News

April 27, 2009 19:30

• Anatoly Pakhomov wins election of Sochi Mayor

  The first round of the election of Sochi Mayor resulted in 76.86% of votes cast for the candidate from "Edinaya Rossiya", acted Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov. These are the totals of the City Electoral Commission (CEC) of Sochi after tabulation of 100% of votes.

April 27, 2009 19:00

• Sakvarelidze: Georgian population finds opposition's rallies fruitless

  The opposition in Georgia promises to make its protest actions more radical, however, in the opinion of political scientist Ramaz Sakvarelidze, who was interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the population of Georgia see that the rallies of the opposition bring no result.

April 27, 2009 19:00

• Zakareishvili: Georgia's authorities create a picture that population grows angry with the opposition

  The authorities of Georgia are intentionally creating a picture of confrontation between oppositional protesters and local residents, as was stated by Paata Zakareishvili, a Georgian political scientist specializing in conflict-settlement of conflicts and promotion of democracy.

April 27, 2009 17:20

• In Sochi, militia release American journalist

  Kit Gessen, a correspondent of the American magazine named "New-Yorker", was released after checking his documents at the Sochi Department of Internal Affairs (UVD).

April 25, 2009 21:00

• Chechnya marks the Day of the Chechen Language

  Today, residents of Chechnya have celebrated the Day of the Chechen Language. The events dated to this holiday took place in all dwelling settlements of the republic.

April 25, 2009 20:00

• Population of Azerbaijan has reached 8.820 million

  The first results of the census conducted in Azerbaijan on April 13-22 have been announced. According to these data, the population of the country has reached 8,820,000 persons.

April 25, 2009 18:00

• Two activists of the opposition pardoned in Armenia

  Under Decree of President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, two figurants of the case about events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan - activists of the opposition David Agayan and Nver Stepanyan - were released from prison.

April 25, 2009 17:00

• Mayor of Volgograd bans gays' parade in city centre

  Head of Volgograd Roman Grebennikov has forbidden the gay-parade, which local sexual minorities had planned to hold today without sanction of the authorities in the city centre.

April 25, 2009 16:13

• Because of opposition's actions, Parliament of Georgia works in hotel

  Because of large-scale actions of the opposition in the centre of Tbilisi, the Parliament of Georgia has actually moved to the hotel "Sheraton Metekhi Palace" and tries to work from there.

April 25, 2009 15:00

• Special operation underway in Ingushetia

  Today since morning, in Surkhakhi village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, a special operation is conducted. The operation implies check of passports and inspections of motor transport.

April 25, 2009 11:00

• Safrastyan: after "metz ekhern" Obama will say "genocide"

  The use by the US President in his address to the Armenian community of the word "genocide" in its Armenian sounding "metz ekhern" means that the following step will be Obama's use of the term "genocide" also in the English language, as believes Professor Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

April 25, 2009 10:00

• Ministry of Finance of North Ossetia to pay taxes for training Beslan children

  President of North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov has instructed the Republic's Ministry of Finance to allocate from the reserve fund some 1.3 million roubles to cover the tax for training and residence at the lyceum boarding school "Podmoskovny" of 30 children-victims of Beslan terror act.

April 25, 2009 09:00

• Jobless residents of Volgograd are involved in public works

  Currently, about 900 jobless city dwellers are involved in public works in the territory of Volgograd. Such works, although being a temporary measure, are efficient in mitigating the unemployment problem in the conditions of economy decline, as the officials of the Mayoralty of Volgograd believe.

April 25, 2009 07:00

• In Sochi, propaganda campaign for Mayor election is over

  Yesterday, on April 24, the stage of the agitation campaign before Sochi election was over, and today is the "day of silence". From the midnight of April 25, any public agitation for candidates to the post of Mayor of this city-resort is forbidden.

April 24, 2009 23:40

• CPRF Deputy: what takes place in Sochi cannot be named election

  The pre-election campaign in Russian city-resort Sochi "cannot be called an election, it is more likely an appointment with elements of voting", as Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma Deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) believes.

April 24, 2009 23:00

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of shelling Velit village

  Ibragim Gaseev, Deputy Defence Minister of South Ossetia, has stated today that last night Georgia used large-calibre weapons to shell, from Dirbi village, the village of Velit, Znaur District of South Ossetia. There were no casualties or victims.

April 24, 2009 22:00

• In Georgia, opposition disrupts Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper

  Last night the opposition in Tbilisi carried out its first action of "chasing President", having disrupted Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper in the cafe near Mardzhanishvili Theatre. Saakashvili had to leave the place together with his bodyguards.

April 24, 2009 21:30

• Zeitun Sultanov, underground leader, killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The car passenger, liquidated on April 22 in Kabardino-Balkaria by power agents, was identified as Zeitun Sultanov, leader of the local armed underground movement.

April 24, 2009 21:00

• Defendant in Politkovskaya's case to be interrogated in a new case

  Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow's RUBOP (Department to Fight Organized Crime) agent and acquitted figurant in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, can be interrogated under another criminal case, this time under suspicion of forging money.

April 24, 2009 20:30

• Ten bases and six hiding places with arms detected in CTO zones in Chechnya

  In the mountain areas of Chechnya, which were announced under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, during the first three weeks in April, ten militants' bases and six hiding places were found. This is asserted by the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya.