News

July 16, 2007 13:34

• Masis Mailyan complains of pre-election violations in the CEC of Nagorno-Karabakh

  The electoral headquarters of Masis Mailyan, candidate for President of Nagorno-Karabakh, has lodged another complaint to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

July 16, 2007 13:19

• Experts doubt the objectivity of investigation into Kodor Gorge shelling

  The published Special Report of the Investigatory Group on the bombardment of the Kodor Gorge on March 11, 2007 states in fact that the experts' work conditions and the available materials could not allow coming to unequivocal conclusions about the responsibility of this or that party.

July 16, 2007 13:12

• Case on toughening Trepashkin's custody mode returned to Nizhni Tagil

  The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has returned the case on toughening Mikhail Trepashkin's custody regime back to the Tagilstroj District Court of the city of Nizhni Tagil.

July 16, 2007 13:02

• Well-known political scientist arrested in Azerbaijan

  Mr Veliev, Rovshan Novruzoglu, Director of the Centre for Fighting Corruption and International Terrorism and science collaborator of the Human Rights Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, has been arrested.

July 16, 2007 12:56

• Azerbaijan: policemen burn Wahhabites' beards

  Faik Shabanov, police chief of the Zagatala District in Azerbaijan, is torturing Wahhabites: they are brought to the police, where their beards are burnt with a lighter and then shaved off.

July 13, 2007 13:26

• European Court's decision obliges to investigate into activities of the Oktiabrskiy VOVD of the Chechen capital

  Chechnya needs a laboratory for identification of body remains found in mass and individual burials that abandon in the Republic. This conclusion can be drawn from the decision of the European Court announced on July 12 on the case of violent disappearance of Magomadov brothers.

July 13, 2007 13:13

• Turkish Armenians: Dink's murder strengthened threats towards Armenian schools and churches

  Rober Attechyan, editor-in-chief of the Istanbul Armenian-language "Marmara" newspaper, has told Armenian journalists that after Dink's murder Armenian schools and churches began to receive frequent threats.

July 13, 2007 13:05

• UNICEF concerned of the attitude to AIDS patients in Azerbaijan

  Khana Singer, Representative of the UNICEF in Azerbaijan, made a statement for the press, in which she expressed her concern of the recently escalating negative attitude in the country towards HIV/AIDS patients.

July 13, 2007 12:08

• Congress of Caucasian Nations demands that State Office of Public Prosecutor stops xenophobia in mass media

  The Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations has called on the Russian State Office of Public Prosecutor to escalate its efforts to prevent kindling of interethnic enmity in mass media and Internet publications.

July 13, 2007 12:00

• Azerbaijan: arrested journalists go to law against Ministry of Justice

  Rovshan Kebirli, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mucaliphate," and journalist Yashar Agazade, who are now in prison, filed a complaint to the Yasamal District Court against the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan on poor conditions of their custody.

July 12, 2007 16:53

• Parents of perished militants address the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria

  The parents of the perished militants - Elena Karmova, Raissa Keresheva and Larissa Alakaeva - filed a complaint to Yuri Mairov, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, Vladimir Vybornov, Chairman of the Nalchik City Court, sending copies to the President of the Republic and mass media.

July 12, 2007 16:36

• Journalists of TV Channel "Rossiya" detained today in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone

  Today Georgian power agents have detained the camera crew of the "Rossiya" State Radio and Television Company (GTRK). The Committee for Information and Press of South Ossetia has informed that Andrei Chistiakov and 3 assistants were detained.

July 12, 2007 16:29

• Problem of media freedom discussed at the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, a roundtable was held at the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria with participation of mass media representatives to discuss the situation with the freedom of speech in the Republic.

July 12, 2007 16:21

• European Court again finds Russia guilty of disappearance and death of Chechnya resident

  Today, the European Court for Human Rights has once again found the state of Russia guilty of disappearance and death of a Chechnya resident. According to the Court's decision, in 2000 Ayubkhan Magomadov fell victim of violent disappearance, and his right to live was breached.

July 12, 2007 16:05

• Four other employees of "Real Azerbaijan" interrogated at MNS

  Today, four more employees of the newspapers "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" Famil Jafarli, Jeihun Nagiev, Ainur Elgyunesh and Neimat Guseinli have been interrogated as witnesses at the Ministry of National Security (MNS).

July 11, 2007 14:28

• Chairman of the Azerbaijani Board of the Press has visited the arrested journalists

  Aflatun Amashev, Chairman of the Board of the Press, has met the arrested journalists Mirza Sakit and Faramaz Allakhverdiev ("Nota Bene").

July 11, 2007 14:17

• Dubrovka victims ask to excite a criminal case against the rescue headquarters

  Representatives of the "Nord-Ost" public organization have filed an application to the State Office of Public Prosecutor with a demand to open a criminal case against the members of the operative headquarters set up to rescue the hostages.

July 11, 2007 14:10

• Five persons to be punished for a fight attempt between locals and Caucasian natives in Zelenograd

  In Zelenograd, a town near Moscow, the militia has prevented a mass fight between a group of local youth and natives from the Caucasus.

July 11, 2007 13:39

• Over four thousand citizens disappeared during two military campaigns in Chechnya

  In the course of clean-ups ("zachistkas") and non-authorized detentions in the period of military actions in the territory of Chechnya, a total of 4,400 persons disappeared in this Republic.

July 11, 2007 13:22

• Parents of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria assert that bodies of their sons were not cremated

  Today, the correspondent's office of the "Caucasian Knot" located in the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has been approached by the relatives of the victims of the October 2005 events who have stated that the bodies of the casualties were not cremated.