News

June 09, 2008 09:26

• Militants who were searched killed in Dagestan

  The bodies of three young men killed in the Hasavyurt District on June 7 as a result of a skirmish with militiamen in Dagestan have been identified. Two of them had been searched.

June 07, 2008 19:55

• Armenia: rallies in defence of political prisoners continue

  In the district of Vanatur of the Razdan city in Armenia, a hunger strike with a demand to release all political prisoners was launched by war veterans of the voluntary regiment Arshavir Bazinyan, Ashot Nersisyan, Norik Sarkisyan, Samvel Panosyan, Eduard Sarkisyan and widow Janet Nersisyan.

June 07, 2008 17:46

• Rostov Region: ecologists bag subscriptions against NPP construction

  In Rostov-on-Don, ecology activists have started to bag subscriptions under a petition of townspeople to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev with an appeal to refrain from building new nuclear power plants.

June 07, 2008 15:43

• In Georgia, opposition failed to hamper the parliament

  Today, the capital of Georgia hosted the first sitting of the parliament of the new convocation elected on May 21. The sitting was attended by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia Elias the Second.

June 07, 2008 12:39

• Movie Festival "Kinotaurus" starts in Sochi

  Tonight, Sochi will host the opening ceremony of the 21st "Kinotaurus" Open Russian Movie Festival. In total, the jury will choose among 14 films, 9 of them made by debutants.

June 07, 2008 11:30

• Russian railway troops can stay on in Abkhazia

  Restoration of the railway in Abkhazia can take more than two months, said Sergey Shamba, head of the Abkhazian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when making comments on the statement of the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov that the units of the railway troops of Russia will leave the territory of Abkhazia within the nearest two months.

June 07, 2008 10:24

• Chechnya's parliament to become unicameral

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has signed a new law on election of deputies to the Parliament of Chechnya, according to which the legislature will become unicameral.

June 06, 2008 21:56

• United Opposition of Georgia would not give up boycotting the parliament

  Despite the doubts of its individual members, the United Opposition of Georgia sticks to its decision to boycott the work of the new parliament, which has appointed its first session on June 7.

June 06, 2008 19:52

• Trutnev: ecologists' complains on Sochi preparation for the Olympiad destroy the image of Russia

  Yuri Trutnev, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, believes that the claims put forward by ecologists in the context of preparation for 2014 Sochi Olympiad can undermine the image of Russia.

June 06, 2008 18:46

• Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet in St-Petersburg

  St-Petersburg was the venue of the first meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Serzh Sarkisyan and Ilham Aliev have agreed to continue negotiations on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of Madrid proposals.

June 06, 2008 15:38

• Moscow court stops "Ingushetia.Ru" opposition website

  Today, the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow has stopped the operation of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", thus having satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia, which stuck to the opinion that the site was disseminating extremist information.

June 06, 2008 15:09

• Solana discussed in Abkhazia settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

  Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, has discussed the issues settling the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict with Abkhazian leaders.

June 06, 2008 13:23

• Prime minister of Armenia brings an action against ex-prime minister

  Tigran Sarkisyan, former Chairman of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia and nowadays the Prime Minister of the country, has lodged a claim on protection of his honour, dignity and professional reputation against Grant Bagratyan, leader of the oppositional non-parliamentary party "Azatyutyun" (Freedom), who was the prime minister of Armenia in 1993-1996.

June 06, 2008 11:07

• Two burials with remains of kidnapped persons found in Chechnya

  During several recent days, in the Gudermes and Vedeno Districts of Chechnya, several burials have been detected. The authorities of Chechnya assert that all the casualties fell victims of extrajudicial executions of the militaries of the "Vostok" (East) battalion commanded by Sulim Yamadaev.

June 05, 2008 18:31

• EU High Commissioner will not become intermediary between Georgian opposition and authorities

  Javier Solana, High Commissioner of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Safety, who has arrived today to Tbilisi, has stated that he would not mediate the conflict between the opposition and the authorities of Georgia.

June 05, 2008 13:27

• Azerbaijan: "Azadlyg" opposition block boycotts presidential election

  Three oppositional parties - the People's Front, Party of Citizens and Development and Liberal Party of Azerbaijan, united into the block named "Azadlyg", have officially declared their boycott of the presidential election appointed for October 15, 2008.

June 05, 2008 10:24

• In Ingushetia, nationwide opposition rally postponed

  In Ingushetia, representatives of the opposition have made a decision to postpone for indefinite time the rallies in five dwelling settlements of Ingushetia, which were appointed for tomorrow, June 6.

June 05, 2008 08:17

• Georgia sums up parliamentary elections

  The Central Electoral Commission of Georgia has promulgated the final totals of the parliamentary elections held May 21. Five parties will form the parliament of the country.

June 05, 2008 07:12

• Kozak: cost of Sochi Olympic objects will be defined by end of year

  Dmitri Kozak, Minister for Regional Development of the Russian Federation, has stated that the final construction cost of all the objects erected for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympiad will be defined by the end of 2008 after finalizing the project and budget documentation.

June 04, 2008 22:26

• Capital of Chechnya getting ready for international film festival

  On June 13-19, the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, will host the First International Film Festival under the name of "Noah's Ark". Preparation for the event is now especially fast.