News

March 25, 2009 23:00

• ICPO: use of cluster bombs by Georgia ascertained

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has evidences that Georgia made use of cluster ordnance and aviation bombs during the warfare in South Ossetia. This was stated by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the ICPO.

March 25, 2009 22:30

• Owner of vandalized shop in Dagestan blames SDM

  On March 25, Magomedkhan Gaziev, owner of the "Lotos" shop and the head of a charitable public organization under the same name, brought a written complaint to the Sovietskiy ROVD of Makhachkala. Mr Gaziev asserts that the Spiritual Department of Moslems (SDM) of Dagestan is to be blamed for the attack on his shop on March 8.

March 25, 2009 22:00

• Dagestan authorities concerned with situation in Karabudakhkent District

  The situation in Gubden village and adjoining territories of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan causes alarm in the Republic's leaders and MIA, and has negative effect on the operative situation in the region. This was stated by Magomed Gazimagomedov, Deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan on March 24.

March 25, 2009 21:00

• Human rights activists welcome appointment of PACE's Special Rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani human rights activists and oppositional politicians have welcomed the decision of the PACE Committee on Legal Matters and Human Rights to restore the post of Special Rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan and appoint German MP Christoph Stresser thereto.

March 25, 2009 21:00

• 11 figurants in Ingushetia attack case transferred to Pyatigorsk prison

  Eleven out of twelve defendants in the criminal case on militants' attack on Ingushetia in June 2004, whose relatives held pickets demanding not to protract the litigation on their joint case, were removed from the IVS (pre-trial detention facility) of the MIA of Ingushetia to the IVS called "White Swan" in Pyatigorsk.

March 25, 2009 20:00

• Militiaman kidnapped and assassinated in Chechnya

  In the evening on March 24, in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, a group of armed persons kidnapped a militiaman. Today in the morning, his body was found.

March 25, 2009 19:30

• Sochi residents ask Medvedev for better "Olympic resettlement"

  Residents the Imereti Valley, whose houses are within the construction zone of Sochi Olympiad objects, have drafted an appeal to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev with a complaint against unsatisfactory terms of resettlement. This was stated today at the press conference convoked by ecologists and public activists.

March 25, 2009 19:00

• Georgia: four oppositionists sentenced to two months of custody

  Today, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced two activists of the oppositional "People's Movement to Save Georgia" and two members of the Party "Democratic Movement - United Georgia", arrested on March 23, to two months of pre-trial custody.

March 25, 2009 18:00

• Russia's MoF prescribed to pay off all the debts to militaries in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The Russian government has instructed the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to increase its budgetary allocations for 2009 aimed to pay all the debts and daily allowances to the personnel of the RF's Armed Forces, deployed in the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

March 24, 2009 23:30

• Russian militaries complain of non-payment of bonuses for participation in South-Ossetian warfare

  To Russia Military Prosecutor's Office has received over a hundred complaints on violations of the rights of the recruits who took part in the August conflict in South Ossetia.

March 24, 2009 23:00

• Azerbaijan holds a marathon session in support of convicted journalists' families

  The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has summed up the "Novruz Marathon" action - a charitable fundraising session in favour of the families of six convicted journalists. The action started on February 25 and ended on March 20 - by the Novruz spring holiday.

March 24, 2009 22:40

• Natella Akaba: Belarus is frankly bargaining for recognition of Abkhazia

  Natella Akaba, Secretary of the Public Chamber of Abkhazia and Chair of the Association "Women of Abkhazia" has treated the Belarus' position on recognition of Abkhazia's independence as "frank bargaining." She made this statement in the TV Programme "Akhtuskua" (Events) on the Abkhazian State TV Channel.

March 24, 2009 22:30

• "Union for Democracy" finds March 18 referendum in Azerbaijan illegitimate

  The "Union for Democracy" (UD) that unites the oppositional parties of Azerbaijan has stated that the referendum on March 18 on amendments to the Constitution of Azerbaijan was illegitimate.

March 24, 2009 22:00

• Group of sappers shelled in Ingushetia, no casualties

  Today in the morning, an engineering-sapper group of the Internal Troops of Russia's MIA was shelled by unidentified persons from a passenger car. Fortunately, nobody was killed or wounded.

March 24, 2009 21:30

• Der Spiegel: war in South Ossetia was launched by Saakashvili

  The International EU Commission (IEUC) set up for investigating the five-day war in South Ossetia in August 2008 has found evidences that the warfare was initiated by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. However, the Commission has no incontestable proofs of Saakashvili's guilt, since the Georgian party had made them a state secret, as the Der Spiegel German magazine writes.

March 24, 2009 21:00

• Two suspects of exploding Cherkizovo marketplace released

  Two out of eight defendants in the case about explosion in the Cherkizovo marketplace in Moscow, when 14 persons were lost, are at large after expiry of their two-year punishment. The grouping that committed the explosion had repeatedly attacked natives from the Caucasus.

March 24, 2009 20:00

• Stavropol Territory commemorates victims of 2001 terror act in Minvody

  Today, the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), Stavropol Territory, has hosted mourning events to commemorate the victims of the terror act committed on March 24, 2001. On that day, three explosions in Stavropol Territory and Karachaevo-Circassia killed 26 persons and wounded over 150.

March 24, 2009 19:00

• Georgia's MIA investigates links of suspects of buying arms with the opposition

  In Georgia, the two detainees - Malkhaz Gvelukashvili and Lasha Chkheneli - have been charged with illegal purchase and storage of firearms. Now the MIA of Georgia tries to prove that the arms had been purchased for the opposition.

March 24, 2009 18:00

• Dagestan's MIA identifies casualties in Karabudakhkent District

  Mark Tolchinskiy, head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan, has refuted the information that bodies of mercenaries-Arabs were found among the militants liquidated in the special operation conducted on March 21.

March 23, 2009 23:30

• Head of Chechnya's MIA calls militants to come back home

  At the meeting with relatives of participants of armed formations, held in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, Ruslan Alkhanov, Interior Minister, has stated that "he guarantees objective and impartial consideration of the problems of those militants who will come back."