News

March 30, 2009 19:00

• CTO regime announced in six villages of Ingushetia

  The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime has been introduced in six dwelling settlements of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. The reason was in the information about a prepared series of terror acts, as the FSB reports.

March 30, 2009 18:00

• Choltaev: Sulim Yamadaev's murder is no benefit for Chechen President

  Murder of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" (East) GRU's special battalion, is absolutely unfavourable for Ramzana Kadyrov, as political scientist Zaindi Choltaev thinks, since now President of Chechnya tries to position himself as a peacemaker, or a person capable to unite the whole nation.

March 28, 2009 23:00

• Mufti of Ingushetia calls to stop attacking shops selling alcohol

  Isa Khamkhoev, head of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Ingushetia, has stated that attacks on shops and stores selling alcohol are caused by religious feelings of his co-believers. However, he urged them to fight alcohol abuse by means of prayers, not weapons.

March 28, 2009 22:00

• Russian national football team beats Azerbaijani counterparts

  Under the 2010 World Cup qualification round, the Russian national football team has defeated their Azerbaijani opponents 2:0. However, Gus Hiddink, coach of the Russian party, was not quite happy: he had hoped for a more convincing victory.

March 28, 2009 22:00

• Bodies of five assassinated local residents found in Ingushetia

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia has reported that five killed local residents were found near Arshty and Bamut villages, Sunzha District, located near the administrative border with Chechnya.

March 28, 2009 18:14

• President of Georgia invites opposition to dialogue

  Today, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and a number of culture workers made statements intended to relieve the internal political tension in the country.

March 28, 2009 17:10

• NGOs of North Ossetia state poor care of invalids

  Children's and youth public organizations, movements and associations of North Ossetia urge to pay more attention, when building objects of social infrastructure, to problems of limited capacity people - wheelchair invalids.

March 28, 2009 15:00

• Boris Nemtsov registered as candidate for Sochi Mayor

  Boris Nemtsov has been registered as a candidate to the post of Mayor of Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

March 28, 2009 13:14

• Mass lay-offs of servants launched in Ingushetia

  On March 26, state organizations and establishments of Ingushetia, administration heads of cities, districts and settlements received a written instruction to dismiss chief accountants and deputy heads of respective organizations, and also of division heads.

March 28, 2009 07:00

• Today, Kabardino-Balkaria marks Revival Day of Balkar Nation

  Today, Kabardino-Balkaria will host celebratory events in honour of the Revival Day of Balkar Nation. All the Culture Houses in Balkar villages will hold celebratory concerts and other festivities.

March 28, 2009 04:00

• FSB: terror act of suicide bomber prevented in Ingushetia

  The militants liquidated in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya had planned a terror act to be committed by a woman-suicide bomber, as reported on March 27 by Dmitri Sedletskiy, official spokesman of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia.

March 28, 2009 02:00

• The New York Times journalist detained in South Ossetia

  On March 27, Christopher John Chivers, a correspondent of the American newspaper The New York Times, was detained in South Ossetia at an attempt to cross the border of this republic with Georgia, as reported by the press service of South Ossetia's KGB (State Security Committee).

March 27, 2009 23:00

• Medvedev instructs FSB Director to consider CTO termination in Chechnya

  At his meeting on Friday with Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB and head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NATC), President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev asked him to consider the issue of lifting the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, which has lasted for more than nine years.

March 27, 2009 22:30

• Human rights activists from Kabardino-Balkaria not on the list of prison observers

  The Public Chamber of Russia has approved the list of public observers to be in charge of public control over places of detention according to the Law of the Russian Federation of June 10, 2008, "On Public Control over Ensuring Human Rights in Places of Detention and on Assistance to Inmates".

March 27, 2009 22:00

• In North Ossetia, Brigade Commander suspected of exploiting soldiers

  Military inspectors suspect the commander of the brigade deployed in Vladikavkaz of using labour of ten soldiers at his private household.

March 27, 2009 21:00

• Two persons killed and two detained in special operation in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, the special operation conducted by power agents since March 26 in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village is over. According to the command of the Internal Troops, two persons who had rendered armed resistance were killed, and two others detained. Three militiamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia were wounded.

March 27, 2009 19:00

• Chechnya residents show a mass burial where Budanov's regiment was deployed

  In Chechnya, fellow-villagers of Elza Kungaeva, for whose kidnapping and murder former Colonel Yuri Budanov was convicted, showed journalists a mass burial in Tanga-Chu village. The collective grave keeps remains of 23 persons.

March 27, 2009 18:00

• Grozny residents failed to meet President near mosque

  Today, on March 27, several dozens of townspeople rallied in Grozny near the central mosque named "Heart of Chechnya" hoping to meet President of Chechnya and give him their petitions. However, Ramzan Kadyrov failed to appear.

March 26, 2009 23:40

• General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia: 3500 suffered from war with Georgia

  The State Office of Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has recognized about 3500 persons to be victims of the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008. This was stated by Taimuraz Khugaev, General Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia, at the international seminar, held in Essentuki on March 24-26, on the problems of fighting crime, law enforcement activities and development of criminal and criminal-procedural legislation.

March 26, 2009 23:30

• Public hearings in Kabardino-Balkaria note lack of criticism in media

  The official media of Kabardino-Balkaria are torn away from life; they have no analytics and little criticism. These statements were made at the hearings held by the Public Advisory Board under President of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).