News

October 25, 2008 21:15

• Georgian Security Council convoked on emergency

  Today, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has convoked an emergency sitting of the National Security Council in the context of the armed incident in the Tsalendzhikh District in the West of Georgia where Giya Meboniya, head of the local administration, was lost.

October 25, 2008 19:59

• President of Dagestan: billionaire Kerimov ready to buy "Anzhi"

  President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has confirmed at the press conference in Makhachkala the intention of Russian senator from Dagestan, businessman-billionaire Suleiman Kerimov to the Dagestan football club "Anzhi".

October 25, 2008 18:49

• Ministry of Emergencies: no new earthquakes expected in Chechnya

  Specialists of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Chechnya believe that the territory of the Republic will not experience any more strong earthquakes with large-scale destructions like it was in Chechnya on October 11.

October 25, 2008 17:23

• Military exercises held in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Today, Nagorno-Karabakh was the venue of exercises in tactics with field firing with participation of all types of fighting equipment. Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Serzh Sarkisyan and Bako Saakyan watched the event.

October 25, 2008 16:07

• Famous singer from Azerbaijan Muslim Magomaev dies in Moscow

  In Moscow at night on October 25 Muslim Magomaev, an outstanding singer from Azerbaijan and master of Soviet variety art died in his 67th year from a sudden heart arrest.

October 25, 2008 14:35

• Salvador Dali's masterpieces on show in Rostov museum

  An exhibition of original works of Salvador Dali is on at the Rostov local lore regional museum. This is a new project of Russian collector Alexander Shadrin from Ekaterinburg.

October 25, 2008 13:39

• "Caucasian Knot" receives "black mark" from Chechnya's authorities

  The "Caucasian Knot" was involved into participation in the action entitled "President of the Chechen Republic as Mirrored by Media" and was awarded the "Black Galosh", having failed to score enough "positive materials on the activities of the leadership of the Chechen Republic."

October 24, 2008 16:08

• Azerbaijani CEC disappointed with EU's criticism of presidential election

  In the evening on October 22, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) expressed its disappointment with the statement of the EU Presidency on the presidential election in the country held on October 15.

October 24, 2008 16:05

• Ingushetia: Magomed Evloev's murder case sent to court

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has finished the investigation and sent to the court the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org").

October 24, 2008 16:02

• IPD Director calls to sue Azerbaijani prison bosses

  Leila Yunus, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has made a statement inviting to lodge claims against bosses of penitentiary establishments.

October 24, 2008 13:21

• Three Chechen militiamen can be among those kidnapped in Ingushetia

  Late at night on October 23, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia (bordering on Chechnya), unknown persons kidnapped about 15 persons. Three Chechen militiamen can be among them. This information was provided by a source in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.

October 24, 2008 13:14

• Malashenko: Chechnya experiences re-Islamization

  Alexei Malashenko, expert of the Carnegie Foundation, asserts that today Chechnya is in the process of re-Islamization. In his opinion, by strengthening the Sufi branch of Islam in Chechnya and spreading the Sufi values President Ramzan Kadyrov is fighting against Salafites - his religious and political opponents, and by reviving traditional Islamic norms of behaviour, he keeps the society under control.

October 23, 2008 23:44

• Investigation: no attempt to poison Politkovskaya's advocate

  Karina Moskalenko, advocate of the family of the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was not poisoned in France and, accordingly, there was no attempt on her life, police inspectors in the city of Strasbourg assert referencing to the former owner of the car now owned by Ms Moskalenko.

October 23, 2008 23:27

• Dagestan: persons accused of murdering Farid Babaev refuse to admit their guilt

  In Dagestan, Rasul Mamedrizaev and Seferali Sefimirzoev, accused of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, have refused to plead guilty.

October 23, 2008 00:30

• Yuri Budanov's early release rejected again

  The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) has denied the petition on conditional-early release of former Colonel Yuri Budanov.

October 23, 2008 00:27

• In Armenia, term of office of the commission for investigating March 1 events extended

  On October 22, the National Assembly of Armenia passed a decision to extend the term of office of the temporary parliamentary commission set up to investigate March 1 events in Yerevan by four months, till February 25.

October 23, 2008 00:10

• Moscow commemorates "Nord-Ost" victims

  Today, Moscow remembers the victims of the tragedy in "Dubrovka" Theatrical Centre - six years ago during performance terrorists took almost one thousand actors and spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages.

October 22, 2008 13:17

• Azerbaijan: father of imprisoned journalist asserts that his son's life is in danger

  The life of Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is kept at Penitentiary Establishment No. 12, is under threat, his father Emin Fatullaev has stated.

October 22, 2008 13:13

• Veterans of Afghan war stop their hunger strike in Dagestan

  On October 21 in Makhachkala, the negotiations of servicemen-"Afghans" with representatives of the Republic's Government and State Duma deputies from Dagestan came to the end. As a result of the arrangements reached, the "Afghans" agreed not to restart their temporarily interrupted hunger strike.

October 22, 2008 13:08

• Farid Babaev's murder trial starts in Dagestan

  Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan will hold the first hearing on the resonant case about the murder of Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party and candidate for the State Duma. Judge Ibram Garunov will chair the trial, which will be held with participation of jurymen.