 22:10

• Kadyrov puts responsibility for terror act in Grozny on Said Buryatskiy

  Today, while meeting members of youth organizations of Chechnya, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov made responsible Sheikh Said Buryatskiy, one of ideologists of Caucasian rebels, for the terror act committed on July 26 in central Grozny.

July 30, 2009 22:00

• Ingushetia, bookkeeper-thief gets conditional term for plundering more than 90 million roubles

  Salman Archkhoev, Chief Accountant of the Department for Housing and Utilities (DHU) in Sunzha District of Ingushetia, accused of embezzlement of over 90 million roubles from the state budget was sentenced to six years of conditional imprisonment and a fine at a rate of 50,000 roubles.

July 30, 2009 21:00

• Sakalov: President of Ingushetia Evkurov will soon get back to work

  Makhmud Sakalov, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Ingushetia, has reported at the sitting of the national parliament that President Yunus-Bek Evkurov, wounded as a result of a terror act, is now much better; Mr Evkurov is 46 today.

July 30, 2009 20:00

• In Dagestan, three militiamen wounded in shelling

  As a result of an attack on the militia unit in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, three militiamen were wounded.

July 30, 2009 19:00

• Supreme Court of Ingushetia acquits alleged organizers of disorders

  Today the Supreme Court of Ingushetia has acquitted the figurants in the case of mass disorders last January.

July 30, 2009 18:00

• Zakaev: many Umarov's supporters will obey warfare moratorium in Chechnya

  Ahmed Zakaev, former emissary of Chechen separatists, has no doubts that the order to stop operations against Chechen militia by the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) that was recently adopted will be also executed by Doku Umarov's supporters. Mr Zakaev himself told this to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 29, 2009 23:50

• Belarusian MFA: we continue considering the status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Minsk is still studying "the complex issue of the status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia." This was stated on July 28 by Sergey Martynov, Foreign Minister of Belarus, at a press conference on results of his meeting with the EU's ministerial "troika".

July 29, 2009 23:30

• European MPs are anxious about arrest of bloggers in Azerbaijan

  Christophe Strasser, Rapporteur of the PACE on Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan, is concerned with the arrest "under contradictory circumstances" of two activists of civil society - Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, while deputies of the European Parliament have expressed their concern in a corresponding address to Azerbaijani ambassador in Belgium, Luxembourg and European Union.

July 29, 2009 23:00

• Four supposed rebels liquidated in Chechnya

  In a combat skirmish that burst out on July 28 in the Urus-Martan District of the Chechen Republic four supposed members of armed underground groupings were killed. There are no losses among power agents.

July 29, 2009 22:30

• Yamadaevs: gunman's bullet bypassed Isa in Moscow

  The representative of the Yamadaev family in the Chechen Republic has confirmed that in Moscow an attempt was made on Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" special-purpose GRU battalion; however, the relatives gave no details of the incident. A source in Chechen power agencies has noted that there was no attempt; but Isa wanted by making this statement to damage the reputation of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic.

July 29, 2009 22:00

• Searched Armenian MP Sukiasyan would not surrender

  Khachatur Sukiasyan, a supporter of the off-the-parliament oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) and a Deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, who is searched by law enforcement bodies on charges of organizing the events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan, has no plans to surrender to the authorities, as he believes that he committed no crime and is still under the parliamentary immunity.

July 29, 2009 21:10

• Terrorist who blew himself up in Grozny originates from difficult family

  Rustam Mukhadiev, a suicide bomber who committed a self-killing act in the evening on July 26 at the national theatre-and-concert hall in the centre of Chechen capital, was brought up by a difficult family: his parents were divorced.

July 29, 2009 20:00

• Semnebi: EU plans to go on working in Abkhazia

  Semnebi: EU plans to go on working in Abkhazia

July 29, 2009 19:00

• Bomb that blew up near house of Magas Mayor was planted near garage gate

  Law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia continue investigating the circumstances of the explosion that took place near the house of Aslambek Sagov, Mayor of the city of Magas, the republic's capital, about last midnight; the house is located in Gamurzievo settlement of the city of Nazran.