News

January 25, 2008 18:15

• Human rights activists believe that special operation in Ingushetia aims to hamper the opposition rally

  The announcement of a part of Ingushetian territory to be zone of counterterrorist operation is aimed to hamper the rally of the opposition planned for January 26 in Nazran - this is the opinion of human rights activists.

January 25, 2008 18:09

• Property of "Imedi" TV Company arrested in Georgia

  Court of Tbilisi has seized the property of the "Imedi" TV Company, where businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili is the founder, and which had planned to restart broadcasting since January 28.

January 24, 2008 23:29

• Sochi OMON commanders deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating tourists

  Commanders of Sochi OMON deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating in summer 2006 young men in the territory of children's summer camp "Druzhba".

January 24, 2008 23:25

• 5,000 Russians demand choosing another place for sleigh-bobsleigh track in Sochi

  On January 23, the Greenpeace delegation handed over to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne lists with 5,000 signatures of the Russians who demand to transfer the Sochi Olympic sleigh-bobsleigh track to another place.

January 24, 2008 23:18

• Lawyer Aliev: nobody knows how European Court's decisions on Azerbaijan are enforced

  The European Court for Human Rights has passed 11 decisions against Azerbaijan, however, the legal community of the country possesses no official information on whether the Azerbaijani government fulfils these decisions or not.

January 24, 2008 23:08

• Azerbaijani tax officials inspect opposition's printing houses

  For several days in a row, tax services of Azerbaijan are examining the publishing house "Chap Evi" (House of Press).

January 24, 2008 23:04

• Court of Beslan to consider issue of pensions to parents of perished children

  Today, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has obliged the Pravoberezhny Court of the city of Beslan to consider the suit of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization claiming to appoint pensions to the parents of the children-victims of the terror act.

January 24, 2008 23:00

• Access to Internet stopped in Ingushetia on the eve of opposition rally

  On the eve of the rally of the opposition against corruption, kidnappings and unlawful executions, planned for January 26, two Ingushetian Internet providers - the Closed Joint-Stock Company "ITT" and the Limited Liability Company "Telecom" - have received orders today to stop the service of connecting their clients to the Internet.

January 24, 2008 22:49

• Most complaints against Russia in the Strasbourg Court are on events in Chechnya

  The report of the European Court for Human Rights published on January 23 notes that last year the Court revealed 175 facts of human rights violations in Russia.

January 24, 2008 22:44

• Main reasons of November 2007 catastrophe in Kerch Strait announced

  The Russian Ministry of Transportation has announced that the principal causes of vessels' destruction in the Kerch Strait in November 2007 were complicated weather conditions and poor control over navigation safety.

January 23, 2008 13:05

• Residents of Makhachkala block Imam Shamil Avenue

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, today starting from 5 p.m., local residents have blocked traffic along the Imam Shamil Avenue in protest against electricity cut-offs.

January 23, 2008 13:01

• Khidasheli: OSCE is rather critical in assessing the presidential election in Georgia

  Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party of Georgia and representative of the United Opposition, believes that in reality the OSCE's estimates of the election was critical enough, but because of tendentious presenting the Georgian television this criticism was somehow lost.

January 23, 2008 12:55

• Human Rights Watch concerned with trial of "Voice of Beslan"

  The International Human Rights Watch Organization has expressed its anxiety with the pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, in whose materials the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has revealed extremist information.

January 23, 2008 12:34

• Contract soldiers from Dagestan protest against nationality-motivated dismissals

  On January 22, over two hundred Dagestanians-contract soldiers from the military units deployed in Khankala held a picket in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against their nationality-motivated dismissals.

January 23, 2008 12:01

• Militants planned terror act at rally in Ingushetia

  According to today's information of Svetlana Gorbakova, senior assistant to the head of the investigatory department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, the explosive that blew up in a car on January 22 in Nazran (Ingushetia) was intended for the rally to be held on January 26.

January 22, 2008 12:52

• Armenians of Krasnodar Territory demand from Turkish authorities to solve Hrant Dink's murder

  On January 20, a meeting of leaders of a number of Armenian NGOs of the Krasnodar Territory was held in Tenginka village of the Tuapse District. The meeting was in memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos" published in Turkey who was killed one year ago.

January 22, 2008 12:46

• So far, Poland fails to grant refugee's status to the Chechen woman whose children died in the mountains

  The family from Chechnya, which had lost three daughters in Bieszczady mountains during their illegal crossing of the Ukrainian-Polish border, could not get the refugee's status in Poland, although it had been personally promised to them by Maria Kachinska, wife of the incumbent president of this country.

January 22, 2008 12:40

• People's Party holds rally opposite US Embassy in Georgia

  Today, the People's Party has held a rally near the building of the US Embassy in the capital of Georgia, having accused the USA of supporting the election falsifications.

January 22, 2008 12:33

• Edelev: special operations in Dagestan and Ingushetia can continue till March

  Special actions conducted by militia in Dagestan and Ingushetia can go on till March.

January 22, 2008 12:26

• Dagestan: accused militants' accomplice released from the courtroom

  In Dagestan the court has acquitted Arsen Dzhanbatyrov in exchange of him giving up. Prior to criminal prosecution Dzhanbatyrov was registered as kidnapped.