News

January 13, 2009 20:00

• Trial on the claim of Azerbaijani MIA head against human rights activist Yunus postponed

  The preparatory session of the Nasiminskiy District Court of Baku on the claim of Ramil Usubov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against human rights activist Leila Yunus, due to take place today, on January 13, was re-appointed on January 23.

January 13, 2009 19:00

• Eyewitness doubts that it was gas explosion in Nazran

  Vakha Chapanov, editor-in-chief of the IA "Maximum" and an eyewitness of the today's explosion in Nazran of the building of the Department of Court Marshals of Ingushetia, has expressed doubt that utility gas was the reason of the tragedy.

January 13, 2009 18:00

• Charitable Women's Hospital ousted in Dagestan

  From the start of this year, the Charitable Women's Hospital, located in Makhachkala at No. 3 Ermoshkina Street, was to abandon all the occupied premises, as prescribed by the decision of the Arbitration Court of Dagestan signed by Judge R. Khanbekov.

January 12, 2009 23:00

• Russia's UFSIN: radical Islam grows popular in prisons of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Ahmed Abidov, head of the Russian Corrective Administration (the so-called "UFSIN") for Kabardino-Balkaria, said in his speech at the parliamentary session that spread of religious extremism in the region as a whole and in prisons, in particular, is one of the most acute problems.

January 12, 2009 22:00

• President of Armenia pardons 9 convicts for disorders in Yerevan

  President of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan has pardoned nine convicts accused of participating in mass disorders in Yerevan on March 1, 2008.

January 12, 2009 21:00

• Court takes office away from the Movement "For United Georgia"

  Today, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the demand of the Prosecutor's Office to transfer the building in Tbilisi housing the head office of the oppositional political movement "For United Georgia" into the state management.

January 12, 2009 20:00

• Ilgar Mamedov: suspension of foreign radio stations deprives Azerbaijanis of objective information

  Suspension in the new year of broadcasting of western radio stations has actually deprived citizens of Azerbaijan of the last source of objective information. This statement was made by independent political scientist Ilgar Mamedov, co-founder of the public association named "Republican Alternative - REAL".

January 12, 2009 19:00

• 124 complaints sent to European Court from Rostov Region

  The number of complaints sent from the town of Zverevo, Rostov Region, to the European Court on Human Rights, has already reached 124. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo.

January 12, 2009 18:00

• "Voice of Beslan" to lodge another complaint against Russia to Strasbourg

  The All-Russia Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" plans to continue investigating the terror act committed in September 2004. In February, the organization will send another initiative group of 60 persons to Strasbourg to register a new complaint against the state.

January 10, 2009 22:00

• Armenian army to be reformed in 2009

  This year, the Ministry of Defence of Armenia plans to reform the national army by changing its structure.

January 10, 2009 20:13

• Georgia-USA Cooperation Charter causes constrained emotions in Georgian politicians

  Most of Georgian political parties has welcomed signing the Georgia-USA Strategic Partnership Charter, however, they have warned the society against increased expectations from the document, and also expressed discontent with the non-transparent procedure of its drafting and adoption.

January 10, 2009 19:00

• Armenian opposition complains of inmate beaten in prison

  Arman Musinyan, press secretary of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), has declared today that on December 23 ten persons in masks and camouflage came into the cell of inmate Vardges Gaspari, attacked him and started beating him.

January 10, 2009 18:00

• Brayza: nobody recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia except for Russia, Nicaragua and HAMAS

  The USA will always recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia, and there are no chances that the States will ever recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, so far recognized only by Russia, Nicaragua and HAMAS, as Matthew Brayza, the US under secretary of state, has declared today.

January 10, 2009 17:12

• In Turkey, Prosecutor's Office starts investigation against those who apologised for genocide of Armenians

  The Turkish Public Prosecutor has launched an investigation against a group of Turkish citizens who published in one of Turkish websites a public apology to the Armenian nation for the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

January 10, 2009 10:09

• EIU: in 2008, Russia and Georgia departed a lot away from democracy

  By the outcomes of the study carried out by the analytical group named "The Economist Intelligence Unit" (EIU), by the level of democracy development, Georgia takes the 104th place in the world, and Russia - the 107th. The document notes that among the post-Soviet countries these two powers lost most rating points compared with the previous research made in 2006.

January 10, 2009 09:00

• Georgian media predict Prime Minister's resignation

  On Friday, January 9, the Georgian newspaper "Resonansi" reported, with reference to its own sources, that Prime Minister of Georgia Grigol Mgaloblishvili is going to declare his resignation.

January 10, 2009 07:00

• Woman-skier dies under avalanche in Kabardino-Balkaria

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, a woman-alpinist-skier from St-Petersburg was killed by a snow slide, when she tried to ski down the Elborus.

January 03, 2009 20:00

• In Kalmykia, director of football club fined for illegal employment of footballers

  Valery Bembinov, Director General of the "Elista" Football Club (FC), was fined by the city court of the capital of Kalmykia by 80,000 roubles for illegal employment of football players into the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "Energoservice", where he was also director.

January 03, 2009 17:07

• In Armenia, national minorities are concerned with problems of education and culture

  Representatives of the national minorities living in Armenia are most of all worried about the problems of education and culture. This was stated by Vardan Asatryan, head of the Department on National Minorities and Religions of the governmental office of Armenia.

January 03, 2009 17:00

• In Krasnodar Territory ecologists stop construction in wildlife reserve

  Today, ecologists have stopped an attempt to start construction of a highway in the wildlife reserve "Bolshoi Utrish" in the Krasnodar Territory, having blocked the construction machinery.