News

April 25, 2008 12:30

• Kukava: political terror in Georgia continues

  According to Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party, pressure on candidates from the opposition and members of their families continues in Georgia. He also told that the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia had published voters' lists without doorway and apartment numbers, which makes room for future falsifications.

April 25, 2008 12:23

• In Azerbaijan, unknown persons put oppositionist's car on fire

  Today at night, unknown persons set a car model VAZ-2107 belonging to military journalist Uzeir Dzhafarov on fire.

April 25, 2008 12:20

• Party in power "Eni Azerbaijan" complains of poetry of convicted journalist

  The ruling party "Eni Azerbaijan" has filed a complaint to the Board for the Press against satirical verses of poet Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov), who is now in prison.

April 25, 2008 12:17

• US President condoles with Armenians on the genocide day

  On April 24, in his annual traditional address to the Armenian community of the USA on the day of genocide against Armenians, George W. Bush, President of the USA, treated the tragic events of 1915 as "massacre and deportation".

April 25, 2008 12:13

• MIA of Chechnya accuses Eshilkhatoy Emir of murdering two girls

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic is accusing Selim Bimurzaev, a militants' commander from the village of Eshilkhatoy, of shelling the representative of Chechen Ombudsman in the Vedeno District and murdering two girls.

April 25, 2008 12:09

• FSPE Department for Chechnya denies inmates' hunger strike in Chernokozovo

  The Chechnya's Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement has refuted the information that inmates of the Corrective Colony in Chernokozovo are on hunger strike.

April 24, 2008 18:01

• Ter-Petrosyan leads the march of Armenian opposition supporters to the monument of genocide victims

  The march of the opposition supporters that started about 3 p.m. local time (2 p.m. in Moscow) and made its way to the monument of genocide victims situated Tsitsernakaberd is currently headed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of the opposition and the first president of Armenia.

April 24, 2008 17:57

• Vartanyan: I hope Bush will use the word "genocide" when addressing the natives of Armenia

  According to Arpi Vartanyan, regional director of the Armenian Assembly of America in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, she hopes that George Bush, who is nearing the end of his US presidency, will fulfil his pre-election promise and use the word "genocide" in his annual speech addressed to the Armenian community of the USA instead of previous "more flexible" formulations.

April 24, 2008 17:55

• Investigation of bus explosion in Tolyatti is over

  The investigation of the case about bus explosion in Tolyatti is over. Evgeniy Vakhrushev, who is considered to be the organizer of the explosion, was found mentally sick, and the explosion was accidental.

April 24, 2008 17:51

• Chechnya: inmates of Chernokozovo Corrective Colony are on hunger strike

  The prisoners kept in the Corrective Colony No. 2, situated in the Chechen village of Chernokozovo, have announced a hunger strike, a relative of one of the Colony inmates told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 24, 2008 17:47

• Human Rights Watch allocates grants to journalists convicted in Azerbaijan

  The Human Rights Watch has recognized the merits of three Azerbaijan journalists (Einullah Fatullaev, Sakit Zakhidov and Ganimat Zakhidov), subjected to political prosecution and arrest.

April 24, 2008 17:43

• Canadian journalist Jane Armstrong expelled from Chechnya

  Jane Armstrong, a Canadian journalist and correspondent of the "Globe and Mail" newspaper, has been deported from Chechnya.

April 24, 2008 17:40

• Old Ritualists assert the fight with militia in Sochi was provoked by local bureaucrat

  In Sochi, the fight of Old Ritualists with militiamen on April 23 was provoked by an official of local administration who applied physical force to a young pregnant woman.

April 23, 2008 17:29

• Court in North Ossetia rejects complaint of "Voice of Beslan" against poor investigation of Beslan terror act

  Today, the Zaterechny Court of North Ossetia has dismissed the complaint lodged by the All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" against the actions of the investigatory group in charge of studying the Beslan terror act.

April 23, 2008 17:26

• Council of Europe thanks Ingushetia for helping Chechen refugees

  The Council of Europe is grateful to Ingushetia for rendering assistance to refugees from the Chechen Republic. This was declared yesterday, on April 22, in the city of Magas by Thomas Hammerberg, CE's Commissioner for Human Rights.

April 23, 2008 17:23

• Federation Council postpones recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

  The Federation Council (Supreme Chamber of Russian Parliament) has postponed consideration of recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, claimed by these republics in their appeals to Russian leadership.

April 23, 2008 17:20

• Dzakhkiev's advocate knows nothing about release of suspects of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  The advocate of Salambek Dzakhkiev, a resident of Ingushetia and figurant in the case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, did not confirm to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the news that his client was released from custody.

April 23, 2008 17:17

• Okruashvili gets political shelter, extradition to Georgia cancelled

  France has granted political asylum to Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, thus automatically cancelling his extradition to Georgia.

April 23, 2008 17:14

• Sochi militia beat Old Ritualists before the eyes of IOC members

  Today, during the visit of the coordination commission of the International Olympic Committee to the Imereti Valley, Krasnodar Territory, a clash burst out between local residents and militiamen.

April 22, 2008 12:16

• Compensations appointed to relatives of Donetsk air crash victims

  On April 21, the Moskovskiy District Federal Court of St-Petersburg considered two claims for compensation of moral damage lodged by relatives of the victims at Tu-154 aircraft crash, flight "Anapa - St-Petersburg", near Donetsk in August 2006. Both claims were partially satisfied.