News

January 24, 2009 21:00

• Georgia resumes natural gas transit to South Ossetia

  Georgia has resumed the natural gas transit from Russia to South Ossetia which was stopped on the day of starting combat actions on August 8, 2008.

January 24, 2009 20:00

• Special operation involving casualties conducted in Ingushetia

  In the course of a special operation conducted in Nazran, Ingushetia, two suspected members of illegal armed units have been killed.

January 24, 2009 17:00

• Victims of repressions against Cossacks mourned in Karachai-Cherkesia

  Solemn mourning events to mark the 90 years' anniversary of repressions against Cossacks have been held today in the capital of Karachai-Cherkesia.

January 24, 2009 16:00

• 45 persons rescued from snowdrifts in Dagestan

  An operation of rescuing people from snowdrifts has been carried out in Dagestan. 45 persons have been rescued.

January 24, 2009 15:00

• 16 persons convicted for March riots in Erevan pardoned in Armenia

  Serzh Sargsian, president of Armenia, has pardoned 16 prisoners convicted for taking part in mass riots in Erevan on March 1, 2008.

January 24, 2009 12:00

• Youth parliament to be formed in Ingushetia

  Yunus-bek Evkurov, president of Ingushetia, has announced that a youth parliament is to be formed soon in Ingushetia.

January 24, 2009 11:00

• Chechen parliament intends to raise compensation amounts for repression victims

  Members of the Chechen parliament intend to request from the federal center that the monetary compensation to the republic's residents who are victims of political repressions should be considerably increased.

January 24, 2009 09:00

• More than 2 000 people dismissed in Azerbaijan due to crisis

  The world economic crisis has affected the labor market in Azerbaijan and resulted in the dismissal of more than 2 thousand people. This has been announced by Fizuli Alekperov, Azeri minister of labor and social protection.

January 24, 2009 08:00

• Storm left western Georgia without illumination

  The toughest storm during the last 10 years in western Georgia brought down hundreds of trees, damaged the roofs of hundreds of houses and buildings and broke power transmission lines. More than 200,000 residents were left without illumination. According to preliminary information, two fishermen are missing in the town of Poti.

January 24, 2009 07:00

• Swimming race in ice-cold water held in Volgograd

  The II international Russian championship in 71 km marathon swimming race in ice-cold water is to open today in Volgograd. It will last for two days. It is expected that more than 100 best marathon swimmers from Russia, CIS and other foreign countries will take part in it.

January 23, 2009 18:00

• Olga Trusevich claims Markelov accepted cases other lawyers refused to undertake

  Stanislav Markelov accepted politically motivated cases which other lawyers refused to undertake because they were afraid to be knocked out of the system. This was stated today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during the funeral of Markelov at Moscow Ostankino cemetery by Olga Trusevich, member of "Memorial" human rights center.

January 23, 2009 00:00

• European Court on Human Rights considers three complaints of Chechen residents

  On January 22, the European Court on Human Rights considered three more complaints of Chechen residents which relate to the disappearance of five young people and execution of one man during the period from October 2002 to April 2004.

January 23, 2009 00:00

• Musayev claims that defendants' complaint was sent to the officer investigating case of Politkovskaya murder

  The complaint about torture and beatings of Ibraghim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, defendants accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, was considered by investigating officer Petros Garibian who was investigating the case itself. Garibian found no facts of violence or humiliation with regard to Makhmudovs.

January 23, 2009 00:00

• Mitrokhin claims difficulty of appealing against the court ruling on the murder of Babaev in Dagestan due to threats to witness

  Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the party " Yabloko", claims that not all persons guilty of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of Dagestan " Yabloko", have been brought to justice. However, it is difficult to appeal against the court ruling because the key witness for the prosecution was threatened in the court room.

January 23, 2009 00:00

• Hearing of the case of Leila Yunus in Azerbaijan postponed till January 26

  Today, the Nasimin district court of Baku, chaired by Shakhin Abdyllaev, started a preliminary hearing on the suit by Ramil Usubov, head of Azeri MoI, against Leila Yunus, director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy.

January 23, 2009 00:00

• Apaev claims corruption has permeated all spheres of life in Chechnya

  The scale of corruption in the Chechen Republic is so serious that it will require drastic measures and serious efforts from the authorities, states Aslambek Apaev, expert of Moscow Helsinki Group on North Caucasus. Some local residents agree with him.

January 22, 2009 23:00

• Court refuses to take Makhmudov brothers out to the place of Politkovskaya's murder

  On Wednesday, the Moscow Regional Military Court rejected the petition of the defendants in the case - brothers Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - to take them out to the scene of the crime.

January 22, 2009 22:00

• Advocate Musaev presents new proofs in support of innocence of persons suspected of murdering Politkovskaya

  The interrogation of the defendants in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case - Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - is over. Both brothers refuse to admit their guilt and cannot recollect what they were doing on the murder day. Advocate Murad Musaev tried to prove insufficiency of one of important evidences of the guilt of his clients - the detailed printout of Makhmudovs' telephone conversations on the day of murder. Mr Musaev told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

January 22, 2009 21:00

• Activist of "Mothers of Dagestan" challenges detention of her sister Dinara Butdaeva

  On January 22, Gyulnara Rustamova, an active member of the human rights NGO "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she had lodged a complaint to the Kizil-Yurt Court against illegal actions of local guards of public order towards her sister Dinara Butdaeva, who was detained, as reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, on January 11 by militiamen from the Kizil-Yurt OVD (Interior Department).

January 22, 2009 19:00

• Guys with cudgels attack the march in memory of Markelov and Baburova

  An unauthorized march of anarchists in Novosibirsk in memory of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasiya Baburova assassinated in Moscow ended in a fight.