News

February 11, 2009 16:00

• Putin sets up Russian embassies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed an order to establish in 2009 Russian embassies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The order defined the order of funding the new diplomatic missions, as the press service of Russian government reports.

February 11, 2009 15:00

• Cutting electricity supply to "Azersu" threatens to leave several cities of Azerbaijan without water

  The company named "Sumgaiytelectricshebeke" promises to stop, on February 16 at 3:00 p.m. Baku time, its electricity supply to the pump stations of the Joint-Stock Company "Azersu", which is delivering drinking and technical water to Baku, Sumgait and other regions of Azerbaijan.

February 11, 2009 11:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria: seven casualties in special operation

  Today at 2:00 p.m. in Kabardino-Balkaria, not far from Gerpegezh village, in the vicinity of Nalchik, a fight burst out between law enforcers and, presumably, militants, as a result of which seven persons were killed. One militiaman was wounded.

February 11, 2009 10:00

• Suspected killer of Mayor of the capital of North Ossetia was UBOP worker

  The spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office for North Ossetia has reported that one of the suspects of murdering Mayor of Vladikavkaz Vitaly Karaev was, at the moment of murder, an employee of the Department for Fighting Organized Crime (the so-called "UBOP").

February 11, 2009 10:00

• Burial of militaries found in mountains of Chechnya

  A source in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has reported that on February 10, in the woody district in Chechen mountains, in the border between the villages of Selmentauzen and Sharo-Argun, a burial with bodies of two militaries was detected.

February 11, 2009 08:00

• Azerbaijan passes the law on fighting money-laundering and funding terrorism

  On February 10, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan passed, in its third final reading, the Law "On Counteracting Legalization of Funds and Property Obtained in Criminal Way and Funding Terrorism". Adoption of this law was among Azerbaijani obligations before the Council of Europe.

February 11, 2009 07:00

• Car with 4 million contraband dollars detained in Rostov Region

  In the Rostov Region, in the Russian-Ukrainian border, a car was detained in which two citizens of Ukraine tried to carry four million US dollars as contraband.

February 11, 2009 05:00

• Radchenko will not head DFTS of Dagestan

  The newly-appointed head of the Department of the Federal Tax Service (DFTS) of Russia for Dagestan Vladimir Radchenko will not hold this post. It was stated by a "Caucasian Knot" source, who preferred to remain anonymous.

February 10, 2009 23:13

• Gipsy woman tortured in TCF of Volgograd

  Ms Yurenko, a Gipsy by nationality, was tortured when kept in the temporary custody facility (TCF) of the city of Volgograd. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by her advocate Tatiana Pavlova, who has described the sufferings of her client.

February 10, 2009 20:00

• Families of Russian militaries lost in South Ossetia receive 100,000 US dollars each

  General-Lieutenant Anatoly Bashlakov, head of the chief administration for education work of Russian Armed Forces has informed journalists today that the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation had allotted material aid in equivalent to 100,000 US dollars to every family of Russian military casualties in South Ossetia.

February 10, 2009 18:00

• Killers of Vladikavkaz mayor Karaev detained

  A source in law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia has reported that in Vladikavkaz committers of the murder of city mayor Vitaly Karaev, who was shot dead by a sniper in November 2008, were detained.

February 10, 2009 17:11

• ICPO checks Budanov for involvement in murdering three Chechens

  The Investigatory Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has instructed the Shali Inter-District Investigatory Department to start inquiry of involvement of Yuri Budanov, former commander of the 160th Tank Regiment, in kidnapping and murdering peaceful residents in Duba-Yurt village in 2000.

February 10, 2009 17:00

• Abkhazia insists on changing UN observers' mandate

  Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, has stated today that Abkhazia can stop the UN observers' work in its territory if their mandate is not changed.

February 10, 2009 16:00

• In Ingushetia, details of attack on administration building become known

  On February 8, in Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled and assailed with petrol bombs the building of the administration of the Nazran District in Ekazhevo village; nobody suffered in the attack.

February 10, 2009 13:00

• Georgia suggests demilitarizing Abkhazia

  Georgia has moved an idea to announce Abkhazia a weapon-free zone. This was stated by Temur Yakobashvili, Georgian State Minister on Reintegration Matters.

February 10, 2009 10:00

• North Ossetia to host first ever forum of investment projects

  The first in North Ossetia forum of investment projects will open today in the Ardon District of the Republic. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Liudmila Avsaragova, press secretary of the administration of local self-government of the District.

February 10, 2009 06:00

• In Chechnya, clash of power agents with militants results in casualties

  According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, on February 9, in the Vedeno District, a group of militants of some 30 strong was revealed. In the course of engagement, three militiamen were wounded; one of them later died in hospital.

February 09, 2009 23:00

• Tskhinvali states bombardment of dwelling houses by Georgia

  The authorities of South Ossetia accuse the Georgian party of bombardment of the dwelling district in Tskhinvali.

February 09, 2009 23:00

• Egiazaryan: murder of deputy head of Armenian police was corruption-motivated

  Gurgen Egiazaryan, former KGB deputy chairman, has stated to journalists that the murder of Gevork Mgeryan, deputy head of Armenian police, could be linked with his former work at the Department for Issuance of Visas and Passports.

February 09, 2009 22:00

• Agaev: referendum planned in Azerbaijan is against the European Charter

  The concern of the leaders of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CLRACE) of the amendments, offered to the Constitution of Azerbaijan, which have to do with local self-government, is quite reasonable. This opinion was expressed by Rovshan Agaev, expert in the area of local self-government and deputy head of the Centre to Promote Economic Initiatives, in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.