News

November 10, 2008 15:01

• Hariri: Lebanon to set up contacts with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Lebanon plans to set up contacts with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, although recognition of these republics by the country is not yet clear, Saad Hariri, majority leader in Lebanese parliament, has stated.

November 10, 2008 14:55

• Three more complaints from Chechnya satisfied by European Court

  On November 6, the European Court for Human Rights passed decisions on three more cases from Chechnya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the "Legal Initiative for Russia".

November 10, 2008 14:50

• Kabardino-Balkaria: court extends custody of a man with "ironclad" alibi

  The Nalchik City Court has considered a petition lodged by the Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office for Kabardino-Balkaria on extending the custody of Kerim Malkarov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, and upheld it: Malkarov's custody was extended till December 2.

November 10, 2008 14:46

• "Chernovik" journalist attacked in Dagestan

  Alexander Polyakov, sports correspondent of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper, was beaten in the doorway of the apartment block where he lives in Makhachkala in the afternoon on November 9, at about 4 p.m. According to the victim, when he went up the stairs to his apartment, two unknown persons were coming down; they started beating him with no words. Alexander Polyakov received numerous traumas of his head and has been hospitalized; now his life is out of danger.

November 10, 2008 14:25

• Belassain: serious troubles with human rights in Georgia

  Suer Belassain, President of the International Federation of Human Rights, asserts that the current situation with defence of human rights in Georgia is extremely complicated. She told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it in her interview on November 10 in Tbilisi after the FIDH regional seminar "National, Regional and International Legal Remedies for Victims of Human Rights Violations".

November 10, 2008 14:20

• Reopening of "Abu Bekr" Mosque in Azerbaijan is still questionable

  Restart of operation of "Abu Bekr" Mosque in Baku will depend on the results of the investigation now conducted by law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan after the armed attack on the Mosque. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this was stated today at a press conference by Idayat Orudzhev, head of the State Committee for Working with Religious Structures (SCWRS) of Azerbaijan.

November 10, 2008 14:16

• Chechnya ambiguous to disbandment of "Vostok" and "Zapad"

  People in Chechnya have differently perceived the news that the special battalions "Vostok" (East) and "Zapad" (West) subordinate to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) of the Russian Ministry of Defence will be disbanded. Although many residents treated these subdivisions negatively enough, others believe that the battalions were dissolved to please President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

November 10, 2008 14:10

• MPs offer reduction of land area alienated for Sochi Olympic sites

  The total area of the land plots in Sochi bought out for construction of 2014 Olympic objects can be reduced. A group of Deputies from "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) faction has brought in a bill to the State Duma, under which the state can take, till January 1, 2014, the land plots owned by Sochi citizens into restricted use for construction of Olympic objects.

November 10, 2008 00:05

• FIDH Final declaration on Georgia

  We, FIDH member and partner organizations express our support to human rights defenders and to civil society representatives working in Georgia, and share their concerns about human rights violations and shortcomings in Georgia.

November 08, 2008 21:13

• No more "Zapad" and "Vostok" battalions in Chechnya

  The battalions "Zapad" (West) and "Vostok" (East) of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Ministry of Defence, deployed in the territory of Chechnya, are transformed into motorized rifle companies.

November 08, 2008 19:05

• In Armenia, world economic crisis touches on raw materials and real estate

  The world economic crisis has affected the real estate market of Armenia and the sector of raw materials of the country. Prices on copper and molybdenum, extracted and exported by the country, have gone down.

November 08, 2008 18:56

• Chechnya rejected a special lab for remains identification

  The Ministry of Health of Russia has denied the proposal of Chechen leaders to set up in the republic s special laboratory for genetic examination of unidentified bodies.

November 08, 2008 17:50

• North Ossetia bewails victims of terror act in Vladikavkaz

  Today, North Ossetia parts with the victims of the terror act committed on November 6 in Vladikavkaz. The mourning was announced in the republic.

November 08, 2008 17:39

• Rostov-on-Don holds First Southern Venture Fair

  The First Southern Venture Fair has presented innovations from Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk, Taganrog, Volgodonsk, Shakhty, Volgograd, Stavropol, Makhachkala and Elista. They covered the sectors of construction, medicine and medical equipment, telecommunications, information technologies and chemical industry.

November 08, 2008 16:27

• Armenia starts returning its internally displaced persons

  Armenia has started its programme of returning internally displaced persons to their permanent residences, where their houses and apartments had been damaged or ruined during the Karabakh conflict in 1992-1994.

November 08, 2008 15:20

• Tenants of "manor house" in Grozny seek Russian President's support

  In Chechnya, tenants of House 2/1 in Putin Avenue of Grozny, asked by city authorities to abandon their apartments, wrote an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev asking him for help.

November 08, 2008 12:07

• RRs want to participate in Iran-Armenia railway

  The Company "Russian Railways" (RRs) is ready to take part in construction of the Iran-Armenia railway in the capacity of project contractor, should Armenia, Iran and Russia agree on the project terms, as Vladimir Yakunin, President of the RRs, told journalists.

November 08, 2008 11:14

• Terror act in North Ossetia was committed by woman-native of Ingushetia, investigation asserts

  The law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia have declared that, under preliminary data, the woman-suicide bomber who accomplished the terror act in Vladikavkaz on November 6 was a native of Ingushetia, aged 45.

November 08, 2008 10:10

• Quota on Hajj pilgrims halved for Dagestan

  This year, 8,000 pilgrims from Dagestan will make their way to Mecca, although the application had been for 15,000 persons. First of all, the priority is given to those who have never made the Hajj.

November 08, 2008 06:43

• New York Times: Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question

  Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against Russian aggression, The New York Times reports.