News

March 17, 2007 22:42

• Ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan starts hunger strike

  Ali Insanov, ex-minister of public health of Azerbaijan has told his lawyers that as of today he goes on hunger strike. The reason, he has stated, is the biased character of his trial.

March 17, 2007 22:36

• Abusers of Prophet Mohammed to be trialled in Azerbaijan

  The sitting of the Sabail Court of the city of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, on the case of publicist Rafik Tagi and the editor of newspaper "Sanat" Samir Sadatoglu, accused of kindling religious enmity, will take place on March 19 under the chair of Judge Yusif Kerimov.

March 16, 2007 23:48

• In the process on Ulman's case, interrogation of defendant Perelevskiy is completed

  Today, at the North Caucasian Regional Military Court, at the process on Ulman's case, they have finished to interrogate the last defendant - major Alexei Perelevskiy.

March 16, 2007 23:43

• Maiskiy settlement of Ingush refugees to be disbanded in North Ossetia

  According to the enacted court ruling, the remaining families who are fundamentally refusing to quit their housing facilities will be forced out of the spontaneous settlement of Maiskiy in North Ossetia, where the victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict have been living for 13 years.

March 16, 2007 23:30

• Amnesty International calls Russia to stop tortures in Chechnya

  The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that the world's largest human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) made a statement accusing Russian authorities of using tortures in Chechnya.

March 16, 2007 22:26

• Orkhan Jemal: militia generates terrorism in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Orkhan Jemal, deputy editor-in-chief of the "Smysl" (Sense) magazine and an expert in North Caucasian problems thinks that the only improvement of the situation with terrorism in Kabardino-Balkaria is the replacement of the top management of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic.

March 16, 2007 22:16

• Chechnya Prosecution Office investigates tortures in ORB-2

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced at his meeting with journalists on Friday that the Public Prosecutor's Office was launching a criminal case on the facts of mockery and tortures at the Operations and Search Bureau (the so-called "ORB-2") of the city of Urus-Martan.

March 15, 2007 23:40

• Sappers prepare Chechnya farmland to spring sowing

  This spring the farmland of Chechnya will be completely cleared of mines and unexploded shells.

March 15, 2007 23:35

• Third of NGOs audited by "Rosregistratsia" are religious ones

  One third of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) subject to check in 2007 by the Federal Registration Service of Russia ("Rosregistratsia") are religious ones. There are three human rights organizations, and no ecological NGOs at all in the auditing plan of "Rosregistratsia" for this year, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has analysed.

March 15, 2007 23:30

• Council of Europe reiterates its non-recognition of the outcomes of Abkhazian elections

  The Council of Europe rejects the legality of parliamentary elections in Abkhazia. It was declared by Fiorenzo Stolfi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of San Marino and Chairman-in-Office of the CE's Committee of Ministers.

March 15, 2007 22:11

• South Ossetia accuses Georgia of shelling Ossetian village

  Today, early in the morning, at 6:45 a.m., four UAZ model jeeps with allegedly Georgian special unit ("spetsnaz") fighters in them entered the Ossetian village of Kvatetri (in the pre-frontier zone with Georgia) and opened fire on the village, the Ministry of Defence and Emergencies of South Ossetia has reported.

March 15, 2007 22:04

• FSB Department: threat of terror acts persists in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Government House of Kabardino-Balkaria has held a briefing on the outcomes of the activities of the Anti-Terrorist Commission.

March 14, 2007 22:47

• Georgia has promised to shoot down Russian helicopters

  Today, president of Georgia visited Upper Abkhazia. Mr. Saakashvili inspected the damaged buildings and promised support and protection to local residents.

March 14, 2007 22:43

• Combat collision in Stavropol Territory

  A skirmish, as a result of which one militiaman was killed and another one wounded, burst out in the city of Neftekumsk, Stavropol Territory.

March 14, 2007 22:40

• Lady-journalist Ersenoyeva, kidnapped in Chechnya, did not ask for US asylum

  The close people of journalist Elina Ersenoyeva who was kidnapped in Chechnya last August doubt that she could have an opportunity to apply for political shelter in the USA.

March 14, 2007 22:36

• Trial on Khlebnikov's case suspended for defendant's disappearance

  The Moscow City Court has suspended the trial on the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine because of disappearance of defendant Kazbek Dukuzov.

March 14, 2007 22:33

• Strasburg has responded to appeals from Kabardino-Balkaria to give out militants' bodies to relatives

  The European Court for Human Rights, acting on the basis of a complaint against Russia filed by 50 citizens of Kabardino-Balkaria, sent a so-called "communication" to the government of the Russian Federation (RF).

March 13, 2007 23:23

• Attack on Cherkessk prevented in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

  In 2006, special agencies of Russia managed to prevent an act of terrorism in Cherkessk (Karachayevo-Cherkessia), comparable by the scale with the attack of militants on Nalchik in 2005.

March 13, 2007 23:12

• Refugees from mountain villages of Chechnya fear to return home

  After 1999, an incessant mass outflow of people from mountain villages of Chechnya continues. However, life conditions for them in the plain are the heaviest.

March 13, 2007 22:26

• In Krasnodar Territory, 16 victims appeared at the trial of "OMON" fighters

  The Lazarevskiy District Court of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, has postponed the start of hearing of the case of eight "OMON" officers, who arranged a pogrom in the "Druzhba" Sochi Children's Camp till 10:00 a.m. on March 20.