News

July 22, 2008 12:04

• Defendants in Kondopoga disorders case refuse to plead guilty

  Today, the Supreme Court of Karelia has announced the indictment on the criminal case about the fight in the Karelian city of Kondopoga on August 30, 2006, which resulted in mass disorders. The defendants, natives of Chechnya and Dagestan, refused to plead guilty.

July 22, 2008 12:00

• Rostov Region: prosecutor's office reveals more than two thousand hidden crimes

  In the first 6 months of 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region revealed and registered 2109 crimes not registered before. Out of the total number of such crimes, in 953 cases initiation of criminal cases was unreasonably rejected.

July 22, 2008 11:56

• Gurgen Egiazaryan owes his freedom to Armenian opposition and Thomas Hammarberg

  Former Deputy Head of the Armenian State Department of National Security Gurgen Egiazaryan has stated at a meeting with journalists that, most likely, he is at large for two reasons: because of the sit-in protest action in the Severny Avenue and the position of principle proclaimed by Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights.

July 22, 2008 11:52

• Armenian Ombudsman asks prosecutors to give details on the instruction of Special Investigatory Service

  Andranik Mirzoyan, head of the Special Investigatory Service of the Republic of Armenia, has answered the letter of Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan with a number of questions related to the investigatory assignment sent on March 5 to the Prosecutor's Office of the Vaiots Dzor Region (Marz).

July 22, 2008 11:50

• Georgia is not going to release residents of South Ossetia

  According to Shota Khizanishvili, head of the PR Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, the Georgian party is not going to release the two citizens of South Ossetia detained on July 20.

July 22, 2008 11:43

• Investigation of double murder underway in Ingushetia

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are investigating an incident in the city of Karabulak, where at night on July 22 unidentified persons got into the territory of the LLC "RIPSU" and shot dead point-blank the workers who were in the glass shop premise. Idris Izmailov, 21, and Karen Arutyunyan, born in 1979, perished.

July 22, 2008 11:40

• On Day of Press, Azerbaijani journalists pay tribute to their deceased colleagues

  On July 22, Azerbaijan celebrates the Day of National Press. Exactly 133 years ago, on July 22, 1875, the first issue of the first newspaper in the Azerbaijan language named "Ekinchi" (Ploughman) was published by the outstanding Azerbaijani educator Gasan Bek Zardabi. The Day of National Press is marked since gaining independence by Azerbaijan in 1991.

July 21, 2008 13:02

• 16 persons hospitalized in Volgograd Region with food poisoning

  In the city of Zhirnovsk, Volgograd Region, 16 persons, including a child of nine, have been hospitalized with food poisoning.

July 21, 2008 12:57

• Georgian police detains four citizens of South Ossetia

  The authorities of Tskhinvali assert that the Georgian party has taken four citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia, who were coming back from Georgia, as hostages. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has confirmed this information.

July 21, 2008 12:53

• An explosive neutralized in the capital of Dagestan

  A powerful man-made explosive, detected today in the morning in Makhachkala near the building of the Federal Exchequer of Russia for Dagestan was neutralized by blowing up.

July 21, 2008 12:51

• SC of Karelia starts trial on disorders in Kondopoga

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Karelia has begun a trial on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga on August 30, 2006, which grew into mass disorders.

July 21, 2008 12:47

• Supreme Court of Dagestan considers Farid Babaev's murder

  Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan in Makhachkala has started a trial on murder of Farid Babaev, chairman of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, committed eight months ago - on November 21, 2007.

July 21, 2008 12:44

• Writer Paizullaev states that he had accused Chechnya's President of kidnappings under Yamadaev's pressure

  Writer Nikolai Paizullaev, who on May 23 at press conference in Moscow accused Ramzan Kadyrov of his own kidnapping, and of kidnapping of his wife and daughter, has stated that he was acting under the effect of psychotropic substances and by command of one of Yamadaev brothers.

July 21, 2008 12:39

• Father of Ilyas Sharipov detained in Dagestan complains of bureaucrats' inaction

  Rasul, father of Ilyas Sharipov, who was detained in Dagestan, complains that his numerous appeals to federal and local officials with a demand to address the situation gave no results. Today, Rasul Sharipov who lives in Balakhany village of the Untsukul District has sent his application to President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev and Prime Minister Shamil Zainalov.

July 20, 2008 14:12

• Defenders of South Azerbaijanis' rights detained in Iran

  During the recent three days, six activists of the movement in defence of the rights of South Azerbaijanis have been detained in Iran.

July 20, 2008 12:02

• Antiterrorist operation conducted in Ingushetia

  In the village of Sagopshi, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, on July 19, an antiterrorist operation was held. According to law enforcement bodies, the militants who planned terror acts hid in the village.

July 19, 2008 22:52

• Authorities of Chechnya demand return of lands occupied by Russian power agencies

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded from the heads of administrations of the districts of the republic to solve the problems with the land plots, which are life-supporting for the republic, but are currently occupied by the forces of the Russian Ministry of Defence and other power agencies, deployed in Chechnya.

July 19, 2008 17:46

• 100 days of Sarkisyan's presidency marked in Armenia

  July 19 marks one hundred days after Serzh Sarkisyan took the post of the President of Armenia. In this context, the President addressed citizens of his country.

July 19, 2008 11:40

• South Ossetia rejects EU's offer to meet with Georgia in Brussels

  South Ossetia has denied the proposal of the European Union to have a meeting in Brussels with the Georgian party. Tskhinval said that the reason of refusal was that no representatives of North Ossetia were invited to the meeting.

July 19, 2008 10:18

• Blind people are taught to read Koran under Braille system

  In September in Grozny, the Republic's Library for Blind Persons will start training courses for studying the Koran on the basis of the Braille relief-dot alphabet.