Сhronicles

August 15, 2011 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 8-14

  Third anniversary of August 2008 events in South Ossetia; wildfires in southern Russia; mass brawls in Dagestan with casualties and dozens of detainees; trials of oppositionists in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 8-14, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 08, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 1-7

  Start of Ramadan, Muslims' sacred fasting month; trial on resonant murder of football fan in Moscow, where residents of Northern Caucasus are defendants; fight of villagers in Ingushetia for their elected head; funeral of Georgian woman killed in terror act in Norway, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 1-7, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 01, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 25-31

  Start of election race in Abkhazia; Dagestan: disputable outcomes of special operation, economic forum and murder of head of President's press service; natural fires in Rostov Region, and, probably, criminal origin of fires in central Astrakhan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the week of July 25-31, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 25, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 18-24

  Eviction of South-Ossetian and Abkhazian refugees out of temporary accommodation centres (TACs) in Tbilisi; start of dialogue of Armenian authorities with opposition; attack on Circassian leader Ibragim Yaganov in Kabardino-Balkaria; start of trial on terror act at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport, – look these and other events in the review of the week of July 18-24, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 18, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 11 to 17

  International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in Yerevan saw a record number of applications; two years after the murder of Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova her colleagues present results of their own inquiry; Victor Dvorakovskiy, "Russian Wahhabi" suspected of preparing terrorist attack arrest in the Stavropol region, – look these and other events in the review of the week of July 11-17, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 11, 2011 23:30

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 4-10

  Second All-Caucasian Forum "Mashuk-2011" for youth of Northern Caucasus; meeting of members of the Presidential Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights with Dmitry Medvedev in Nalchik; new "spy scandal" and sentence to defendants in resonant case on espionage in Georgia; fighting against "laser hooliganism" in South of Russia, – look these and other events in the review of the week of July 4-10, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 04, 2011 22:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 27-July 3

  Tragedy instead of feast – victims of gas explosion at wedding party in Vladikavkaz die; first nominations for presidential election in Abkhazia; adoption of the law on distant pastures in Kabardino-Balkaria, which caused disputes among local indigenous nations; sentence to persons guilty of children's death in the Sea of Azov; transformation of oppositional "octet" into "sextet" after negotiations on electoral legislation in Georgia, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 27-July 3, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 27, 2011 22:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 20-26

  Broad-scale special operation in Dagestani forests: militants manage to deceive power agents and escape; the 70th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War was marked in all regions of Southern and Northern Caucasus; arrests of oppositionists in Georgia in the context of another putsch statement; failed summit on Karabakh in Kazan, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 20-26, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 20, 2011 23:30

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 13-19

  Acquittal in the criminal case on slandering Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, passed by court in Moscow; rallies and hunger strike of Dagestani residents who demand to open traffic in the tunnel connecting the centre of the republic with several mountainous districts; verdict of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia on the initiative of the new term of Eduard Kokoity's office; protest rallies in Baku, – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 13-19, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 13, 2011 21:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 6-12

  Negotiations in Transcaucasia on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia's conflicts with South Ossetia and Abkhazia; resonant murder of religious leaders in Makhachkala, Dagestani capital; and assassination in broad daylight in Moscow of Yuri Budanov, "an enemy of the Chechen nation", – look these and other events in the review of the week of June 6-12, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 07, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 30-June 5

  Funeral of President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh; verdict of guilty in the case of murdering Chechen Israilov in Vienna, in which head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov had figured; meeting of the Presidential Council for Human Rights in Makhachkala; another victim in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 30-June 5, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 01, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 23-29

  Dispersal of oppositional protest in Tbilisi; amnesty announced in Armenia covering political prisoners; disaster was caused by torrential rains in Southern Russia; Russian Nogais hold their congress in Dagestan ", - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 23-29, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 25, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 16 to 22 May

  Protest actions of the opposition movement "People's Assembly" in Georgia; recognition by Georgian Parliament of Circassian genocide committed by Russian Empire; visit of Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, to Northern Caucasus; events within the European Action "Museum Night", - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 16-22, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 18, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 9-15

  Thanks to this year's victory of the Azerbaijani duet, the country will host the "Eurovision-2012" in Baku; more than 2000 residents of South Ossetia stand for referendum on the third presidential term; Kuban residents again draw attention to falsification of criminal cases; victims of floods in Azerbaijan left homeless and without property go on hunger strike, - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 9-15, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 11, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 2-8

  Downpour floods the capital of North Ossetia and several villages in Ingushetia - local residents count the damage, while the authorities are trying to eliminate the consequences of the disaster; on the eve of the Victory Day a terror act was prevented in Astrakhan, while Dagestan holds a large-scale special operations against militants; Azerbaijani police again disperses protest action in Baku, - look these and other events in the review of the week of May 2-8, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 04, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 25 to May 1

  Bad weather has once again arranged a transport blockade of the resort city of Sochi; Deputies of Karachay-Cherkessia amend the Republic's Constitution; May Day was marked both in the South of Russia and in Transcaucasia, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 25 to May 1, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 27, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 18-24

  Railway in Dagestan became a target - five explosive devices could be triggered there; nationalists in Moscow demand from the authorities to stop "feeding the Caucasus"; anthrax was diagnosed in one of Kuban city hospitals, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 18-24, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 20, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 11-17

  Provocative leaflets in Ingushetia forced law enforcers to strengthen; avalanche blocks communication between Russia and Georgia over "Verkhni Lars"; police disperses another protest action of opposition in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 11-17, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 13, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 4-10

  Suicide bombers again blow them up in Northern Caucasus; unpleasant weather surprises paralyze life in the Krasnodar Territory; in Ingushetia, former deputy minister miraculously survives an attempt, - look these and other events in the review of the week of April 4-10, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 06, 2011 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 28 to April 3

  Power agents hope to identify Dokku Umarov among those liquidated in Ingushetia; while the former Mayor of Volgograd is seeking his reinstatement, it was decided to liquidate the post of Mayor whatsoever - in favour of the post of City Manager; Azerbaijani authorities respond by mass arrests to mass protests, - look these and other events in the review of the week of March 28 to April 3, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".