News

March 27, 2007 22:33

• Kondopoga pogrom instigators sentenced to 8 months and 3.5 years of custody

  On Tuesday, the Kondopoga City Court announced its verdict on the case of beating the workers of the "Chaika" restaurant, after which pogroms had burst out in the city against the natives from the Caucasus.

March 27, 2007 22:24

• Fighters of GRU's "Gorets" special detachment could be involved in Politkovskaya's murder

  On Tuesday, mass media made public a new version of Anna Politkovskaya's death.

March 27, 2007 22:09

• A 2 million reward announced for information about Zyazikov, kidnapped in Ingushetia

  The family of Uruskhan Zyazikov, 72, kidnapped in Ingushetia, who is a relative of Ingush president Murat Zyazikov, has announced a reward for any information about his whereabouts.

March 26, 2007 22:46

• A. Cherkasov: military courts cover up crimes in Chechnya

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has made a statement today that the inactivity of military courts is the cause of repeated cases of execution by militaries of peaceful residents of Chechnya.

March 26, 2007 22:43

• Peacemakers in Georgia promise to backfire if attacked

  The situation in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone continues to aggravate.

March 26, 2007 22:40

• Georgia has filed a case on Russia at the European Court

  The Georgian Ministry of Justice has lodged a lawsuit today against Russia to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.

March 26, 2007 22:12

• Criminal case initiated on shelling three women in Chechnya

  The employees of the Military Office of Public Prosecutor are investigating into the incident in the Shatoi District of Chechnya, where on March 24 the militaries of the federal troops swept three peaceful women; one of them was shot dead.

March 26, 2007 22:01

• Georgia accuses South Ossetia of terror policies

  Georgia has placed responsibility for death of two Georgian policemen on the authorities of self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia. This is the topic of the statement issued by the Office of the State Minister of Georgia.

March 24, 2007 23:50

• Georgia is ready to partner Turkmenistan in gas transportation

  Georgia is ready to become a reliable partner in transporting Turkmen gas to the world markets through the South Caucasian corridor.

March 24, 2007 23:47

• Chechnya: search of the militants who disappeared after fighting militaries

  Chechen authorities continue searching the militants who managed to disappear yesterday after armed collision with the servicemen of the Ministry of Defence.

March 24, 2007 23:37

• Mukhu Aliev has discussed economic situation in Dagestan with Russian president

  On March 23, Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, met Mukhu Aliev, president of Dagestan, in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence to discuss the economic situation in Dagestan.

March 24, 2007 22:48

• Ingushetia boils over kidnapping of the 78-years old president's relative

  The kidnapping of Ingush president Murat Zyazikov's close relative accomplished yesterday in the Barsuki Municipal District of Nazran has provoked a broad public resonance and indignation among the authorities and public of the Republic.

March 24, 2007 22:35

• Russia's MFA gives positive echo to MCC co-chairs' meeting in Istanbul

  "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation is positively estimating the outcomes of the meeting of the co-chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) in Istanbul and welcomes the readiness of the parties to go on with the negotiations on settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict within the MCC format," runs the Russian MFA's statement.

March 23, 2007 23:57

• FSB branch head: extremism liquidated in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  After liquidation of Vakhtang Aliev's grouping in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, many adherents of extremism "have sobered up, and the armed terrorist underground has come to naught."

March 23, 2007 23:55

• Joint monitoring group left for Kodor Gorge

  General Sergey Chaban, Commander of the of the CIS Collective Peacemaking Forces (CIS CPMFs) in the Georgian conflict zone, has confirmed the information about the visit today of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge of the Joint Group instructed to reveal the facts of violations of the Moscow Agreement on Ceasefire and Separation of Troops dated May 14, 1994.

March 23, 2007 23:46

• Zyazikov's uncle kidnapped in Ingushetia

  Today, at about midday, in Ingushetia, near his house, when coming out of the mosque, Ursukhan Zyazikov, uncle of the president of the Republic, was kidnapped in the village of Barsuki.

March 23, 2007 22:23

• "Reporters without Borders" call the USA to draw attention to media freedom in Azerbaijan

  Robert Menar, Secretary General of the international human rights organization "Reporters without Borders," has called the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to draw attention of her colleague Elmar Mamedyarov to a heavy situation in the area of freedoms of speech and mass media in Azerbaijan.

March 23, 2007 22:15

• Leader of Chechen separatists killed in Dagestan

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has informed today that Ruslan Bashaev, commander of an illegal armed formation of the Central Front of Chechnya, was killed today in the town of Khasavyurt.

March 22, 2007 23:01

• Public prosecutor demands from 2.5 to 5 years of prison for instigators of fight in Kondopoga

  Debates of the parties have taken place in the City Court of Kondopoga on Sergey Mozgalyov and Yuri Pliev's criminal case; these defendants were the instigators of the fight at the "Chaika" (Seagull) restaurant.

March 22, 2007 22:46

• Chechnya: TAC residents are forced out of their housing

  On March 19, a commission comprising representatives of the administration of Leninskiy District and employees of the Leninskiy "ROVD" (Interior Department) arrived to the Temporary Accommodation Centre (TAC) located in Malgobek Street of the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.