News

March 12, 2008 21:52

• David Sigua's relatives threaten to hold a protest action at the UN Mission in the capital of Abkhazia

  On March 11, relatives and friends of David Sigua, who was kidnapped on February 3 this year from his own house in the city of Gall, blocked the entrance to the local United Nations Office.

March 12, 2008 21:51

• In Krasnodar, beaten soldier has his spleen amputated

  At the Krasnodar first aid hospital, soldier Alexander Ivanov from Volgograd who fell victim of beating at the military unit, was amputated his damaged spleen.

March 12, 2008 21:49

• Picket in defence of Mikhail Kriger, opponent of power agencies' activity in Northern Caucasus, held in Moscow

  In Moscow, a picket took place in defence of Mikhail Kriger, one of the leaders of the Anti-War Club (AWC), which stands against the strong-arm tactics of Russian authorities in Northern Caucasus.

March 12, 2008 21:46

• Military who rode down a woman in North Ossetia pleads guilty

  Soldier Seitmagambetov who rode down a woman with his armoured troop-carrier (ATC) in North Ossetia has plead guilty, but the relatives of the casualty fear that he can any time refuse from his evidence.

March 12, 2008 21:43

• Ingushetia: resident of Troitskaya village killed at bombardment of a dwelling house

  Today, at shelling of a dwelling house, Rustam Magomedovich Mutsolgov, born in 1986, was killed in Troitskaya village in Ingushetia.

March 12, 2008 21:41

• In Tbilisi, hunger strike at the building of Georgian Parliament continues

  The opposition is holding information actions all over Tbilisi calling people to rally together by today's evening at the building of the Parliament of Georgia.

March 12, 2008 21:35

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria refuses to give militant's body out to his mother

  The Panel of the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has considered the cassation petition lodged by the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nalchik against the decision of the Nalchik City Court, passed on the application of citizen Madina Trunova, and satisfied it.

March 11, 2008 11:28

• In Ingushetia, rally of the opposition appointed on March 12 postponed till April

  In Ingushetia, the organizers of the oppositional rally that was initially appointed on March 12 have postponed their action till April.

March 11, 2008 11:24

• Rostov Regions: soldiers were employed in a fish shop

  Two militaries at regular service in one of the units deployed in Kazachii Lagerya village, Oktiabrskiy District, Rostov Region, worked for six months at the fish shop of the Foreign Enterprise "Topchiy".

March 11, 2008 11:21

• In Azerbaijan, three journalists detained during a picket in front of the Council of Europe's office

  Today, three participants of the journalists' picket held in front of the Office of the Council of Europe in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, were detained by the police.

March 11, 2008 11:20

• Investigation confirms the bus explosion in Tolyatti to be accidental

  The explosion of a bus in Tolyatti on October 31, 2007, that killed eight persons was a result of careless handling a self-made explosive by suspect Evgeniy Vakhrushev.

March 11, 2008 11:14

• Picket in memory of Chechen separatists' leader Aslan Maskhadov banned in Moscow

  The Moscow authorities have prohibited the picket in memory of Aslan Maskhadov, the second President of Chechnya and leader of separatists killed three years ago that was planned for March 13.

March 11, 2008 11:12

• In Stavropol Territory, Ataman who blamed corruption dismissed

  Cossacks of the Stavropol Regional Cossack Society held their extraordinary round (meeting) and dismissed Ataman Mikhail Serkov who had appealed to give up Russian citizenship in protest against poor investigation of the murder of Ataman Andrei Khanin and corruption in the Stavropol Territory.

March 11, 2008 11:08

• Armenia: opposition to hold rally after lifting the state of emergency

  The opposition of Armenia plans to hold a rally on March 21, immediately after removal of the state of emergency. In compliance with the current legislation, oppositionists are planning to notify the Mayoralty of Yerevan about the rally.

March 11, 2008 10:38

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria cancels the verdict to militiamen convicted for torturing teenagers

  The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has cancelled the verdict passed by the Elborus District Court in relation to two ROVD employees - M. Mashezov and M. Baichekuev, and sent the case to a new investigation.

March 10, 2008 11:20

• Congress of Ingush Nation demands from Putin and Medvedev to set up order in Ingushetia

  The delegates of the extraordinary Congress of Ingush Nation, who represent the country's civil society, have addressed President Vladimir Putin and First Vice-Premier Dmitri Medvedev with a question: "Until when will Murat Zyazikov's clique of bureaucrats execute their arbitrariness in Ingushetia?"

March 10, 2008 11:16

• Armenia partially cancels the state of emergency

  President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan has partially cancelled the state of emergency. Five opposition parties and public organizations are returned the right to act. The President has also ordered to seek other legal grounds for operation of mass media.

March 10, 2008 11:13

• In Armenia, head of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's election office arrested

  Today, the Service of National Security of Armenia has arrested Alexander Arzumanyan, head of the election office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Ararat Zurabyan, one of the members of the election office and chairman of the Armenian All-National Movement.

March 10, 2008 11:09

• Prosecutor's office of Armenia presents charges to 59 oppositionists

  Charges of taking part in mass disorders in Yerevan, during which eight persons were lost, have been presented to 59 persons by the Prosecutor's Office of Armenia.

March 10, 2008 11:05

• In Georgia, Okruashvili's supporter Giorgi Tsagareishvili goes on hunger strike

  Today, Giorgi Tsagareishvili, one of the leaders of the opposition and representative of the Movement for United Georgia, where Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, is the leader, has joined the hunger strike held in front of the Parliament of Georgia. Now, there are about 15 persons holding a protest hunger strike at the building of the Parliament.