News

November 20, 2008 13:41

• Dagestan: independent journalist beaten

  Today, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in the editorial office of the popular independent weekly "Novoe Delo" (Res Nova), an attempt was made on Gadzhimurat Sagitov, deputy editor-in-chief for development and organizational work.

November 19, 2008 13:36

• Student from North Ossetia killed in mass fight in Moscow

  On November 17, during a fight in a Moscow-based higher school between natives of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, a student from North Ossetia was killed. The capital's militia marks a sharp growth in the number of interethnic conflicts among students.

November 19, 2008 13:33

• Aseev: human rights activists concerned of "spy scare" in South Ossetia

  More and more persons in South Ossetia have been recently accused of treason. However, according to Vissarion Aseev, a public figure and human rights activist from North Ossetia, none of these cases has been brought to the court.

November 19, 2008 13:28

• Anna Politkovskaya's case will be considered behind closed doors

  The process on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the closed regime. The court had to make this decision after the jurymen refused to appear in the courtroom in the presence of the press, although no threats against them ever arrived.

November 19, 2008 13:26

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan analyses how law enforcers' combat kidnappings

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has analysed the results of the work of the law enforcement bodies of the Republic after 10 months of 2008 in fighting against kidnappings. Under the Office's information, in 2008, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic received 158 messages on kidnappings, of them the majority - 106 applications related to kidnapping of girls with the aim of forced marriage.

November 19, 2008 13:21

• Public figures join hunger strike of political prisoners in Armenia

  Eight members of the "Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners" have stated that they join the protest action of 28 political prisoners who had announced a one-day hunger strike as a protest action against the "hypocritical and inconsistent policy of the Council of Europe."

November 19, 2008 13:17

• HRC "Memorial" to hold press conference "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan"

  On November 24, at 12:15 a.m., the Independent Press Centre will host a press conference of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial": "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan".

November 19, 2008 13:16

• "Mothers of Dagestan" deny contacts with militants

  Today, the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Department for Dagestan continued interrogating Gyulnara Rustamova, one of the leaders of the human rights public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights". This was announced by Svetlana Isaeva, chairperson of the organization.

November 19, 2008 13:13

• Sochi: judge in "black realtors" case is against public in courtroom

  In Sochi, jurymen are hearing the case of the so-called "black realtors". Seven persons are in the prisoners' dock, including three militiamen and a notary. The information that arrived from the Centre for Defence of Citizens' Constitutional Rights and Freedoms to the "Caucasian Knot" runs that although the court sitting passes in the open regime, judge Klimov is by all ways preventing the public from being present in the courtroom.

November 18, 2008 12:58

• Amnesty International: 24,000 Georgians cannot return to South Ossetia

  About 24 thousand Georgians who earlier lived in South Ossetia and pre-border territories and who had been forced out of their houses as a result of the recent warfare, cannot return to their residences.

November 18, 2008 12:53

• Death of recruit investigated in Stavropol Territory

  The Military Investigatory Department for the Circassian Garrison has initiated a criminal case on the fact of the death of Anton Shalamov, a soldier at mandatory service in the military unit of the city of Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol Territory), who was recruited from the Saratov Region.

November 18, 2008 12:49

• Board of jurymen on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case formed

  Today, the Moscow Regional Military Court has formed the board of jurymen on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya; the consideration of the case began on November 17. In total, 12 main and 8 reserve jurymen have been chosen.

November 18, 2008 12:46

• Ingush SC finds refusal to re-qualify Evloev's death case illegal

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has recognized as illegal the refusal of the district court of the republic to re-qualify the criminal case on the fact of the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" from the Article "Causing of death by imprudence" into Article "Murder". Despite this decision, the case will not be re-qualified.

November 18, 2008 12:43

• In Dagestan, cleric-opponent to Wahhabism wounded by explosion

  Today in the morning in Makhachkala, where an explosive has operated along the route of a VAZ-2110 service car and wounded Sultanvakil Sultanmagomedov, deputy mufti of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Dagestan, his driver and bodyguard Gazimagomed Kurakhmaev.

November 18, 2008 12:40

• Armenian PM promises to find attackers on journalist Edik Bagdasaryan

  Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sarkisyan, who has visited in the Yerevan hospital of Nork-Nork District journalist Edik Bagdasaryan who was beaten yesterday, has expressed his concern with the incident and condemned the attack on the journalist. Prime Minister has assured that the guilty persons would be found.

November 18, 2008 12:35

• Russia denies any relation to drone explosion in Georgia

  The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) had categorically refuted its any involvement in the incident with a pilotless plane (drone), which fell down and exploded in the vicinity of the village of Plavi, Gori District of Georgia.

November 17, 2008 11:25

• Ombudsperson on children's rights: Rostov Region breaks children's right to housing

  Out of 713 complaints that have arrived within the year to the Ombudsperson on children's rights of the Rostov Region, a great share (21 percent) was on adoptive families, registration of trusteeship and adoption. In the opinion of Ombudsperson Alla Vasilieva, frequently these complaints result from drawbacks in the work of trusteeship and guardianship bodies.

November 17, 2008 11:20

• In Azerbaijan, convicted journalist suits MFA head

  Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is in prison, went to law against Elmar Mamedyarov, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan. The journalist's complaint was caused by the latter's refusal to answer his request.

November 17, 2008 11:16

• Abkhazia: EU observers are accused of attempting to get into the territory of Gali District

  Military observers of the European Union have been noticed among the persons who tried to penetrate on Saturday, November 15, at about 3:30 p.m. Moscow time from the territory of Georgia into the territory of the Gali District of Abkhazia.

November 17, 2008 11:12

• Advocate of Politkovskaya's family demands to interrogate President of Chechnya

  The advocate who acts in the interests of the family of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, in her murder case is trying to attract President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov as a witness.