News

April 04, 2009 12:00

• Brayza: new Azerbaijan-Armenia summit prepared

  Another meeting of Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliev and Serzh Sargsyan will most probably take place on May 7-8 within the European Union summit under the Programme "Eastern Partnership" in Prague. This was stated on April 3 in Baku by Matthew Brayza, co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group from the American party and US Undersecretary of State.

April 04, 2009 11:00

• Stavropol to host congress of Orthodox women of Russia's South

  A congress of Orthodox women of the South of Russia will take place in Stavropol on May 12 under the motto "Mother's care of the youth" and rally together Orthodox women-believers of Northern Caucasus, Don and lower Volga regions.

April 04, 2009 10:00

• Kapan Combine to resume its work in Armenia

  One of the largest enterprises of Armenia - the Kapan Mining and Dressing Combine, which was stopped in mid-February, will gain its full capacity by the end of April.

April 04, 2009 08:12

• Armenian authorities don't say open Armenian-Turkish border is impossible

  Tigran Balayan, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has not denied the information of the American edition The Wall Street Journal about possible forthcoming signing of the agreement to open the Armenian-Turkish border.

April 04, 2009 05:00

• CEC of South Ossetia waits for candidates for parliament to be active

  So far, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia has not received a single application for participation in elections to the regional parliament of the fifth convocation appointed on May 31. The deadline for submitting applications from candidates expires in 10 days.

April 03, 2009 23:30

• In Buinaksk, Dagestan, Salafites failed with their Friday namaz

  The residents of the city of Buinaksk in Dagestan who profess Salafism (orthodox Islam trend) report that today they were not allowed to hold their Friday collective namaz. According to their story, the mosque where they planned to do it was closed, and the territory was cordoned by local militiamen.

April 03, 2009 23:00

• Medvedev: CTO regime in Chechnya can be soon lifted

  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said on April 2 when speaking at the London School of Economy that the CTO regime in Chechnya can be soon curtailed, although its separate elements will remain.

April 03, 2009 22:50

• ICPO inspector's house shelled from grenade launcher in Ingushetia

  In Troitskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons have attacked from a grenade launcher and firearms the house belonging to the inspector of the Investigatory Division of the ICPO for Sunzha District of the Russian Federation. This news has come from the ICPO itself.

April 03, 2009 22:00

• CPJ: attempt to intimidate "Novaya Gazeta" should be investigated

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called Russian authorities to investigate the attempt to intimidate employees of the independent edition "Novaya Gazeta".

April 03, 2009 21:30

• MoE sappers to demine arable lands in Chechnya

  In the near future, a united detachment of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Russia will come to demine agricultural lands in Chechnya. Earlier, sappers of the Ministry already worked in the Chechen Republic for a month in 2007 and managed to clean over 60 hectares of territory from land mines, shells and other ordnances.

April 03, 2009 21:00

• Abkhazia refutes any role of Russian militaries in murdering Gali District resident

  Today in the morning, in the suburb of Nabakevi village, Gali District of Abkhazia, local residents found a man's body with gunshot wounds. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali ROVD.

April 03, 2009 20:00

• Former defendant in Politkovskaya's murder case arrested again

  Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, who was earlier acquitted on the murder case Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta".

April 03, 2009 19:00

• Human rights activists to discuss violations of Gipsies' rights in Russia

  On April 8 - the International Gipsies Day - at 11:00 a.m., the Sakharov Public Centre (57-6 Zemlyanoy Val) in St-Petersburg will host a press conference on the problem of human rights reaction to violations of the rights of Gipsies-residents of the Russian Federation.

April 03, 2009 18:00

• Sulim Yamadaev's relatives say he is alive, Dubai police reports his death

  Relatives of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion, who was attacked in Dubai on March 28, continue insisting that he is alive. The photo of his tomb that allegedly appeared in the Internet, in their opinion, means nothing. Meanwhile, Dakhi Khalfan Tamim, head of Dubai police, has once again confirmed that Yamadaev is dead.

April 02, 2009 23:30

• Sarkis Atspanyan: I tried to warn President of Armenia about possible attempt

  At the judicial session on April 1, activist of the opposition Sarkis Atspanyan, citizen of France and supporter of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, accused of a false denunciation with the aim to discredit a person, stated that he had tried to warn President of Armenia about a possible attempt and that it was for benefit of Robert Kocharyan and Armenian National Front "Dashnaktsutyun" (ANFD).

April 02, 2009 23:10

• Sulim Yamadaev: "Caucasus is Russia's vulnerable place"

  During the last year, Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), often criticized the incumbent Chechen authorities.

April 02, 2009 22:30

• USA and Norway anxious about Azerbaijan's lifting restriction of term of presidency

  The embassy of Norway in Baku has made a statement on the outcomes of the March 18 referendum on amending the Constitution of Azerbaijan, which remarks that lifting the restriction on the term for one person to be President is s step away from democracy. The US embassy has noted, in its turn, that the democracy in Azerbaijan has not rooted in yet.

April 02, 2009 22:00

• Sulim Yamadaev's relatives insist that some other man was murdered in Dubai

  Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev continue to deny the information about his death and insist that not the ex-commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion but some other man was assassinated in Dubai. However, they give no answer to the question why, if Sulim Yamadaev is alive, his brother or wife who are there with him cannot make a photo or a video of the wounded man to refute the rumours about his death.

April 02, 2009 21:30

• Rostov Region: miners stop their strike

  In the evening on April 1, eight miners from the "Chikh Mine", located in the Rostov Region, stopped their strike and went out to the surface. They spent two days underground demanding to pay salary debts to them; and the money was paid out.

April 02, 2009 21:00

• Physicians refute children's poisoning in 2007 in Ingushetia

  Employees of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Ingushetia deny the information about the critical condition of the teenagers who were brought with symptoms of toxic poisoning in 2007. The Ministry of Public Health also knows nothing about the incident.