News

July 14, 2009 21:00

• UN and EU officials speak positive on Gali meeting

  The today's five-sided meeting on prevention and investigation of incidents, held in the Gali office of the UN Mission with participation of representatives from Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, United Nations and European Union was positively assessed by Johan Verbeke, special envoy of UN Secretary General for Georgia, and Hans-Jorg Haber, head of the EU's observation mission in Georgia.

July 14, 2009 20:00

• Solidarity picket with Uigurs dispersed in Azerbaijan

  Today, about fifty activists of the "Musavat" Party made an attempt to hold a picket in front of the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The action was planed as a protest against oppressions of Uigurs (Eastern Turkis) in China.

July 14, 2009 18:00

• Armenian opposition is dissatisfied with Karabakh settlement and demands President's resignation

  The Armenian opposition believes that the process of Karabakh settlement goes not in favour of Armenians, and demands resignation of President Serzh Sargsyan. This is the topic of the statement disseminated today by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC).

July 14, 2009 17:00

• Georgia holds mourning day for children killed in road accident

  In the context of the death of three teenagers on July 13 in a road accident, a mourning day is announced in Georgia. About twenty other children injured in the fall of a bus into abyss at the Nakerala mountain pass-over are still in hospital in Kutaisi.

July 14, 2009 15:00

• Sochi General Plan adopted, despite protests of ecologists and Russia's "Minprirody"

  Today, the session of City Assembly of Sochi has adopted the General Plan of civil development. According to city's Chief Architect Oleg Sheveiko, the overall objective of the Plan is in further development of Sochi and its transformation into the world-level tourist centre.

July 14, 2009 13:00

• National Mortgage Company launched in Armenia

  As reported by Arthur Dzhavadyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, a universal credit organization named "The National Mortgage Company" was founded and started in Armenia with the aim to develop and stimulate the local mortgage market.

July 14, 2009 12:00

• Militants' Amir killed in Dagestan

  According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, today at night, in the Karabudakhken District of the republic, the following suspected militants were liquidated: Amir Magomedmurad Osmanov with radio call sign 'Zubair" and a militant Magomed Batyrbekov with call sign "Ibragim". The person of the third casualty is now established.

July 14, 2009 11:00

• Downpour in Pyatigorsk brings 30-million-worth damage

  Experts have computed the damage caused by storm rains on July 10 to the economy of the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the information department of the City Duma of Pyatigorsk that under a tentative estimate, the overall damage has made more than 30 million roubles.

July 14, 2009 09:00

• Terek Cossacks want to restore Terek Region

  On July 7, at the Terek Cossack Circle (Assembly) in Vladikavkaz, Cossack Atamans raised the idea to restore the enlarged North-Caucasian Region in the form of the Terek Region that existed in the tsarist Russia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Mikhail Inkavtsov, Ataman of the Terek Cossack Army.

July 13, 2009 23:00

• Estemirova: power agents order relatives of the girl assassinated in Grozny to bury her "without noise"

  Representatives of power agencies have burnt down the house of relatives of Madina Yunusova, 20, the wife of Said-Selim Abdulkadyrov, who was killed in the course of a special operation on July 2, and gave out her body to relatives on July 5, having ordered to bury the girl "without noise". This was reported by Natalia Estemirova, representative of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

July 13, 2009 22:00

• Georgia finds Russian President's visit to South Ossetia to be a provocation

  As stated by Temur Yakobashvili, Vice-Premier and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia, the today's Dmitri Medvedev's visit to South Ossetia is a provocation.

July 13, 2009 20:00

• Russian President Dmitri Medvedev makes his first visit to South Ossetia

  Today, the first visit of Russian President to South Ossetia, after Russia had recognized its independence, took place. In the course of the visit, which was a surprise not only for residents of the republic, but also for Ossetian officials, Dmitri Medvedev has reiterated that Russia will help South Ossetia in restoring its economy and social sphere.

July 13, 2009 18:00

• Nabucco treaty signed in Turkey

  Heads of the governments of Turkey, Austria and Hungary, and of energy companies from Bulgaria and Romania have initialled the intergovernmental treaty on the Nabucco Project.

July 13, 2009 17:00

• Doctors do not exclude Evkurov's transfer to ordinary ward

  A source from the Vishnevskiy Surgery Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences has reported that President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was heavily wounded in an attempt on June 22, is still is the resuscitation ward; however, he is much better now and can be removed to an ordinary ward.

July 13, 2009 16:00

• CTO regime cancelled in Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, from 6 a.m. on, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was lifted in the Elborus District of Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported by the press service of the CTO Operative Headquarters.

July 13, 2009 14:00

• Five suspected militants killed in Chechnya

  Today in the morning, in southwest and southeast of Chechnya, five persons, who rendered armed resistance to power agents, were liquidated. This was stated by law enforcement bodies of the republic. None of the power agents, who took part in these special operations, suffered, the militia asserts.

July 13, 2009 13:00

• Suspects of attempt on Argishti Kiviryan arrested in Armenia

  The National Security Service of Armenia has arrested two persons suspected of a murder attempt of Argishti Kiviryan, coordinator of the Internet edition "Armenia Today".

July 13, 2009 12:00

• Chechnya: captured separatists' leader calls Doku Umarov to surrender

  In the evening on July 12, one of Chechen TV Channels showed a video report with Rustam Makhauri, the militants' field commander captured in the end of last week by power agents in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. He said that he had understood his misbehaviour and called the leader of separatists Doku Umarov to surrender to the authorities.

July 13, 2009 03:00

• MIA: 12 militants liquidated in Chechnya in two days

  On July 11-12, in several districts of the republic and in the capital Grozny, fighters of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Chechnya killed in total 12 suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), who rendered armed resistance.

July 11, 2009 20:00

• Georgian parliament toughens rules on street actions

  At their extraordinary session, Georgian MPs have passed in the first reading a legislative package, initiated by the party in power and aimed to toughen the rules on holding protest actions.