News

March 05, 2008 10:45

• Son of the administration head of the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan is suspected of ordering Farid Babaev's murder

  On March 4, two suspects of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party, were brought the Tyumen Region of Russia to Dagestan.

March 05, 2008 10:37

• Ter-Petrosyan: witnesses of election falsifications in Armenia are arrested

  Many of the important witnesses of the mass falsifications undertaken during the election on February 19 are now under arrest, and it hampers to studying the case in the court.

March 05, 2008 10:33

• Suspect of attacking the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria says they tried to strangle him in SIZO

  At today's session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case of the attack on Nalchik, one of the defendants, Zaur Tokhov, has stated that the workers of the SIZO had tried to strangle him, and named these workers.

March 05, 2008 10:24

• On March 9, Georgian opposition starts a new wave of protests

  The members of the oppositional United National Board held an extraordinary briefing in the Office of the People's Party and announced that a new wave of protests would be launched at the Parliament of Georgia at 2:00 p.m. on March 9.

March 04, 2008 12:05

• President of Abkhazia receives journalists who demand to release Basilaya

  On March 3, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh received a group of Abkhazian journalists who had addressed him with a demand to release the Georgian journalists detained by the employees of the Republic's State Security Service on February 26.

March 04, 2008 11:53

• Council of Europe demands from Armenian authorities to investigate the disorders in Yerevan

  The Council of Europe is highly concerned with mass disorders in Armenia and calls on the authorities to investigate the deaths of people at night on March 2. This is the topic of the statement made by Terry Davis, Secretary General of Council of Europe.

March 04, 2008 11:50

• Kocharyan and Sarkisyan discuss situation in Armenia with Peter Semneby

  On March 3, President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan received Peter Semneby, Special Representative of the European Union for South Caucasus. During the meeting, they discussed the post-election processes in Armenia, in particular, the situation in Yerevan and possible ways out of it.

March 04, 2008 11:44

• People in Volgograd Region are indignant with release of the murderer of Gipsies in Ulyanovsk Region

  At night on February 26, in the village of Ignatovka, Mainovskiy District, Ulyanovsk Region, two villagers committed a murder of a Gipsy aged 24 and his daughter of 18 months. On February 26, the killers were detained, and they pled guilty. However, three days later one of them was released.

March 04, 2008 11:39

• South Ossetia appeals to international community for recognition

  The Parliament of South Ossetia has addressed the UN Secretary General, the President, Council of the Federation and State Duma of Russia, as well as the heads of the CIS states and parliaments and EU countries with a request to recognize the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia.

March 04, 2008 11:34

• Suspect of attempt on Farid Babaev, head of "Yabloko" Branch in Dagestan, detained

  Today, Nizam Radzhabov, senior assistant for public relations of the head of the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, has officially confirmed the fact of detention of the persons suspected of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan Branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

March 04, 2008 11:29

• New protest rally to be held by opposition in Ingushetia

  On March 12 in Ingushetia, leaders of the opposition plan to bring their supporters to a new rally in protest against corruption in power bodies and violations of human rights in the Republic.

March 03, 2008 21:21

• Media restrictions imposed as president declares emergency

  Committee to Protect Journalists: Armenian authorities should immediately lift restrictions on independent news reporting and the censorship of independent news Web sites, steps imposed when President Robert Kocharian declared a state of emergency on Saturday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

March 03, 2008 16:22

• In Ingushetia, voter turnout was 92.3%

  The voter turnout at presidential election in Ingushetia made 92.3%. This was reported by Mussa Evloev, head of the Central Electoral Commission of Ingushetia, during a videoconference with the information centre of CEC of Russia "Election-2008".

March 03, 2008 16:20

• In Chechnya, 91% of voters cast their votes, 88.7% - for Medvedev

  In Chechnya, Dmitri Medvedev, the official "successor" of Vladimir Putin, was a confident winner of the presidential election.

March 03, 2008 15:06

• Residents of Volgograd voted for Medvedev, having no other choice

  On March 2, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent visited three polling stations of Volgograd and talked to voters. Many respondents said that they had voted for Dmitri Medvedev, for having no other choice.

March 03, 2008 14:45

• General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has established the persons who perished at disorders in Yerevan

  The General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has identified the personalities of all the eight victims in the clashes between supporters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the police and OMON on March 1 in Yerevan.

March 03, 2008 14:41

• General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia initiates a criminal case against Levon Ter-Petrosyan

  The State Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia has informed that Levon Ter-Petrosyan, ex-candidate for the president and leader of the opposition, is a figurant in the case about mass disorders in Yerevan on March 1.

March 03, 2008 14:36

• In Abkhazia, Sigua's relatives demand from Georgia to provide information about his whereabouts

  Today in the morning, in front of the Galskiy UN Office, a protest rally was held by relatives of David Sigua, a citizen of Abkhazia and head of the local electoral commission who was kidnapped on February 3, 2007, by Georgian special agencies.

March 03, 2008 14:29

• Abkhazian journalists ask Bagapsh to release their Georgian colleagues

  Today, a group of Abkhazian journalists have addressed the President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh with a request to release the Georgian journalists detained in the Galskiy District.

March 02, 2008 21:49

• Police Beat Peaceful Protesters in Yerevan

  Armenian police on March 1 used excessive force and violence to disperse demonstrators protesting peacefully against recent election results, Human Rights Watch said today.