News

September 17, 2007 21:05

• Doku Umarov's associate murdered in Chechnya

  In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

September 17, 2007 21:02

• Andrei Keilin released

  On September 16, Andrei Keilin, who was in custody on suspicion of murdering students Dmitri Blakhin and Pavel Chadin on June 3 in Stavropol, has been released.

September 17, 2007 20:57

• Agasi Enokyan: negotiation process on Karabakh settlement is fruitless

  Making his comments on the present situation in the negotiating process aimed to settle the Karabakh conflict, political scientist Agasi Enokyan, Director of the Armenian Centre for Political and International Studies, has informed journalists about the deadlock in the negotiating process.

September 17, 2007 20:54

• Armenia: Prosecutor's Office and human rights activists speak about tortures of witnesses in the murder case of Lori prosecutor

  Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, has stated that as a result of operative-investigatory actions conducted under the murder case of Albert Kazaryan, Public Prosecutor of the Lori District, other crimes can be opened, namely, application of violence towards the witnesses figuring in the case.

September 15, 2007 12:21

• Detainees on suspicion of murdering the family of the Russian teacher released in Ingushetia

  Iles Dolgiev who was detained on suspicion of committing the murder of Anatoly Draganchuk and his sons Mikhail and Denis on August 31, 2007, has been released.

September 15, 2007 12:17

• The fact of Shamil Buraev's detention confirmed by "Novaya Gazeta"

  People from the editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta," where journalist Anna Politkovskaya had worked, have confirmed that Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, was detained on suspicion of being involved in Politkovskaya's murder.

September 15, 2007 12:13

• International organization to file a suit to the Hague Tribunal against President of South Ossetia

  Representatives of the Tbilisi-based international organization "Solidarity Centre" are going to lodge a lawsuit to the Hague Tribunal against Eduard Kokoity, President of non-recognized Republic of South Ossetia.

September 15, 2007 12:09

• Indigenous population of Ingushetia will guard Russians' houses at night

  Local residents of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, Ingushes by nationality, have made a decision to organize night patrol of the village houses where Russian families live.

September 15, 2007 12:04

• Ingushetia at night: militia post shelled, two children wounded, Russians' apartment set on fire

  Two emergencies took place in parallel last night in the territory of Ingushetia. A militia post was shelled in a suburb of Nazran and two children were wounded by an explosion. An apartment of a Russian family was set on fire in Malgobek.

September 14, 2007 18:49

• Court acquits the Russian accused of disorders in Tallinn

  For the first time ever, the Estonian Court, having agreed with the defence arguments, has acquitted the Russian who was detained and accused of participating in disorders in Tallinn after dismantling the Bronze Soldier this April.

September 14, 2007 18:44

• State Duma to consider a simplified procedure of real estate alienation from residents of Sochi

  On September 13, a bill was officially brought to the State Duma on a special legal regime for the preparation period of 2014 Olympics.

September 14, 2007 18:37

• Book by the former Public Prosecutor of Georgia presented in Tbilisi

  The book entitled "Law and Life," written by Giya Meparishvili, former General Public Prosecutor of Georgia and currently Professor of the Tbilisi Ivane Dzhavakhishvili State University and deputy of the Parliament of Georgia (fraction "Independent Majoritarians"), was presented on September 12 at the International Tbilisi Press Centre of the RIA "Novosti."

September 14, 2007 18:34

• Prosecutor asks 11 years of prison for ex-Minister of Economy in Azerbaijan

  Today, Public Prosecutor Nazir Bairamov has spoken to the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan at the hearings on the case of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister of Economic Development, and other 18 persons.

September 14, 2007 18:31

• Three dead Chechen girls found in Polish mountains

  In the Bieszczady mountain massif near the border with Ukraine, Polish frontier guards detained an illegal woman from Chechnya with a baby in her arms, and then found bodies of three Chechen girls not far from the mountain border.

September 14, 2007 18:26

• RSO's press centre: Georgian authorities force schoolboys to take part in "Peace March"

  In the city of Gori (Georgia) active propaganda in underway at schools among 5-8-year pupils to persuade them to take part in the "Peace March" that is planned by Georgian leaders on September 15, 2007.

September 14, 2007 18:19

• "Beslan Mothers" intend to find out who threatened their advocate

  The "Beslan Mothers" Committee will start searching a new defender after it has cleared out who had threatened their former advocate Taimuraz Chedzhemov.

September 13, 2007 18:57

• First issue of the newspaper "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" published in Chechnya

  Presentation of the newspaper named "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" was held in the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

September 13, 2007 18:53

• Head of rural administration assassinated in Abkhazia

  Igor Dzhindzholiya, administration head of Mukhur village, Tkuarchal District of Abkhazia, was killed today at night, at about 2 a.m. Moscow time.

September 13, 2007 18:47

• Ecologists protest against "Moon Meadow" in Adygea

  Today, ecologists of Northern Caucasus have held a picket near the building of the Government of Adygea.

September 13, 2007 18:43

• Journalists arrested in Azerbaijan appeal for pardon

  Einullah Fatullaev, Samir Sadatoglu and Rafik Tagi have petitioned for pardon to the Azerbaijani leader.