News

April 28, 2008 10:43

• Russian journalist's film "Plan Kavkaz" caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan

  The investigation made by Anton Vernitskiy, journalist of Channel One, in his film "Plan Kavkaz", shown on April 22 and dedicated to the attempts in early 1990s of external forces, including Baku and Ankara, to separate Chechnya from Russia, has caused bewilderment in Azerbaijan.

April 28, 2008 10:38

• Abkhazia refutes information about attack on the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees

  Abkhazia has denied the news about the attack on the office of the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees in the Galskiy District of Republic that was undertaken today at night, according to the information of Georgian TV Companies.

April 28, 2008 10:33

• In Sochi, Old Ritualists made a photo of the bureaucrat who had provoked fight with militia

  In the Imereti Bay, Old Ritualists managed to make a photo of the official who had provoked a collision with militiamen. According to the updated information, the name of the girl who suffered on April 23 during the collision with militia and OMON is Anna Tkachenko.

April 27, 2008 18:20

• Court in Ingushetia fines and expels US woman out of Russia

  By the ruling of the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia, Mack Shannon Lie, a US citizen, who has broken the sojourn regulations of the Russian Federation, was fined and expelled from the country.

April 26, 2008 14:11

• Armenians all over the world have honoured genocide victims

  In many countries of the world, where Armenians live, actions were held on April 24-25 dedicated to the memory of the victims of 1915 Armenian genocide.

April 26, 2008 14:08

• Meeting in memory of Chernobyl victims to be held in Rostov-on-Don

  Today, Rostov-on-Don will mark another anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The mournful meeting will take place near the city's monument to tragedy victims.

April 26, 2008 14:03

• British Ambassador to Georgia meets Abkhazian politicians

  At the meeting with Dennis Kief, GB's Ambassador to Georgia who arrived to Sukhumi on Friday, prime minister of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab expressed his surprise with the negative reaction of the leading European countries, who criticised Russia's lifting up of economic sanctions against Abkhazia.

April 26, 2008 12:20

• Jorsch: Georgia's NATO membership depends on democratic nature of parliamentary elections

  Matthaus Jorsch, a member of the delegation of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has stated that presentation a NATO membership plan to Georgia will depend on the fairness level of the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

April 26, 2008 11:14

• Abkhazia's authorities: by supporting Georgia, NATO, USA and EU underestimate potential consequences

  On April 25, the Parliament of Abkhazia sent a message to the leaders of the NATO, European Union and United States with regret for the negative reaction of these entities and some other states to Moscow's initiatives in support of this non-recognized republic.

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.