News

February 06, 2008 16:32

• Hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan continues in Rostov-on-Don

  On February 5, Elena Sannikova, one of initiators of the hunger strike with a demand to release heavily sick prisoner Vasily Aleksanyan and send him to treatment, had a hypoglycaemic crisis.

February 06, 2008 16:19

• Arrested ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan placed into prison hospital

  For 24 hours already, Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is at the Medical Establishment of the Penitentiary Systems. The diagnosis has not been formulated yet.

February 06, 2008 16:17

• Institute for Peace and Democracy: trial of the leader of Talyshes in Azerbaijan is absurd

  The Institute for Peace and Democracy is emphasizing the absurdity of litigation against Novruzali Mamedov, 67, a linguist, head of one of the divisions at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences, founder and editor-in-chief of the only newspaper in Azerbaijan in the Talysh language "Talyshi Sado", and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of the newspaper, accused of high treason.

February 06, 2008 16:09

• "Vlast" Magazine: aggravated situation in Ingushetia may have financial roots

  Apart from political reasons, the aggravated situation in Ingushetia may also have financial ones. This conclusion was made by Musa Muradov, correspondent of the "Vlast" (Power) Magazine, who has associated with residents of the Republic.

February 05, 2008 14:17

• Ombudsman defends the rights of residents of Volgograd Region arrested in Greece

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, is concerned with the fate of two residents of the town of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, who serve their terms in one of the prisons of the Greek Republic.

February 05, 2008 14:14

• In Azerbaijan, the state of health of the arrested ex-minister of economic development is worse

  The state of health of Farkhad Aliev, arrested ex-minister of economic development of Azerbaijan, has again worsened. He suffers from strong heartaches and requires hospitalization.

February 05, 2008 13:54

• Woman from Rostov-on-Don joins the hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan

  Raissa Grishechkina, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, has joined the hunger strike demanding to release Vasily Aleksanyan, former vice-president of the YUKOS Oil Company, who is seriously ill but still kept in SIZO (pre-trial facility).

February 05, 2008 13:49

• A schoolboy and a girl among those arrested for nationality-motivated murders in Moscow

  Among the arrested four figurants in the case on a skinhead grouping, suspected of committing of at least 20 murders, whose arrest was sanctioned by the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow, there are a girl and a minor.

February 05, 2008 13:47

• Court acquvits the Muscovite accused of murdering an Armenian

  Today, the Moscow Regional Court has passed an acquittal on the case of the nationality-motivated murder of Arthur Sardaryan, 19, committed in a Moscow suburb.

February 05, 2008 13:40

• Defendants in the case on attack on power agents in Kabardino-Balkaria demand public advocates

  The defendants in the case on the events on October 13, 2005, in the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, want to petition again at court about admission of their relatives and friends to the process as public defenders.

February 05, 2008 13:34

• Commander of special operation in Kondopoga to be trialled in camera

  On February 7, the Supreme Court of Karelia will start considering, in private session, the criminal case of Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Victor Vysokikh, commander of the special operation aimed to stop mass disorders in the city of Kondopoga in September 2006.

February 04, 2008 19:17

• Kidnapped person released for ransom in Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone

  Davis Nadaraya, a kidnapped resident of Shamgon village, Zugdidi District of Georgia, was released after a week of detainment in the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone.

February 04, 2008 19:05

• Activist of "The Other Russia" released in Rostov-on-Don

  Sergey Volodin, a National-Bolshevik and one of the coordinators of "The Other Russia" Coalition for the Rostov Region, is back at large.

February 04, 2008 18:58

• Arrested Mirza Sakit restarts his hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  On February 3, journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit who is imprisoned in Azerbaijan has renewed his protest hunger strike against the refusal of the prison administration to transfer him to the prison hospital despite his poor health condition.

February 04, 2008 18:55

• PACE Rapporteurs were told about the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  Today the Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Andres Herkel and Evgenia Zhivkova have begun their meetings in Baku within their four-day visit.

February 04, 2008 18:29

• Opposition restarts protest actions in Georgia

  Next week, on the initiative of the United Opposition of Georgia, a campaign will be launched in Georgia under the motto "I didn't elect Saakashvili". Today, the leaders of the opposition have informed journalists about it at the press conference held in front of the building of the Parliament of Georgia.

February 02, 2008 14:25

• The trial of the "Voice of Beslan" to be held in North Ossetia

  The trial on the case about recognition of the information materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" will be held in the Prevoberezhny District of North Ossetia.

February 02, 2008 13:33

• Presentation of the "Vatan" Meskhetian Turks' International Foundation held in Georgia

  Yesterday, on February 1, the Tbilisi Hotel "Kortiyard Marriott" hosted the presentation of the International Foundation of Meskhetian Turks named "Vatan", where Suleiman Barbakadze is the Chairman, and of a book about Meskhetian Turks.

February 02, 2008 12:28

• Resident of Ingushetia kidnapped in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Unknown armed persons kidnapped Daud Khutiev, 20, a resident of Nazran, the Republic of Ingushetia, from the hospital located in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

February 02, 2008 12:24

• Protest rally in Ingushetia postponed from February 23 till May

  The organizing committee of the protest rally in Ingushetia has held a sitting where a decision was made to postpone the date of the action from February 23 to some date in May.