News

July 10, 2009 10:00

• Armenia: political prisoner Arakelyan stops his hunger strike

  Young activist of the opposition Tigran Arakelyan, arrested on charge of attacking a policeman, has stated today that he gave up the hunger strike announced by him in prison and plans to choose other methods of his struggle.

July 10, 2009 09:00

• Security head of Karabulak OVD assassinated in Ingushetia

  On July 9, in municipal district Plievo of the city of Nazran, unknown persons shelled a car with Israpil Ozdoev, head of the security division of Karabulak OVD (Interior Department). As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, the militia official died in situ.

July 09, 2009 20:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh is ready to remove snipers from forefront

  General-Lieutenant Movses Akopyan, Minister of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stated to journalists that the Karabakh party is ready to remove snipers from the forefront. The Minister has emphasized that Azerbaijan is against removal of snipers.

July 09, 2009 19:00

• About 1500 came to oppositional rally in Tbilisi

  The rally in Tbilisi to mark 3 months after the start of the opposition's termless protest action, which should have gathered, under oppositionists' plans some 10,000 participants, was in fact about 1500-strong. It is reported by a Georgian journalist who is now in Tbilisi.

July 09, 2009 18:00

• Ingushetia: "Mashr" activists complain of persecutions

  Members of the Ingush human rights Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Mashr" told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about illegal actions of power agents against them. They explain the pressure by their applications to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR).

July 09, 2009 17:00

• Chechnya's MIA: attempt on Evkurov was commanded by Magas

  The attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was organized by Magomed Evloev, head of a criminal grouping, also known under nickname Magas. This was reported today by Ruslan Alkhanov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.

July 09, 2009 16:00

• Relatives of missing people hold an action in Chechnya

  On July 8, on the Family Day, relatives of missing people held an action in Grozny near the monument to perished journalists. The action was organized by the regional public organization "Search of Missing Persons".

July 09, 2009 15:00

• Data on shelling two helicopters in Chechnya is contradictory

  Militaries and law enforcers of Chechnya give contradictory information about the incident in the morning on July 8 in the mountain area of the republic. Earlier, it was reported that in Shatoy District two helicopters of federal forces were shelled, and one soldier was wounded.

July 09, 2009 14:00

• Armenian oppositionist goes on termless hunger strike

  Karen Karapetyan, head of the youth wing of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), has announced a termless hunger in protest against the arrest of Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of his wing.

July 09, 2009 13:00

• Social shelter for refugees from Azerbaijan and Iraq opened in Armenia

  In Armenia, in Darbnik village, Ararat District, a social shelter was opened for 46 families of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan and Iraq. The house was granted to them for gratuitous use.

July 09, 2009 12:00

• Estemirova: disappearances are on rapid rise in Chechnya

  After cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, the count of kidnapped residents is in dozens. This was stated by Natalia Estemirova, member of the Grozny branch of the HRC "Memorial", to the "Caucasian Knot".

July 09, 2009 11:00

• In Ingushetia, mother seeks protection of her son from power agents

  Petimat Archakovа asks to defend the rights of her son Magomed Archakov suspected of concealing militants. Currently, he is kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia and, according to his mother's statement, is exposed to torture.

July 09, 2009 10:00

• Armenian President is ready to meet his Azerbaijani counterpart

  As reported by co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has consented to have another meeting with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliev on Karabakh settlement, as planned, in Moscow on July 17.

July 09, 2009 09:00

• Kelekhsaev's "People's Party" asks USA to recognize independence of South Ossetia

  On July 8, the Board of the "People's Party" of South Ossetia, headed by Roland Kelekhsaev, passed an appeal to the United States and other countries of the world to recognize the right of South-Ossetian people to build their independent democratic state.

July 08, 2009 22:00

• MIA counts at most 100 militants in Dagestan

  At a press conference on July 7, Magomed Ismailov, Deputy Interior Minister, said, referring to operative data, that Dagestan has no more than 100 militants.

July 08, 2009 21:00

• Trial on schoolboy's incitement to suicide started in Stavropol Territory

  Today, the Budyonnovsk City Court, Stavropol Territory, has started considering the case of the teacher of mathematics accused of inciting a pupil of the 9th form to suicide.

July 08, 2009 20:00

• ICPO: "Vostok" battalion servicemen were involved in disappearance of their comrade-in-arms

  Inspectors have found proofs of involvement of militaries of the battalion "Vostok" (East), which was subordinated to the so-called "GRU" (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) in disappearance of their colleague Alikhan Khaladov in July 2004. This was stated by the official Chechen spokesman of the ID for Chechnya of the ICPO.

July 08, 2009 19:00

• Germany and France reject visas to Abkhazian youth

  Young people from Abkhazia cannot take part in the "Camp of Peace" organized by the Council of Europe in Germany and dedicated to settlement and transformation of conflicts, because of visa problems: embassies of France and Germany in Moscow refused to give visas to them.

July 08, 2009 18:00

• President of Ingushetia works with documents and can receive visitors

  President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was wounded in an attempt on June 22, is in consciousness, works with documents and can receive visitors. This was reported today by Adam Gazdiev, press secretary of the permanent representative of Ingushetia at the President of Russia.

July 08, 2009 17:00

• Number of victims from terror act in Grozny is now 9

  The investigation into the circumstances of the explosion in the Chechen capital continues. The number of victims of the terror act has reached nine. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at law enforcement bodies of the republic.