News

February 20, 2008 12:53

• Beaten supporters of Ter-Petrosyan are going not to let Sarkisyan into the President's chair of Armenia

  The supporters of the Armenian presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan are resolute not to admit the presidency of Serzh Sarkisyan.

February 20, 2008 12:50

• Exit polls differ on Armenian election

  According to the exit polls conducted by the "Alliance" civil initiative group, Levon Ter-Petrosyan was in the lead at the election. According to the exit polls held by the Populus British Company under the order of the Public TV of Armenia, Serzh Sarkisyan was in the lead with a high gap.

February 20, 2008 12:42

• First sitting of Public Council of Grozny held in Chechnya

  On February 15, Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, hosted the first sitting of the City Public Council founded with the aim to assist in ensuring human rights.

February 20, 2008 12:37

• Preliminary hearing on attack on Nalchik postponed again in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The preliminary hearing that was due on February 20 on the criminal case on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik has been transferred to March 5.

February 19, 2008 13:12

• Kabardino-Balkaria: people are concerned with murders of Republic's citizens in Moscow

  The murders of two residents of Kabardino-Balkaria committed in Moscow within the latest week are the hot topic in the Republic. The KBR's community is concerned with what happens in the capital of the country.

February 19, 2008 13:09

• In Adygea, the verdict to the convict who placed execution video on the Internet is appealed against

  The verdict to Victor Milkov, who was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for placing a video showing execution of citizens of Tajikistan and Dagestan on the Internet, was appealed against by his advocates at the Supreme Court of Adygea.

February 19, 2008 13:03

• According to exit polls in Armenia, Sarkisyan defeats Ter-Petrosyan

  Prime minister of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan has won the first round of presidential election. According to exit polls, his main rival Levon Ter-Petrosyan has gathered 17.04% of voters.

February 19, 2008 12:29

• Ter-Petrosyan's Office: the ruling clique tries to re-capture power in Armenia

  Arman Musinyan, press-secretary of the electoral office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has stated that the presidential election is passing in Armenia with a huge number of violations and falsifications.

February 19, 2008 12:23

• "Voice of Beslan" thinks Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia was initiator of criminal cases against the Committee

  The "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian Organization believes that the initiative to initiate criminal cases against the Committee belongs to the Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia.

February 19, 2008 12:19

• Advocate Dorogova files a complaint to the Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Larissa Dorogova, a lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian Bar, has lodged a complaint that she was not admitted to her defendant to O. Zharikov, Public Prosecutor of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

February 19, 2008 12:06

• State Corporation in charge of preparing Sochi Olympiad asks to amend the environmental legislation

  According to Semyon Vainshtok, head of the "Olympstroy" State Corporation, realization of the construction programs of Olympic objects in Sochi demands to make changes in the law on specially protected natural territories and in the statement on ensuring the operation of the Sochi State Natural Reserve.

February 18, 2008 16:28

• UN SC does not support Kosovo's independence as expected by Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  The participants of an extraordinary sitting of the UN Security Council failed to make a decision on recognition of independence of Kosovo, the precedent of which is hunted by Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

February 18, 2008 16:25

• Areshidze: Patarkatsishvili could fall victim of FEZ-based conflict

  Mamuka Areshidze, an expert and head of the NGO "Centre of Strategic Researches of the Caucasus", believes that Badri Patarkatsishvili could have fallen victim of the struggle for the Free Economic Zone (FEZ).

February 18, 2008 16:24

• Ingushetia: meeting of opposition appointed on March 4

  The initiative group created after arrest of Maksharip Aushev has appointed a rally on March 4 at the Memorial to Victims of Repressions in Nazran.

February 18, 2008 16:21

• "Voice of Beslan" tries to find out the motives of the criminal case

  Members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee are going to visit the Investigatory Committee of North Ossetia and ask why a criminal case was initiated against the Committee.

February 16, 2008 11:41

• Islamic Party of Azerbaijan calls on Denmark to apologize to Moslems

  The Islamic Party of Azerbaijan has made a statement in connection with publication of caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers.

February 16, 2008 11:38

• Protest actions in Ingushetia postponed: authorities promise to release some of the oppositionists

  In Ingushetia, actions of civil disobedience have been postponed till February 19 against the promise of the authorities to release the first six persons arrested during the events on January 26.

February 16, 2008 11:33

• Suspect of attack on Nalchik dies in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On February 15, Valery Bolov, one of the defendants in the case about the attack to Nalchik on October 13, 2005, died in Kabardino-Balkaria from liver cirrhosis.

February 16, 2008 11:30

• Lawyer Boris Kuznetsov gets political asylum in the States

  Lawyer Boris Kuznetsov who earlier defended ex-senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmakhchyan and was suspected of disclosing state secrets was granted political asylum in the United States.

February 16, 2008 11:27

• Mother of Guantanamo prisoner Kudaev detained in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On February 14, Fatima Tekaeva, mother of Rasul Kudaev, a defendant in the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, was detained in the city of Nalchik.