News

September 07, 2007 16:20

• Murder of a Korean family investigated in Ingushetia

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are investigating another attack on a Russian-speaking family accomplished in the Sunzha District of the Republic, as a result of which father and son Lagai were killed.

September 07, 2007 16:17

• A Russian lady-doctor shot dead in Ingushetia

  Natalia Fyodorovna Mudarova, head physician of the blood transfusion centre, was assassinated in the centre of Nazran (Ingushetia).

September 07, 2007 16:13

• South Ossetia's MIA: explosion in Tskhinval was a terror act

  Mikhail Mindzaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, has stated that the explosion that was heard today morning in a suburb of the city of Tskhinval, which caused an injury of a person, was an act of terror.

September 07, 2007 16:08

• A native of Azerbaijan killed in Moscow

  At night of September 7 in the southwest of Moscow a fight burst out with use of cold steel arms, as a result of which a native of Azerbaijan died and a resident of the Republic of Dagestan was wounded.

September 07, 2007 16:04

• Ex-head of Armenia's MFA released

  Alexander Arzumanian, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, accused of money laundering, has been released from custody.

September 06, 2007 22:14

• Murder of the daughter of the special force fighter who perished in Beslan could be a vengeance

  On September 5 it became known about the murder in Moscow outskirts of Oksana Kuznetsova, 18, a daughter of Major Mikhail Kuznetsov, employee of the FSB's Special-Purpose Centre, one of the ten special force fighters who perished while releasing Beslan hostages.

September 06, 2007 22:07

• Distributor of extremist leaflets detained in Stavropol Territory

  A local resident suspected of spreading extremist leaflets was detained in Novoblagodarny settlement of the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory.

September 06, 2007 21:58

• French police not guilty of illegal alien-boy's fall from the balcony

  The policemen of the French city of Amiens are not guilty of Russian boy Ivan's fall from the balcony of the fifth floor, as a result of which he received heavy traumas.

September 06, 2007 10:01

• European Parliament suggests to nominate Politkovskaya for Sakharov Prize

  Pole Yatsek Sariush-Volski, head of the Committee of European Parliament for International Matters, has suggested to nominate Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously for 2007 Andrei Sakharov.

September 06, 2007 09:58

• North Ossetia: investigator of the General Prosecutor's Office beats an advocate

  On August 27, 2007, in Vladikavkaz, in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia, Victor Pereverznev, investigator of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation thrashed advocate Irina Kodzaeva.

September 06, 2007 09:52

• MHG expert demands from President of Russia to interfere into situation in Ingushetia and Chechnya

  As of today, the situation in the territory of the Republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya continues to worsen, and the events underway in these republics and in their neighbouring regions can completely get out of control of the federal centre, Aslambek Apaev believes.

September 06, 2007 09:49

• Aflatun Amashov: 70 percent of the press engaged in racket in Azerbaijan

  Aflatun Amashov: Today in Azerbaijan, 70% of the press editions are engaged in racketeering, 20-25% of the printed media are politicized, and only 5% are independent.

September 05, 2007 17:53

• Trial of organizer of meeting in memory of Politkovskaya failed today

  The trial of Andrei Nalyotov, organizer of the meeting in memory of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya will not take place today.

September 05, 2007 17:49

• Chernobyl liquidators from the Rostov Region will get their debts before the end of the year

  The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Region informed that under the claims of the Chernobyl accident liquidators from the Rostov Region, the judicial bodies passed more than six thousand decisions on indexing the sums intended for compensation of harm to their health and other monetary payments.

September 05, 2007 17:41

• Two servicemen lost in shelling of Azerbaijani positions

  In the evening on September 4 and at night on September 5, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled near the villages of Dzhavakhirli and Sarydzaly of the Agdam District, of Gasangaya of the Tertersk District and unnumbered hill in the Geranboy District.

September 05, 2007 17:38

• About 24,000 chickens incinerated in Krasnodar Territory

  About 24,000 chickens are incinerated at the poultry farm of the Closed Joint-Stock Company "Lebyazhie-Chepiginskoe," where an outbreak of avian flue was revealed.

September 05, 2007 17:28

• Mayor of the capital of Azerbaijan can be made responsible for collapse of the building

  Akif Magerramov, head of the apartment-cooperative service of the mayoralty of the capital of Azerbaijan, has been brought to criminal responsibility under Article 308.1 (abuse of service position) in case about the building that collapsed on August 28 in Mukhtarova Street.

September 05, 2007 17:23

• Relatives of the victims of the Boden Lake tragedy are dissatisfied with the verdict to SkyGuide employees

  The employees of the SkyGuide air traffic control company, accused of admitting the crash of two aircrafts in 2002 and sentenced to conditional custody by the Swiss court, can pay money in exchange of their punishment.

September 04, 2007 20:40

• Up to 15 militants attack the Gukhoy village in Chechnya

  The attack on the village of Gukhoy of the Itum-Kalinskiy District of Chechnya, as result of which one militiaman was killed and four other wounded, was committed by up to 15 militants.

September 04, 2007 20:37

• Parents of children poisoned in Stavropol Territory are indignant at the incident

  The parents of the children who suffered at the outbreak of dysentery in the Georgievskiy District of the Stavropol Territory are extremely indignant at what has happened.