News

December 25, 2008 21:00

• Chanieva: investigation in Kabardino-Balkaria neglects rights of detained Malkarov

  Kerim Malkarov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of a murder, has been kept at the Nalchik investigatory isolation facility for almost seven months already. On December 22, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria upheld the decision of the Nalchik City Court on extending his custody.

December 25, 2008 20:00

• Residents of Imereti Valley in Sochi prevent declared housebreaking

  Residents of the Imereti Valley - the territory of the would-be Olympic Village in Sochi - have managed to prevent the declared demolishment of their houses, delay the alienation of their land plots and insist on creations of exchange stock of land plots and construction of new houses as a precondition of resettling.

December 25, 2008 19:00

• Markelov: appeal against Budanov's relief by the suffered party is not excluded

  On December 24, the City Court of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) satisfied the petition of former Colonel Yuri Budanov for conditional early relief (CER). If there is no appeal against, Budanov will be released on January 11.

December 25, 2008 18:00

• Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training concerned of amendments to Constitution of Azerbaijan

  The Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training (CEM&DT) has promulgated its expert's judgement on the draft Referendum Act "On Amendments and Additions in the Constitution of Azerbaijan", designed on initiative of the ruling Party "Eni Azerbaijan" (PEA).

December 24, 2008 22:00

• US State Department: there was no genocide in South Ossetia

  Georges Bush's administration disagrees with the conclusions of Russian government that this August the authorities of Georgia made a genocide attempt in South Ossetia.

December 24, 2008 20:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria starts the fourth round of choosing jurymen for Nalchik attack case

  On December 23, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued selecting jurymen for the trial of the criminal case on the events of October 13, 2005. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by advocate Magomed Abubakarov.

December 24, 2008 19:00

• Volgograd opens monument "To Victims of Political Repressions"

  Opening ceremony of the monument "To Victims of Political Repressions" took place in Volgograd, 12 years after its initiation. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was present at the ceremony.

December 24, 2008 19:00

• Azerbaijani CC is positive on offered constitutional amendments

  The Constitutional Court (CC) of Azerbaijan has given a positive opinion on the amendments of the Constitution offered by the national parliament; on December 24, the Court considered at its plenum a draft Referendum Act "On Amendments and Additions in the Constitution of Azerbaijan" brought by the parliament for legal expertise.

December 24, 2008 18:00

• Militiaman attacked in Ingushetia, special operation is underway

  The FSB Department for Ingushetia has introduced the counterterrorist operation regime in the vicinity of Alkun village in response to the information that militants were seen there. This was reported by the spokesman of the operative staff in Ingushetia.

December 23, 2008 23:00

• Russian ICPO: 162 residents of South Ossetia perished in August

  According to the Investigatory committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, during the August events in South Ossetia 162 residents of this republic perished, and over 5000 were recognized as victims. The "Interfax" reports that Chairman of the ICPO Alexander Bastrykin has told about it today.

December 23, 2008 22:00

• Georgian and Russian public discuss implications of Caucasian war

  On December 18, the building of "Memorial" hosted a meeting of representatives of Georgian and Russian public held within a visit organized by the Public Chamber of Russia. The meeting discussed the ways to overcome the humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

December 23, 2008 22:00

• International human rights organizations monitor Rasul Kudaev, inmate of SIZO in Kabardino-Balkaria

  International human rights organizations are seeing after the fate of Rasul Kudaev, an inmate of the SIZO of Kabardino-Balkaria accused under the criminal case on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

December 23, 2008 21:00

• Veteran of Karabakh War imprisoned in Armenia wants to refuse from water

  In case his demand to release all political prisoners before the New Year remains unfulfilled, Sarkis Atspanyan will refuse drinking water. Now, he is on his termless hunger strike in SIZO "Vardashen".

December 23, 2008 20:00

• Human rights activists of Nagorno-Karabakh plan to go on working with former war prisoners

  The NGO in Nagorno-Karabakh called "Centre of Civil Initiatives" (CCI) has made its annual report, which notes that the organization will henceforth deal with rehabilitation problems of the families of missing people, prisoners of war and former hostages.

December 23, 2008 07:02

• Defence in "Case of Seven": Armenian authorities hold provocations

  Today the advocates of the defendants in the "Case of Seven" have made a statement, in which they assert that the authorities of Armenia organized a number of provocations during today's court session. According to Ovik Arsenyan, advocate of Alexander Arzumanyan, the reinforced securities at the court building, redressed policemen who filled the courtroom by one third and verbal skirmishes in the courtroom allow asserting use of provocations.

December 23, 2008 00:00

• Video: story of human rights activist kidnapped by power agents in Ingushetia

  The "Caucasian Knot" presents a video story by Zurab Tsechoev, employee of the Human rights organization "Mashr", kidnapped this July by FSB agents in Ingushetia, telling the details of the incident.

December 22, 2008 12:23

• Ombudsperson on child's rights in Rostov Region asks to cancel "curfew" in Novocherkassk

  Alla Vasilieva, Ombudsperson for the rights of the child in the Rostov Region, has addressed the Regional Prosecutor's Office asking to react to the illegal, in her opinion, decision of the Mayor of Novocherkassk, restricting the stay of children outdoor late in the evening without accompanying adults.

December 22, 2008 11:17

• Ecologists urge Governor of Krasnodar Territory to preserve Utrish

  Today, the office of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory has registered an appeal to the Governor of the Territory Alexander Tkachov, in which ecologists demand to stop felling the Utrish. The appeal was accompanied by the signatures that ecologists managed to gather in the course of the picket held near the administration under the motto: "Save Utrish!"

December 22, 2008 11:17

• In Azerbaijan, advocate asks court to apply early relief to convicted journalist

  In Azerbaijan, Isakhan Ashurov, advocate of satirical poet Sakit Zakhidov (Mirza Sakit), employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper who is serving his imprisonment, has addressed the Nariman District Court of Baku with a petition to consider the possibility of early relief for his client.

December 22, 2008 11:13

• Inmates of Nalchik IVS, Ingushetia, complain of administration's oppressions

  Zurab Estoev, a resident of Ingushetia and now one of the inmates of the temporary isolation facility (the so-called "IVS") in the city of Nalchik, complains of oppressions from the IVS administration. Estoev's relatives told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.