News

March 22, 2007 22:24

• Joint group will continue investigation of Kodor Gorge incident

  A joint investigatory group will conduct an additional investigation into the incident in the upper section of the Kodor Gorge connected with the shelling on the night of March 12.

March 22, 2007 22:03

• Collision of Cossacks with Chechen "OMON" in Stavropol Territory

  In the morning of March 21, the workers of the "Peresvet" Private Security Company (PSC) who are the Cossacks of the Mineralovodskiy Unit of the Tersk Army arrived to the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) to take guard of the building of the local sewing factory.

March 21, 2007 22:59

• Kadyrov rejects sovereignty for Chechnya

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has declared that the issue of signing a powers delimitative treaty between Russia and Chechnya is no longer actual.

March 21, 2007 22:39

• Abkhazian opposition accuses authorities of using administrative resources

  Former opposition candidates to parliament deputies - Emma Hodzha, Vitaly Gabniya, Almasbei Kchach, Daur Achugba and Marina Bartsyts - are going to lodge complaints to the Supreme Court of Abkhazia.

March 21, 2007 22:37

• Charges on the criminal case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train presented

  The jurymen have passed an accusatory verdict on the criminal case related to blowing up of the Grozny-Moscow train committed on June 12, 2005.

March 21, 2007 22:33

• Nagorny Karabakh gets ready to elect president

  The "Artsakh" Democratic Party that has a majority in the Parliament of Nagorny Karabakh has started consultations on nominating or supporting a candidate to the position of the president.

March 21, 2007 22:30

• Clashes of Kazakhs with Chechnya natives in Kazakhstan

  On March 20, it became known about mass collisions between natives of Chechnya and Kazakhs that burst out in Kazakhstan.

March 20, 2007 23:27

• Public prosecutor demands life sentence for an attempt on the head of the Dagestan Pension Fund

  At the process on the case on the attempt committed on Amuchi Amutinov, former vice-premier of the Republic and head of the Dagestan branch of the Russian Pension Fund, the public prosecutor has demanded the court to sentence brothers Magomed and Gazimagomed Gairbekov to life imprisonment.

March 20, 2007 23:23

• Kadyrov will tell the USA about conflict-settlement in Chechnya

  Arkadiy Yedelev, deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia, stated on Tuesday in Grozny that in April a delegation of the US Department of State will arrive to Chechnya to borrow the experience of settling regional conflicts.

March 20, 2007 23:19

• Trial of OMON pogromists of children's camp continues in Sochi

  Today, the Lazarevskiy District Court of the city of Sochi has continued the process on allegations of a group of OMON (special militia) fighters of exceeding their official powers with application of violence in the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp last summer.

March 20, 2007 22:17

• Azerbaijani human rights defenders think the problem of political prisoners still exists

  The Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan (HRCA) is satisfied with the govt's efforts to settle the problem of political prisoners.

March 20, 2007 22:15

• Abkhazian MoD accuses Georgia of provocation

  Sultan Sosnaliev, Abkhazian defence minister, has blamed as 'prevocational' the information of the Georgian party that "last night, two MI-24 combat helicopters and two SU-25 aircrafts flew into the Kodor Gorge from the territory of Abkhazia and remained over it for half an hour."

March 19, 2007 23:35

• Azerbaijani ex-minister of public health accuses authorities of murdering ex-minister of education

  At today's trial on the case of Ali Insanov, ex-minister of public health of Azerbaijan, the defendant made another sensational statement. This time, he has accused the authorities of political assassination of Rafik Feizullaev, former minister of education.

March 19, 2007 23:34

• General Yedelev: 37 militants' groups are operative in Chechnya

  Currently, 37 armed groupings with a total strength of 450 persons operate in Chechnya, general-colonel Arkady Yedelev, head of the operations headquarters for North Caucasus, has told today to the press conference in Grozny.

March 19, 2007 23:32

• Armenia now receives gas from Iran

  On March 19, an opening ceremony of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline was held with participation of Robert Kocharyan and Mahmud Ahmadinejad, presidents of Armenia and Iran.

March 19, 2007 22:58

• Trial of Prophet Mohammed abusing publicists again postponed in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Sabailskiy Court of the capital of Azerbaijan held a preparatory session on the case of publicist Rafik Tagi and Samir Sadagatoglu, editor of the "Sanat" newspaper.

March 19, 2007 22:53

• Operation to liquidate militants failed in Dagestan

  As a result of a special operation conducted today in the Untsukulskiy District of Dagestan, no militants were detained or liquidated.

March 17, 2007 22:59

• USA helps Azerbaijan to fight avian flu

  As soon as the end of March, the United States will help Azerbaijan, within the framework of fighting the avian flu virus, in building special laboratories in 12 regions of the country and equipping them with the required equipment.

March 17, 2007 22:55

• Abkhazian vice-president: Georgia's accession to NATO will aggravate the situation in North Caucasus

  Raul Khadzhimba, vice-president of Abkhazia, does not exclude that after Georgia's accession to NATO the situation may considerably aggravate not only in the Caucasian countries but also in the whole North Caucasian Region, which is administratively represented by the South Federal District (SFD) of Russia.

March 17, 2007 22:52

• They plan to alter the Chechen constitution by the end of 2007

  Today, Ismail Baikhanov, chairman of the Chechen Republic's Central Electoral Commission (CEC), has informed that the referendum on making changes in the constitution of Chechnya is planned to be held before next October.